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Last time tested I took vacuum from the wiper port that was Effie I now have the proper installation kit under the carb. started engine pulled the knob out and as advertised about 90 secants it started, fan turned on and its blowing just a whisker at 200 degrees Wow. I have not drilled the two...

Anyone using Southwind heater? I had one in 1955 vw and was outstanding.

I reply ed the other day about my oil pressure having a hard time to get to 40 # . Today about to leave 5AM always warming up to normal to heat my bones up. Oil Press is 60# which is its normal pressure. It is freezing today. Then at the corner of my eye the gauge needle moving back and forth...

Two questions my car 46 59 ab mechanical oil gauge read 60lb all day but the original electric reads 30lbs ? new nos gauge new sender (nope) tried several working senders (nope same thing) can a resistor on the sender help? if so what resistor value. second question commercial truck, oil gauge...

I leave around 5AM 7 days a week to open the shop. I always drive maybe 3-4 miles, thats good for any vehicle. Now the warning is four times this week out of no where deer comes charging across the road usually 3 or 4. even though I am going llike 20 mph on a pitch dark rode, you best be on ya...

On todays early news, stated that Ford is to auction two new cars being a 1946 to 48 station wagon and a Bermuda Edsel station wagon. New never run or driven from their museum. I was deleting emails not watching, but I heard it on the TV.. A promotion by Edsel Ford great great grandson from...

This came in with a skip then no skip. Thought to be a sticky valve that came back to No. 4. this is on a F6 I can't go to poke this exhaust valve battery tray in the way. so we popped the head and my son just plucked the valve and guide right out, thats a first. Examined the guide lock lands...

as you all know I have a super deluxe new engine goes perfectly and quiet. My son bought a 1950 custom 4 dr. another silent V8. My 46 rides like a town car No rattles at all. The last time I drove a 1949 the car was young and so was too. Now I drove the kids car and its like a 2020 something...

All my yrs I should know this, but I got cobweb brain damage. Ok new engine a 59AB with now 3500 miles. Since day one 5qts says full on the stick. Last week oil change now 4 quarts says full. I just now, think the dipstick washer slid up, which will sink the stick lower. So before I start...

Finally it rained since it snowed. I get the sloshing sound drivers door. took door panel off and have four inches of water. The door is as new as built, I mean black nooooo rust. I sucked water out. There is absolutely no drain holes in this door and I ain't blind yet. No there is not...

This is going back few years ago. My son bought a F6 and the owner said take the other one two for $0. So with two trailers the boys brought both back. The green one in the pic is bashed like somebody took a sledge to it. Most would take one look then to the scrap yard. So it landed still on...

There has been a lot said about these with little or no lighting. I have not yet found what is actually in there. I have all new #55 bulbs. The only bright ones are the directional arrows. I have read about some kind of black film around the bulbs that react with (don't know) 'iridium or...

We have a new powermaster alternator 6vt pos gr. in stock for a 8BA wide belt pulley. I wonder if this would be a simple bolt on for a 337 V8. I ask first if any one has done this cause its a project removing all those belts plus using a step ladder its a F8...?? sam

Question is, what happened to Google? which I use all the time. I click on google for example I type 1991 Ford L9000 wiring diagram (which we need truck gauges are all dead ) I had these books, which I can't find. OK click enter and all I get is this stupid 'search encript' = Find here...

First I will say I grew up in my fathers full service shop. Steady repairs on all make cars and trucks from the 30s & 40s so I remember all of those like my children. So this customer, every day would use the phone booth (yes it was wood with chicken wire in the glass) so that dates this pre...

I have been on the search for brackets etc. for rear air shocks from all the usual vendors with no luck. And yes I know its a band aid but I don't have the time plus the shop is plugged up with customer repairs. My car a 46 looks like its got 10 100 lb bags of cement. I can put three fingers...

I bought a 6vt pos ground powermaster alternator the application is for a 49 to 53 in which I had a fresh EAB in my 46 while my 59A was rebuilt. OK this will not fit my new 59A. the question is, will this alternator work on my F8 337? the set up looks the same as its little brother 8BAs...

I use to know all bulb numbers 50 yrs ago. Any ways I need the bulb no. for my heater switch (1946) its the bulb with a long glass 6 volt I have seen those many times in car radios too. Can't even find a pic. on google or ebay either. sick of my battery going dead cause I forget to write a...

Due to our workload finally back to button up the "Chris-teen engine" This is a genuine 59. It has on the block the three so called tomb stone water holes. Heads say 59AB. Gasket I took off has two big holes and one little hole on the bottom. Forgot where I bought those gaskets, So I go to...

Although I do not believe in snake oils, so with my hung ex valve I popped the intake ; there is no logic what I see. #1 ex bent over above the lifter?? How in hell can that happen. China Valve ? Logic valve in head lifter pushes valve up spring pushes valve down.. simply as that. Most...