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Good news! It was getting down to just a few posts a day but needs to live.

Yep, looks like it's gone.

They don't need grease, that's the whole idea.

I've had some success with rubbing the number with a soapstone, then wipe it clean. The white soapstone will stay down in the stamped numbers.

You can but it's very risky. I've had two six volt batteries explode over the years while jump starting with 12 volts in an emergency. It seems to happen more when it's very cold, possibly the 6 volt batteries were frozen.

Jim, do you sand wet or dry?

I have a couple of 30-31 headlight buckets and grill shells that need to be polished up. The headlights especially have quite a bit of water staining (how can that be on stainless steel, lol). What products, equipment and techniques have you had success with on stainless? Thanks for any help.

When a Ford grill is used with one of those coupe bodies on a hot rod and placed on a Ford chassis, they look so much like a 32 5 window that 90% of people are fooled. They make a great looking car. Definitely worth saving.

If you're asking how the cabriolet body compares to the Ford built bodies like the coupe, there is one big difference and that is that the cabriolet was all framed up with wood, which can make one a real challenge to restore.

Has anybody tried it inside a gas tank? Sounds like the perfect thing for a gas tank that is a bit rusty, or is it impossible to clean out the loosened rust?

Drag racers get away with it because they only run 1/4 mile, I've seen it tried on street driven cars and it sucks all the oil right out of the engine. A friend tried it on a small block chevy and it sucked a quart of oil out about every 10 miles.

Just for information, the most common use years ago for the 00 Lithium grease was in the track rollers of crawler tractors. That's what it was developed for.

I have one Heco shock. It really seems like a nice operating shock absorber. Were they aftermarket or stock on some Fords? Or are they non-Ford? Any info appreciated. I'd sure like to find 3 more.

Even though it looks fairly decent compared to alot of the weird speedsters you see, I don't think it's worth a whole lot more than a running chassis. Looks like the body is wood, if so I wouldn't pay more than about $3,500 for it. If the body was all formed out of steel and nicely finished I...

In my real life, lol, I operate heavy equipment. I have some older equipment with no rollover protection, and some later machines with rollover protection. The rule of thumb is, on machines with no rollover structure, you never wear a seat belt because you will be strapped to the machine with...

I would be willing to bet that the crappy gas we get now probably boils at 150 degrees or even less if it's wintertime formulation. The thing you need to understand is that your modern car uses a pump back in the cool tank pushing fuel up to the fuel injection system and doesn't care what...

A coil will not fix vapor lock, that's wishful thinking. The problem is today's gas and it gets worse every year. The vapor pressure of fuel nowadays is matched to fuel injection systems and the powers that be act like carbureted engines don't even exist anymore. Back in the day, most if not...

Wouldn't a body which had been produced for a 27 T chassis bolt right on an early A? Could be it was a leftover 27 body and they just used up the ones they had left.

Actually, oil bath air filters are a very poor filter. You might get by with them on cars driven on modern roads, but I can tell you from a lifetime of farming and running heavy equipment that in very dusty conditions, they are one step above nothing. A 4 cylinder Cat D7, for example, will pick...

The reason they were developed was to allow shops to estimate repairs and also as a way to pay the mechanics. Later they were called flat rate manuals and mechanics were paid by the flat rate rather than by the hour. I suspect that the manuals were heavily tilted in favor of the dealers and...