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The times they are a changing. I think we should be celebrating that at least Isky's phone theft didn't cost him his life. Many...

I talked to Old Stuff the other night.... He says Howdy to everyone. He's doing well and just got back to working on his project. He's...

This is the oldest picture I can do with a car in it. That would be me sitting on the table on my 1st birthday. My one year (and 4 days)...

I ran my own one man welding shop for 25 years. 75% of the work I did was repair poor welds. Some of the stuff some factories are...

My experience is that any time you have a tool that is suppose to be capable of doing more then one thing, it usually doesn't do any of...

Had a friend loose a nice street rod because of one of those wire wheels failing. Heard of a few more guys that had problems with them...

A few years ago we installed 4 different brand new headlight switches over a days time, before we one that fully worked! We ended up...

I thought those things were suppose to be "water tight"? Fish them out and pedal the stuff inside. It might now be "highly improved...

Welcome from the north west corner of IL. Looks like you have a great starting point.

Hmmmm! An EV Rat! Sure looks like it started life of as a PT Cruiser. Maybe I'm looking at my wife's heap with too little vision!

That little line of rust along the hood seam will NEVER cause a problem. We were doing 100 mph and the brakes went out! I had to deploy...

Dutch, I'm retired now. Based on the amount of work I've done in my shop over the last year, if I got rid of everything I haven't used...

I have heard that the problem is the lifters as well. It sounds like a dissemble of the new lifters before installation is now a...

I might need that custom bent tool, it might work someplace else. Maybe it just needs a bit more bend to work on something else. Most of...

Modern cam and lifters suck compared to the old stuff. Sorry for what you have to go through now.