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Hey Bones, take it from a guy with zero experience with welding. I tried to learn on a small arc welder, but I couldn't lay down an inch of weld without screwing it up. I was told to leave the welding to the pros and pay someone to do my welding. After years of paying, I decided to try again...

Fenders???, no fenders???. That's like chrome, no chrome. Neither has anything to do with comfort or ride quality. It's all appearance. I started with a stock looking, full fendered 52 Ford pick-up, and after a few years I decided to go full rat rod and got rid of the fenders and hood. I...

You'll find most rear ends are off as much as 1 to 1.5 inches. That's because the engine and trans are pushed over that distance to allow for the steering shaft. You might want to keep this info in the back of your head when making engine or trans mounts.

A couple of months ago I got the engine and trans together and put in the rat rod, along with the drive shaft. In the process I pulled the muscles in my back. At age 65 it takes that long for back injuries to heal...After a week of going slowly with the exhaust, gas line, and wiring, I fired it...

I went crazy trying to find a good rear to fit my truck, they're hard to find. Most Chevy truck rears were geared for pulling power (3:70's-3:90's, some 4:11). I took the easy way out. I used the stock 3:72 rears with taller tires. I swapped the 27 inch tires for the LT 30 inch tires. It...

Today I went out to the garage to work on it. After sitting for twenty minutes staring at it, I remembered I had two oil switches on the old engine. One was the variable oil pressure sending unit, and the other was a simple switch used to turn on/off the electric fuel pump. It was eight...

Hey guys, I'm back from the dead and back in the garage (back injury). Picked up an '80's 350 Chevy engine and fired it up. I got high oil pressure (meter pegs at max) but the lifters are getting plenty of oil (no clatter). The sender and meter worked fine with another engine. This ones a...

I built my 52 Ford in the back yard...Three years in the hot Texas sun. I did the same thing while building the 39 Dodge until I passed out. I had a friend let me use his garage, but I could only use it when he was there, and that was only a few hours a week. Well, it took me a few months to...

I got your rat Chipper. It's on my wife's phone. My camera quit on me, as I was taking a pic of a car with NO rust. Even my camera knows...RUST IS A MUST!!!

The over flow was a gift from her son. I believe the guitar is the shifter. Two Good Guys for one Lonestar...you gotta do better than that. This show is huge and getting bigger each year. Never seen so many tattoo'd gals in tight jeans in one place. The car show took up four huge lots...

If I did I wouldn't know...I was too busy trying to stay on track taking pics of rats, with all the pretty hot rod girls running around.

This is a rat built by Ben Dodson, a friend that entered his rat rod at the show...yeah, he went all out this past winter. It's a '45 Studebaker cab set on an S-10 frame with a '39 Chrysler grille. He changed the steering box to rack and pinion steering.

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I went to the Texas Round-Up car show and Swap Meet Saturday. I took a few pics of rat rods, after all this is a rat rod forum. The first pic is one of our own members. I'll let her tell you who she is.

Hey Joe. I was over to your place a couple of years ago, when I was still building the 52 Ford pickup. I'm over here just south of S.A. A friend of mine is looking for a '27-29 pick up for a rat rod. Got anything available?