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Amazing, OI. Thank You.

I'm going to vote with Snopro on this topic. We have an old car forum here and we can stray a wee bit from that but politics and religion are topics that are a way off -- too far off to mention here.

I'm not the type of guy that puts a SBC in every hotrod, so here's what I've been doing this past week. The bad motor that came in my '56 Fairlane was just lying around the shop in pieces collecting dust and getting in the way, so I took the short block to town again and said to my man 'fix it...

I've had two different things that showed the same symptoms as you have. One; a bad coil will heat up and cut power badly, and then whatever you fix or change, [even circling your car a few times cursing] will let the coil cool down and away you go for a while again. Two; the little wire from...

Welcome to Undeadsleds, from northern Alberta. I will be following your progress excitedly, because I have a '29 Model A in my line-up future.

I can add to the spam; I have a place in my tool chest for my homemade stuff. There are quite a few bent wrenches and I use them once in a while, so NO throwing things away. Anyway, Here's a picture of my pedal setup, bolted in for [hopefully] the last time. It might not be wise to say exactly...

The picture is of the afore mentioned bent wrench holding a bolt head and working. I have the pedal assembly bolted in there and most of the things worked out. But, when I climbed up into the cab and went to step on each of the pedals, Whoooboy, they both hit the wide old motor partway down. The...

Don't lend me your wrenches! pic one, is how I bent a brand new wrench, [a cheap one, Power Fist], to fit bolt heads inside the boxed in frame.

You're doing fine, carry on.

Bama, I have been using Ultra Flat Camouflage Dark brown hide the rough stuff. I've now got the little actuating arm made and fine tuned and mounted. Pics one and two are the little arm and pic three is the pedal system completed, filled with brake fluid and bench bled. I sold an old truck to my...

Welcome to the RRR site, from northern Alberta. I'm looking forward to seeing your 'build thread' on here.

Welcome back, ZZ.

I've always liked late fifties Mopars. Drive it like it is. My outlook is; fix a vehicle up to whatever goal you have, don't fix it down.

I agree, Bob. Today, I finished up the bushings in the pedals and mounting pedestal, but slowed down on building an arm to drive the pushrod to the clutch master cylinder. You know how sometimes you make some complicated do-hickey and then realize that that won't work so you have to throw it...

There's at least one narrowing of an axle in my future, so I watched with interest. Thank you.

I like building new things but there's almost as much engineering that goes into making things look like they are only a few months old when they are really really old and really worn out or broken or both. Anyhow, I was put out that the pedals were pretty sloppy, side to side, so today when I...

I hope the issues go away, LB. Today, I installed the new brake master cylinder, and painted it to look like the old one. I left the old MC in the picture so you guys would believe me this time. You'll also notice the rubber pads on the pedal shafts to stop the dust and noise from coming to the...

In light of the acetylene debacle, I had to dream up something else to do. No heating or cutting. So, I went out to the big shed to my parts car and robbed the toe board and the angle piece from the firewall to the frame that the toeboard bolts to. Then I took my powersaw and cut some fallen...

I've had grief with tie rod ends too close to the wheel, but I live a way out in the country so there's mud to deal with and that builds up on the inside of the wheel. That gritty dried mud 'sands' off anything within a quarter of an inch or more. Someone else, who drives only on pavement should...

Welcome to RatRodsRule, from northern Alberta. Did you take any pictures along the way of your build? Dang fine truck.