Is it the winter/summer on off heater valve or the one that is controlled from the dashboard lever? The on off valve can be taken apart and lapped, and then put back together and it will not leak. B
Shop around, prices vary a lot. Almost all shops will send the rad out to get it re-cored at a specialty company. This would be a terrific time to see if you can get an extra row added to the radiato
For all: Bought an oxy-acetiline torch, including 4 full size bottles, from my father in law. Talk about WMD (weapons of mass destruction)! Anyway, I was screwing some giant eye hooks into studs in m
For all: I am almost done parting out my 71 510 partswagon. The wagons have the same rear axle as our roadsters, except its an inch or two wider, or narrower, I forget exactly. Anyway, this parts car
For all: I usually reply individually to all who helped, but there are just too many...so thanks to all. As I suspected, there was a simple reason I overlooked, forgot to jerk out the axle shafts a b
Ha-this is pretty funny, but on a serious note, my chrome guy, Hanlon Plate in Richmond Virginia, could make an acceptable street worthy, but not show quality, grill out of this for maybe $150. I kno
I will pray for Craig. It was just a few weeks ago that I visited Craig at his very impressive roadster ranch. He has to recover, he has too many cool projects to complete someday.... I re-emphasize
Well, having just retired from the Navy after 21 years last summer, I have a few favorites.... ESABATM: Eat Sh*& and bark at the moon JPF: Just Plain Fu*&^d BTFOOM: Beats the F(*K out of me! FOADAH:
Did you make sure the rear shoes are adjusted out manually so they are rubbing the drums? They can rub quite a bit, as long as you can turn the wheel by hand. This is the most important thing to get
For all: Last Sunday I took a trip up into Northern Virginia to the foothills of the Smokey Mountains to look at a Sunbeam Tiger. Well, the Tiger was too far gone for me to consider (E-mail me sepcor
Bob and Paul Paul, which one do you need, wiper or lights? I just got the two switches out of my 71 parts 510 wagon. The car has less than 100K, and the switches work well. Paul has first dibs on the
For all: I was over at the local Firestone store where a friend of mine works, and he was looking at the roadster on the front end machine. He added a few small shims to one side of the front, we wer
The SVO Turbo Thunderbirds had a great black leather boot that fits with only a few mods (its bigger, just drill a few holes and screw some sheet metal screws into the tunnel). Gettin sort of hard to
For all: Last Sunday, a guy from work stopped by with his 1963 bright red Thunderbird, 390 V8 with the 3X 2 barrel carb option. And older restore job, the car still looked quite fine. My car and his
Art, I have a U20 block that I was keeping just to have a spare crank and rods in case I have to build another stroker motor some day. I think it has never been rebuilt, (I.E. Will probably clean up
I use ordinary motor oil in a lever action squirt can, or in one of my collection of antique push on the bottom oil cans...but anyway the beauty of this is when the oil starts smokin your drilling to
For all: I bought a set of 4 nice center caps for 280Z six spoke alloy wheels (will also fit turbo wheels). I got them in the hope they would fit my vintage Libra 4 spoke wheels. Well...they dont. Bu
For all: Sorry to spam everyone with a non Datsun request, but I cant help it if my one good brother in law hasnt seen the light. He's restoring a 67 Sunbeam Tiger, and is looking for period wheels f
For all: Some time ago, some might recall me lamenting about my burned out wiper motor, and how expensive NOS ones are. Since I have a perfectly good 510 Station Wagon parts car in the driveway, I de
For all: I have been noticing some increasing dartiness with the trusty SAKE RKT, which when I was under it replacing the clutch slave cylander, I figured out the cause to be upper A-arm bushings goi