Recent content by Fordguy1964

I have always had good luck with some heat, a little crayon, a small punch, and a hammer. I never found a Woodruff key that wouldn't finally spin after enough combinations of all of the above.

I'm sentimental about my tools. I have tools from my father and grandfather. That's how I end up with so many. At one time we all had working sets of tools. I'm sorting through it all now. I've cut back. I tried something a couple months ago and it seems to be working. I cut back to the bare...

Where did you see it?

Spent a lot of the last few days filling my new toolbox. Still not full yet but I'm running out of room. It looks like I won't be able to get rid of all of my other toolboxes after all. Put this one on Marketplace and got rid of it pretty quickly. That's a couple extra dollars in my pocket and...

It is early to say at this point. I thought that the box would have delivered pretty quickly but I had to wait a month to get it. Unfortunately I was not home when it was delivered so I don't know for sure if it came with instructions or not. Maybe they hauled them away with the trash. I do know...

Got tired of sorting through 7 different roll around boxes to find what I wanted. I'm going to consolidate into this monster and be done. I figured it would come delivered and assembled. That top box really took a lot of planning to figure out how to get it up there. If I didn't have the car on...

After getting my field find K code Fairlane running, it decided to revolt. Blown head gasket to the water jacket. Been working on replacing them. While I was at it I ordered the exact reproduction exhaust system. That will take 10-12 weeks to deliver. Once that is here it will be on the road again.

It's alive

Just a lazy day today. Replaced the brakes in the front. Replaced all of the lines hard and soft. Still waiting on my rear shoes and drums for the rear to come in. Got the fuel system hooked up. Only thing I'm waiting on is the carb spacer gaskets and I can mount the carb. Installed the intake...

Too early for a beer? What sort of blasphemy is this you speak of?

Seems to work OK. I go through so much of it that I usually just buy the cheap stuff. This was something that my neighbor brought me after he borrowed a couple cans. I don't hate it. It work for this job anyway!

Spent 4 hours fighting to get the distributor out of this 289. With how much this thing is worth, I couldn't just go all brute strength on it. I sprayed, heated, and lightly tapped then sprayed again. Nothing seemed to work. I really wanted to smack it with a BFH but cooler heads prevailed. I...

Home from work. Got the gas tank installed and plumbed. Pressurized the cooling system and couldn't make it above 5PSI. I pumped and it immediately dropped back to 5. I looked all over the place and couldn't figure out what was going on. My mind immediately went to the thought that the head...

They say to snap off the plunger on that kill solenoid and it works just fine.

Got busy getting stuff done on the K code Fairlane. I picked the ignition lock and the trunk lock since both keys were lost over time and replaced them with spares I had sitting around. It's good to have lock picking skills sometimes. I got the steering box... or what is left of it pulled and...