Recent content by MARKSTANG

for inspiration, here’s this month’s release of US postage stamps commemorating Low Riders.

May I propose something along the lines of a Cushman Eagle? i.e. Something for grown-ups?

The Thrift Store briefcase keeps on giving. Someone bought stuff at K-Mart Warranty card for Rite Autotronics, never mailed but partially filled in . The 3-piece tuning tools set was bought at K-Mart in the EastGate Mall in Richmond, VA. My old neighborhood, in 1976. About 22 years...

The bonus timing light THis little grey guy is made by Rite Autotronics Corp. (RAC) The silver warning sticker says the trigger switch on this model is for a remote starter ONLY. These clamps are both yellow. Not the usual read and black. so how does it get power? These I recognize, no...

Timing is everything Today I re-installed the thermostat housing, alternator, and distributor in the Mustang. That was a cozy 30 minutes. I was feeling confident so I decided to check the ignition timing. I had everything hooked up (battery / remote starter switch / timing light) and the...

Myrtle Beach, SC (the Carolinas named for King Charles I) about 900 miles east of St. Louis, MO. 3 hours from CLT airport

Can I get a "Heck Yeah”!? A few weeks ago I bid on a tool chest in a local online auction. The photos showed a couple of Craftsman ratchets that I can use, so I just bid enough to "watch" the auction and I was surprised to find that I'd won and had to go pick it up the next Friday. It...

Ready to go under the car New thrust bearings were delivered, measured the same as the old bits. Proper fit between the tube post and the screw. The bearing rides in a cup-like race, similar to a bicycle frame in the one stand, the other just sets on top of a thick steel cap. Assembled...

Painting the bare spring in its stretched yoga position. As pre-Woodstock Fords were primarily satin black underhood , these parts will blend in or look conspicuously new-ish. What’s the deal with spray paint cans? I used to buy the 78-cent per can generic stuff at K-Mart and paint 4...

Safety Under the Lift. I've only put 1 car up on the lift - the 3,000 lb. Mustang. It feels rock-steady at 6 feet off the floor-not that I've pressed the issue. The car is nose-heavy and I have it on the asymmetric arms "backwards" - meaning the long arms to the front of the car. My lift is...

Back to the hood spring restoration. I made another fixture to hold the spring's coils apart. This time I found a screw eye bolt and a wing nut. With this depth I can get the rattle-can spray inside the spring.

Felt like channeling my inner Leonardo It starts with a scrap of 1x8. Found in the...... 3 guesses....the barn. drew a guide around this "shoe" overlapped in both directions so it will fit either way. Unloaded the Fisher•Price preschool woodshop router. just eyeballing the perimeter cut...

I decided I needed a cart to get my welders up off the floor. After 30 years my back was complaining more than my OCD.

Grandpa's Toolbox - Bottom drawer, Here Lefty - stick this into a spinning machine spindle an inch away from your finger Do-It-Yourself molding I may have to invest in a table saw! The gory details - These were used by the surgeon to drill into his femur when he got his hip replacement. He...

Grandpa's Toolbox, Center drawer, more precision measurement devices, wrapped in pink tissue: