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Yep, I checked it after tacking it, and after welding it and nothing moved.

Here is a pictorial on how to shorten your driveshaft. You may need to shorten your driveshaft because of a ****** change, rear end change, or in my case because I had no driveshaft at all for the '65 Mustang I am working on. This may be one of those projects people shy away from because they...

The best way is to get some scrap steel and start burning some rod or wire. Start off with small projects like plant stands, ornamental stuff etc. and then when you get the hang of it, move on to gates, work benches etc. I never went to school to learn how to weld but I can weld circles around...

Here is the mostly tube chassis I built for my '27 Track T. It is made of 1 3/4" x .120" wall, 1 1/2" x .120" wall and 1 1/4" x .120" wall mild steel round tubing. All the bends were done on my JD Squared bender and it was MIG welded using CO2 on my L-Tec 225 amp MIG welder:

The MIG welding done in short bursts produces no warping at all. Here are the finished covers:

This is a wishbone/ three link rear suspension setup I built a couple of years ago for a '55 Chevy truck. I chose to go this route as there was not alot of room for a Watts Link or a conventional Panhard bar. The center part of the wishbone that attaches to the rear end is free to rotate...

My '64 Galaxie is built to look like a 60's stock car would look like. I am using modern Bf Goodrich radials for a nice ride, but the blackwall lettering does not look right, and it really bothered me. My solution was to sand the sidewalls smooth to get a nice un-cluttered sidewall. A little...

Most of the wheels I bring home are early 30's-early 50's Ford steel wheels used in Traditional Hot Rodding, so you can imagine how long some of the tires have been on them.

You all have obviously never encountered the rock hard hockey puck tires I encounter here in the West Texas desert. I have a Coats 10/10, and it will not break them loose, neither will a bumper jack. I can do this method in no time, and when I am done I can quarter the tire and put it in the...

If you have ever built a 9" Ford third member, the hardest part is getting the crush sleeve crushed to allow the proper pre-load on the pinion bearings. You need a really hard hitting impact wrench with a really big compressor to get it done, and most of us don't have that luxury at home. This...

I have a steel wheel collecting problem. I cannot leave a salvage yard without a couple of old steelies in the back of my truck. The problem is that they usually have some hockey puck hard old crusties mounted on them. I do have an old Coats 10/10 tire machine, but on the old rubber it just does...

Here is a small step by step on how I mounted a small piston on my shifter for a shift knob on my Track T: I used a piston of un-known origin because I had it, and it fit my hand well: I determined that the pin diameter was .562". The first step was to cut off a 9/16" bolt to 1 3/4" long as...

This is a thread on a simple trunk mount battery box. One of the problems with mounting a battery in the trunk is that a simple tray that you can buy at most auto parts stores will not pass tech at most racetracks because the battery needs to be in some kind of a box. A simple marine type...

It is a common problem, once you modify something, you have to change something else. In this case, I installed a set of roller rockers on a 351 W, and the stock height valve covers would no longer clear. A set of aftermarket valve covers would do the job easily but nothing really caught my eye...

If you have a Ford 9" rear end in your rod or race car, you no doubt know the advantages to being able to swap the centersection, pig, chunk, pumpkin or jackpot easily to change the gear ratio. One of the things Ford almost never installed was a drain plug, I have seen them on some '57-'59 car...

Here is a small pictorial on how I straighten 9" Ford rear end housings. This method will work on any rear end housing. Nine out of ten housings that I work on will require straightening on at least one axle tube. A bent housing will cause uneven tire wear, ill handling and possible bearing...

Awesome work.

I needed a pair of plain steelie wheels for my '64 Galaxie that is built Nascar style. They had to be 15" x 10" with a 5 x 5" bolt pattern to fit the Frankland quickchange rear end. The aftermarket wheels I found had a dual bolt pattern that I did not like, plus they were abut $160.00 each. I...

I am going to show the steps involved in narrowing a 9" Ford rear end housing. I am narrowing the following housing to accept Maverick 8" Ford 28 spline axles and housing ends to end up with a 56 3/8" wide 9" Ford rear end that will bolt in to a '65 Comet. -First off, to clear up some...

I still do all of my MIG welding with CO2, and I think that for the money, It cannot be beat. I use a little anti spatter spray on the material and on the gun and I do not have any clean up to do. I use an L-Tec (formerly Linde, and now Esab) 225 amp machine that I bought new 22 years ago and it...