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An uncle of mine wants me to sell some of his old tools, and he gave me a pretty vague description of some helicopter trim tab benders. Can anyone tell me something more about them, or how to list them?

Can anyone I.D. these super heavy duty hole saws? I would think that they are for cutting metal, but I am not sure:

There may come a time when you have an assembled engine ready, but the car may not be ready to accept the engine. You could leave the assembled engine on an engine stand, but if you are like me there are other engines waiting to be assembled. You need an engine storage stand that will allow you...

Here is a quick, cheap and simple way to set the toe on your Hot Rod, muscle car, race car or daily driver. I have used this method for years on sprint cars, modifieds, drag race cars and all of my own street driven cars and hot rods. I have even checked the toe with a buddy who has an alignment...

I was unexpectedly thrust back into the circle track world tis year after a few year hiatus. My brother bought a couple of Legends cars and I was named the driver of one of them. Since he paid for the race cars, I let him use my nice tandem axle race car trailer to haul his car around. I was...

This is a '66 Nova race/ street car that I am working on for a customer. He plans to run it in the 255-15 tire size Rodz class. Here is the car: Here are the Tires: The car will have a '69 Chevelle 12 bolt that will be narrowed to 54 1/2". The rear end will get a set of 33 spline...

While helping a buddy rebuild the front suspension on his '63 Galaxie, we discovered that the lower control arm bushings were completely destroyed and loose in the control arm. We figured that some new bushings would fix everything. We then discovered that the rear bushings on the lower control...

Here is a tip that will make removing 8" and 9" centersections easily the next time you need to remove one from your car. I perform this small modification on any centersection that I build, sell or work on. This will also work on 8 3/4 Mopars, and '55-'64 Chevy, Pontiac and Olds. You first...

Here is a small article on how to build an engine lift plate. You can buy them, but what fun is that? Save the debate on engine lift plates for another thread. I have used them for 25 years with great success. I used a piece of 1/4" plate for the bottom plate. The extra hole will be welded...

I can't believe I went this long without building this project. I do alot of rear end work on my own cars as well as customers cars, and it is always a pain in the A$$ to get gear lube back in rear ends and trannys. I have used the store bought pumps, funnels etc. and I always seem to make a...

In Texas, you can use a vintage license plate that matches the year of your classic car or truck as long as you have two plates in good condition with the proper colors. You can register them as either Classic Car which requires you to re-new the plates every year, or as Antique plates which are...

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...

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...

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...