Los_Control

Not sure if it was a factory ordered option at the time ... many things were. My B1C had the spare tire carrier and also my B1B has it.

Sounds about right to me. Even for old school drum brakes. I replaced the hydraulics in my brakes last year, but still not driving it. I wont bother to adjust the brakes until they are set in place from braking. Actual driving. While disc brakes will self adjust, there still is a break in period to get everything set in place from all the hydraulic pressure. Kinda reminds me of piston rings. There are different brands, chrome molly, iron ... all need different break in procedures. Reminds me of a old customer, lady in her 70's and bought a new corvette in 2016? Not surprised if it had ceramic brakes ... she was not reading any manual she just drove the piss out of it. .... And the brakes worked.

Well almost done mowing the lawn ... watched that short clip and saw they were cheating ... well you know. Cutting the body up and extending the frames ... make a altered wheel base to run in stock class ... hrmph! Reminds me of the story where the old man always bragged about his 35 dodge race car. His kid was driving dad to town one day in his chebby truck and when he took off he lit up the tires and then he banged the gears and went sideways and banged the gears again and straightened it out. While cruising to town he asked his father if that was how his old dodge ran? Naw replied the father, my car hooked up. Back to mowing the lawn!

No idea if he could beat Ronnie or not, but he did drive there 2nd car a few times in part 1, now am finding out there is 4 parts to the series and here is a short 11 min video shows him driving for Sox & Martin. Maybe I'll watch after I mow the lawn ... just got weed eating done now.

I honestly never heard of this guy before. Ran across this video in another forum and I thought it was interesting. He started off racing chebby's but was interesting how he was introduced to mopar Hemi 4 speed cars. This is just part 1, there is part 2 also. I dunno maybe I just wanted to get out of cutting the grass .... kk I'll go mow the lawn now

You sure not a girl that goes with it? Not saying is a bad thing .... just a thing.

@Los_Control puts on his best Grumpy old man face. You young whipper snappers ... you left things alone you would not need ceramic brakes. In my day we used ceramic to separate the wires the telephone man left. .... Dumb ass electrician should have left his teeth out of the equation. Los growls for proper identification.

Yes the weather has been really wet this year. Keeping up with the grass has been a never ending chore. Really happy I have the riding mower. But still, I have other things I need to get after. On the other hand, it is saving me money. I have not had to water the lawn much this year. Garden is growing wild. As @Snipersays the grass will go dormant with lack of water. I am fine with that in the front yard. While in the back yard with dogs, they would run down the dormant grass and leave nothing but dirt. So I water. November is usually my last mowing of the season.

Yeah probably not what you meant to say. I would venture we all lived a life and we all lived them our own ways. I would then venture to say your Grandmother wore a mini skirt and go go boots. Yeah we get by today, our grandparents were way more cool then we are.

I forgot to add, about 15 years ago Goodyear truck centers also offered a wheel reconditioning service. At least the one in Spokane did and I assume others. They had a system where the wheels would be sandblasted, inspected and painted. Les Shaub use to be Oregon, Washington, Idaho ... maybe they expanded now ... not seen them here in Texas. With most wheels going away from steel it may no longer be available.

I agree with the others, 1949 they had the Bias ply tires and 4.5" rim widths. Seems my 52 plymouth had 16" wheels with 4.5. Then my B1C 3/4 ton truck had 15" wheels that were 5" .... little fuzzy on the memory. But they were not using 6" wheels on 1949 mopars is my bet. If you show a picture of the center of the wheel will tell the story. The original wheels will have clips near the wheel bolts to hold the hub cap on. Later wider wheels will have nubs on the outside to hold a hub cap on. I suspect you have the later wider wheels from the 60's-70's ... I dunno it may be possible yours are original ... I think how the hub cap mounts may tell the story.

@Sniper I had a plan to use your method. Sadly just was not in the cards .... I have to admit doing it my way took 3 hours ... But I got er did! Really just not possible on this car has the shock towers kinda hidden and no access to the bolts. I actually feel very comfortable I did the springs the way I did .... pissed me off I clocked the hat wrong and would not line up. So for a 2nd time I compressed that spring an learned why we clock them. Really was less then 2 hours for me to get them changed .... Why nobody tell me the ATF would pour out while changing the strut?

Paint jail is such a easy place to avoid .... same time people with a busy agenda end up in paint jail so often ... it really should be a crime. I bring this up because in 04/21 I took my wife car in for a local Texas inspection and get registration renewed. Old men tend to gossip. We were talking about the 60's merc fastback out in the yard. Plain & simple the owner sent the car off to be painted ... Was a perfect running engine with a brand new Holley carburetor. Painter was taking too long and car owner complaining. So finally got painted. Owner comes to pick it up, worst paint job you ever seen. Besides the runs all over the place. it was arrest me red with 2 black stripes down it. When they removed the masking tape, it also removed chips of fresh paint. So when the owner comes to pay $3500 for a paint job and pick up his car .... The car was sitting on the street, battery removed, carburetor missing. The paint was all screwed up ... they called the local tow company to come pick it up. 8 months later, is time to take my truck down for inspection. Same Mercury is sitting in the same spot. I assume the tow yard owns it now. Now is safe to say after all the effort the owner just gave up. Now the tow company owns a 68 fastback mercury. My neighbor has a 1964 cheby 1/2 ton .... asked his cousin to paint the tailgate to match the rest of the truck. Not a problem. The cousin daddy dies and leaves him over a million dollars. Cousin is now overseas on vacation and my neighbor is searching for a new tailgate. Paint is such a hard tedious, long process. You really need to do it yourself or be diligent to find a reputable painter. Finding a paint job for $4k you may find your car in paint jail.

I love you @kencombs you always have great information and do great work. The way I think about this ... YOU CAN DO THIS! What parts will you need? You will need a donor rear end for the backing plates & Brake parts. While grabbing the donor rear end you want to grab the existing E-brake cables & brackets to go with them ... Many just modify the original brake cable to fit on the original E-brake handle. So Now that you have the donor rear end and cables/brackets secured and at home. You want to cut it up and uses the pieces from it to modify your original Tapered axle rear end? I personally can not imagine how many hours would be involved in converting the original tapered axle rear end to a modern brake system. My personal red line in the sand is bad brake drums. When my drums are no longer usable, I will do a modern rear end swap. Simply just cheaper. My only point here ... I bet you will spend more time and money converting a original rear end to E-brakes. Then a simple rear end swap. For these reasons, I never heard of someone doing the E-brake conversion .... I think it can be done .... would have to ask why be done?

Sadly that kind of thinking will send you to the funny farm. I remember when Grandpa filled all his gas tanks in his junk yard. What a mess for others to clear out .. That was in the 70's ... Gas has a shelf life. I personally steer clear of any price calculations I spend on my project truck ... not really what it is about ... I would go crazy if I kept track of monies spent on it. Cheapest I remember gas was 36 cents a gallon ... it quickly jumped over a dollar and never went back down. Storing todays crap gas is the least favorite thing I have on my to-do list.

Then remember it was a 2 door car and not 4 doors? Holy crap is all that comes to mind.

Different era where one was always trying to compete against the other. I honestly think it was a total waste of time ... really interesting how the competition was going at the time.

Yeah that is pretty crazy. I want to say California is expecting the same thing. They do not clean up the forest and is dry and it takes off. Here we are very concerned with grass fires in West Texas. It just takes a spark, then the side of the freeway or whatever is taking off. I actually started a grass fire in Eastern Washington once. I was using a burning barrel and had a garden hose close. Sparks would jump out and start a fire then I would stomp them out. I got tired of that and went to turn the garden hose on ... found out the hose bib was plugged and no water coming from here... Grass fires are bad ... fire department came and just watched as the neighbors yard burned. I had 3 trucks I had to install a battery in and move them ... At this point it was more like a controlled burn. I had paint blistered as the trucks were starting to catch fire. I am no fireman. I have to wonder the thought process. This is natural vegetation, it will start on fire when ignited. They want to keep it controlled ... otherwise let it burn. While I was in a panic attack at the time. The next year the grass grew in better and greener then the previous. Here in Texas we are constantly fighting grass fires. Car accident on the freeway and get a spark. In Canada you do not get this weather .... you do not clean up the dry grass or forest floor. My brother called me the other day and was 110 F south of Tacoma. He retired and sold his last house with AC. His new house he never bothered to install AC ... Just not worth the bother .... then this year ?

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A little hokey but works. I would lay plywood down in a gravel driveway. Then pipe and plywood to roll it with. set the transmission on the rolling plywood. Then play jenga and start adding blocks under the trans to get the height you need, Be safe! then set the correct angle to match the motor. Takes time. When you finally get exactly what you want, just roll it into place. You would not want to get it close then try to manhandle it in the rest of the way .... you might lose it all and drop it. You really need to be patient and get it spot on and then just roll it in. Did the C6 in my Ford 1 ton a few years ago like this, many years ago the 4 spd in my 1960 Dodge 1 ton. Pretty sure I might cry if I try to remember how I did the trans/transfer case in the CJ5 ? ? ?

Wash up time Yeah that was yesterday when I took my wife to town .... sadly was more about me then my car ?

I told this story before, I was 16 or 17 and working at a tire store in Las Vegas, had my own trailer in a trailer park and a neighbor we worked together at the shop. We rode to work together. I was young and stupid then He was a biker, 1966 shovel head and looked the part. His wife was drunk & pissed one day and told me the story. They lived in southern California, he rode his motorcycle to the bars and claimed he was a Hells Angel member ... HA heard about this and gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the state of California. He had a pretty cool 1957 1/2 ton chevy with a factory automatic transmission and a bad rod bearing. He bought a new bearing, replaced it and shimmed it while cleaning up the crank ... loaded his motorcycle, wife and whatever they could fit in a trailer and left the state. Within 24 hours. I just like the story because the guy is a idiot and did idiot things. I have a special place in my heart for the truck. Last I heard he loaded the trailer and went back to Maryland from Nevada. Made it as far as West Virginia and the rear end went out ... shimmed up motor was still running fine. I can imagine how many farmers or people during the depression when they were making the doodle bugs out of trucks to farm the land.... they did what they had to. Was it the best idea? To be honest I want to say a dang good idea. Why do expensive time consuming machine work, when you can get another few years out of a cheap fix overnight and have the engine running & back to work the next day. Also at this time, probably cheaper to buy a complete running used engine then to restore a old one. Today we would frown on this as we are trying to restore them ... back then it was just a way to get further down the road.

Years ago my buddy used a beer can to shim his bearing. 57 cheby with the 216 engine. Ran fine for years afterwards. Brass seems like a better option .... I have doubts it is oem. Looks like true hackery at it's finest to me.

I hear ya! I know it has been over 20 years since she drove a stick. She has bad knees & severe arthritis in the hands. I really thought it would be rough on her physically to drive the manual transmission today. So she never tried in last 4 years. She drove it like a pro today ... though on the way home from our 1 hour drive. She moved her right hand from the shifter and was shaking it. She wont admit it, but she was in pain. But she is happy she can drive the truck to town as needed.

I am not going to pick any song, I always enjoyed Johnny Cash. I agree with @MackTheFinger Ol Kris was a one hit wonder ... but later they actually seem good. Took a few years to get use to Kris. They actually did ok singing others music. Much of it was not there's. A lot of songs reproduced from clowns where the original players did a great job.