I've got about everything back in place for my 62 rear suspension (1/4 elliptic). I drained/cleaned/drained/cleaned/refilled the rear shocks, best I could do was straight 30 oil. "Seeems" better. The
IMHO, Tighting ONLY if all four corners are in same plane! IOW, front has to be on stands also. Now enquiring minds NEED to know WHY, if you had apart, you did not just get a set of shox from Peter
Makes perfect sense and I have heard that quite a bit in the restoration world. I think no one follows thru with it but I have heard of it. I have a book on restoring pre-war cars that mentions when
Ed & Mike Thanks for the tips. I'll plan on getting the nose back up in the air before doing this and adding some weight to the trunk too. I assume the rest of the drivetrain being missing (the missi
Thanks for the comments Bob. I am not saying that getting the shocks rebuilt would not benefit the car or be better than the stock ones, I just have to juggle a budget concern. For example the next b
For example the next big expenditure will probably be the tires, they'll cost me about $500 for 5 of them. Peters shocks will set me back $110/pair. If I can possibly save the $110 I can put it towar
The thing that really bugs me is they can charge $92 each because the know there are suckers out there like me, who could make-do with a much cheaper ($30 ea? If that.) tire, but won't because we wan
gee, only 92.00/tire? that's darn cheap! how about reproduction 5.00-15 dunlop treaded vintage race tires for twice that per tire for skinny little tires! having a car habbit is rather "interesting"
OK, thanks for pointing that out Bob. I didn't see any leakage, but this car is SUCH a basket case, or was when I bought it that "who knows" what'll happen. Right now I have $1.10 invested in a bottl