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Last seen: June 27, 2025 3:49 pm
I can't imagine that it's much fun to lean over those huge fenders to work on the front of the motor!
I would probably look at it and consider that a floor jack with a piece of 1x8 or something to distribute the lifting point could raise the engine eno...
Finally got mine created and uploaded. I picture of me found among many photos we went through that belonged to my aunt.
If that's a '49, it's a 1st series car, and is very similar to the '46-48 models. There was a mid-year change to the 2nd series cars. Not a super te...
I think I managed to enable avatars last night, but I ran out of time to create one for myself before I announced my latest victory. Maybe you can ge...
You're asking great questions that are pushing my newbie status of webmaster to areas that I haven't delved into yet. Everything is something of a ne...
In the column of menu items at the left of your screen a "Photo Gallery" is offered, where you can upload images of your cars in the appropr...
And you might start hunting a source for a new new chain/sprockets in the event you need them...
You could squirt some oil in the cylinders and see if your compression comes back, but I'm concerned that Les may be right and the timing has jumped.
I think 1 and 6 are coming up at the same time, but you won't feel compression on them both because one of them would be on it's exhaust stroke and th...
Sorry to ask a potentially insulting question, but you are counting the forward most cylinder as number one, right? It's weird and concerns me that t...