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I know most on here will have a similar story, Fairlane sat for a while and needed to move it around the shop. Went to hit the brakes and pedal went to the floor. Look in the master and dry, puddle under where it was sitting. OK, no big deal, humidity here so this is not the first time. To Rock Auto order master and wheel cylinders. Pull stuff apart, master gone, wheel cylinders look good, together again pull out the Mityvac to bleed everything (wife doesn't want to climb up into the car on the hoist anymore). Can't pull anything through the rear?? I have heard of this before but the first time for me, the rear hose and distribution block will not flow anything! Totally plugged or collapsed. Looking for parts again.....
Got really tired of the hood popping on my '49 Meteor so had to remove the pan that spans the fenders to get the spring & lever out to straighten & relodge the coil spring. Should have been easy but with 75 yr old cars who knows what came before! One side was top monted/bolted the other crammed & tacked under !! Grrr! I guess from what I read on the HAMB 49-51 Ford cars have a cronic problem with hoods popping . Maybe should look for another assembly to retro in but with a finished car it's iffy! Anyone has done an upgrade??
Relatable. in around 1993 I changed the clutch in my '77 chevy 4X4 hunting truck. Didn't own a floor jack or anything fancy like that so pulled the trans/transfere case by hand. Putting it back in was fun, rolled it onto my chest and while bench pressing the trans and lifting the transfer case with my knees (bending my legs) I hoisted that thing into place. Took a couple tries to get the input shaft through the disc, would wrestle it for a minute (or less), get played out, lower everything back onto my chest, wheez trying to breath with all that weight on me for a few minutes, then try again. Did I mention it was a cast iron 4 Spd with a cast iron 205 transfer case?. A smarter man would have split them and installed them separately but....that would be a SMART man and none was available that day. These days I would probably struggle to put the pressure plate on while laying on my back on the floor.Just think 40 years ago we could rest them on our chests and bench press them up into place. What happened?
Also relatable. Back in about '82 or '83, after a long winter with my '57 chevy sitting in the garage, I was excited to get it out in the sunshine. I opened the hood to connect the battery then just lowered the hood but did not latch it. My girlfriend had her '67 Firebird parked in the driveway (this is important). Started my car and slowly let out the clutch just until the car started to move out of the garage and then pushed in the clutch and hit, what USED to be, the brakes. Pedal to the floor and all I could see in slow motion was the "battering ram" in the middle of the firebird grill getting closer and closer with no way to stop. I was barely moving but was also very close to her car. The car barley hit but, unfortunately for me, her bumper went above my bumper an smashed the gill bar on my car and hit the chrome bar along the bottom of the UNLATCHED hood putting a slight buckle in the hood. I was devastated as I had just had the car painted the previous summer. Not a mark on the firebird. Took the car to the buddy that was my hotrod mentor at the time and he looked at it and said "no problem" and proceeded to put some short lengths of 2x4 under the hood on both sides forward of the buckle, then climbed on the hood and "gently" bounced his weight on each side of the hood (while I looked on horrified). Climbed down, removed the blocks and closed the hood. Fit like brand new and didn't even crack then paint.I know most on here will have a similar story, Fairlane sat for a while and needed to move it around the shop. Went to hit the brakes and pedal went to the floor.......
Sounds just like the procedure to straighten the kink just forward of hood hinge on the early square bodies, followed by bolting an angle iron on the inside lol.Also relatable. Back in about '82 or '83, after a long winter with my '57 chevy sitting in the garage, I was excited to get it out in the sunshine. I opened the hood to connect the battery then just lowered the hood but did not latch it. My girlfriend had her '67 Firebird parked in the driveway (this is important). Started my car and slowly let out the clutch just until the car started to move out of the garage and then pushed in the clutch and hit, what USED to be, the brakes. Pedal to the floor and all I could see in slow motion was the "battering ram" in the middle of the firebird grill getting closer and closer with no way to stop. I was barely moving but was also very close to her car. The car barley hit but, unfortunately for me, her bumper went above my bumper an smashed the gill bar on my car and hit the chrome bar along the bottom of the UNLATCHED hood putting a slight buckle in the hood. I was devastated as I had just had the car painted the previous summer. Not a mark on the firebird. Took the car to the buddy that was my hotrod mentor at the time and he looked at it and said "no problem" and proceeded to put some short lengths of 2x4 under the hood on both sides forward of the buckle, then climbed on the hood and "gently" bounced his weight on each side of the hood (while I looked on horrified). Climbed down, removed the blocks and closed the hood. Fit like brand new and didn't even crack then paint.
Yes done with a new one and also rewelded the latch indent to flat where it was worn plus a teflon washer underb the slider latch. ALL to no avail. James idea about a rabbit latch sounds good ....hey, I could send my dog after one as she's a rabbit hound!!Al. Rotate the plunger into a different location. They wear in one place some times. The plunger has a penis shape