We had made the decision to attend this year’s Bash (thanks Josh), so I made hotel reservations and bought some Bash T-shirts. Because of the trouble I have been having with my back (I turned 75 a couple of days ago, happy birthday Glen), I knew that the 23 hour round trip in the Green Hornet was not an option. Since we nearly took Amtrak to Chicago for the Michigan Bash, we decided to take the Amtrak Texas Eagle from Fort Worth to St. Louis, rent a car and drive over to Vandalia. Until yesterday. Amtrak cancelled our train because of the impending freight rail strike. I checked Southwest and learned that we could get last minute tickets from DFW to St. Louis for only twice what the Amtrak tickets cost. Luckily I checked for rental cars before I bought the airplane tickets. There were no rental cars available in St. Louis! By then Cathie had already cancelled the dog’s boarding, so I admitted defeat and spent the next several hours breaking reservations and getting refunds. Total cost of our non-trip: zero dollars, but lots of aggrivation. 

This is the second time in a month we have had a vacation cancelled out from under us. We had a Mississippi River cruise from Minneapolis to New Orleans, but Viking didn’t get their new boat ready in time and cancelled the first six weeks of cruises. 

MS says the Bashes are about the cars and I love cars. But I agree more with Bullet Bob when he says that the Bashes are really about the people.  Cathie and I were both looking toward catching up with everyone. Maybe next year?

Unfortunately that design comes with a tight crossover which creates a hot spot. The solution is that brass hand operated air pump seen hanging on the door. After the engine is warm, both driver and passenger have to continuously pump the hand pumps to keep that hot spot from melting. Version 2.0 of those headers came with dual electric blowers cobbled up from heater blowers sourced from 1953 DeSotos.

Bullet Bob wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

Its hard to seal them without making a mess, so be ready for some cleanup.  I did mine almost 25 years ago by myself (including the fatback rear glass), and the trick I learned was to use a piece of weedwacker cord inside the channel for the glass.  Install the gasket to the body, then, with the cord inside the glass channel, use the cord to roll the gasket over the edge of the glass.  Worked like a charm, and no leaks. 

Huh?  I'm having trouble trying to visualize how you managed to keep the cord in the window channel to pull it over the glass.  This process is just bass-akwards from how I have seen it done and done it myself four or five times on VW's and Mustangs. 

Bob, view the Mustangs to Fear YouTube video, is shows all, even how to slap the windshield into place with the flat of your hand.
 

You might consider installing aftermarket headrests and installing speakers in the headrests, a left and a right in each one right behind the ears. Even 6Sally6 should be able to hear those speakers. Plus, they are stealthy. The speakers will be cheaper too, since they only have to throw sound about six inches.

You might want to give Fluid Film a try. Sprays on, leaves a mostly waterproof coating. Supposedly removes light rust. The active ingredient is lanolin, so if you are allergic to lanolin like I am, you have to be careful how you use it.

TKOPerformance wrote:

Ron68 wrote:

Stevo wrote:

Wow... Must have been a slow lead up with a quick announcement.
I wonder if this will have a flow on effect to the actual part manufacturers such as Scott Drake?

I try to stay away from anything Scott Drake. His stuff has definitely gone down in quality from what he sold before. I use NPD almost exclusively and usually get good quality stuff from them. 

Yeah, Scott Drake's stuff is pretty hit or miss anymore.  It used to be a quality name you could trust building first rate reproductions.  Now they trade on the reputation that name built while selling half decent products and half junk.  They've made inroads into the Fox era cars too, which is also disappointing. 

In January 2016, the Huron Capital group purchased a majority stake in the Drake Group, essentially funding Scott Drake’s retirement. We can probably trace the decline in the Scott Drake products to that date.

MS wrote:

Hornman wrote:

Couple questions:
1. Did you do the heat/cool cycles? They are important for honing the gears together and work hardening the surface of the gears. (Of course the initial setup has to be correct)
2. Do you have the 500 break in miles on it yet? If not you may be panicing prematurely. We all know that it is important to panic at exactly the correct time to get the maximum anxiety from the event.

 
First 50 mile trip with cool down afterwards. Have driven about another fifty miles. They sound worse. Never heard gears sound so bad. My father in law once drove a dodge pickup from San Antonio to Dallas for me to work on. When I pulled the differential, one of the main cap bolts FELL INTO THE DRAIN PAN. That differential did not make as much noise as mine does.

I don’t have time to mess around getting madder and madder in order to log 500 miles. The old 3.70 is going back in.

If you bought a new Ford with a 9” rear in it and it howled and whined on the way home, would you be willing to “put some miles on it ... it will be fine “?

Yes.

How does that saying go? “All the best stuff is made there.”

Seafood please. Y’all gotta Bubba Gump’s there? We will eat anything that comes out of the ocean except oysters. A number of years ago I spent a month eating seafood from restaurants around the harbor in Marseilles, France. They serve things that Americans would never recognize.

So whajado, run a 4 gauge wire straight from the battery to the horn relay?

1fststang wrote:

Does the strange housing have a drain plug ?  I thought it was pretty lame that my Currie 9' housing didn't have one.  I probably should have installed one myself before installing.
 

Does the gear carrier not have a drain port?

TKOPerformance wrote:

I'm still trying to figure out what people are so concerned about.  There was the same panic with SARS, which is just another variant of coronavirus.  In the end it seems these things aren't as terrible as they're made out when they face a first world healthcare system. 

I honestly wonder if its just a way to manipulate the markets.  Fortunes aren't made in a boom; they're made in a downturn by the people who foresaw (or caused) it. 

If that's not conspiracy theorist enough for you, I also wonder if these viruses aren't the result of bio warfare programs run by the Japanese on the Chinese in WWII. 

You aren’t a conspiracy theorist with those thoughts. If you were a real conspiracy theorist you would be saying the Chinese turned the corona virus loose on the world to make Trump look bad.