Ringo, Can you tell me where you got your steering wheel?
Chuckonwhidbey

 Ringo, Glad to hear of your progress. Hope you can finish it up soon and get back to driving.The weather has turned cooler here ,just right for riding in the country or town also.Hope the rest of the assembly goes good for you.

Thanks for the instructions Ringo.Your dash gets my vote for the most beautiful I’ve ever seen.Paul (are there a John and a George on this site?)

IT’S ALIVE!!!!
Going back together with no hitches.  Fired up, twisted the dissy a little and it seems she run’s smoother than ever.  Now I’ll put the water pump and other parts on (also had the radiator cleaned and pressure tested ) and check the final timing tomorrow or Thursday.
I’ll let yall know when she’s all buttoned up and does a test run.
Ringo

Thanks all for the kind words;

The base wood is cabinet grade fine
5/8? oak plywood. I used many different cardboard templates to get
the overall size I wanted, then made cutouts of the gauges so I
could do layouts with the templates on the car. The plywood was cut
out close to final size then carefully sanded down to final
dimensions with an…[Read more]

What a great looking dash! I’m envious! Great job.Greg

Rich,
I kept having those thoughts myself. The only thing that keeps me thinking differently is that the motor was locked up even after I took the starter off. The locked motor may have damaged the starter? At least it’s an inexpensive fix. I had understood that a Ford starter is good until it suddenly isn’t. Right now the inside of the car is…[Read more]

Bill,
Thanks for doing this!
Bill really went out of his way for us on this. He coordinated the design, then ordered the badges in July 2005. He fronted the money out of his own pocket.
It took four years to sell out.
Bill, we should occasionally bump the “badge” post to the “active topics” list and see if it generates interest. But I agree with…[Read more]

James,
Hmmm. Looking back through the notes on your car, Ringo and I had both suggested that the Starter motor could be the problem. I’m just wondering if an intermittent starter problem (like a slightly bent armature) could have been the problem all along?
Rich

Just a note to all
I am out of badges
It was a long hard road to sell
Definitely will need a list of at least 20-25 commitments or deposits before I would lay out the cost of an order again.

Ringo, looking at your dash again, the itch has returned to replace mine.  Can you give me some details on how you cut in your glove box, because that looks extreemly nice.  You do quality work, and I would appreciate any hints you might have, even to the choice of wood, hinges, mounting of the radio, etc..  

UPDATE:
Ringo, you’ll probably beat me getting back on the road. My starter gave it up. Everything was good to go, but the starter kicked once, made a terrible noise, and now is dead. Checked all the cables and they are ok. Put the starter on the bench, direct connected a battery to it, and it just hums and tries, but without any movement. It…[Read more]

I’m with Dan, from now on, I’ll save the bucks and get out the sander too. On my Olds station wagon new rotors are only $1 more each than having the old ones turned, heck, for 2 bucks more I always went for the new ones and how have several dandy old rotor weights laying around for odd jobs that need some weighs added . By the way…they don’t…[Read more]

It was withdrawn from Craig’s List also. He probably sold it locally, but he didn’t state it was for sale locally in his description. I am not for sure if you have to state it.

Gee , I have sanded my rotors all the time, working on my cars I just thought it was because I was always broke and needed to save money $$$ how did i know i was doing the wright thing!!  Dan

I got the info from my Mopar e-list. That’s interesting James. Your wife’s accident does sound like a real world event caused by the issue oeqf reported on.My Volvo dealer has also recommended against turning brake rotors. I always figured they were just trying to sell more new rotors. Maybe they knew more than they were saying.My worst “brake…[Read more]

Hi Larry,Right near the top of there is the blue banner containing the ad title, then the bold faced “Bidding has ended….”; then “Sell an item like this….” and then centered in the page, but easy to miss, the notation that the seller ended early.Once you have bids on an item, Ebay makes it a bit difficult to  cancel the auction. This is…[Read more]

 Paul, Thanks for some valuble information. I have been putting off doing a brake job on our van including dealing with a warped rotor. I think I will go with new ones after seeing this presentation.

Thanks, very interesting, very enlighting. Explains how my wife rear-ended a car after a new (bad) brake job, course spiral grooves. Both rotors were replaced by the body shop and the car stops fine now. Glad to know the story behind the rotors. I didn’t know. Thanks Paul,
James

 When I pull it up now it states that the bidding is ended for this item. I don’t see the item is no longer for sale that Paul refers to.  I am not up to speed on how Ebay works so I may not be seeing everything that everone else sees. It shows 0 bids now and buy it now price at $6500.I seem to remember it being at $4650. Perhaps the seller got t…[Read more]