Recent content by middlecalf

Man those are creampuffs! Big time 🤩

Dang, I thought lug nuts were to hold the motor in place. My crank pully isn’t nearly as sexy as yours but it has a sort of body-piercing-thingy going on with it. And it’s still on the motor and running 😂. https://forum.ih8mud.com/attachments/img_1421-webp.1725835/

Is the 2nd picture in post #51 your rig?

Mid-life, eh? 😛

Finally dawned on me wrt reason for issue with clearance between brake arm and accelerator - different accelerator pedal.

Lot’s of hub knowledge in Longmont CO in those days. Maybe there needs to be hub museum 😉.

Bold move! 👍👏👏 Welding a broken TNK wiper arm (🐓🦷🦷)

Piece of 🍰 wrt repairing that rust given what you’ve already been through with the bed. Wiring, well that’s a different ballgame 😳. Looking closer at your engine bay pics. Looks like you still have the voltage regulator that has the switching for the oil and chg idiot lites in the cluster...

Our ‘63s are very close cousins. Previous owner(s) did the same thing with mine and swapped in a later motor at some point. Block casting is stamped 040201 (Feb ‘64) and number is 193342, so I’d guess your F is mid- to late ‘64. I would have been interested in it 5yrs ago or so, and a...

Is that the original motor (#’s match those on the vin tag)? If you don’t mind, what are the numbers? Keeping the tin cups? Are they sound? I’m lazy, been following this build, but don’t remember (and I’m lazy 😛), what’s going back in motor-wise?

That looks about the same distance as from the retaining clip groove to the top of the seal/bearing? For what that’s worth 😂.

Generator, idiot lights?

Big Sky (Bud Lilly’s)?

Madison River?

@Pighead agree it will probably sit on the shelf a while longer as the old style is still cranking