While we were waiting on the engine to come back, we sent out our radiator to be flushed and pressure checked. Because of environmental regulations regarding the chemicals used to acid-dip, a majority of radiator shops can only boil and flush brass radiators today, even the coil cleaner we used to use is taboo these […]
Once we completed the changeover on the front brakes, we felt the pretty steel braided brake lines that were installed throughout the Speedster were not large enough to accommodate the other changes we made to the brake system. The F-1 wheel cylinders were plumbed for 7/16-20 thread, as the originals were but the steel-braided lines […]
While we had the engine out being rebuilt this winter, we also decided to change the original front brake set-up to a more modern self-energizing style.
Thanks to some information from an old American Rodder article we found online at the Flathead V8 website www.flatheadv8.org we decided to go with 1948-’52 F1 pickup front brakes. Most […]