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Okay, i wired the truck from scratch and had it running. The other day i was doing some parking light work and had pushed a wire into the cab that was laying outside of the fire wall. During my testing, this wire burned and caused a small fire in the cab, it was only connected to the acc side of...

Okay, on an 1157 bulb , you have one pin lower on the bulb and one that is higher up on the bulb . The bulb only fits in the socket one way, which pin would lead to the brake light part of the bulb , the lower or the higher pin? I know its kind of a stupid question, but i can't find any info...

Today i finally started the wiring process, this is a nightmare right now. Hopefully in a couple day's i will have some more pic's to share of working lights, etc....

Today i managed to get my headlight buckets installed. No wiring yet, but from the pic's, you can see it's gonna look good.

Well yesterday i took the time and installed and welded up my front shock towers on my 47 rat rod....

Okay, i purchased a set of rear lights i want to use as taillights. I took the light apart and found it is a single filimant bulb. I bought the parts to convert this into a dual filimant bulb. My quesion is, will the 1157 bulb work as a tail, turn and brake light? or do i need to install and...

I just wanted to share a story with all my rat rod friends about a law i helped change and it is being signed into law today at 3:00 pm by my state governor. I tried to post the story here in whole, but the site wouldn't allow me too, said i have to many characters in my thread, so the only way...

Well it took me a bit of just sitting and looking at my open space around my transmission, then i came up with an idea and here it is......

Yesterday i managed to get the windshields installed and roped in. Took a little bit of work roping the glass in, but i looks good. Today i installed the center metal strip between the windshields and then i cut, welded and installed the inner windshield moldings.

After chopping 4 inches out of the top of the truck and getting everything welded back together. I finally got the door glass installed today. I broke both door glasses trying to install them the first time, but after learning a few tough lesson's, i managed to get the second set in without any...

Yesterday i built i built a bracket for my C6 transmission and installed my b&m shifter....

It was brought to my attention yesterday that my pitman arm and drag link may be at to much of an angle. If i were to flip the pitman arm, it will hit my firewall when i turn....I had to move everything back do to the stock manifolds for the ford 400 engine exhaust manifold.....You all have any...

I managed to find a set of radial tires that would fit the 35 wire rims and the door glass that i made templates for, finally came in and i installed the drivers side first.......

Okay, i chopped the top of my truck 4 inches and am at a point where i am ready to install real windshield glass. My question at this point is: i purchased brand new rubber molding for my windshield which is a two piece windshield. Do to cutting the 4 inches out of the cab, i need to cut this...

So, recently some of the guys at work have started stating that i have taken my top chop and box build beyond what they call a rat rod and now say my truck is a hot rod. See the attached pictures.....After viewing the pictures, you can see that i chopped the top 4 inches and then tried to...

Okay, i have a 1947 ford truck which i chopped 4 inches out of the top. With this truck, it has two windshields. My question is, do i need the new rubber seal for the windshield to take the measurements or can i place a piece of cardboard on the windshield frame and make a template based off of...

I took a piece of 5" exhaust pipe and cut it to 12 inches, took cardboard and built an intake template and built it around a 6" filter. Do to the difference in size between my carb throat and the pipe, i split the pipe down the center and welded in a new piece of metal so i could hit my 5 1/8...

Last couple days i had to rework my brake pedal and my gas pedal. Check out the pics. The brake pedal was about 17 inches off of the floor. I took the pedal out, cut it at the first curve up from the actual pedal. I took some 1/4 inch plate metal, and cut 2 pieces out. I then v butted the 1/4...

Is a nice day today so i took my mach 1 out and gave her a bath......then i figured since i had 3 of my cars sitting outside, i would take a couple pics.

OH yea, stylin..........and it was free