13 hours ago, Wrongway said:

I normally set my idle speed in gear, it was about 500 and I bumped it up to 750 for the ride to the gas station. When I went back to park it jumped up to 1400. You also do your air/fuel mixture in gear? Is there any benefit to that or justa preference?

Not sure of the benefit, but I do it as a holdover habit from racing. When you adjust the mixture screws in gear you are loading the engine! Which is substantially different than neutral. In racing you are looking for a any advantage you can.

8 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

shop ?????? what have i missed ????

ditto!

That makes sense.

40 minutes ago, Last Indian said:

shop ?????? what have i missed ????

Good company, good stories and good bourbon you can only get around here, if you're into that kind of thing.

Ok so, good news, bad news, exciting news kind of day! First, the good news. We went for a drive today, only about six miles or so round trip. But it was mostly on a five lane road, two lanes each way with a left turn lane and traffic. She held her own, never got hot and breaks did good got her up to 45-50MPH. The Bad, after about three miles I pulled into a parking lot with intentions of letting my son drive for the first time. The engine dieseled, only a bit, maybe one full revolution, but she did diesel. Now I did put mid-grade 89 in again yesterday, but it was Shell and I did not put octane booster in this time. I'm going to try octane booster again but if not, we may need to add or pull a couple of degrees of timing out? Your thoughts? The exciting news, while in the parking lot I had my son switch seats with me and let him take it around the parking lot a few times! Forward, turns, parking spaces and backing in. He did awesome y'all!!! And Rosey finally got her sticker. I've been waiting till she was able to be driven, so I put it on yesterday while waiting on Indymanjoe to get here. Now she matches the truck and the bike!

love the

"wrongways speed shop' !!!!

mate shes justa awsum

Seriously special mate

10 hours ago, 64 kiwi boni said:

love the

"wrongways speed shop' !!!!

mate shes justa awsum

Seriously special mate

Glad you like it bro. That name has been on justa bout everything I've had or build since 2012. Wrongway was my CB handle when I was a truck driver. We had to change the original font because we were ordering shirts back then and didn't know what they used. The first pic is the logo patch from the very first work shirt we ordered. The logo has been on all sorts of stuff now. Shirts, cars, coffee cups and hat's, even challenge coins. we even had one guy ask us if we could make him socks, and we did. On the second batch of coins we had made up we added B.U.F.U. and that now appears on a some of the shirts and tags in small print. The thought was, we all build things our way, not caring about what others say or think, whether it's the right way or the wrongway it's our way. So B.U.F.U fit well, it stands for "By Us F%@k You"

wrongway , do you have a picture of your rear brake drums ? i am strugling to find a picture of the correct ones for my 63 wagon, seams that after 64, all 5x5 drums went to 11inch by 2.5 wide, and 57- 64 where 2 inch wide.

I'm sorry Kiwi I do not. I have pictures of the brake assembly still on the car, axels and everything else but not a single picture of the drums bro. I will check the scrap pile in a bit to see if they are still there but mine were pretty bad even after being "turned" and I'm pretty sure they went to the scrap yard already.

2 hours ago, Wrongway said:

I'm sorry Kiwi I do not. I have pictures of the brake assembly still on the car, axels and everything else but not a single picture of the drums bro. I will check the scrap pile in a bit to see if they are still there but mine were pretty bad even after being "turned" and I'm pretty sure they went to the scrap yard already.

all good mate, i have started a thread on this as, i am finding it very hard to work out what was the go with 1964 9.3 diff assmblies, on my diff thats going under the wagon, i have a finned drum and its 2.8 inches wide, which seams to be for a 65 onwards, but ! it sounds like mid to late 64 got a finned drum not the smooth drum that was stock for 57 to 64 !

i will continure this on that thread i feel

I did double check and they must have went to the scrap yard bro. Good luck.