Recent content by Scott McKelvey

I'll stress my first points. This is not a new thing. I've been watching it for a long time now. Its very specific when it happens (i.e. not a u-joint or the double cardan joint), in particular the direction of the turn and the fact that it's only when everything is hot, and when there's no real...

So I've had this truck for almost 1.75 years. I drove it home 800 miles from TN to MD. I drive it daily in urban/suburban/hiway (I've put 8000 miles on it). It has the big bearing 9", which I know has currie shafts and explorer disk brakes, and 4.56 gears, but if I had to guess it has a whole...

Kevin did this one for me recently. More than the work, I'm a curious guy and Kevin was communicative and spent more time than he needed to talking to me before and after (on the phone.....), and working with me on my particular needs. Mine was not in terrible shape: gauges worked, Speedo...

Inner Door parts (predominantly 68-77). Used, but OEM. I figure new, these parts are $106 w/o tax or shipping. And they're OEM and still usable. plus a couple of misc. extras like the door handle gasket and 1 rod clip. Nothing wrong with the stuff, I just gutted a set of stock doors to make...

Today I finished cutting the outside skin of door #1. Documented alot of measurements, and then went straight for door #2 (much faster). Not surprisingly there's zero torsional strength in what's left of the hard door, but once the new metal is welded in, that should change dramatically. I will...

first, I welded in some 3/4 angle against the window frames to mimic a hard or soft top, then cut off the door window frames. This was a one time deal, b/c then i was able to see how the soft door fits in relation to the hard door, and from there I was able to blueprint a template on the lower...

The traditional door insert for almost 60 years now has alot of shortcomings. Hear me out! Think of the advantages of having a normal door in lieu of a traditional insert. using the new Lift off hinges, easily swap b/t regular doors and the "inserts" in the summer months. Even traditional...

agreed that it sounds like they took the current Rampage design (call it Kayline, STC, whatever) and fixed the short comings. I'd love to see a more detailed video of the differences (why don't they do this, or someone hasn't posted one?). I'd gladly have paid $200 more for non-tinted windows...

It's not really noteworthy, or i would have posted it (because nothing of importance really changed). But as far as "before/after", the whole point was that any change was negligible. I'm not kidding when I say I've taken 100's of temp readings in various places over the course of a month or...

OK, so I'm going to call this definitive since there's not a single other thread I could find with an quantitative data. Bottom line, I hate to say it, but I see virtually no difference from cutting the inner fenders (granted everyone's setup and situation is different, but mine is nothing out...

So, I'm still really just interested in personal experience w/ opening the inner fenders. That said, since there's so many comments on heat shields and headers, I went ahead and did some testing. hood vents i'm not interested in. My issues (if you can call them that) aren't when running down...

So the nitrile gasket and sealant used in https://classicbroncos.com/forums/threads/jeffs-rear-poly-efi-tank.326675/post-3625628 seem to be working out, thank goodness. I was tiring of dealing w/ that. (edited, and updated the summary post ) So the 1999-2003 F-150 fuel pump (pictured below) has...

Yes, i've seen your posts. And yeah, that makes perfect sense, but Zero chance of me installing standoffs and pre-cut and bent aluminum plates to the firewall and floors while the truck is assembled. I took a close look at the headers today (in advance of trying to form some of those dimpled...

my experience is that the park position is the same, b/c you're just flipping the lever on the wiper motor over by 180 deg. So, nothing too interesting. No i will say that while i had the motor apart and put it back together, i was certain I'd effed up the park position w/ all those beveled...

So, I pulled things apart. I think it's better, but time will tell. Maybe this helps someone. When lowering, the wiper motor gets flipped over b/c otherwise the passenger side wiper lever hits it. When i got my truck, the mounting holes were all hogged out so the motor could be tilted up real...