Steve this is an outstanding channel and NO ONE COULD DO IT BETTER!!!! I'm a Chevy guy but, I do like Mopars, Fords and others from this era to the 70s. This is great Steve,after watching you on Barrett Jackson I kinda knew it would be!!
I had 'experience' with those left handed driver side studs in the past, with my '69 Super Bee many years ago changing out a driver side back tire and broke a ratchet wrench trying to get it off until a friend 'enlightened' me to the fact that I was actually tightening it. Then again on my '69 Road Runner when I had a flat in the back driver side and forgot to tell the mechanic about it, but he was careful and didn't break it off before I told him. Thank God!
Sir, you are a tremendous source of information. I appreciate your enthusiasm. I grew up in a Mopar household in the 50s and 60s. You bring back some great memories. My dad had a '50 Dodge, '56 Chrysler Windsor, '60 Dodge Matador, '62 Chrysler Newport and '65 Chrysler New Yorker. Good luck with the Max Wedge! I look forward to your next video.
I just found your channel. I remember you from your "Bad Seed" Chevette days. You rode in my ZZ430 Vega between stops on Power Tour years ago. It wound up with a Corvette 6 speed which was the best transmission as it kept the heat out of the radiator unlike an auto trans. I sold it through Streetside Classics in Dallas Ft Worth ( look for ZZ430 Vega). I was in Delaware but now I am in TX. You were in Cali but now you're in MA. I went to Electronic Warfare school at Ft Devens years ago. Power Tour used their parking lot as I remember for the East Coast Power Tour. It's been yers and it is good to see you are still at it. I appreciated your altered wheel base car too. This Max Wedge project should be interesting. You haven't lost your touch. Cheers Larry Heagren Canyon Lake, TX p.s. the car was in the Oct 2003 issue of HR the 12 second 20 MPG issue. It ran 12's at 120 MPH a very traction hampered launch.
I remember getting tires put on my 65 Dodge A100 pickup years ago. I had the service writer make sure he noted left-hand threads on drivers side lugs in big bold letters on the ticket. Thankfully no issues.
Really enjoying the videos. Also, Willys used left handed threaded lugs on the left side. Found out the hard way as kids when a friend bought a 1951n pickup. Couldn't get them loose.
My 61 Desoto had the left handed threads on the left side. Busted my snap on ratchet trying to remove the lug nuts taking the nuts off, then I saw an L on the stud. Lol
When I started working at a local automotive repair shop in 1982, I learned the hard way . Nobody told me about the left handed studs and nuts. The car was a 65 Coronet . I ended up breaking two studs . We didn't see many Mopars with them only occasionally. We hired a young high school kid and trained him to do just mounting and balancing of tires. Nobody told him and he ended up breaking all five studs on one wheel thinking they were cross threaded . Our Ingersoll & Rand guns would snap left handed studs like twigs if you didn't pay attention .
Hey Steve digging your show my grandfather had a 63 polara police car same car basically anyway wanted to let you know there is a special tool available threw the Chrysler 300 club that safely removes these axels with no damage to part or technicians look it up via 63 Chrysler 300 J was $150 bucks or so but was well worth it as I had no experience ever doing one till my dad purchased a 63 300 J years ago an I had to service the brakes an suregrip enjoyed the great Texas mopar horde experience an this police issue 62 polara! my brother bought the 300L an the pretty 65 300 witch now runs an drives an is very clean ty for your time an dedication to old cars an mopars in general I love your shows!!
@ Jet Lag Heroes Honestly I think it came down to a serviceable factor & 2nd, a cost factor. Lots studs got broke, owners couldn't change tire, = lots of complaints. Then think about how much cheaper you could get a single type stud when you're ordering them by the railcar. Really at the time, those are the biggest factors in manufacturing.
I learned about the left-hand lugs the hard way. I had a '69 Chrysler Newport in '77 and 19 years old, and using an impact socket wrench, wondered why the lug nut was not loosening and the rim was concaving. The impact socket was spinning in the correct direction!!
My early built 1933 Dodge [code DP] used left hand threaded nuts. This pre-dated the wheel bolts, so the left threaded wheel nut on Dodge passenger cars was first used much earlier that many might think.
Steve, I am not sure if you know, but the Mexican Spec B bodies had a separate drum from the axle. The car still had the tapered axle, but the drum was not part of it. I did a video on that on my You Tube channel.
Can’t wait to see the build on this amazing mopar I hate those rears. Always stopped me from buying any earlier mopar. Learned my lesson as a kid back in the 70s my brother had a 64 sport fury and cursed getting those drums off Keep up this great channel
Most 318 poly's '62s used a 2:76, but 3:23 available. Even my '62 318 power pack is 2:76. It's written on the diff case. A hydraulic puller and a bit of heat, a tappy tap, and the rear hubs BANG off. (ok, I seem to comment on all Steve's cop car vids, sorry.)
I believe those double slim white walls were only sold in 1970. A few cars came with them from the factory, too. A lot were sold aftermarket. It is interesting how belted tire lasts so long, at least as far as hold air. I have some that hold air that are nearly that old.
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS haha only like 500 some odd in like 8yrs. Yeah I don't work the algorithm much. Plenty of footage in the can on the current project ,but I don't have time to edit and post ,I need a producer 😂
i had a 1964 ih scout that had the left hand threads on the drivers side wheels. it definitely caught me by surprise the first time i tried to rotate the tires.
I'm excited to see you get started working on this please upload some more videos on this. your knowledge is superb!! You should visit Graveyard Carz in Springfield Oregon
Those dual band white walls scream lates 60's early 70's. So this car has been off the road for quite a few years. Glad it was saved. We definitely need more pedestrian cars to look at when going to a car show.
In regards to left hand and right hand wheel nuts, ‘Lug Nuts’, Rolls Royce and Bentley used the same method on their wheels, or at least they use to. I owned a 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow ll, and it had the same method, is seemed a little odd at the time. Manchester, England.
Some lessons about left handed lug nuts and bolts. 1. If you have all 5 on a given wheel, don't upgrade/ replace with right hand. They (left hand on left side of car ) DO help. 2. If you break a left handed stud, there are no new ones available , only right hand. So, save the left handed ones you take off if you don't want them, because someone will want them. 3 Right handed wheel studs are easy to find at the big auto stores for REAR wheels and are under two dollars each. Most mid size, full size Chrysler corp cars and half ton trucks from 1967 to 1984 and more use the same parts.
When I was little and already a car nut, I remember studying wheels and tires, mainly because my eyes were down there. I noticed the differences in steel wheels from make to make, when they lost the prongs (I knew my model years, generally) and lug bolts vs. studs and nuts. I assumed since becoming an engineer, that prongs were done away with because they were more expensive, due to greater part count and extra operations to build them.
Also, little known fact; in my younger days there were right & left handed cigarettes as well, but, here's the thing. One of them you could safely smoke in public. The other one, humm, not so much, unless you wanted to see what the inside of that police car looked like. 🤣🤣
My dad was service manager at a Dodge dealer in the 1970’s. A customer called very angry, he was stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire on his old pickup truck. He couldn’t get the lug nuts off and blamed the dealer for over torquing them. My dad drove out with a mechanic. The lug nuts came off, no problem, when they were turned right to loosen. The man owned the truck for 15 years and never had a flat on the driver side.
I remember those dual whitewalls from the late 60s . General even had triples around 70 . Back in the bias ply days tire buying was a yearly thing . The polyglas on my dads 73 Coronet were a big step forward but the 8 1/4 rear was a total piece of junk not up to hauling a 16 foot boat .
As a kid. We had a 1964 Custom 880… the C body Dodge. It had those same ‘ police brakes’ as my dad called them. “Make sure you tell Joe” he’d say when I was headed to the auto parts guy before one of our brake jobs
Hi Steve. I am currently restoring a 1958 Cadillac Sedan DeVille and the driver side does indeed have reverse thread lug nuts. So Cadillac did it too!!
Hey Mag's! I restored a 1968 Dodge Polara Coupe with Four wheel Disc Brakes with emergency brake. Heavy duty axle's Mopar Heavy duty nodular case 3.55 gears and a Tru- Trac limited slip diff. The Tru-Trac in my opinion is the best unit out there for a daily driver. although racers do use these too!
I think the bigger problem with that axle is that it uses a woodruff key to tie the axle to the drum vs. splines. That means all the force is on that key vs. several splines.
I had a '51 Plymouth and a '46 Plymouth they both had left hand lug bolts on the driver side. The castle nut holding the drum to the rear axle is also left hand thread. Use a '65 Torqueflite to retain the pushbutton shift but get rid of the ball and trunion "U" joint at the transmission and use a normal "U" joint and slip yoke.
4:29. It been my experience that if both wheels turn in the same direction you have a posi. Little odd that the other wheel didn't turn at all. From my years as a shade tree mechanic the open rear end will let the other wheel turn but in the opposite direction.
Get the 65 axle. Both my 62 and 63 Belvedere wagons had the big brakes and the front sway bar. Couldn't bring myself to alter the 62 as it was a 361 a/c, pw pb creampuff, but the 65 axle on the 63 was soooo worth it come brake service time.
Right, my 72 Demon had the left nutz... it makes total sense due to centrifugal forces and I imagine older wheels and tires weren't exactly balanced too great an those vibrations at the type of rpms close in there near the hub is astronomical and would take them nuts right off... same as why the dumb intake manifold or head bolts loosen up and need rechecked from sonic vibrations.
PSS... In 1969 my mother factory ordered a 1969 Plymouth Satellite, 2 door hardtop, as follows...318 V8, NO power steering, NO power brakes, AM/FM Radio AND 3SP manual trans, column shifted, with an UNSYNCRONIZED first gear, . I learned to drive on that contraption, which was tough since I had never heard about "Double Clutching"! PS MOPAR "Bonus Tip" It had the rare "Full Horn Ring" option. Yes, for a few bucks, the aluminum colored, metal horn ring, went 360" around the steering wheel, not just the bottom holf, like most Mopars. I have not seen another with said horn ring. (I tried, with negative results, to get her to order a GTO, instead).
I am looking forward to viewing all your episodes?
Hello Steve! I rate your car TV show/UA-cam videos, as some of the very best! Great info, interesting topics, without the Hollywood antics! In this episode I heard... "What they found, left hand lugnuts, on the driver's side, THE WHEEL WOULDN'T COME OFF SOONER then 'lefter' (garbled)". What were you saying there? I remember the LH lugnuts, from my time in the Auto Repair Business and that said LH nuts, resisted loosening on their own. THANKS! .
My 62 Chrysler 300 had all the studs stripped by one of the previous owners , even the right side was messed up thanks to mixing left and right nuts. As far as the axle swap, I just went with an 05 grand Cherokee, disc brakes, limited slip and 3.54
I absolutely love this channel. Steve is a wealth of Mopar knowledge!! Definitely looking forward to this series !
wealth of knowledge of everything lol
These daily videos from Steve are great! 👍
Yup, absolutely. And keep poundin that like thumbs up
You are such a great teacher. I loved Junkyard Gold and am glad you’re doing more videos on UA-cam.
Steve this is an outstanding channel and NO ONE COULD DO IT BETTER!!!! I'm a Chevy guy but, I do like Mopars, Fords and others from this era to the 70s. This is great Steve,after watching you on Barrett Jackson I kinda knew it would be!!
In years past, if you had told me I'd be looking forward to a 4-door Dart build..........
@3:45 - The Steve Mag's bobblehead doll. Just in time for Christmas - A great gift idea!
Great video ,looks like about 1971 tires dual white wall tires.
I had 'experience' with those left handed driver side studs in the past, with my '69 Super Bee many years ago changing out a driver side back tire and broke a ratchet wrench trying to get it off until a friend 'enlightened' me to the fact that I was actually tightening it. Then again on my '69 Road Runner when I had a flat in the back driver side and forgot to tell the mechanic about it, but he was careful and didn't break it off before I told him. Thank God!
Sir, you are a tremendous source of information. I appreciate your enthusiasm. I grew up in a Mopar household in the 50s and 60s. You bring back some great memories. My dad had a '50 Dodge, '56 Chrysler Windsor, '60 Dodge Matador, '62 Chrysler Newport and '65 Chrysler New Yorker. Good luck with the Max Wedge! I look forward to your next video.
Man you’re a human enciclopedia! Great stuff Steve! Looking forward to seeing more on that cruiser.👌😎👍
I just found your channel. I remember you from your "Bad Seed" Chevette days. You rode in my ZZ430 Vega between stops on Power Tour years ago. It wound up with a Corvette 6 speed which was the best transmission as it kept the heat out of the radiator unlike an auto trans. I sold it through Streetside Classics in Dallas Ft Worth ( look for ZZ430 Vega). I was in Delaware but now I am in TX. You were in Cali but now you're in MA. I went to Electronic Warfare school at Ft Devens years ago. Power Tour used their parking lot as I remember for the East Coast Power Tour. It's been yers and it is good to see you are still at it. I appreciated your altered wheel base car too. This Max Wedge project should be interesting. You haven't lost your touch.
Cheers
Larry Heagren
Canyon Lake, TX
p.s. the car was in the Oct 2003 issue of HR the 12 second 20 MPG issue. It ran 12's at 120 MPH a very traction hampered launch.
Was bad seed the one with the 500 caddy motor? Memories
Ford also used left hand lugnuts in the early 80s trucks too.
Many manufacturers do with dual wheels. One nut is l/h and one r/h
Great history lesson on the LH lug nuts! Thanks for sharing Steve!
Hey Steve. I love your enthusiasm and your knowledge is humbling. Great work.
I remember getting tires put on my 65 Dodge A100 pickup years ago. I had the service writer make sure he noted left-hand threads on drivers side lugs in big bold letters on the ticket. Thankfully no issues.
Steve is an encyclopedia!
Sweet Steve ,cop brakes,cop springs,cop wheels .I’m interested in the diff ratio
Elwood, is that you?
Does the cigarette lighter work..lol
@@b.abrackus6403 automatic for '62😄😄
You the man Steve I hope you're getting well soon
Mr. Magnante you are an encyclopedia of info. Will be along for the ride on this Dart build.👍👍
Cool auto history!
Really enjoying the videos. Also, Willys used left handed threaded lugs on the left side. Found out the hard way as kids when a friend bought a 1951n pickup. Couldn't get them loose.
I appreciate your detail knowledge on all makes, especially Mopars.
Me too!
My 61 Desoto had the left handed threads on the left side. Busted my snap on ratchet trying to remove the lug nuts taking the nuts off, then I saw an L on the stud. Lol
Still has the spring wrapped around the drum!!
That was the biggest wheel balance weight I've ever seen... well done!
It would cause a problem with a full wheel cover getting a snug fit, too.
When I started working at a local automotive repair shop in 1982, I learned the hard way . Nobody told me about the left handed studs and nuts. The car was a 65 Coronet . I ended up breaking two studs . We didn't see many Mopars with them only occasionally. We hired a young high school kid and trained him to do just mounting and balancing of tires. Nobody told him and he ended up breaking all five studs on one wheel thinking they were cross threaded . Our Ingersoll & Rand guns would snap left handed studs like twigs if you didn't pay attention .
Hey Steve digging your show my grandfather had a 63 polara police car same car basically anyway wanted to let you know there is a special tool available threw the Chrysler 300 club that safely removes these axels with no damage to part or technicians look it up via 63 Chrysler 300 J was $150 bucks or so but was well worth it as I had no experience ever doing one till my dad purchased a 63 300 J years ago an I had to service the brakes an suregrip enjoyed the great Texas mopar horde experience an this police issue 62 polara!
my brother bought the 300L an the pretty 65 300 witch now runs an drives an is very clean ty for your time an dedication to old cars an mopars in general I love your shows!!
I guess the left hand thread lug nut theory is out the door these days!
@ Jet Lag Heroes Honestly I think it came down to a serviceable factor & 2nd, a cost factor. Lots studs got broke, owners couldn't change tire, = lots of complaints. Then think about how much cheaper you could get a single type stud when you're ordering them by the railcar. Really at the time, those are the biggest factors in manufacturing.
Interesting as always, Thanks Steve! BTW, left handed threads on Studebakers and Willys Jeeps too.
I love your knowledge steve
In 1977 in high school I had a 63 Olds F-85 215 aluminum engine. It had left hand threads just like that.
If, ......yes of course....I like this video. I'm jumping from one video to the next! Have a great weekend everyone!
I learned about the left-hand lugs the hard way. I had a '69 Chrysler Newport in '77 and 19 years old, and using an impact socket wrench, wondered why the lug nut was not loosening and the rim was concaving. The impact socket was spinning in the correct direction!!
I had 62 skylark with left handed lugs as well
Same on a 63 Electra I had years ago.
I was wondering why a 4 Dr. But you answered my question in this video. I love it.
Looking forward to seeing the evolution of this project...
Loved your column in Car Craft
pontiac also used left thread lugs until 1963.....
My early built 1933 Dodge [code DP] used left hand threaded nuts. This pre-dated the wheel bolts, so the left threaded wheel nut on Dodge passenger cars was first used much earlier that many might think.
International used left and right lug nuts too. I’ve had and still have some of them.
Steve, I am not sure if you know, but the Mexican Spec B bodies had a separate drum from the axle. The car still had the tapered axle, but the drum was not part of it. I did a video on that on my You Tube channel.
Old school ball and stud budd rims, on big trucks, had them as well!
Can’t wait to see the build on this amazing mopar I hate those rears. Always stopped me from buying any earlier mopar. Learned my lesson as a kid back in the 70s my brother had a 64 sport fury and cursed getting those drums off Keep up this great channel
Most 318 poly's '62s used a 2:76, but 3:23 available. Even my '62 318 power pack is 2:76. It's written on the diff case. A hydraulic puller and a bit of heat, a tappy tap, and the rear hubs BANG off. (ok, I seem to comment on all Steve's cop car vids, sorry.)
Tappy tap tap 😅
@@dewreckdeberjack9618 I blame AvE
@@moyadapne968 indubitably 😅
I remember seeing one of those rear diff units on a station wagon of the same vintage,Always enjoy the videos
I believe those double slim white walls were only sold in 1970. A few cars came with them from the factory, too. A lot were sold aftermarket. It is interesting how belted tire lasts so long, at least as far as hold air. I have some that hold air that are nearly that old.
Willys used left-handed lugs on the driver’s side as well.
Everyday I check in on your channel and it grows by 1 or more thousand subs. Awesome job! Keep up the good content.
Dang, thanks... mine like 1 per day
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS haha only like 500 some odd in like 8yrs.
Yeah I don't work the algorithm much.
Plenty of footage in the can on the current project ,but I don't have time to edit and post ,I need a producer 😂
My 1967 Jeep CJ also had left hand studs/nuts. I changed that right quick!
My first car, a 1961 Buick LeSabre, also had left-hand lug nuts on the driver’s side.
Thanks
i had a 1964 ih scout that had the left hand threads on the drivers side wheels. it definitely caught me by surprise the first time i tried to rotate the tires.
Awesome video on a rainy day in NYC
This guy is awesome. I'm loving these videos.
I'm excited to see you get started working on this please upload some more videos on this. your knowledge is superb!! You should visit Graveyard Carz in Springfield Oregon
Any updates on this series Steve ?
Be interesting to see the progress.
The offside knockoffs on my MG Midget wire wheels were left hand
Those dual band white walls scream lates 60's early 70's. So this car has been off the road for quite a few years. Glad it was saved. We definitely need more pedestrian cars to look at when going to a car show.
Great content. Looking forward to following along on this build.
My ‘63 Superior Pontiac Bonneville Ambulance had left-hand wheel studs on the Driver’s side. They’ve since been switched to standard.
In regards to left hand and right hand wheel nuts, ‘Lug Nuts’, Rolls Royce and Bentley used the same method on their wheels, or at least they use to. I owned a 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Shadow ll, and it had the same method, is seemed a little odd at the time.
Manchester, England.
I worked at Sears automotive as a kid and I snapped a few stud because of those left hand threads.
I saw a '62 Dart 4 door with a factory 413 at Carlisle a few years ago
I got the chry brake drum puller it has the hammer style knock off it well fold up a heavy built drum I haven't used it in years
Some lessons about left handed lug nuts and bolts. 1. If you have all 5 on a given wheel, don't upgrade/ replace with right hand. They (left hand on left side of car ) DO help. 2. If you break a left handed stud, there are no new ones available , only right hand. So, save the left handed ones you take off if you don't want them, because someone will want them. 3 Right handed wheel studs are easy to find at the big auto stores for REAR wheels and are under two dollars each. Most mid size, full size Chrysler corp cars and half ton trucks from 1967 to 1984 and more use the same parts.
I like that it is a four door, something different from what everyone usually build
2:47. Isuzu NPR turbo diesel delivery box trucks use left hand lug nuts on the drivers side to this day. Right hand on the passenger side.
When I was little and already a car nut, I remember studying wheels and tires, mainly because my eyes were down there. I noticed the differences in steel wheels from make to make, when they lost the prongs (I knew my model years, generally) and lug bolts vs. studs and nuts. I assumed since becoming an engineer, that prongs were done away with because they were more expensive, due to greater part count and extra operations to build them.
Also, little known fact; in my younger days there were right & left handed cigarettes as well, but, here's the thing. One of them you could safely smoke in public. The other one, humm, not so much, unless you wanted to see what the inside of that police car looked like. 🤣🤣
Get well Steve!!!!!!
My dad was service manager at a Dodge dealer in the 1970’s. A customer called very angry, he was stuck on the side of the road with a flat tire on his old pickup truck. He couldn’t get the lug nuts off and blamed the dealer for over torquing them. My dad drove out with a mechanic. The lug nuts came off, no problem, when they were turned right to loosen. The man owned the truck for 15 years and never had a flat on the driver side.
I remember those dual whitewalls from the late 60s . General even had triples around 70 . Back in the bias ply days tire buying was a yearly thing . The polyglas on my dads 73 Coronet were a big step forward but the 8 1/4 rear was a total piece of junk not up to hauling a 16 foot boat .
Looking forward to watching the build.
My '57 Pontiac has left-handed studs on the driver's side, too.
👍🏻 thanks again Steve!!!
Left or Right hand threads? Well, what really keeps the lug nuts from coming loose is a toque wrench, star pattern and double checking your work.
I'm not sure what year it started with the left hand thread but my '51 Coronet has them as well.
As a kid. We had a 1964 Custom 880… the C body Dodge. It had those same ‘ police brakes’ as my dad called them.
“Make sure you tell Joe” he’d say when I was headed to the auto parts guy before one of our brake jobs
Hi Steve. I am currently restoring a 1958 Cadillac Sedan DeVille and the driver side does indeed have reverse thread lug nuts. So Cadillac did it too!!
Hey Mag's! I restored a 1968 Dodge Polara Coupe with Four wheel Disc Brakes with emergency brake. Heavy duty axle's Mopar Heavy duty nodular case 3.55 gears and a Tru- Trac limited slip diff. The Tru-Trac in my opinion is the best unit out there for a daily driver. although racers do use these too!
I think the bigger problem with that axle is that it uses a woodruff key to tie the axle to the drum vs. splines. That means all the force is on that key vs. several splines.
Studebaker also used lh lugs on the driver side
Jeeps as well used the left hand lugnuts which I realized after I snapped 4 of them of on the CJ5 my dad and I bought.
I had a '51 Plymouth and a '46 Plymouth they both had left hand lug bolts on the driver side. The castle nut holding the drum to the rear axle is also left hand thread. Use a '65 Torqueflite to retain the pushbutton shift but get rid of the ball and trunion "U" joint at the transmission and use a normal "U" joint and slip yoke.
on the rear axle turn the nut around heat it and use the puller won't mess up threads so much if at tall
Keep them comming. 👍
4:29. It been my experience that if both wheels turn in the same direction you have a posi. Little odd that the other wheel didn't turn at all. From my years as a shade tree mechanic the open rear end will let the other wheel turn but in the opposite direction.
Get the 65 axle. Both my 62 and 63 Belvedere wagons had the big brakes and the front sway bar. Couldn't bring myself to alter the 62 as it was a 361 a/c, pw pb creampuff, but the 65 axle on the 63 was soooo worth it come brake service time.
My 63 Buick Riviera had lefty's on the captains side
My 1961 Belvedere had the left had thread.
Right, my 72 Demon had the left nutz... it makes total sense due to centrifugal forces and I imagine older wheels and tires weren't exactly balanced too great an those vibrations at the type of rpms close in there near the hub is astronomical and would take them nuts right off...
same as why the dumb intake manifold or head bolts loosen up and need rechecked from sonic vibrations.
My dad and I got dr.diff axles and cut the center backing plate to fit
Buicks also used RH and LH wheel studs and lugs
PSS... In 1969 my mother factory ordered a 1969 Plymouth Satellite, 2 door hardtop, as follows...318 V8, NO power steering, NO power brakes, AM/FM Radio AND 3SP manual trans, column shifted, with an UNSYNCRONIZED first gear, . I learned to drive on that contraption, which was tough since I had never heard about "Double Clutching"!
PS MOPAR "Bonus Tip" It had the rare "Full Horn Ring" option. Yes, for a few bucks, the aluminum colored, metal horn ring, went 360" around the steering wheel, not just the bottom holf, like most Mopars. I have not seen another with said horn ring. (I tried, with negative results, to get her to order a GTO, instead).
I am looking forward to viewing all your episodes?
Hello Steve! I rate your car TV show/UA-cam videos, as some of the very best! Great info, interesting topics, without the Hollywood antics!
In this episode I heard... "What they found, left hand lugnuts, on the driver's side, THE WHEEL WOULDN'T COME OFF SOONER then 'lefter' (garbled)". What were you saying there? I remember the LH lugnuts, from my time in the Auto Repair Business and that said LH nuts, resisted loosening on their own. THANKS!
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All the 1959 Cadillacs in my friends garage have left hand threads on the left side.
Cant wait to see this finished!
Keep them coming. Awesome
Plz ppl, which vid did u lift the floormat? I dont know how i missed the floors, bummer. cHeers.
"Backseat action" video at about the 3 minute mark.
Cheers mate@@daviderickson9445
My 62 Chrysler 300 had all the studs stripped by one of the previous owners , even the right side was messed up thanks to mixing left and right nuts. As far as the axle swap, I just went with an 05 grand Cherokee, disc brakes, limited slip and 3.54