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Looks like you have a pair for fit up and a pair to use. Glad that your purchase was a success. And as much as I complain about eBay, I've had only one really bad experience - and it was selling an original '57 T-Bird OD tranny to a total idiot that said it was a regular Ford OD tranny - (except I was the guy that pulled it out of the 'bird wreck about 1960). Good luck - keep us up to date on the mods

Went to the Doc yesterday about my tore up shoulder. It seems that my self diagnosis was right---its a torn rotator cuff tendon or muscle. Its taken 3 friggin weeks to get a doctors appointment, and the pain has been crazy. I had 3 x-rays and a cortisone shot in the joint yesterday, and at least the pain is gone now. I'm scheduled to start physiotherapy tomorrow to regain the mobility in the shoulder, but at least it seems that I won't need surgery. Have to wait for everything to heal up before I can start rolling around on the cement garage floor wrestling with old hotrod parts.---Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

Went to the Doc yesterday about my tore up shoulder. It seems that my self diagnosis was right---its a torn rotator cuff tendon or muscle. Its taken 3 friggin weeks to get a doctors appointment, and the pain has been crazy. I had 3 x-rays and a cortisone shot in the joint yesterday, and at least the pain is gone now. I'm scheduled to start physiotherapy tomorrow to regain the mobility in the shoulder, but at least it seems that I won't need surgery. Have to wait for everything to heal up before I can start rolling around on the cement garage floor wrestling with old hotrod parts.---Brian

Darn it, I was going to ask you to stop by and help me put the body on the frame between Christmas and New Years. You're only 3-400 miles away and you could make the round trip in a day - easy.

Glad you finally found some relief. I messed up both shoulders different times while skiing and it just takes time to heal (and is also age dependant ). Unfortunately, my left shoulder had some nerve damage and even 20+ years later, I still can't sleep on that side

I just phoned Hortons in Milton Ontario, to enquire about a set of Halogen style headlights that would be direct bolt in replacements for the 7" sealed beams in my 7" Kingbee headlights. (Heck, I figure, if its all apart anyways--- ). Anyways, a set complete with the proper bulbs from Speedway Motors will cost me $88 plus tax and shipping. I don't do a lot of night driving, but when I do---there are a lot of wild critters on the highway around here. I,ve seen the havock wreaked on a glass full fendered roadster that hit a porcupine!!! It would be nice to be able to see them well enough to avoid them----Brian

Originally Posted by brianrupnow

I just phoned Hortons in Milton Ontario, to enquire about a set of Halogen style headlights that would be direct bolt in replacements for the 7" sealed beams in my 7" Kingbee headlights. (Heck, I figure, if its all apart anyways--- ). Anyways, a set complete with the proper bulbs from Speedway Motors will cost me $88 plus tax and shipping. I don't do a lot of night driving, but when I do---there are a lot of wild critters on the highway around here. I,ve seen the havock wreaked on a glass full fendered roadster that hit a porcupine!!! It would be nice to be able to see them well enough to avoid them----Brian

Brian,
If you can get the lights without the crap Chinese H4 bulbs you will be better off...........the H4 are probably not legal there. Instead go to Wally World and get a pair of 9003s which are DOT in the US. I posted this earlier - I have no idea who Candlepower are but the Sylvania 9003XV that I just got are for sure legal

Originally Posted by DennyW

You might want to read this. I'm staying with a nice bright stock bulb. hahaha You just have to set them higher, but not in someones face, and they light the way very well.

http://www.miata.net/products/lights/sylvania.html

I, too have to agree that Silverstars ain't worth a dam' which is why I bought the the XV (2 sets of SS on my '01 truck). The XV's are a step up from the OEM candles and so far have been just fine in my '06.

I have not had to worry to much about turn signals on the 31 Ford RPU. They always work, turns off when I want them to, and they are hidden when not in use.

Its my left arm. I just put it straight out when I want to signal to go left and
I bend it up at the elbow when I want to go right.

I recently purchased the Speedway dropped headlight bar for my 28 Ford RPU. It currently has the 28, 29 headlights with H4 halogen ligths already in place, I just want to get them down like on the 29 sedan in the pic. As you can see it has the funky turn siganls mounted on the frame rails. I would like to eliminate them and find something less conspicuous, like inside the headlight bucket. Or maybe an arm...
CCL

Here is a pic of the 28 Ford RPU. The 31 and the 28 are both full Henry Ford steel.
CCL

80% of the people around here think that a hand turn signal is a rude gesture!!!

boxstr, very pretty little RPU. Like the red a lot. I am starting to use hand signals more and more on my T. We hooked up turnsignals to the rear lights, but the switch is a little tough to find under the seat, and I keep forgetting to turn it off as there is no indicator on the dash. Consequently, I fit the stereotype of the old man driving along for miles and miles with his blinker on. Not so bad to do that in my regular car, but NOT COOL in a hot rod.

Don

Don---Go to Radio Shack and buy a timer---wire it in series with your blinkers. You can set the time dwell so that it will shut off the blinker after a specified time. Avoid the "old man blinker" image.

Just what is wrong with the H4 bulbs anyway? I have them on my roadster and am really pleased with them. When we were up at Lake Tahoe last summer they sure lit up those dark mountain roads.

Originally Posted by Hidebinder

Just what is wrong with the H4 bulbs anyway? I have them on my roadster and am really pleased with them. When we were up at Lake Tahoe last summer they sure lit up those dark mountain roads.

Read my post, attached, of a couple of weeks ago. If you have some "good" H4 bulbs, not a problem as long as they pass your state inspection. If you need to change them out, the best choice is the DOT spec 9003 bulbs.

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34354

You do have to open a .pdf file to read this though

Well guys, its less than a week untill March. My hotrod instincts are a bit like a Maple tree--as we get closer to spring, the hotrod sap starts to flow up from my roots---. Its been a long cold winter, and my arthritis has been horrible this year, but lets think about good things---hotroddy things!!! My new dropped headlight bar does not exactly match the angle of the fenders at the point where the ends of it contact the fenders. (I would have been very surprised if it did). If they were steel fenders, I would just tighten the bolts untill everything "conformed", but with painted glass fenders, I don't think that would be a good idea. I am going to get some plasticene (steal it from my grand daughter) and trowel a layer of it over the ends of the headlight bar (after putting a bit of paste wax on the ends of the bar and the contact area on the fenders), then bolt everything up "medium snug". I will then unbolt the headlight bar, and measure the resulting "wedge" of plasticene. This will give me measurements to have a couple of wedges of the same sized material machined from aluminum or stainless to perfectly fill the gap. I will have it machined "in the flat", then bend it with my body hammer and round face dolly to match the curve of the fenders.---Sound reasonable??---Brian (the crumbly looking stuff on the fender is just fiberglass dust---I had to enlarge the bolt holes thru the fenders a bit)

Can I have a clarification on the H4 lights? I was just going to replace the sealed beams bulbs (early type halogen) in the stainless Dietz shells with the Speedway 910-61018 7" fluted bulbs. My wife's car is a 2003 Saturn and the headlights are really great so I assumed the H4 bulbs were like that. My "plan" was/is to keep the beautiful STAINLESS Dietz shells (Speedway 911-01007), replace the sealed beam bulbs with the 910-61018 7" and then add the Speedway kit 910-64150 for turn signals so as to end up with retaining the nice stainless shells, brighter lights and turn signals. Are these H4 bulbs the ones that don't last? I checked on this conbination with one of the tech guys at Speedway and he said it will work but there was no mention of bulb lifetime.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder