When setting up a brake system, it is very important to use the correct valves. If the master cylinder reservoir is located lower than the wheel cylinders or calipers then you should have residual pressure valves. Use a 2psi valve for disk brake calipers and 10psi valve for drum brake wheel cylinders. This will maintain 2 or 10psi between the caliper/wheel cylinder and valve, which is enough pressure to keep the brake fluid from flowing back from the wheels and leaking past the reservoir vent and on to the ground. The second function of the residual pressure is a slight preload on the brakes keeping them “at the ready.”
What do fire bombings, dead race horses, rental cars and Checker Cabs have in common?
Our saga of the great American taxi begins at the start of the automotive business in the early 1900’s with an entrepreneur in the tailoring and clothier business named Morris Markin. He was a Russian immigrant transplanted to Chicago, Illinois. As a crafty business man in search of profits he also handled a money lending operation which was well known and respected in the state. When a financial reversal for the owner of Commonwealth Motors in Joliet, Illinois made it impossible to repay a $15,000 loan to Markin he added auto manufacturer to his list of business credits. Taking over the business in 1921 Markin learned Commonwealth Motors was unique,
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The 1962 Checker Marathon Dallas Taxi Cab, believed to have been hailed by Lee Harvey Oswald immediately after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, is one of the cars to be auctioned this weekend.
Once regarded as one of the foremost tourist attractions in the Southwest, the Pate Museum of Transportation officially comes to an end this weekend with the auctioning of the Pate Collection in Cresson, Texas.
RM Auctions is handling the sale, which will be held this Saturday, June 5, at the Museum.
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CPP’s new Complete Rear Dual Adjustable Coil-Over Kit is designed to convert your 1963-72 Chevy truck to a corner carving, performance driving vehicle! Our kit includes our new Totally Tubular Trailing arms, coil over springs and dual adjustable coil over shocks and all the mounting hardware to make this rear suspension
Get that cool street rod stance and track proven performance for your 1963-87 Chevrolet C10 Truck! Our Complete Front Coil-Over Conversion Kits include dual-adjustable coil-over shocks, spanner wrench and bearing kit, our Totally Tubular™ upper and lower control arms, and all the mounting brackets and hardware for a simple bolt-on installation.
Sue Vanderbilt in a 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Seville “Baroness;" the show car that she styled for the Feminine Show. When you look back at General Motors’ rich design history, one of the most talented individuals, who made her career as part of GM’s vaunted Creative Design Team, was the late Suzanne E. Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt was one of the original Damsels of Design – a group of eight, great talented female designers that the famed Harley Earl hired during the early days of the 1950s.
Throughout history, the Oldsmobile story has inspired many automotive historians with its rich and celebrated heritage which started right in Michigan’s capital city of Lansing.
I remember a particularly exciting year in 1978 when Oldsmobile introduced their new line of vehicles and automotive catalogues to the buying public. My first impression was that Oldsmobile was using 1978 to create a family-oriented lineup of new cars. The company used its advertising and marketing to highlight many traditional family values
The year 1966 was a great year for automotive sales in the U.S. Many car manufacturers were doing very well for the economy and in 1966 the average cost for a new Dodge vehicle sold for $ 2,280 and the price of gasoline for 32 cents a gallon.
The Chrysler Corporation was also doing very well within the automotive markets with its popular Dodge Dart models. The 1966 Dodge Dart models made their debut in Dodge dealerships on September 30, 1965.
Based on a 1956 Chevrolet 210 Sedan, this recently completed mild custom was built to showcase the timeless factory “Tri-Five” heritage. With a new GM Performance ZZ4 power plant backed by a factory-fresh GM 700R4 transmission, it is equipped with rack-and-pinion steering, four-wheel Wilwood disc
To ensure that Shelby American would have its 1966 GT350 models in dealerships when Ford released the new ‘66 Mustangs, Shelby ordered an additional 252 cars from Ford’s San Jose plant at the very end of 1965 production. These ‘change-over’ cars (often referred to as ‘carry-overs’) were essentially Shelby-spec ’65 GT350s, and received the same performance modifications,
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