When I first built the truck, I put 185/80/15 Michelin XVS tires on the front ( a beautiful tire that filled the wheelwell nicely and drove great, but eyewatering expensive).
I put a 235/75/15 Michelin SUV tire in the back, because I like tires to match as well as possible ( I know they are completely different, but at least they have the same brand name on the side).
The narrower fronts, being on the heavy side of the truck, wore out quicker than the rears.
And they went from bald to showing cords right when I needed to do a lot of 2 hour round trips with the truck, going from our old house to our current one to move all my stuff.
So I threw a couple of cheap 205/70/15's on a set of steel wheels to keep it running.
Right now, it has new 5 spoke wheels and a new set of tires ( Hankook 205/70/15 and 235/75/15, so again a matching set )
The Halibrand wheels that were on the truck went to the '32, with new Michelin XZX 165/R15 fronts ( VW size so easy to get), and the same old 235 rears.
The rears were really too old and sunbaked to use on the '32, but good enough to set the car up with ( rideheight, fender clearance, etc)
My sandtrail had some really tall Off Road type tire on the back of it ( very aggressive chunky thread).
But one of them had a slow leak, because it had a big crack in one of the sides ( again, sun damage ), over about 1/3rd of the side wall.
Not that big of a problem, because don't use it on the street anymore, but having to pump it up regularly was annoying.
So...
The '32 got a set of new 235/75/15 Michelin's ( so it has a good set for the street) and the old ones went on the back of the 'rail, and the rears off the 'rail will go to the dump.
So that was one little project done...
I did some more wiring on the truck ( which is time consuming. And it doesn't show much progress, even if you are getting stuff done)
And we have been working on my buddy's new engine for his Capri.
He bought a 351W that had been sitting outside for years, so we didnt expect that much of it.
To our surprise, when we finally got around to opening it up, was that it was really nice inside.
No water damage, nice clean bores with hardly any ridge.
So we decided to do a super cheap budget build on it.
He scored a set of 4bar GT40P heads out of the Pull Your Part junkyard ( stock parts on a Ford Explorer SUV).
I cleaned the ports a bit ( not really a real porting job, but just cleaning up the casting and machining ridges and irregularities).
The better valvesprings I bought for my turbocharged 351W ( when that car was still mine ) & retainers, etc.
There was some room in the combustion chamber to unshroud the intake valves a bit, so I did that too.
We took the crank out without taking the pistons out of the bores ( we don't want to replace the rings, glazebust the bores, etc), replaced the main and big end bearings, and put the crank back in ( kind of a finnicky job but it can be done), put the heads on, and retorqued every thing.
I then port matched the intake ( aftermarket dual plane for a 4BBl Holley) to the heads.
Because the size and shape match was terrible.
We think we got a lot of good stuff done for not too much money, and we are hopeful it will be a nice engine.
More later...
