Garage DIY

While most of the general public would be able to recognize a "cam" as a part of an engine, and possibly many could even point out the part if seen lying in a junkyard (or am I giving the general public too...

Ever since I lost the brakes in my Studebaker five years ago, I take any opportunity given to share my misadventure with other classic car owners when I hear they haven't upgraded their brake systems (you'd...

You've done all the planning and you're 100% ready, so how to install a cable-operated floor shifter? Let's get to it! Ready?!? Let's get greasy! Wait. Have you read the directions from the...

I've already gone over my reasons for choosing to install a Lokar cable-operated floor shifter for my automatic 700R4 transmission, so now prepare with me to install it. If you don't regularly follow along...

Why the Switch? When Studebaker got on the road way-back-when (7 years!), I'd insisted on making the original column shifter work. Being that it was originally linked to a manual Studebaker transmission...

Most car people I know have been at this place one time or another - money or time limiting progress of a car build. My regular readers are probably wondering why Operation Stude wasn't completed months ago,...

While you've all been waiting for the epic conclusion of the Studebaker rebuild...so have I! With Speedweek and busy schedules, there wasn't much going on in the garage the past couple of weeks - but this...

Anytime major mechanical work is done, expect there to be some "gremlins" to work out before the job can actually be called "done." These small engine rebuild problems have been keeping me busy the past few...

Rounding that corner to where my car is actually being put together again seems a little bit like turning that last curve of a race, when it's the home stretch and you can finally see the finish. Months have...

Finally, the last thing on my engine rebuild before putting it back into Stude - at times it seemed like I'd never get here! With Studie's Small Block Chevy (SBC) looking so good, I could hardly just bolt my...