Gary Lewis

Sure! It is for all years of Ford trucks. Although, perhaps we'll grow to the point we'll need a special section for the Bullnose trucks.

It ain't easy. If you are doing two quotes, reply to the first, hit Quote, copy the quote, back up to the thread, reply to the 2nd one, hit Quote, and paste the first quote ahead of the 2nd one.

Chris was truckless this year and we took him in. Come and be part of it even if the truck can't make it. (For that matter, I didn't have a truck to show either.)

This ones very nicely done. I think that's an E4OD tranny, though I could be wrong. And I wonder how they fastened the seats in - were they done properly or with washers? Anyway, looks like a very nice truck.

Nice, but fairly still fairly expensive. I do like the 351W, but what's with the air cleaner? What's it off of?

I'd LOVE to have an '81 Bronco, but not for $27K! I don't particularly like the color, but wouldn't want to change it on a truck like that.

Shaun - Cool! I think you did well with that buy. Chris - Don't miss David's request to be refreshed on what we did to your truck last year. And perhaps you've missed it, but Shaun is hoping to make the show next year. Maybe we'll all get to meet him.

ctubutis - I'm not worried about where the files are in Weebly as we are planning to leave there. And with that video you found that may be much sooner rather than later. :nabble_smiley_good:I recently signed up for WPbeginner, but hadn't found that how-to. And it is a good one. Well spotted! If it is twice as hard as it made it look it'll be duck soup. (But I doubt it will be.)And, the pricing is good as well. That discount gets $2.75/mo instead of $7.99/mo. But I don't know if that supplies backups, although the video said something about that. I'll have to check into that.With that migration tool from WPbeginner we could bring it up on ckeske's Dreamhost site. But if we don't want to go with Dreamhost then that might not be a smart thing to do. So I think I need to spend more time checking out hosting options so I can get a good comparison of price, benefits, etc.

Secretrecipies.shop and Ford-ford.come come back with "This site can’t be reached."

That really was sad, both the loss of life as well as that piece of history. I think I've been in that plane, although only on the ground. It was at an air show in PA about 30 years ago and my son and I went.

Yes, many of those links in FSB were put there by Steve83. And now that I look at them, many of those .fr and such sites are scams. They've found sites with good information and conglomerated them into a pay-for-use site. Pay to gain access to free information.

There should not be a need to remove the driveshaft or cross member and slide the trany back, it just more work that is not needed. Yes remove the inspection cover and remove the 4 nuts that hold the converter to the flex plate / flywheel and you should be able to push the converter back a little so you know it is free from the flex plate. Before you pull the motor support the trany with a floor jack with wood across the pad to protect the trany pan. You DO NOT want to keep the converter bolted to the motor / flex plate and try and remove the converter with the motor! You can hurt the converter and / or input shafts & splines and you will hurt the converter seal. I can also tell you, you CAAN NOT install the motor with the converter bolted to the flex plate as there is no way to get the input splines to line up in the converter. When you install a converter to the trany you have to turn the converter while pushing it in and it will click 2 time to seat it. You can also take a flat edge across the bell housing and the face of the converter should be inside about 2 inches. If the converter is not seated all the way and you bolt the motor up you can force the input shafts into the converter and break both. You may want to mark the flex plate and converter so when you put them back together you can line up the marks to help it go together. I know some converters / flex plate holes only line up 1 way and why I say this. Dave ---- Dave - I think I like your approach better than mine.

As many of you know, I'm reading up on how to migrate this site to Wordpress as well as overall how to set up a site to be easily found by the search engines - which is called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). And before you ask, the reason that is important is because we have good information here that the Bullnose world needs to know about. There's one piece of info I've learned in this that I thought I should pass on. The book says "If a high-quality site that has high Google search rankings features a link to your page, search engines will take notice and assume you have some authority on the subject." So, I urge you to provide links back to the documentation where'er you go. But as the admin I can find out about links from other sites through Google's Search Console. So I just went out to look and then downloaded the file as I thought you might want to know. Here 'tis, and if you scroll to the very bottom you'll see that there are 384 entries and 11,277 links. (Another "before-you-ask": I can find out what those sites are, and it is interesting - if you really want to know.)

ckuske - I think you are probably correct. 81f100custom - Yes, Weebly is EASY! I've taught it to a bunch of high school kids who created their own websites in one session. But, I've been told by two Weebly employees that our site has probably grown too large for their site. I asked because it is becoming very onerous to create new pages and drag/drop them to the proper location. And backups are running 4 hours to download - when they complete. And I have hundreds, if not thousands, of additional documents to add. Plus, with Wordpress 5.0 that came out last December there is a new editor, called the block editor, that provides some of the ease of creation for which Weebly is know.

A little more research on the Dreamhost site says "Proprietary site build and hosting services such Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace cannot be moved to DreamHost." I don't know if that means the Dreamhost staff don't have the tools with which to do it or if there's something proprietary about Dreamhost that precludes it. I guess we'll find out if I ask cms2cms to migrate it to Dreamhost. ctubutis - I understand what you are saying. And it makes sense. However, I'm hoping for a better answer. Or, maybe I should say a better way to present the pdf's. We shall see. But in any case having the content on the same "system" as the website will be a plus.

Gary, I don't think this can be done. Search engines are stupid, all they know is the IP address and the pathname to get to anything they index. They have no knowledge that one page may embed another into it; they are two separate pages to the search engine and it treats them independently. As you've found, once something is hosted on another site ("in the cloud" e.g. onedrive) the crawlers won't crawl those external sites. A search engine knows nothing about embedding a page, it knows nothing about how things get presented (rendered) to the user. The document root of a web server hosts all of your documents (pages). The topmost level of a site, e.g. /index.html lives at the root whereas /subdir/index.html lives in /subdir which is one off from the root but is still in the doc root. Clear as mud, I'm sure, but.... I was a WordPress admin at the Denver Post for ~3 years but that was a few years ago, I've forgotten a lot of the details by now. Yes, plugins can allow you to do a lot, but some plugins & themes can have security vulnerabilities which can allow malicious actors to scribble on your site. Which means there's the chance you'll get up one morning to find your site hosting ads to Canadian pharmacies (ask me how I know). I'm glad you bought a book, it should help you. :) ~~ I didn't see this thread until just recently but it looks like you're getting some good help from the other Chris. ;) Well, isn't it interesting that the "Chris's" are the ones with webhosting and Wordpress knowledge. ckuske - Thanks for the link to Dreamhost. The bottom tier at $16.95/mo provides ~100K monthly visitors, and if they are measuring the way others measure, meaning daily, then we are at 12.3K/month. So that would work nicely. They also say they do "Free Professional Site Migration". I'm guessing that is from a different Wordpress site to theirs, but I'll contact them to see if they do it from Weebly. And even if there's a fee it might be worth it to have someone move it to their system. And thanks for the offer on trying the site. But I'm not sure how to go about doing that. We have to convert it from Weebly to Wordpress, which means pointing the conversion code or people at the 1.7Gb, and growing, backup. Then we'd have another big file to upload. Let me noodle on this for a bit longer and think through how we could do it, who we'd have to pay and how much, etc. I just want to have all our ducks in a row. But thanks again! ctubutis - I see what you are saying about bots finding pdf's, but somehow it seems to be done on other sites. I think. But I'll have to do some research to prove what I think I've found, which is pdf's can be found on a page that shows you that you are in someone's website and provides a nav menu to go elsewhere on the site. Now we have the bots finding the pdf's that are truly hosted on Weebly. (At least they've found one of them and I assume all three.) But they've only found them, or are only showing them, in the storage place rather than on the page. And when you click on the link that a Google search provides you get the document and nothing but the document. So, in the case of the file on the Carter YF And YFA (http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/files/theme/CarterYFandYFA.pdf) you are just "there". In the document itself with no way of getting anywhere else. But if you go to the page at Documentation/Fuel Systems/Carburetors, Chokes, & EFI/Carter 1BBl (http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/carter-yfa-1bbl.html) and go to the Instructions tab and then the Walker tab you'll see the exact same document but you know where you are and can navigate elsewhere. And yet, last I looked, Google hasn't found the specific string I'm looking for on the page but it has in the document in the "files" section.

Chris - It should be pretty obvious when found then. And last year there wasn't any weather or such for you to drive through, so it isn't likely it is the exhaust having collapsed due to hitting water. And, you don't have a catalytic converter, right? So it isn't plugged. That pretty much leaves the carb. As for the storm, I'm on the back porch with its red-neck A/C - a fan in one end pulling cool air from the house in and pushing warm air from the porch back into the house. And I'm hoping that as of tonight when we get the major temp shift I can turn that thing off. Temps are supposed to drop from the mid-90's in the day to the mid-70's, and then next week into the 60's.

Yes, Mr Edison. But what is interesting is that the 1980 E-Series vans had a D3 prefix, and you are just playing with the suffix. But wait! There's no entry for 1980 F-Series trucks. So, since the vans and pickups seem to have shared the gaskets at times, did the 1980 F-Series gasket have a D3 prefix?

I don't know where to get them, but if you had the part number you might be able to find them by searching. I'll see Numberdummy and raise him one - all the part numbers are now on the site at: Documentation/Driveline/Brakes and then on the Front Brakes, then Dust Shields, and Part Numbers tabs.

More on Wordpress: I picked up the book WordPress All-In-One (for dummies) today. And since it cost $40 we are now committed. Seriously though, what little I've read really looks good. Here are some things I've learned: Roles: There are several roles that are available which we might want to use, like Author, Editor, and Administrator. That means that we may be able to give people a page or a section for which to be responsible. Comments: It is possible to turn on the ability for people to comment on pages. And while those comments aren't visible to everyone unless or until an administrator approves them, at least we can get feedback on the pages. Navigation: There are many, many plug-ins that provide lots of options in how to create navigation menus. So I'm hoping we can make the nav menu even more useful. Breadcrumbs: These are the links at the top and/or bottom of the page that show how you got where you are. The themes I've found on Weebly don't provide breadcrumbs, but we need them. In addition, I think there are some things we can do to provide menus for sections of the site, like maybe Electrical or Driveline, to make it easier to find your way around the section. So I'm going to be reading up on Wordpress, checking out hosting sites, and planning on how and when and to where we will migrate.

I like it also!

Shaun - I fully understand not wanting to take things off and not fix it all. Why is one of the reasons I can't flip vehicles - I put way too much money into them. Chris - Is 55 MPH also 2500 RPM? In other words, did it just suddenly have the full-blown problem or has it gotten worse? So you are getting the remnants of that big storm? We are supposed to get what's left tomorrow night.

Welcome! Are you really from "Houston", or might it be one of the 'burbs, like Katy where we once lived? I ask because we have a member's map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and I'd be happy to put you on it if I knew the town/city. Anyway, nice looking truck. I'll be it runs!

Scott - Your pics are now on the page: http://www.garysgaragemahal.com/N610939.html. See if you approve, please. And thank you. As for the metal pin pics, I'm not ready to do that yet. But will when we get the site sorted out.

Chris - Welcome back. I've done a LOT of reading, and I cannot find anyone who is having this problem. And since Wordpress is said to have 32% of the web hosting market, someone would be reporting on it if it truly was a problem. My hope is that the media management part of Wordpress, and specifically the Yoast SEO plugin that is said to be a must, shields the file itself from the search engines but shows the page on which it is shown. Saying it another way, when building a page you can upload a file, like a pdf, to be shown on that page. Surely the system is smart enough to know you don't want that file to be found twice as you'll take a hit in rankings with duplication. So there must be a way for the instance on the page to be found and yet the place where it is stored not to be. I think we press on with the plan to migrate to Wordpress and hope for the best. At the very least it will be better than today since the files will be on the same host site. But hopefully it'll be what we need where the search engines find it on the page where we placed it to be viewed and not in the media directory. And, speaking of that I contacted cms2cms, who do migrations. They said it'll be $300 for them to do a full migration. That seems like a good way to go to me as there's no way I want to be fixing each of the 549 pages we have when the automated tool glitches. But I'll check with other outfits to find their costs and compare them. Plus I'll continue to scope out hosting sites to see what they provide and at what cost. Do you have a recommendation? I want to get all the bits and pieces figured out and then pull the trigger.