Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-16-2024, 08:05 AM
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Re: '51 o/d cable holder
Hey Scott, I found it . PM me and I'll send it. I'm down in Perry MO. just outside Hannibal. Should take about three days to get to you. Tim
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-15-2024, 08:49 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-15-2024, 08:31 AM
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Re: '51 o/d cable holder
Yes , I will go looking this morning. We are still getting things organized after moving 2200 miles east and having my shop built last year. So it may take some searching. Tim.
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-14-2024, 07:44 AM
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Re: 1953 fan assembly
I used 30# engine oil and if you over fill it it will just throw the excess out the rear until it has the correct amount. There is no seal and it circulates the oil when running via a screw type...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-14-2024, 07:36 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-12-2024, 08:03 AM
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Re: What wheels are these?
If I had to guess I would say someone changed the truck to 5 on 5&1/2 bolt pattern drums and the wheels are or were narrow chrome smoothies that got painted with new caps. Tim
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-12-2024, 07:53 AM
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Re: Drove 30mi round trip burned 1qt oil
Gary , Where were you with that advice two years ago when I was bombin around Olympia with my seven cylinder low to no compression 8ba. Instead of smelling burnt oil I would have smelled like any...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-09-2024, 08:29 AM
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Re: Driving The 52 Merc
Enjoy my friend. I'm envious as my old flathead is still 2200 miles away and not up and running yet. Mabey by July I'll have the time and money to Finnish it and driver it home. I do miss driving it....
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-08-2024, 08:49 PM
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Re: Break-in gone wrong!
Cameron I may be wrong but I was told here on the barn that 8ba's had 80 psi systems from the start so if that's true your 40 or 50 psi on a fresh engine would indicate a problem from the start to...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-08-2024, 02:12 PM
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Re: Break-in gone wrong!
Ok. I've been following this thread from the beginning but held my tongue. I know its unlikely but when the pump gear gets up to running temp could it spin on the shaft under load then cool off and...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-08-2024, 07:46 AM
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Re: 2 sp fordomatic
I found if I put it in first and drove mine for about two blocks it would find second and third much better for the rest of the drive. But its just a band aid fix, either your seals are worn or your...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-07-2024, 07:57 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-05-2024, 08:10 AM
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Re: Annual MONSTER Swap Portland, Or
Hi Dale, The last two swaps I attended at Portland were very disappointing. My brother (your neighbor) and I started counting after the first hour or so and we figured for every actual old used car...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-02-2024, 09:23 AM
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Re: At a loss. 1949 Ford flathead V8
Along with the coil you might try a hot wire direct from the battery to the coil. There is the chance of a bad ignition switch. I was stymied by one in the past with the same symptoms. Tim
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
04-02-2024, 09:06 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-31-2024, 08:24 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-30-2024, 08:17 AM
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Re: help identify transmissions
Let me rephrase that. I sold two like the red one for $350 each on the HAMB . If you like I can drop a note on the Cadillac Lassalle page saying I saw them here or wherever you want to post them. If...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-28-2024, 08:48 AM
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Replies: 4
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Re: Instruments not working
Power supply is most likely There is a little thing called an IVR (instrument voltage regulator ) on the back of the cluster . They are squareish and about one inch by one half usually with two studs...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-28-2024, 08:31 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-24-2024, 08:31 AM
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Replies: 23
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Re: Public Service Announcement: Avoiding Ethanol
Your sitting a a stop light, the car ahead of you starts to pull away, what looks like water trickles out the tail pipe. Its water and other corrosive chemicals. Guy brings me his weed eater to fix....
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-21-2024, 11:50 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-19-2024, 07:16 PM
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Re: Lincoln OD Transmission
PM me if you decide to part it out . I would buy the internals of the OD. I don't know how far you are from me but from Hannibal MO. to southern IL. would be doable for me. Tim
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-19-2024, 02:03 PM
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Re: Cowl Lights ??
I think they were to help you be seen , not to see with and the last American made vehicle I can think of that had them was the mid forties iron cross Dodge and Plymouth pickups. Tim
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
03-19-2024, 09:11 AM
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Replies: 18
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Re: Lincoln OD Transmission
I was looking at one for a 40 coup once but it was to much hacking that I wasn't willing to do for the guy. It looked like cutting up the X member and shortening the torque tube and driveshaft would...
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