Island dwellers attend Swap Meet

[GB SISSON]

The manifold is down at the shop. I will look for the mismatch in the morning. Does it have to do with the hollow passages in the carb's base? Also on the distributor, I was under the impression that the stock 8ba distributor didn;t work with the GM carb. The vac advance can appears to be ford style so really it just has one more set of points, but maybe not compatable with the GM carb? Confusing.

[tubman]

Right on the hollow passages in the carb base, and most likely right on the distributor. I guess whoever had it thought "Dual Points=Mallory".

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by tubman

Right on the hollow passages in the carb base, and most likely right on the distributor. I guess whoever had it thought "Dual Points=Mallory".

And whoever bought it thought the same.... Oh well, it has a great cap, and the vacuum can looks brand new! About two stalls down a guy was offering me a really good deal on the Brooklyn Bridge. Lucky thing I didn't go for it as the very next day I heard it sustained considerable damage in an incident with some kinda boat. Dodged a bullet on that one. Sheesh.

[cas3]

I saw your new perkins motor video, sweet lil' runner

[GB SISSON]

That 300.00 gamble worked out better than the gamble at the swap meet! Pretty stoked on that. 60 lb at idle, 70 at 1500 rpm. I'll get a video of the '59 pulling that boat somewhere flat (to Kansas)!

[ford38v8]

Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)

Originally Posted by GB SISSON

That 300.00 gamble worked out better than the gamble at the swap meet! Pretty stoked on that. 60 lb at idle, 70 at 1500 rpm. I'll get a video of the '59 pulling that boat somewhere flat (to Kansas)!

Kansas isn't flat. The whole state is tilted downhill by 2500'.
Just thought you'd like to know before you make the trip.

[GB SISSON]

I'm guessing higher at the end facing the Rockies and lower at the end facing the mighty Mississip? I think it's do-able. That little 6at genset cummins screams along at 3600 rpms. We have a 2500' mountain on Orcas with an auto road to the summit and I have done that in the '59 a couple times. I did leave the 6500 lb boat and trailer combo at home, as the trailer brakes look like they disolved from the salt water a few years back.

[cas3]

There are some pancake flat area's of Kansas, but not where I'm at. Here's some lousy pics, but it looks to me like the north end of the black hills here. Me and the 52 jeep think its just fine. Note the limestone fence posts. Lincoln county, "post rock capitol of the world" they say!

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by cas3

There are some pancake flat area's of Kansas, but not where I'm at. Here's some lousy pics, but it looks to me like the north end of the black hills here. Me and the 52 jeep think its just fine. Note the limestone fence posts. Lincoln county, "post rock capitol of the world" they say!

[cas3]

Pete! your fingers must be sore from the car thread! Thank you, now get some rest, tomorrow's another day!

[mfirth]

Gary, I love Shamrocks, GR8 boats even on Lake Erie. Would look nice being towed to launch by one of your very cool Jail Bars .

[GB SISSON]

I've been thinking I should create a dual point dunce cap for country bumpkins to wear at swap meets. Oh well, I'm over that now and back to my woodshop work for pesky customers (You want it when???) and there's the skidsteer I had to dissasemble to get to the wheel bearings that grenaded in the bilge, the ready to assemble 9" rear axle, (did I mention I slowly heated the first wheelbearing to about 150 degrees and wanted to see if it would drop onto the cold axle without a press as my mechanic friend recomended? Well it was so hot I accidently dropped it and it seated right down good. Without the retainer plate on first..) Back to the cuttoff wheel on a new timken. Then re-order. And it's lawn mowing season. In my spare time I continue to mess with this silly boat and the perkins diesel that followed the boat home a week later. Sheesh, and all four of my kids with the 5 grandkids will be here for the 3 day weekend. Here's a video...

https://youtu.be/e8fhmBvcLCg

[sidevalve8ba]

Gary, you are just about having more "fun" than the law allows!

[cas3]

There should be a weekly TV show, "adventures of MT Pickett". Sorta like the Waltons.

Gary, why is there a model A wheel mounted on a sawhorse?

[bobH]

A note regarding the 9-inch.... I'd be careful about the assembly of the axle bearing and retainer ring. I'd be using a press, and I'd be watching for a proper press fit (observing the press gage). My reason.... that's the only thing holding the axle in. If that joint fails, the wheel/tire/axle will exit the vehicle while you are cruising down the highway. I've seen it twice... Once it happened to me, and my vehicle slid to a stop riding on the backing plate. The left rear wheel/tire/axle went across the highway and over an embankment. The other time, it was a customer car, a 41 Ford passenger car. The fender prevented the wheel/tire/axle from exiting, and it tore up the tire and fender.
I wouldn't be heating the bearing, or the retainer ring.
(Of course, if this failure occurs with the original brake system, the brakes fail too, since the brake drum also exited.) (This could be a vote for disc brakes, as disc brakes will prevent the wheel/tire/axel from exiting.)

[GB SISSON]

Bob, I carefully cut that bearing back off with a cutoff wheel, and after that I made a driver from some heavy wall pipe. I turned a collar at the bearing end that pressed into the pipe and fit the inner race perfectly. At the pounding end I turned a trailer ball with a nice step at it's equator so I had a firm place to strike the 3 lb hammer. The ball had a flat spot about 5/8" diameter or so. I then placed a 4" diameter iron wheel from a floor jack on the concrete slab so not to mess with wheel studs and to achieve better backup. The bearing drove about 1/8" with each blow. Same with the keeper ring. I have confidence that it was a solid fit, but have to agree it's a strange way to secure something so important. I once lost both driver side dual wheels off my 92 F350 with about 2 tons on the bed. Wheels went across median and into oncoming traffic both lanes about 50 mph and it was dark. Nobody hurt, one bumper and grill on a gal's car was all. I will never forget the anxiety that night in the median as I sat waiting for the state trooper to arrive. We can continue this on my axle thread later today.

[GB SISSON]

Originally Posted by cas3

There should be a weekly TV show, "adventures of MT Pickett". Sorta like the Waltons.

Gary, why is there a model A wheel mounted on a sawhorse?

Remember that thread about steel channel used in car frames to support a large historic wood carving? I was asked to preserve this figurehead from a clipper ship built in Quincy Mass in 1874. The Model A wheel is for rotating the rotisserie I fabbed up for the restoration...Oh, and I followed one 'barners advice and used two 10' rails of 1/8" wall 2x4 steel tube. Now I gotta find the pics on the rotisserie...

[bobH]

There ya go, Gary. You've been there, done that. I'm glad you switched the bearing installation to the method you have described. Side note that I did not mention... When it happened to me, there was a car behind me.... containing an off-duty highway patrol officer. He witnessed the whole event... and complimented me for controlling the 'slow-down', as he said he expected me to go out of control, and possibly roll.

[GB SISSON]

Funny thing Bob, when the state patrolman arrived and soothed my nerves that the pair of duals caused no injuries, he complimented me on my load securing skills. I had five or six 2" ratchet straps holding the load of timbers to my flatbed. My brake drum exploded after the wheels left and the flange left a deep groove in the pavement that remains after nearly eight years. Hiway 20 in Burlington Wa.

[GB SISSON]

Here's a couple pics of 'the Lady' on the rotisserie. I have treated the piece, which was carved from a single white pine log, with a combination of borate products to inhibit further rot, marine epoxy, polyurethane adhesives such as 3m's 5200 and sikaflex and all manner of steel pipe, perforated to carry these products where needed. The steel pipe remained in place, giving added structural reinforcement. The last phase will be a display stand of welded steel mostly encased in wood, such that she will once again be upright as on the ship 'America' which went aground here in the San Juan Islands in 1914.
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9...9_TMrJJB86kbU-