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Our area is fortunate to have a forest/pioneering museum that also runs a steam train which runs most of the summer, but they also bring it out for the Halloween Ghost train and the Polar express. We took our kids and our niece out to ride it last night, just wanted to share. Merry Christmas to all.

I'm gradually building a register of these cars in the UK and, so far, have details of 45 P15s. I'm sure there are a lot more to be found, too. Here's a picture from a meet we held in October.

Happy Holidays from this side. Great car. Nice house too.

Merry Xmas to all of the Forum Member from Valley Forge where George Washington Spent the very cold and snowy winter in very crude makeshift Log huts to provide us with the rights to celebrate Christmas in the United states. Or should I say that we still have the rights to say Christmas and not just Holiday Celebration because we might offend someone. But this is the US and I am going to say MERRY XMAS or MERRY CHRISTMAS Rich Hartung Desoto1939@aol.com

Hello all, A quick post to introduce myself - I've just bought a '48 Special Deluxe and I'm looking forward to learning about them. I had a '57 Chevrolet 210 for 18 years which I sold about 4 years ago and bought a modern classic but missed having the steering wheel on the wrong side! I've been a member here since spring, but not having a car I was content to lurk reading posts and picking up hints and links. The first thing I've learned here since I got my car is it may not be a '48, but a '49 following spending time in the 'Resources' section checking out the VIN # listings. Best wishes to you all for Christmas and 2017, WeegieBob.

If your car has a 1949 VIN number, it will be commonly be referred to as a '1st series 49'. But when you're ordering parts always order them for a '48, to make sure you get the correct items.

You should check to make sure the idle is low enough for the up shift to occur.

A Special Deluxe Dodge is indeed a D25 built from 46 to early 49 . Most were built in Canada but they were also built in Detroit for export.Most parts are the same as for a P15 Plymouth but it is important to note which engine the car uses. as for Silva's request seat tracks for Plymouth and Dodge from 42 through 48 should be the same but the seat for the bigger D24 Dodge is wider.

Nothing better than a trainload of fun! Look at those smiles. Priceless.

Yes, it can be a 1949 P-15.

Well, one thing about this statement, the left side steer wheel placement Is the Right side! Nice car! Enjoy and updates on the usage/ repairs/questions. Could be a late production P-15 model that ran in to the 1949 year as the the P-17 and P-18 (later 1949) were not ready to sell, hence it is a P-15 but a 1949? DJ

Great idea for the season. Happy Holidays.

Santa brought you a nice toy. Have fun. Happy Holidays.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and all that read this. Remember the reason for the season.

last weekend tailgating for the Vikings game it was -15° when I left the shop, windchills of -28°...beer freezes quickly at that temp. We tailgated for a half hour hit the bar for awhile, then the lot again for 30 mins and into the warm stadium for a horrible game. meanwhile you car guys may have not seen the nice snow we got around that time...

Outside temperature here today is -5 F . Indoors our wood stove is helping to keep things toasty warm.

Here's a pic of a gm 525 manual box I mounted on my 41 Plymouth p11. Plymouth pitman arm fit right on . Made an adapter plate out of 3/8" steel which is bolted onto box then is bolted to frame through original mounting holes. Rubber Insulators removed and a 1/4" steel spacer to fill indent on inner frame rail. Shortened original steering column and shaft . Not quite finished with column job so I do not have any drive time on it yet.

Don asks a very important question and makes an equally important point. All the specifications do NOT determine the speed on the road, tire size applied to these makes that determination. My point was implied that if the tire size did NOT change and an overdrive tyranny replaced a standard three speed tyranny, which is what I will do, then the top speed would increase because then the OD would be servicing a 3.73 as opposed to a 3.93. Lots of details in total results, and I enjoy the research, even though at times I don't get it all correct the initial times.

I don't understand your question/statement? Your posted chart clearly states that in 49-54 cars with overdrive the differential ratio is 4.11/1. I think you are still missing the most important issue and that is ideal engine RPM at any given speed. Did you plug these numbers into the speed indicator link I sent you a while back. Do you know what tire size you will be using?

Many site visitors appear to arrive with the pre-conceived opinion that some technologies because they are old, are outdated, obsolete and functionally replaced by newer technology. Case in point are two common forum topics, oil bath air cleaners and bypass oil filters. Both these technologies have been around for many decades and in fact perform better than the "newer" technologies of full flow spin-on oil filters and paper air filters. Let take a closer look at both. 
 I ride and wrench on dirt bikes and quads for fun. I mostly ride in the California coastal mountains, noted for dry, hot and very dusty conditions. All my machines use oil soaked foam air filters because they are more effective than paper filters. When our cars and trucks were first sold dirt roads were the norm, not the exception. Chrysler used the most cost effective solution of the day, oil bath air cleaners. They provide very effective cleaning and unrestricted air flow. They are easy and cheap to maintain. So why would you want to change to a less effective and more expensive paper air filter? Most common reason is they are a lot of maintenance and the oil spills out of the pan and into the carb. Both reasons are not very good! Back in the 40's and 50's vehicle owners drove on a lot (including the occasional oil/pcp waste oil covered) on dirt roads and you needed to maintain oil bath air filters on a regular basis. Today we just drive on pavement. I personally have seen the air filter oil go two years in service and still have clear clean oil in the filter pan. The extra maintenance argument doesn’t hold for today’s use. I have driven mopar flatheads since 1968. I have never seen a properly serviced oil bath air cleaner leak oil into the carb or on the engine. If yours puked oil over the engine then you overfilled the air cleaner oil pan. Pretty simple solution to that problem! And don't forget oil bath air cleaners do a better job of feeding your engine clean filter air than a paper filter while being cheaper to maintain. One for old tech!



 Now lets move to often maligned bypass filter. This is the source of so many incorrect internet myths the conversation becomes funny. "They only filter part of your engine oil..." or "Look at how small the piping is, how can it clean all the oil" and "It take forever for all your oil to go through a bypass filter". The best myth is full flow spin on filters do a better job of filtering than bypass filters. None of the above statement are true. First a brief explanation of how a bypass filter works. Your oil system is a closed system under pressure created by the oil pump. Oil circulates through the engine in the oil gallery. You can see the galley running along the driver’s side of the engine. This pressurized oil flow provides lubrication to main, rod and cam bearing so the journals actually "float" on a thin film of oil so they don't overheat and fail. This pressurized oil system also has a safety valve in case oil pressure gets too high, the oil pressure relief valve. The bypass oil filter taps into the oil gallery and dirty oil is piped to the bypass filter under pressure. (The same pressure your see on your oil pressure gauge). It is then filtered and readied for return to the oil pan. Bypass filters actually filter much smaller particles than full flow spin-on filters. Full flow filters are plumbed to directly feed oil to the mains and they have to pass high volumes of oil or the bearing will fail. As a result they can't filter to the same degree as a bypass filter. When the clean oil exits a bypass filter it goes back to the oil pan via the pressure relief valve. The pressure relief valve acts as an oil traffic cop, that is, if the engine oil pressure is high enough the pressure relief valve opens and clean oil flows back to the oil pan. If oil pressure is low, like at idle, the valve stays shut maintaining minimum safe engine oil pressure bypassing clean oil return from the bypass filter setup. Now lets address a couple of the myths. Think about how often your engine runs with minimum oil pressure. That is the only time clean oil is not returning to the oil pan from the filter. Basically anytime above idle and your bypass filter is working. What about those skinny oil lines, they can't move much oil, right? Wrong! The oil in moving under 20-60 pounds of pressure. On my B1 I once had a cracked (not broken) oil return line. I lost over 3 quarts in about 45 seconds. Based on that measure I thing it is safe to say all engine oil is being filtered every couple minutes the engine is above idle. Modern full flow filters for modern engines must be able to pass large volumes of oil to provide full lubrication for mains and rods, plus have a bypass when the filters are dirty and clogged. They just don't filter dirty oil as well as a bypass filter. Bypass filters are still used extensively on long haul trucks, plus their are many aftermarket kits to add a functional bypass filter setup to modern engines. Why? They do a better job of filtering then a full flow filter!

 Lastly, what about those remote mount kits for using a spin-on filter instead of the stock bypass system? They basically replace the bypass filter with an easier to change spin-on filter. My question is why would you want to replace a very efficient bypass filter with a spin on that typically allows particles 3 times larger to be returned to the oil pan? 

Like I said, old technology doesn't always mean obsolete technology! And if your engine doesn't have a bypass filter setup we have used units for sale in the P15-D24 Store. They also show up on eBay all the time.