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  1. 2018 is the completion year for my 53 Dodge coupe truck. The old "Pop truck" will get final paint soon. and full assembly will be completed before our Chrysler Expo car show later this year! It's been a long and expensive project... but well worth doing it right!
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  2. My younger son (38) told me he was going to open a gym on January 1. He intends to call it "Resolutions". After about two weeks, he will turn it into a sports bar. That's my boy, all right!
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  3. Everyone has their own pace they work at. Some enjoy the build more than driving the finished project. Other things and other projects happen that can take over. Sometimes I can go weeks without accomplishing much on car projects and I wonder why I am not spending more time in the garage. Other times I ignore other things I should be doing and work on the car. To each their own and we burn gas at our own rate and time.
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  4. Its nearly 2018 here in South Grafton on the Oz East Coast so I'd better be quick but I'd just like to thank all you guys whether you're in North America, Europe or locally here in Oz for your friendship and your general feeling of companionship over I think close to 10 yrs that I've been a part of this..........when I bought my 1940 Dodge in 1970 I was the only person I knew with an early mopar and even the mates in the local hot rod club whilst making me feel welcome were really only into Frods so you guys have been the mopar club that has made me feel part of something..............ah.....shite...........talk about all soft and mushy...........anyway .........I trust everyone has a great, Happy and Healthy New Year...regards from Oz..Andy Douglas
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  5. I assume you started this thread seeking advice. There has been a lot of it, all good, given by members who really know these cars and their flathead engines. You need to heed it! Putting a carb on the car that was not designed for it will likely lead to other complications. I would only use the Weber carburetor if you exchange the Land Rover engine into the car as well. Not really a realistic option.
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  6. Have you visually verified that there is fuel in the carburetor before you try to start your engine? Have you observed fuel or no fuel when you work the accelerator pump? It may be as simple as replacing the acc. pump leather piece which don't tolerate ethanol well. Is your choke butterfly closing to its proper cold start position. Why do you think the weber will under fuel the engine? What was the weber designed for?
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  7. As stated above, check the accelerator pump. There is a soft plug on the inner side just below the carb top. Remove it and run a welding tip cleaner or very thin wire through it. This often solves the problem.
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  8. my first question is if the Sissons choke is operational and second do you know how to energize the choke to operate properly when starting the vehicle. If the solenoid is good and closing the butterfly of the choke when starting. Many make the mistake of holding the gas pedal down, this will not allow the choke mechanism to lock the butterfly and step up the idle. When starting, the choke solenoid is energized when the starter is turning, you push the accelerator down 1/3 droning cranking and while engine is turning you release the accelerator, this is what lock the choke plate and sets the high idle adjust against its cam.
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  9. Most likely your problem is ethanol enriched gasoline as it evaporates much faster than non enriched fuel. Suggest you install an electric fuel pump near the gas tank and power it up with a push and hold button. Then simply push the button before attempting to start the engine until the electric pump reaches pressure and stops pumping. By doing so your carburetor should be full and your engine should fire off.
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  10. The ribs should be solid red as far as I know. The tops are worn off and showing the stainless.
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  11. kinda of talking about the new year...not just new year's day just making humor...we all know how tough it is at times to put our hand to what we really want to do and not what we HAVE to do... I need to drive mine more often, I drove it last in October I think....break over for me, back to my drywall project....
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  12. Rust continues to use up my time and my money, this time the steering shaft was the culprit. I kept feeling a clunk in the steering wheel on hard acceleration and breaking. My mechanic friend took it for a ride and educated me about the telescopic steering shaft that had rusted solid on me. He told me to buy a new one or learn to love the clunking, I opted to replace but the damn things are expensive. After much searching I found a vendor on ebay selling the one I needed for 190 bucks or best offer. He had sold over thirty of them already, I pleaded my poverty and got him to laugh and he took 150. It was a miserable job and I had to finally break out the saws-all and cut the frozen shaft under the dash where I had the most room and it wasn`t a lot of room, I don`t fit under dashboards like I used to.
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