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i will try to reattach the pictures of the dodge truck and farmall tractor

I sanded and buffed one of my original wheels that still had an area of good paint on it. Then I took it to Finish Masters and had them match it for me. I’ll try to attach a picture of my finished wheel and a picture of the formula. I thought they did an excellent job of matching the original color.

Here are some big ol Dodges...............

Do you have a local auto upholstery shop capable of making a boot? What material do you want to use.....haartz canvas or some vinyl type material? I purchased a piece of haartz canvas from a supplier in Kansas City, Kansas and gave it to my upholstery man......he did the rest. My top and boot are a tan color. Along the front side of it is a flap that attaches to the rear side of the back seat with some heavy duty velcro.

During my travels of delivering Automobile glass and windshields I came across this nice old farm house in which the owner tried to make an old style gas station and farm stand . farm near Hellertown Pa. Enjoy the pictures. Nice to see that some people collect the old stuff. can anyone guess what the picture of the long metal machine that is nailed to the post was used for?. I do know but just wanted to see if everyone else remembers these being in the Mens room at the gas stations. and they cost 25 Cents Happy looking at the pictures I go past this place everyday and i slow down just to look and remember the good old days. The pictures of the old dodge truck and farmall tractor in a prior posting are just up the road from this place. Rich Hartung Desoto1939@aol.com

I live near Lancaster PA and get to see first hand the Amish and their work ethic. They will always have the last laugh on the general public. The Amish can support themselves and do not need all of the modern equipment and do-dad to live very simplistic. When in colege in Dover delaware we had a few Amish that would come into town to shop and they would go through our campus. i got to know some of them. At first they were standoffish but as we saw each other on a routine basis they becsme for friendly. The Amish are a very unique and after you get to know them they are the greatest people and will always put out their hand to help you. Our general society should take a big lesson from their ways and manners and we would all be in a better place. Rich Hartung

FWIW, my '52 Plymouth uses the same master cylinder as the Dodge and my factory shop manual mentions that you should remove the big rear plug when reconditioning the master cylinder. They even have an 'exploded view' of it showing the plug and gasket removed from the body of the master.

Did your solve your fuel gauge problem? I found this schematic and directions for testing a three wire Auto-Lite gas gauge (Dodge '39-'48) in a '49 Motor manual. It appears that current flows to the heating coil post at the rear center of the gauge, through the contacts on both the full and empty sides of the gauge, through the two bi-metallic strips, and then through the two wires to the sender. If I'm reading them right, the directions say pulsing current should be present at tank sender connections terminal 1 and terminal 2 as the bi-metallic strips heat and cool, and open and close the contacts. Depending on where the tank arm is on the resistance, the strips on both side of the gauge reach a different, but steady state temperature, and move the gauge needle. The gauge doesn't ground through the dash, only through the tank resistance. With current to the gauge, clean gauge contacts, two good wires to the tank unit, and a good tank unit with a good ground, everything ought to work!

Yes, plug both vacuum lines and see if your car returns to running the way you felt was normal. If good performance returns, see if the wipers work. The vacuum feed for the wipers is from the intake manifold. This vacuum is at its highest at idle and constant cruise speed. A leak in this line will cause a lean fuel air mixture which will cause poor running conditions. The line from the carburetor to the distributor provides for timing advance needed for acceleration, going up hills, etc. As you open the throttle vacuum through the carburetor increases. This vacuum signal is opposite of manifold vacuum, being lowest at idle and increasing as the throttle plate is open. You distributor has two advance mechanisms centrifugal weights that react to rpm, and the vacuum signal which anticipates the weight movement and provides for slightly earlier advance than the weights can provide. Your car can run just fine without the vacuum advance, but will be smoother and a bit more economically with the vacuum working correctly. If the vacuum diaphragm is torn, this will cause air to enter the fuel leaning the mixture also. Perhaps that was the reason yours was disabled. So plug them both and see if it runs like it used to. Then unplug the carb he and see what happens. If nothing changes, plug it back up and see what happens when you unplug the wiper feed. Most cars with the wiper feed open will probably stall as the air being sucked in will make too lean of a mixture to run.

I thought at first you might be referring to one of these, but it seems you’ve got the answer. This is a trico vacuum booster. Used to supplement and correct for poor vacuum conditions. I’ve got this recently in one of the p15’s I bought and have started the install in my p15 conv to see if it will assist the top operation. Ps nice speaking with you this morning!

Yesterday was my wife’s and my 28th anniversary. Still, she let me go to the shop to make some headway. ? Got the floor in. Put an inexpensive layer of insulation down first. Hand brake installed. Floor mat down. Job is starting to look finished..... Radiator reinstalled. Not sure I like the flat black, but that’s how it came back. In it goes. And finally made up a new oil pressure line. Hard to see, but it’s in there.

When I dismounted the tires, there was some good color left on the inside for comparison.

No problem Worden. I understand your frustrations over losing summer driving time in the old car. I too am down now as I await new wheel bearings and seals to arrive. Been a week now. I'm getting ants in my pants. I could have ordered local and paid twice or more, than the on-line order I placed. It's odd as sometimes I order on-line and the parts arrive in 2 business days. This order, so far has been a full week. I guess this is part of the charm of owning these old cars. The anticipation of parts arriving.

Here is a couple pictures of the gas station / fruit stand that my GGrandfather opened in New York after he arrived on the boat from Positano Italy and became a American citizen. Our last name was / is Ruggiero but he used Rogers which is the Americanized version of Ruggiero on the business because at the time folks didnt take too kindly to the Italian and Irish. The whole rest of my family still goes by Ruggiero all except for my Grandpa who used Rogers but it was never officially changed.

I’m afraid there is no source selling these Tom. They must be sewn up by a local upholsterer due to the low demand. As for suppliers for your top, Hirsch Auto Tops should be your only call. I’ve gone through the sourcing exercises for my car recently and they are 100% above all the rest. If you need help ordering I can help. -Mark

Nice collection of stuff........too much clutter for my taste, he could have done it with half that much.

Rich.......sheaths, party balloons, frangers, raincoats, rubbers, prophylactics, errr.........condoms..........lol......andyd

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Had my '49 convertible out today, so I tee'd a vacuum gauge into the wiper hose. With the cold engine idling (choke still on), and a damp windshield, the wipers cycled about 80 full wipes per minute at full speed. The vacuum gauge read 18 in. Hg or 45 cm Hg. The wiper motor on or off had no effect on the gauge reading. A few years ago I bench tested a rebuilt Trico KSB wiper motor for my '36 Plymouth. It ran at about 110 full wipes per minute at 16in. Hg with no load on the bench, and about 84 with the wipes on the windshield, so 80 may be a reasonable number for a motor in good condition.

Have you ever seen an old Dodge set up as a hot tar hauler?? This one was used in my old home town.

So far I've only been able to picture them in my minds eye.

When you disassemble the carburetor do so in a cake pan lined with refrigerator magnets. That way the small parts have less chance of falling into the black hole under the work bench.

After a couple of years of searching I finally found a half decent reasonably priced Airflow. 1936 Chrylser Imperial Airflow

Amazing. Find out new stuff every day, I had never seen that adornment, much less knew that was a standard P15 Deluxe item after poking around old cars for 40 years, until reading this thread today . My only defense would be that I don't peruse the Plymouths that much, mostly Dodges. No bias, just how it has worked out.

Taking my suburban on the power tour this year approx 2500 miles will also be at good guys Nashville in May. O

I usually drive my 49 in the summer months. Not because we have harsh winters but I devote the rainy months for mods etc. I commute 70 miles of interstate daily and use the 49 2-3 days per week. Stock flathead with duals, 3spd FD and 8" Ford with 3.00 gears. I've driven the 47 with the hemi for a couple of summers but now it finally going to get finished over the next 1-2 years. As much as I HATE to say it, that car is turning into more of a streetrod with AC, PB, PS, Auto-OD, leather and heated seats. It's also a money pit, but aren't they all? Adam

Paul; The good news is most of the most objectionable noise you are hearing will go away once you turn off fox news..........

This is my 1948 B-1-B which I have almost finished restoring after buying it as a basket case in 1997. Started and interrupted working on it many times but finally gave it top priotity this past winter. This forum helped me tremendously so thanks to all of you here for the information and motivation. I live in S.E. Michigan and hope to make it to a car-truck show somewhere, sometime, to meet a few of you in person. I will be glad to answer any questions if you have some. The blue paint color, (which I get the most questions on), is the color from Marathon Oil Company. Any good paint supplier can get the formula. Many station owners-dealers have tow trucks or other service vehicles they paint to Marathon specs. Sorry, the color looks brighter in the full sun photos. My last main job is to install the Model 61 Heater. The rear carrier was changed to a 3.73 from the original 4.78. My former top speed was about 40 mph. Now I can stay around 50 to 55 but I still wish there was one more gear to shift into. The truck has the 4-speed trans., 6.50 x 16" tires, 218 cu. engine. The former owner is an antique dealer and he had many new and NOS parts and a few factory options that came with the truck. More options were purchased from members here, Hemmings, and Ebay. A friend and body shop owner did the most of the work. My work was finding parts, showing him where things went back together, and paying the darn expenses. "Holy Crap" on the expenses!! Now if I can get the photos right.....