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On my '40 wagon, there wasn't enough room for 2 stock oil bath air cleaners, so I contacted the local Crosley club, purchased two rusty but usable Crosley oil bath air cleaners, which to me look remarkably like the Dodge truck dual cleaners for the Pilothouse trucks, which are now as rare as hen's teeth). I cut the bottoms off 2 stock Plymouth oil bath cleaners and welded them onto the Crosleys as the openings were too small for the Carters. Works great, looks stock. I may possibly change them out to paper filters once I retire in a few months with my copious amounts of free time ?

Hi all - A couple of us Northeast Region forum members are putting together a classic driving tour event and we want to invite anyone in the area to come along with us. At the moment we have about 10 cars signed up, coming from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and New York. Our plan is to rally our cars in Bennington VT on Saturday mid day. We will be touring the Hemmings Collection, and making stops at a few local sites along the way to the Saratoga NY area (about 50 minutes apart). Saturday evening will be spent together at a local motel where we can circle the wagons and tailgate. Sunday will be spent at the Saratoga Auto museum touring and taking part in their open invitation car show. If you want to hang out with a nice group of people and tour with us, we'd love to have you along. We are not charging anything for attendance, expenses are whatever limit you chose to set. We will have a hotel chosen within the next 24 hours and will send word on that asap. please drop me an email or call if you want more info or want to be added to the email that we will send with details. Oh, and if the event sounds familiar, that’s because our friend Robin Weathersbee has kindly lent the name of his wildly successful “P15 picnic UK” to myself to get this off the ground and well supported. Robin has kindly created and lent the logo and artwork to us as well. I am truly grateful for his support and continued encouragement. Robin I’m looking forward to seeing you in Athens UK on the 28th of September. thanks, Mark

This is an update to the thread about installation of too-firm transmission mounts on my P15. It seems the issues I experienced were due to the lower mounts I installed. After removing the lower mounts to return to an configuration more like the one shown in the Service Manual illustration the car now runs smoothly as it did prior to installing the new mounts. Here are the new lower mounts that I removed that are currently sold by vendors: These mounts require longer bolts than the originals due to their thickness. Compare this to the Service Manual: It seems the transmission of vibration to the car was due to the mount bolt being captured by the lower mounts. When I removed the lower mounts smoothness returned. It appears the closest arrangement to the original design is to not use the lower mounts that are currently available. The lower mounts may indeed be correct for some applications but my '48 P15 is much happier without lower mounts.

It looks like this tour has become an international event with the addition of a couple from Ontario planning too participate. Are you coming???

Going to have to make new chock blocks to keep Ol Bessy still in the garage. My lil helpers, Gracey and Ruger, come down each day, pull the chocks out from the wheels and proceed to gnaw them into toothpicks.

Plymouthy's plan sounds good to me along with some of the others info. I would add some braces for support to this plate back to one or two of the tailshaft housing to main case bolts. Shorten and tweak (or is that twerk?) the shift rods and maybe change the angle of the shifter arms at the trans as needed also. DJ

Here is the type that you need for an easier install.

Hey Fargone yes a fabricated bracket or some other means of attachment to move forward. The linkages need to be addressed too with the correct length geometric shape too. No doubt its from a Volare or aspen with console and bucket seats?

Agreed. Fabricate a bracket to install the shifter where needed and work out the linkage issues. I suggest making a cardboard mock-up to get started - its probably going to take a couple of iterations to get the shifter close to where you want it and make the linkage all work as intended. Making a plate that attaches to the factory shifter mounting points and extends forward and up. stabilizing the front of that bracket using the tailshaft mounting bolts would be pretty easy as well.

I was thinking along those same lines...

I believe in your case knowing you wish not to buying a new tail shaft housing or locate another unit that you will need to get a piece of plate steel and mount it where the existing shifter mounts at the rear and at the front of this plate you will cut, drill and weld ears to attach to two of the bolts that hold the tail shaft to the gear case. Then you can locate your shifter pad anywhere along this plate that you find comfortable. the forward part will have you dealing with an angle but I don't see any way to prevent that and you need to stay top and center of the bolting forward as you speedometer pinion gear assembly will be a the center and bottom bolts. It would be nice to have two bolts at the forward position but there is a possibility that you could get by with one.

Today Greg G and I worked out the details of the cruise from Bennington, VT to Lake George, NY. It will be about 75 miles long and will cross several covered bridges, plenty of New England scenery, have one ice cream stop and a couple of regrouping locations. It will be a fun run.

Did some one say PICNIC??? We're going! Are you???

6 cylinder Ramblers from the 60's also used a similar spin on oil filter mount on the top front of the cylinder head.

Save your toilet roll for the throne, you would be better off with no filter than to have that Rube Goldberg installed.

USA and U.K. Picnic's! Way cool! Lots of photos of both please

a car is easily bought, modified and built to suit your needs and pleasure, not so with women...while the aspect of a new bride may be enticing to some....the cost of disposal of the reigning wife is not cost effective.

I've found puppy training pads to be a nice addition to the shop when working with old vehicles that aren't completely housebroken: They can be cut up into smaller pieces to catch drips and dribbles when an oil filter is changed. I keep one under the P15's transmission that insists on marking its territory in spite of my training efforts.... Also works for me if I'm in the middle of a repair job I just can't turn loose of !!?!! ?

Thank's Sam I appreciate your kind and courteous reply back. Without a doubt, my biggest handicap with all this (restoration work) has been made evident over the past few years (especially to myself) in regards to how badly I can over analyze things, and in the process very often just " not see the forest for the trees". Trying to do better with it. Man old habits are hard to break. I do want you to please know, I would never try to be a smarty with anything I write or say here on the forum, (it honestly was a sincere however maybe misguided concern on my part) in regards to the oil spillage. I think your simple idea of a plastic bag, sturdy enough and stout enough to handle some hot oil, is about as good a suggestion as anyone could make, and 1st grade simple to boot. ( Again the "forest for the trees thing raises it's ugly head" ). I thought I was a pretty good wrench, when I started this project almost 5 years ago, however soon I realized how much of a "good parts replacer I had been over the years". One things for sure, my project would be no where near what or where it is today, without the help I've received here on this forum. I really appreciate the patience extended my way from everyone. Steve

I remember....it was 2006.....I was at a historical drag strip, Kingdon Drags, running in the nostalgic weekend event. I was lined up against a 1940's coupe..stock rims and tires or sorts...looked real vintage...a rat rod of sorts. I was in my 1972 Charger Stock car which has an aggressive look and feel...500hp 408 stroker with medium open headers. Sounded mean. His flat six was chirping away, sweating bullets and shaking like a fearful contender. Secretly I liked his ride and hoped he'd put up a decent fight. Then I noticed my timing....it was jumping. It turned out later that my distributor shaft was bent. As we pulled off the line, the light brilliantly green, the engine began to sigh, and go flat, running, but lacking in effort. It was as if his L6 had made a deal with my V8....."let me win this straight line, and I'll tow your stuff to the oval track for a week" He won, and I was concerned about my engine. Later a friend of mine said that the crowd went nuts "The old car is gonna WIN!!!!!! My friend knew something was a foul, but it was too much fun cheering for the old iron....he had cheered against me. lol I told him "I didn't let him win...he showed up and raced...he deserved the win" I never told anyone of circumstance that my engine had failed.....it wasn't the flat 6's fault my engine was toast....he showed up to race. And I bet you to this day, he still talks about beating a 500hp 408 stroker in a raced prepped 72 Charger with his very special L6 Flattie. Cheers brother. 48D