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  1. I wondered about the blow through as well. It seems the G P blower was good for 116hp, over the 85 with no blower. Could been a hoot in a relatively light coupe. Especially for the mid 1930s. Bet the 0 to 60 was in the 15 second range.
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    I believe the secret was 8 or 10 ply truck tires and fuel mileage resulting in many fewer pit stops.
  3. More conflicting info. According to the photo of the lube info page of a 49 dodge found on the Old Cars Brochure web site, the three speed manual trans takes 2 3/4 pints of SAE 80 gear lube. The Gyromatic needs 3 pints of Sae 10w engine oil. Fluid drive unit says after an initial fluid level check at 1000 miles, checks of fluid level and top off if required is every 10,000 miles.
  4. I used Allen head bolts to reinstall the trans. The bolt is a lot easier to start on the end of a long socket extension. Makes getting the upper one on the drivers side much easier to deal with. So if you us the alignment bolts mentioned above, make two. Put them in the top passenger side and bottom on drivers side. Then put the hex bolts into the open ones and snug them in.
  5. There is an r 10 owner user manual in the downloads section of this site. Go to the main page its under one of th pull down tabs. There is also a schematic for wiring a manual by pass of the link down switch. So you can operate before you figure out the factory setup.
  6. Great to see the old hulk and crew still pounding the pavement. Thanks for sharing your trip report.
  7. Be careful with Edmunds heads. Some 23 inch heads are notorious for porous castings. Don't ask how I know. You can test them by taping all the water passage openings and putting some compressed are into one of the holes via a tire valve or rubber tipped air gun. Then spray soapy water between the fins. If it bubbles, you got troubles.
  8. 1o or 12 years ago we would have been out on Onieda lake racing our cars on 14 to 20 inches of ice and would continue till the 1st or 2nd weekend in March. I went by the park wherever accessed the lake and it is barely skimmed over. Not even enough for skating or fishing. As youngsters we would skate on swamps and interconnected creeks. Could skate for miles and never be in some other skaters tracks. Never saw much to recommend rink skating (or fishing).
  9. Well, I started school in 53 so in fact most of the schools were fairly new. Elementary was built in 51.
  10. Match books are getting hard to find these days...
  11. On vacuum, my 46 pulled 19, had a lot of blow by. My rebuilt 56 230 pulls 19 but it has duel carbs. Gauge attached to the windshield vacuum port. My friends rebuilt 51 pulls just over 20 with single carb. On distributors, I have 4 each 2 were IGS, 1 was an IAT, cant remember the other one without a trip to the parts cabinet. But I did post a picture here years ago highliting the differences. One had a high body and a short distributor Cap, one of the others had a lower body casting, with a taller cap, rotors were different, points were different and one had the points mounted on the opposite side of the breaker cam. All reasons to get tune up parts by the number on the tag. And a compelling reason to pull the dist out to address any issues.
  12. Thanx for re prooving that automotive parable. What is the difference between your distributers? My 56 Plymouth engine in my 46 bizcoupe runs a 54 dodge pickup distributor. When I looked up the differences, it was just slightly massaged advance curves. Advance got more aggressive as compression ratios went up. I chose the truck unit cuz it best matched its specs when spun up on an old Sun tune up machine. Glad you found your solution.
  13. How old is your fuel pump. Some have an internal debris screen might be plugged. I had a chunk of rust on the inlet fitting. It acted like a ball valve. It would let enough gas to flow to support idle, gentile driving up to 30 to 35, but when flow peaked it would close up and choke the flow, drop back to 30 it was fine. Worth the time to pull the pump and check it over. Also worth doing a vacuum gauge diagnostic before you tackle other stuff. Go to secondchancegarage.com for a good vacuum gauge tutorial. Intake manifold vacuum should give you a reading of 21 inches, and steady needle at 450 to 500 rpm idle.
  14. The only stuff here that had titles was real estate. Until the state realized it could raise revenue by putting titles on all road legal vehicles. At 50 bucks for the title and 25 bucks filing fee every time a vehicle was sold, it's easy money. Now it's on atvs, trailers, boats, rvs, snowmobiles, campers.
  15. I wish folks looking for assistance with vehicle documentation numbers or engine numbers would type out the number. Pictures of engine numbers may look crisp and detailed on your camera, but mostly illegible on laptops or tablets. Casting numbers may be partially blocked by shadow or corrosion. Also it would give us a hint as to whether you are looking for an engine number or serial number when photos aren't attached. Many jurisdictions used different numbers. My friends 51 Plymouth is registered by engine number, mine is by serial number and we both live in the same county but went to different DMV offices. Here in NY, there were no titles for vehicles till 1972 or so. Vehicles were sold on the basis of a transferable registration form. These pre 72 vehicles still do not have titles. Standardized federal Vehicle Identification Number didn't come into use till the mid to late 60s so referring to your old car's number as a VIN is like calling face tissue Kleenex. It works but is technically incorrect. So let us know what number is on your paper work, and please type it out on your post
  16. Late 80s cherokee not grande. 2wd. I'd memory serves.
  17. I think the 4.0 is about 10 inches longer than the flathead.(32 inches fan to bellhousing) Measure a lot before purchasing. Any thing is possible, but heavy mods of firewall and radiator position are probably in the works as well as oil pan sump location. 4.0 are great engines capable of going hundreds of thousands miles and there is big after market stuff as they are still in demand by off readers in western states. But it is a long engine.
  18. Well you have ro remember, rhe original harness was split between 2 circuits. One for the 2 running lights (plus liscence plate lamp) and one for the single central brake li light. When you add signal lights, this adds 2 more single circuits for right and left sockets. The easiest way to address this is to add seperate lights to facilitate just the flashing lamps. I added motorcycle signals to mine mounted to fabricated bracketsattached via a bumper bracket bolt. I did this cuz I can't get my head around how the switch works especially through the brake light switch deal. It's simple for switch to power the lamps through the flasher when just powering the signal, but when the brakes are on is it interrupting the ground to shut the lamp off or is something else going on?
  19. Does the car use a lot of oil? Can you drive 100 miles without adding oil? What product are you planning to use?
  20. Have you done a compression test, have you put a vacuum gauge on your engine? When it is running are there visible fumes coming fr9m the oil filler pipe? The results of a proper compression test procedure would be more indicative of what is causing the smoke. If you don't know how to run this test, visit secondchancegarage.com to see the procedure detailed here. They also have a procedural for using a vacuum gauge to interpret what the g auge is showing. Run those tests, then post your results.
  21. You should be able to find the gasket that goes between the transaction bellhousing this would give you the bolt arrangement and dimensions. The other variable is the input bearing retainer diameter as I believe three different ones were used. My spare trans is stored under a vehicle and not available with snow equipment needing to be moved as well as other items to access it. There are several pictures of the gasket on e bay sites. Maybe you could fiddle with enlarging the pics till you got a correct sized one.
  22. Call the fraud department from your card, they will initiate an investigation and will not honor any further charges.
  23. Bypass the ign switch with a jumper wire from battery negative to coil negative. Alligator clips work for easy shut down. This will help locate the fault. If it starts and runs the problem is in the ign switch or its circuit.
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