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Mike36

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  1. Captden, before you drop the pan, remove the side covers over the valve spring area. There is an equally nasty mess in there. Make sure the drain holes to the pan are open. Putty knife and aerosol carb cleaner work here. THEN, remove and clean pan. This allows valve area mess to go into pan rather than on floor.
  2. Tierod, welcome to the site and the world of ‘36 Plymouth owners. I have owned mine for 54 years. They are nice driving, fun cars.
  3. Sniper, there are several different styles of these. Any advice on what you need should be specific to the car you have or it may not adjust correctly. Same goes for pictures, need to be of like style and year.
  4. Thanks Keith, I appreciate the info.
  5. Thanks for the picture Sam, I will think about that.
  6. Going to install a 6v pos grnd fuel pump to prime carbs with on a 39 Dodge D11. Anybody have any tips or pictures for doing this? I have been told to have the pump lower than the gas tank. Is that correct? Thanks for any help. Hope you’re all staying well.
  7. In my younger years I used to flip over on my side every Saturday night, but I finally figured out what was causing that.
  8. Todd, you need to contact Roberts Carburetor Repair, Spencer , Iowa. As the owner of 8 John Deere 2 cyls, I have dealt with them many times and they are top notch. You can send the mag to them, or they will sell you a CD showing how to rebuild it yourself. They have every part needed to do this, and can recharge your magnet which I suspect is your main problem. I would also throw away the Champions and put Autolites in it. Roberts phone....712-262-5311, they also have a free catalog.
  9. Good luck with that. 20 years in a machine shop taught me that will not work. Dies are for cleaning up an existing thread. With no existing thread, the die will dive around on the bolt shank and cut an irregular substandard thread.
  10. Where did you get those air cleaners?
  11. The grille looks like 47 Oldsmobile. They were used in a lot of customs years ago. Don’t see them anymore because the 47’s are gone.
  12. Have you tried Andy Bernbaum ?
  13. Oh boy! I will bet the title of this post gets some colorful comments. ?
  14. How’s the lobster tasting Paul ? Do you have a summer home there? Does it have a guest room??
  15. Not a good idea. Engine oil is not tacky like bar oil and flies off the chain too quickly, thereby causing premature wear on the bar and the chain.
  16. WHOOPS !!! I forgot the sealant. Hey!!! What’s that green stuff all over the floor !!!
  17. You might want to take this head to your automotive machine shop for a skim cut on the mating surface to ensure it is flat. Then carefully run a tap in each hole to ensure threads are clean. Blow the hole out with compressed air, you want it clean. Then wire wheel the bolt threads to be clean . At assembly, put a light coating of oil on bolt threads. Only a clean oiled thread will give the correct torque reading.
  18. Dennis, I know what you are talking about as I am 73. I don’t know about your pan, but mine had the drain plug on the side about a half inch above the bottom . Therefor when the oil was drained, the heaviest of the sediment stayed in the pan as it was below the drain hole. I cut a three inch square section out of a spare oil. Pan that included the drain plug. Then cut a hole in the bottom of my pan, and welded the three inch piece over the hole. My drain is now on the bottom of the pan and all the crud goes out at every oil change. I also advocate doing oil changes only on a hot engine while impurities are in suspension, not lying in oil galleries and around valve springs waiting to contaminate the new oil.
  19. Very sharp Desoto ! Dad had a ‘50 when I was a kid, but wasn’t the hard top.
  20. Dennis, before you drop the pan, I would recommend you pull the side covers off the valve spring area and clean it out. It will have the same kind of mess that you find in the oil pan. Make sure the drain holes into the pan are open. After scraping all the sludge out I could get, I finished up with aerosol carb cleaner. By doing this first the mess goes into the pan, not on your shop floor. You are going to love driving your Plymouth. My main driver is a ‘39 Dodge sedan. Just finished installing a overdrive transmission yesterday. Looking forward to some fun cruising this summer. A tip to help with installing the pan: take 4 bolts same size as the pan bolts and cut the heads off. Screw these in with fingers to be guides fore the pan. Pan can then be held up with one hand while starting the other bolts with your free hand. Keeps the gasket in place without damaging it, and makes the job easier.remove guides after other bolts are started.
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