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nowhere near me but would be curious to know more about it. This is a 1940 Plymouth sedan has a 413 Chrysler engine with the 727 transmission. Engine and transmission and steering column professionally installed. It is a project car it does need to be finished. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/440774855160232/

Sadly they nay or may not have them .... They do have a nice goodbye letter .... just selling off what they have in stock but think they wrote it 2 years ago. https://www.rustyhope.com/

Reminds me of a story about old Uncle Cletus. ..... The girls in town would claim he needs to go home and clean that input shaft up .... What the heck do they know? IMHO, the splines on this shaft look really nice with sharp edges on the teeth ..... little wear on the front of the shaft. To me it is like the first 1" of the shaft that inserts into the pilot shaft bushing ..... I would want that really smooth . I would use some emery cloth to smooth it up .... same time i would not want to remove any material and make it smaller ...... I would put some grease on the end of the shaft and shove it into the bearing. I doubt I would ever have a issue with it years down the road. The 2nd photo you showed, looks a little awkward ..... It may work also. If needed.. The very front 1" of the shaft sits in the bearing. Just saying the very first 1" sits in the bushing. The clutch disk is splined and rides on the splines of the input shaft. The pressure plate is behind the clutch disk, and the throw out bearing is behind the pressure plate ..... Nothing matters between the the splines and the front of shaft .... Only that the front 1" is smooth for the pilot shaft bearing. Thats why I say the 2nd photo is awkward .... It looks good 1" in front but then has a groove cut into it ...... That area is simply not in use .... nobody cares .... the factory cut a groove in it for some reason ..... Just pick the best one to use. You will be fine.

I admit to going to tractor supply often also. My jack stands, floor jacks .... Boots, bolts, the paint on my truck, plants and garden supplies. I think of it as a big convenience store that sells things I like .... I recently went there to look at oil. I buy my oil from walmart usually, I need Dexron III ATF for the wife car. Walmart did not have it. So I looked at TSC ... they did not have it either. I will order from Amazon now. What I did see was some pretty incredibly high prices for oil at TSC. Oil at walmart was $20-$40 for 5 quarts, $40-$65 at tsc for same stuff. I like tsc but not for oil. .... And the shelf's were pretty bare.

C'mon now, my story and get to tell it the way I want .... 🤣🤣🤣 Not sure what is more important, chatting with my 85 year old Uncle on the front porch on a spring day telling me the story ..... Or the actual truth to the story. I sure would like some more days with Uncle telling me some stories ....

Interesting here .... left side looks centered while right is not. Is it possible one of your frame horns is bent? Have you checked bolt hole alignment with your bumper? Just hard to say which side is off. Myself I think I would get the sheet metal lined up and bolted in place. Then figure out which side needs adjusted and how much. But, if one was bent the bumper holes would not line up .... If they do line up .... then both would have to be bent equally? If you raise the front nose up to fix door gaps, will the alignment of frame horns improve? My frame horns have approximately 3/4" space all the way around the horns ... top and sides.

On my truck when I took it apart, there were rubber spacers in the very front bolts for the core support. Adding spacers there, will raise the front and close the gap at top while opening the gap on the bottom. No idea if you have them in place. I have some new 1/4" rubber I cut mine out of, and were about the same as I removed. I also assume you have new rubber cab mounts .... they probably sit a little higher then the old dried out originals. So even if you installed the same rubber spacers up front ... you probably need to add more to match the new cab mounts. Just my best guess assuming you like the way the doors fit other then that. Just a 1/8" washer may fix the gap you show.

In the past I always just used a correct fitting socket to drive in a new pilot bushing. I like the idea of using bread to remove the old one ..... hydraulics work great. Driving a new one in was always just clean up the hole and pick a right size socket to fit the bushing. .... Then drive it home. I think it was one of those cheap 5/8" spark plug sockets we never use last install of my pilot bushing. ..... Just suggesting a special tool is not needed. What you want is a socket or spacer or something that actually fits well. A special tool is not needed, you just need a correct fitting socket from your tool box to install it. Same difference driving in a wheel bearing race or any other bearing .... You just need something that fits the race and will not destroy it while driving it in. So buying a special tool to drive in a pilot bushing ..... It might be a good tool, you might be better off just searching through your old junk sockets and drive it in that way. I'm just saying that a lot of cheap tools are available and never actually work. A cheap socket that cost you $5 to replace, may be the best tool. You are looking for a tool that will fit inside the hole .... sane time it will provide protection as the bushing is driven in ..... A screwdriver will cause damage ..... but a correct fitting socket will drive it home with no damage. ..... Never in my life did I buy a pilot bushing tool ..... For a $$$ you can buy a set of tools to install any bearing....thats up to you.

Glad you may have it figured out. Or think you do. I once rebuilt a carburetor for my Uncle 7 years ago. And when I opened it up I saw terrible looking goo. It looked like water in oil .... A chocolate milkshake. 85 year old Uncle complained because the carburetor had just been rebuilt and that did not fix it. I just never seen gunk like that build up in a carb. It was obvious to me the problem was coming from the fuel tank .... the 1979 Dodge truck had sat for years .... then revived and put back on the road. Uncle claimed he put $20 worth of gas in it every 6 months, but it was always adding fresh gas to old gas ..... Modern fuels to pass regulations today simply do not last more then 1 year .... just turns to goo. While it may be water in your fuel system, it could just as easily be old gas that has gone bad sitting in the tank. I'm only suggesting, thats what my Uncle did .... just kept adding new fuel on top of old. .... Ended up with a pile of goo. My understanding, modern fuel starts to deteriorate after 1 year. .... It simply turns to goo. ...... I have seen no evidence that adding new fuel on top of old rejuvenates it. I personally will drive the fuel out and then add more fresh fuel. Back in 1970's, Grandpa went and filled up every gas tank in his wrecking yard because the gas would last a long time .... Modern fuel is designed to implode on itself to help with evaporation. 1 year is considered it useful age and needs to be removed and replaced. Either way, drain the tank and flush the system may be a good idea here.

My first thought, a pinhole in the line can cause issues ..... the electric fuel pump should point it out quickly. .... I'm not positive a electric pump will overcome a leaky line to make it run ..... it should show the leak though. I'm going to throw a different idea out of left field. ..... When was the last time you got fuel and when did the issue happen? If you have water in your fuel, it is heavier then gas and goes to the bottom .... then you drive and you mix it all together and it gets passed into your carb ..... It might look like a air bubble coming through the glass filter? .... Just a idea .... It will cause issues that are hard to describe. .... It has been known to happen that a gas station gets fuel delivered with water in it ... by accident, and then there is condensation and other things that could cause it. We used to be able to buy a bottle of HEET at the local gas station for $1, pour it in the gas tank and it enables the heavy water to mix with the gas and it just runs through the system as a lower grade fuel .... then the next time you fill up you have no water and quality fuel ..... In theory. I fought a strange issue for a long time and spent many hours and $$ trying to fix it ..... a $1 bottle of HEET was the cure in the end 6 months later. If you drain gasoline into a white coffee cup and let it sit. If it has water in it, it will look like a air bubble sitting in the bottom of the cup. It is possible that is what you are seeing passing through the fuel filter ..... Just saying it may not be your issue ..... I see now they switched up the bottle and now is $3 ..... it just wont hurt to try it.

There is a youtube channel I watch sometimes ..... guy is a pretty fair mechanic and has interesting content. What he uses is bar oil for chainsaws. He thins it down with paint thinner then uses a pump up garden sprayer to apply it. The paint thinner evaporates leaving the sticky oil. Then he drives the vehicle down a dirt or gravel road and coats the fresh oil with a layer of dust ..... just helps give the oil a protective layer to keep it in place. This is what he does to his daily drivers, not sure he would do it to a classic car ... that he would not drive in the winter. I like the idea because it is cheap, easy to do, and it is not permanent. He says he needs to repeat the process after about 3 years .... If he needs to work on it he has a lift and can just raise it up, pressure wash it to clean it and when finished just apply more. Compared to spraying undercoating on that is permanent and a pita to get rid of .... I would choose this method if I needed it .... Texas I do not need it.

This car was covered with the stuff under the hood when new. I mean on the firewall, inner fenders, all heater .... It was a dual heater car and of course underneath the car. I imagine it was done at the dealer when it was new ..... what a mess to try and go through and remove it all .... Under body is one thing, but inside engine compartment is another.

Just do the best you can to embrace the suck. Mask and glasses and various tools to chisel away the junk ...... Not sure if common today, it was common back then to apply undercoating and charging extra for the process. Who knows what works best to remove it ....they used different products back then to try and be the best ..... Maybe warming it up with a heat gun will help remove it ..... chances are a chisel and hammer will get the job done. Just a terrible job to be lying underneath it and dropping the crap on you ..... Rough job but someone needs to do it!

OK PA, if you have a minute ..... tell us how you really feel about red wheels

While I say it jokingly, it certainly was a thing. I'm just saying to @Cooper40 cheap tools may be fine here ..... just do not make them too cheap & junk. At home we are just checking for consistency, the machine shop we are paying and expecting 100% accuracy.