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I've replaced the exhaust on my New Yorker, but before buttoning up everything, thought I'd listen to the sweet open exhaust. Kinda reminds me of an old Chris Craft...(which also used Chrysler 8's, among others). The slight rap/squeak sound is a failing water pump...also soon to be replaced. see video link below

"I did some googling and saw that Zanubrutinib is covered by Medicare. Might be worth looking into. " Thank you very much for doing that and posting about it,JerseyHarold! I am an Agent Orange VN Vet,so I covered by the VA,but for some people knowing it is covered by Medi-Care could literally be a life-saver for them. Once again,I want to ask everyone who reads these posts to pass this information on to people they know,and even post it on the bulletin board at your local VFW and other organizations you are connected with. Spread it as far and wide as possible because you never know who might find it that is in dire need of it.

Stage 4 Lymphoma,and I still have it because the docs don't consider you to be cancer-free until your test results are negative for 4 years. I also developed some sort of cancer in my groin that went away. May have been Lymphoma also,but I am not sure. And just last week I had a lump removed from the side of my head that everybody thought was benign,but came back as being cancer,also. I have no idea what kind because I wasn't told,but it is still active. Supposed to have a cancer doc remove what is still there soon. I have no idea what is going on with that,and won't until after the surgery to cut it away. Also,take note that I am 75 years old and an Agent Orange veteran. Both of which put me at a higher risk than most people.

So I haveta tell you all about this cause my wife doesn't seem to be as excited as me... As some of you may remember, the 3 speed transmission in my meadowbrook im restoring is totally shot. Was full of water, instead of oil, for years. Needle rollers brinneled most wear surfaces. 1st and reverse have major tooth loss. So bad....never seen a transmission this bad. A friend remarked that he thought he knew where one might be, but wasnt sure if it was even the right model. I gave him a hundred bucks and asked him to grab it next time he was in that town. I figured it was worth the gamble. Well, yesterday he showed up at my place with the transmission. I could see right away that it was a the correct 3 speed. But, I didnt recognize what was going on with the weird extension in the rear of it. I got out a wire brush and cut thru the gunk and lookie what I saw (see pic below) A R10 G-1 model overdrive! So I not only got a parts source for my old gear box (forget that!) I've got a transmission with overdrive and it looks to be in pretty good shape. I'll know more tomorrow when I open it up. I will have to swap input shafts, tho, I can tell already. Sometimes you do get lucky

Well,I am still trying to recover my short-term memory,and not having much luck. On a positive side,after being diagnosed as being terminal after maxing out on chemo and the other drug that I can't remember,the doc asked me if I wanted to try an experimental drug that hadn't been approved by the FDA yet,but was so promising the FDA was allowing it to be sold as long as it wasn't advertised as a "cure" for cancer. You take two pills,twice a day. The only downside was the doc told me some people got so violently sick from it,they told her they would rather die from cancer than take it anymore,and asked me if I want to try it anyhow. I said "Sure. What do I have to lose? If it makes me that sick,I'll just quit taking it." Here is where the chemo brain really worked for me. By the time it came in the mail,I had forgotten what it was for and that it might make me sick,so it didn't. In fact,I actually started feeling noticeably better within a week or so. I just ignored and enjoyed it without even thinking about the new meds. Took it for a couple of weeks before taking another PET Scan,and when I went to see the doc for a checkup,she didn't believe what she was seeing because it showed me to be cancer-free. So she sent me back for another PET Scan the next week,and that one came back cancer-free,also. I am now taking PET Scans once every 3 months instead of once a month,and every one has came back negative for cancer. The bad news is a bottle of 120 of these pills cost $13,400 at either Wal-Mart or Food Lion's Pharmacy,and another thousand bucks everywhere else. The good news is IF you are a veteran you can get it for free from the VA. I suspect,but don't know for sure,that if you go to a big cancer clinic like the one I went to,you can get the first bottle for free anyhow because the pill company needs people with cancer to test it so they can show the results to the FDA and then sell it as a cancer cure. If you have good health insurance,they might or might not pay for it. They might refuse using the excuse it isn't approved yet and is still experimental. If all else fails,I THINK you MIGHT be able to buy it at retail price if you can come up with the money without a prescription because it is being sold as a generic drug. And let's face it,if you are dying from lymphoma and can MAYBE cure it with one or two bottles,chances are you will figure out a way to come up with the money. I hope you and your loved ones never need this info,but PLEASE share it with anyone you know that does. AFAIK,which isn't very far,it is for Lymphoma, but I have a hard time believing it won't at least help with some other forms of cancer. BTW,for all I know,it might even quit working. The docs never declare anyone to be cancer-free until they have been without cancer for 5 straight years. Since I am 75 now,it seems unlikely I won't die of something else before the 5 years are up,but I am going to do the best I can. BTW,the manufacturer is a company named Brukinsa and the medicine is named Zanubrutinib and comes in capsules, Arthur

Here's my wide open 6 cylinder for comparison. The 6 seems to sound like it lopes along, compared to the even balanced tones from the 8. Certainly a little different cadence.

Ok, I'm gonna wade into this and hopefully won't make it worse. Marc, you are not using the correct terminology to describe your situation and that is making it hard for some of us to follow. Ok....while I was typing my response you replied and cleared up some of the muddiness. Yes, the brass elbows you are wanting (they are not 'nuts', they are fittings) have a male NPT thread and a female thread that accepts the brake lines and mate the reverse flare on the lines to the corresponding inverse flare in the elbow. The NPT thread is tapered and depends on torque to seal the fitting tightly but the threads on the brake lines do not seal the union. The seal occurs when the fitting forces the two flares together tightly. Now that you have some basic semantics squared away this should be easier for you to source the fittings you need. When you purchase brake lines and fittings make sure you don't get the ones with metric threads! Now........I'm gonna really wade into it. Often the questions that are raised while piddlin' with our projects can be answered by just taking a seat in the Thinking Chair (every shop needs a Thinking Chair), removing the blinders so we aren't crippled by tunnel vision, and thinking the whole thing through for a while. This can be much more productive....and satisfying.....than reflexively heading for the keyboard...... ? Thinking Chair implemented while trying to figure out how to mount a fuel tank in a Fokker DVII biplane:

Finally got er' done. Had a few problems making the right tool. First attempt screwed the brush out of the crimp connector. Figured out reverse the drill, then it tightened, but the 24" drill bit screwed out. I had cut the drill part mostly off, just left enough for the connector. Thing was, what tightened the brush then turned the bit out. I crimped more and played with it, nope. Also, the first rod was a little short. Then I saw some kind of hard plastic fiber dowel I had for my kid's high school experiment (2015). I used it and it worked fine. I could crimp holes in the connector and it punched into the softer rod. The galley cleaned up well but not a mirror finish. Had markers on the tool to keep from going too deep and hitting the end threads.

Hmmm. The story I read about the family in a Tesla who was helped by a trucker did not extend to all EVs in that area. Consider the following: How full is the fuel tank in the average car on the highway. Assume most people fill when about 1/4 is showing on the tank and fill it all the way. The average of that is 0.625 call it 63%. How long can that last if all you are doing is idling the engine to maintain the cabin temperature? Varies by car engine size and fuel tank size. The numbers I find on a quick search are about 0.1 gal/hour for each liter of engine size. Since this is an old car forum, I'll use my approx. 3 liter, 14 gallon tank 1933 Plymouth: Assuming 8.75 gallons in the tank (0.625 of 14) it should be able to keep the car warm for 29 hours. That is for an average fill percentage. There will be people on the road with a full tank and there will be people on the road with a nearly empty tank. The nearly empty tank people will be hurting after only a short time. Oh, and don't forget that you need to be careful with an internal combustion engine car that the wind/snow/etc. conditions are such that you don't get carbon monoxide into the cabin. On the EV side, many (most?) charge daily to 80% so the average EV caught in an unexpected storm are likely to have more than 63% battery charge and the number with only 25% or less battery will be pretty low. But let us go with the same low 63% "fill" level as for the average internal combustion engined car caught in the same unexpected conditions. A typical EV does not need to run the drive system to heat the interior of the car. And the typical EV uses between 1 and 1.5 kW to heat the interior (newer ones with heat pumps use less). Typical battery sizes range from 60 kWh to 100 kWh. Using the 77 kWh battery in my new car as an example, we have 63% of 77 kWh or about 48 kWh available when stuck in the storm. That should last somewhere around 38 hours, nearly 10 hours longer than for our above internal combustion example. All this depends on the vehicle (engine size, fuel tank or battery size) so your results will vary a lot depending on your assumptions. But I think it shows there is nothing intrinsically worse about an EV in an unexpected storm than an internal combustion engine vehicle. What is does show is there will always be some people who are low on fuel/battery. And that, especially in winter conditions, you should have enough fuel in your vehicle for unexpected conditions.

You must not have inverted flare fittings. 1/8” pipe fitting is 27 tpi. I’d bet a 1/8” pipe plug would thread into your fitting. You should not have to change fittings on the lines to fix your problem, if the correct brass elbows/fittings are inverted flare.

The race is on then I guess. First guy's pump to fail buys the other guy a new pump of the opposite type. ??

Lol, I’ve got your back Rob! OR i think i stole this from Rob years ago ?

A Axe throwing joint in Sacramento, Ca... 48D

The pivot pin this lever is on might be bent not the lever..but if necessary take it off the car put it in a vise and slightly bend it slightly using a dead blow hammer. Bend and fit to the car as necessary It will not break.... First figure out what actually is bent.

could be worse things but as the wife told me of a number of her students stated they do not need to study or do well as they going to be a fishing guide or a professional hog hunter....got to love the RN south..!

Two weeks ago we had a team building event for work. Axe throwing was on the menu of entertainment. First time I actually stuck an axe. Now that I know how to throw one I will probably do it more, lol. Wore my arm out that night.

Update +6 years... Fuel pump with custom pin still holding strong.

I thought about using one of the later units in the 1949, but the parts for the valves are not all that easy to get. It is all aluminum or pot zinc. In the end I opted for the midland ross version and put it in the trunk. I have two complete, apart, 1950 -1945 under the car units sitting around collecting dust... James

I notice similar trends. I'm well on my way to a grumpy old man. Lol. Maybe some of the changes are based on all the things our rear view mirror. We experience so much in life. We may have been misled. Trust broken. We've be hurt. We know what makes us tick by now. We know what makes us happy. We see the thin "entertainment" value in Hollywood productions. Popular TV shows are mostly fake distractions from reality. We see right through the misleading crap because we've been there. Done that. Know what it takes to get it done. I am not entertained by so called "reality TV". It's far from reality. I might watch 1 or two movies per year. TV? None. Crap that goes on in the background. My wife likes it. Me, nope. 5 minutes in, I'm done. I look forward to someday, hopefully filling my days with things I want to do. Not that I want to speed up time to retirement. I am happy and fulfilled at work. Its just that work takes up the best of my day. We get 2 days per week to try fit in everything we want. I think cooking and nice meal prep could be fun. I just seem to have little time for it. Wrenching on cars. Troubleshooting. Driving them. It's stimulating. Relaxing and fun. Seems to be good exercise for the brain. This web site supplements that. So, we come here where people have similar interests.