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  1. In a previous thread the discussion was centered around whether or not a bypass filter is needed and the best oil for our mature engines. Based on that discussion and pondering this topic for a few days after pulling the oil pan I decided to install a spin-on filter on my non-filtered engine. I've seen a couple of photos on the forum of filter installations but decided to offer a more complete tutorial for the benefit of owners who may want to explore a filter installation. I chose a mount and filter from Wix because they offer a mount and selection of filters that are specifically for bypass operation. Bypass filters are constructed differently from full-flow filters and provide a finer degree of filtration than conventional filters. I sourced the mount and filter from Rock Auto who have not only the filter I use but also the same filter in three additional lengths. I selected the next to shortest due to the confined space around the engine. Here is the mount, part number WIX 24755: Note the arrows indicating the proper direction of flow. This mount is only for bypass installations and has a small 5/8" nipple instead of the more common 3/4" seen on full-flow installations. It also has 1/8" NPT threads that allow 3/16" steel brake lines to be attached with only one 90* adapter. The filter is WIX 51051: The other Wix bypass filters that fit this mount are 51050, 51320, and 51704. A bracket must be fabricated to attach the mount to the engine block. I used 1/8" steel and drilled it for the mount and two studs on the engine head: The two fittings on the engine accept 3/16" brake lines with no modification. I found 12" lines to be ideal for this installation. Accessing the fittings and getting the threads straight deep in the engine compartment is kinda tedious....just consider it a character-building experience. Permatex #2 (non-hardening) gasket sealer was used on the brass fitting where they screwed in the filter mount. I've seen teflon tape used in situations like this but that is risky in oil systems unless you really know what you are doing. A small sliver of tape that breaks loose can create havoc if it plugs an oil passage. A couple of thick washers are behind the bracket to provide clearance for the heads of the bolts securing the filter mount. The threads in the cylinder head are common 3/8" and the nuts on the studs are 3/8" fine thread. One of the studs backed out so I replaced it with a bolt. Prior to installing the filter I filled it with oil. This photo shows the difference between a bypass filter and full-flow---notice the tiny holes through which oil flows in/out of the filter. Filling the filter was very tedious....if I had to do this very often I would rig up some sort of syringe to push oil into the filter instead of spending 1/2 hour adding oil a fraction of an ounce at a time. The filter accepted a cupful of oil before it was satisfied. The finished installation complete with a note on the mileage and date of filter change. The oil lines need to be formed for clearance so the filter can be easily changed. Yes, this is not for those who want a period-correct engine bay, but I like having a modern filter which can be easily sourced through common channels. If my engine is happy....I'm happy.
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  2. Just set up my account and thought I should do a brief intro. I've got an all original 1950 Dodge Coronet, 3 speed with fluid drive, and still running on 6 volts. I bought the car when I was 15 and drove it to high school everyday. 24 years old now and hopefully will be able to start restoring it withing the next year. Only thing that is intimating me with the restoration is tackling the fluid drive unit. It leaks bad and trying to find a place to replace the seals is proving tricky. Hoping to find some advice on hear regarding that.
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  3. Today is the 50 the anniversary. I've been reading and listening to the amazing stories of the Apollo missions and all the engineering that led up to them. I'm curious to your memories of this signature event. ( I was not born yet ?)
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  4. Needed for faster defroster heat.
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  5. Thermostat housing is a pre-war model and looks exactly like my 41, minus the nipple
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  6. My trans hums also when in neutral for the past several years. When I installed my 5 speed, I used the throw out bearing from my 38, so I guess that is where the hum comes from. It has not caused any problems so far.
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  7. Then and Now Automotive has excellent fuel pump rebuild kits, and their customer support is top notch. http://www.then-now-auto.com/fuel-pumps/ I even had a pump that I couldn't fine any good identification marks on. I was able to send them pictures and they identified it and told me which kit to purchase. That one is now my 'back-up'/'spare' pump. Also, on my pump there is a long stud with the wing nut at the top for my heat shield. This never comes with a new pump. If you purchase a new pump you would need to remove the long stud and put it in place of one of the cover screws on the new pump. I would highly advise against a new pump, and instead opt for rebuilding the current one with a kit from Then and Now. New pumps have a tendency to have their pivot pin walk out over time. The kits from Then and Now have a new pin with retainer clips to prevent this.
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  8. I'll answer it a third time. On my '49 Power Wagon, these bolts were used for attaching the horn.
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  9. I am sorry it took so long to get back on this, the truck is currently sitting on a property 2 ferry rides, and about 4 1/2 hours of travel away from me, and im currently getting ready to bring the truck back over to the mainland.
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  10. this has been answered twice now......they are for mounting various engine control brackets and often also found up front in the vicinity of the thermostat housing as a battery ground point. In all seriousness, I would look at replacing that heavily corroded one pictured...
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  11. CAD plated and left plain.
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  12. Most stock heads measure 2 inches thick at the head bolt flat to the bottom edge of the head where it meets the block. A micrometer measurement should indicate whether the head has been milled earlier in it's life. When I first my 56 230 engine, I have .040 taken from the head and .010 from the block. My machinest calculated compression went from 7 to 1 to 8.5 to1. A healthy increase. So measure your head and any you might think of buying to establish if they have been messed with. My opinion is the increase in CR really wakes up these engines some one has suggested that .090 is the limit without needing to mess with valve clearence unless you have a highlift cam installed.
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  13. They are threaded to mount engine parts and ground cables to the cylinder head area of the engines in both cars and trucks. The tread size is 3/8" X 24 TPI On some of the trucks.... 1-1/2 ton on up two are used to mount the top bracket of the oil filter housing to the drivers rear side of the head. Chrysler straight eights use them to mount the air cleaner bracket on 1946-48 Cars. The head is a 1946-54 Chrysler car head... could be a valuable 265 engine?
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  14. When Apollo Mission Astronaut Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he not only gave his famous “One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” statement, but followed it by several remarks, including the usual COM traffic between him, the other astronauts, and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the enigmatic remark “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.”Many people at NASA thought it was a casual remark concerning some rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, upon checking, [they found] there was no Gorsky in either the Russian or American space programs. Over the years, many people have questioned him as to what the “Good luck, Mr. Gorsky” statement meant. On July 5, in Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26- year-old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could answer the question. When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors’ bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorsky. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, “ sex? sex you want? You’ll get sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!”
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  15. I was on the beach about 1/2 a mile from where I now type this. In that era you'd hear the Dodger's game all over the beach being played on transistor radios. On that day everyone was tuned to the moon landing and there was a cheer up and down the entire beach when "The Eagle has landed" came over the radio.
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  16. I was 20 and remember it well. I had been out on a road trip but made sure I left enough time to get home and watch it on TV. Pretty amazing. However, I don't like looking at the moon now and thinking there is human refuse and litter up there. Kind of takes away from the romance of the moon. If humans ever go there to live in some kind of moon station, it will make me sad. We'd probably screw it up just like our planet. Guess I am an old romantic.
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  17. My brother and I were 7, visiting our grandparents in Jones Ridge, Illinois, as we did every summer. We were both fascinated with the space program. All anyone had to tell us was that there was a launch or other NASA activity on the TV and we'd be there to watch it. So, imagine two 7-year olds with the run of a farm, having run amok all day, staying up to watch that first moon walk, after we'd gone in to watch the touchdown earlier. It was awesome. Our grandparents had the only TV (B&W) in "The Ridge" at the time, so the few other folks who lived there were over to watch the event, which was a big to-do, because everyone knew Grandpa was always in bed by 9 (except when there was a Friday fight-night on). I remember that Grandpa was reminiscing about seeing the headlines for the first powered flight by the Wright brothers, seeing rickety biplanes overhead during WW1 in France, fighter pilots out of St. Louis training over the farms, during WW2, and now this. I don't think we slept much that night.
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  18. It looked pretty cool in B&W too Paul..........
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  19. I was 7 years old and we had stopped for gas at the DX station and wondered why no one was coming out to service the car, so Dad ran over the bell line a couple more times......Karl came to the doorway and motioned us inside. There was about a dozen people already crowded around his old Zenith as we entered the office, He said no gas until this is over you may stay and watch or pump your own gas.....we all watched except for my Father who was a very impatient man. He went out and gassed up the Plymouth and missed all the excitement as the module landed.
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  20. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was barely 6 and I was glued to the TV watching it in wide eyed amazement and admiration the whole time. I knew that this was something very special. It never occured to me that something could go wrong. All I knew that men had landed on and were walking on the very same moon that my Dad and I stared at while laying on our backs in the bed of Dads truck with my head resting on his arm. If it wasn't a school night I would ask Dad "Can we go lay in the truck and look at the stas". I had not learned to pronounce the R in stars yet. That following year at school they had a couple of astronauts come to our school to do a NASA presentation for the 6th graders. I remember my teacher came up to me one morning and said she had a surprise for me. She took me by the hand and led me to the auditorium and sat me with a 6th grade teacher. I was in 2nd grade and I was the only non 6th grade student there . At the end of the day before as the bell rang my teacher asked me to stay after for a minute. I thought I was in trouble. After all the kids had left the room she handed me a box. Inside of it was a model of the LEM and command module that the 2 astronauts gave her to give to me. She asked me to to tell the other kids because it was a secret ad I never said a word to any of them. I walked home holding that box tight with both hands. I was so proud ! I went home and told Mom and Dad all about it . It seems that my teacher realized how interested and amazed I was by all things Apollo 11 and NASA so at some point before she got special permission from the principal and my parents for me to join the 6th graders that day. Oh and I drank Tang for years and years without fail. "Tang, its what the astronauts drink" Wonderful memories !!! Every time I think back on watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin climb down the ladder and walk on the moon I get chills. Sorry for babbling, John
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  21. I would highly recommend to replace with a new tub/shower unit, remodeler unit comes in three pieces and you can carry through a standard door. Your old unit is four years old which means the faucet and drain is also that old. Change it with a good quality unit. Go to a plumbing supply house and not your local Menards or Home Depot. You get what you pay for. Be prepared to find the floor near the tub rotten and definitely replace whatever needs to be. I’ve been in business 33 years and would never think of trying to repair or re-color a 40-year-old unit. Foolish. Sorry for my blunt answer but that’s how I talk to my customers, they ask my opinion and they always get the truth
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  22. Look for an "L" on the end of the studs to indicate left hand threads. Lock ring wheels are safe to handle once aired up and locked in. When they need to be caged is when airing up after assembly, or if one had been driven on with low air pressure. To be safe when airing up a tire, get a clip on tire chuck with a long enough hose so that you can clip it onto the valve stem and stand off to the side while adding air. I have one that I've made up for airing up large equipment tires with lock rings. I have a ball valve with a pressure gauge at the other end of the hose so that I can check the pressure and control the air flow while standing away from the lock ring.
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  23. Rank and file doesn't concern me. I just appreciate the help I've received.
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  24. After reading this I was going to change my rank to onion fart as that is pretty rank.
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  25. Cool, thanks for sharing the pictures. In what town is this located? I live in western, MA and hadn't heard of this show till now. I usually go to the Ty-Rods fall swap meet at Stafford Motor Speedway. -Chris
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