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And it works for dogs. Hope it helps you out.

Hey Keith, no swearing on the forums. W****r and s**w are both swear words in my book. If I never saw s**w again it would be too soon. ?

I have also added an electric pump to prime my carburetor when it's been sitting for an extended period. I used to have it plumbed in series with the mechanical pump and found that sometimes it could push fuel through the mechanical pump and sometimes it wouldn't. I suspect that it had to do with the position of the diaphragm. Maybe it restricts flow through in certain positions? Sometimes I'd just have to give the engine a quick crank to get the fuel flowing again. The electric pump was also helpful when things got hot and the pump on the engine struggled to pump fuel. I could switch on the electric pump to help push fuel through the system. I have since re-plumbed my fuel lines and put the electric pump in parallel with the mechanical pump. This allows for easy priming, and it can still assist the system if needed.

Idk. Id guess it more just dampens vibration than really balances. A lot of dirt track racers I grew up around did it. Not going to do anything for something far out of true though. If you have a minor weight imbalance the fluid in a round tube is going to spin out until it's evenly coating the inside. So if you have this imbalance of say some fraction of an ounce trying to work against this 32 ounce fluid mass that's evenly spread , your fractional ounce is working against quite a bit of force trying to deform the liquid in order to shake. It succeeds only marginally and the throws that normally make an elliptical path formed by an imbalance and tiny amount of play are slowed down and forced to be a bit more round as the fluid seeks to stay in an even distribution within it's rigid round container. If it's further out of true than the spun film thickness or the imbalanced weight is closer to the opposing mass of the spun and deforming film thickness then it just swings the fluid to the most out of true area and makes the imbalance even worse.

On ours, the one with the oblong holes is on the rear/cowl. I am assuming this is because the rear of the hood being much wider than the front needs more wiggle-room to sit down in the opening correctly, and there is no trim piece on the cowl that the center trim/hinge piece needs to match up to . BUT, the holes in the other one are still large enough for plenty of adjustment to get the front matched up right, too.

this is the result of non being used and the resulting action of 'patina' ization

The Plymouth was lowered 2' all round and had 15x6 and 15x7 Chrome smoothies from Wheel Vintiques with the standard offset that these wheels came with.........the tyres were Coker Classisc Whitewall Radials in 195/65x15 and 235/65x15 sizes........there were no clearance issues on front or back wheels or tyres on inner or outer wheelarch or fenders and on right or left lock...........in 2008 the tyres cost $1800.00, the wheels $900.00, thats Oz dollars........ ..sold the car like a dope............lol.......still got the 'ol brown ******* tho'.............andyd

Looks like it’s had the MIdas touch... ?

Hi Frank, Back in the late 80s I sent my original harness to Rhode Island Wiring and they made me a new one. I stored it with the car. Then installed the engine section last year to start the engine after rebuild. Some color fade for sure, and dust from the body work, but working fine. Ill be testing all wires as I build the dash, and before I finish interior. I plan to feed extra runs of wires to all covered interior and trunk areas just in case. Thank you for taking a close look, I appreciate a 2nd and more sets of eyes here. ???

Wonderful progress, paint is beautiful, the trim is exquisite looking on there. But I do have a question.......it looks to me like you are using the original 70 year old wire, if so I sure would hate to see all your work for nothing if the car burns to the ground.

Recently my doctor prescribed gabapentin to ease my leg pains, you would not believe the number that is engraved on that pill, it must be kismet LOL!

Gabapentin....Hmm rings a bell. I remember when I suffered a bulging disc in my back. Darn it was awfully painful. It took a long time before I could walk upright. The Doctor did not want to do surgery so they ket giving me stronger drugs until the nerve pain was somewhat tolerable. Seems to me that Gabapentin was the drug of choice that worked for me. I had been through others and nothing was making a dent in the suffering. I hope it helps you. I had no issues getting off the drug. That was about 15 years ago. I am way smarter with my back now. I've had no further injuries and I refuse to help people move, or install a new roof. Lol. Nor will I ask anyone to help me, do anything I won't do myself. Some things, It's just worth paying cash to young folks with strong backs to do the job.

Want to make sure I Was not makin fun of Los_Controls post. Just the next about dogs. DJ

LOL on the D 24 Gabapentin seems like some modern day miracle drug. I hope it works well for you. It does for most people. They use it for nerve pain, It changes the way your mind feels pain. Meaning it is mind altering. ... You still get nerve pain, but your mind processes the pain differently, something you can ignore and live with. Also used for bi-polar patients, and many other physiological problems. It helps people think clearly. Dr's, & psychiatrist love to prescribe the drug, no down sides that I know of .... unless you are Los_Control When I was a kid in the 70's, I did experiment with drugs, 14 years old and take speed with my friends, would put me to sleep .... take a downer and I was running around like I was on speed. Thats fine, I learned early drugs were not for me. Fast forward am 48 years old and have a pinched nerve in my neck, they give me gabapentin. A mind altering drug. It works the opposite on me, just like speed when I was a kid. It gave me nerve pain where I never had pain before, then it made my mind cloudy and confused. They started me with 400mg a day, within 6 months they had me on 3200mg a day, then oxy codone and tramadol all 3 pain killers at same time for 3 years. I was turned into a zombie sitting in front of a blank computer screen and drooling on myself. The whole problem was gabapentin to begin with. Sorry for long post, just saying, If you notice uncomfortable pain or unclear mind, things just do not seem right, watch the gabapentin. I have argued and won with DR's in the past. It is a mind altering drug, it changes the way your mind works and thinks. I bet almost 50% of forum users here are taking gabapentin. While they have no issues, they are unaware it is a mind altering drug.

Move to Calif.. Maybe see 80 degrees + in December this year. Only been in the upper 90's for a week. Some higher this weekend however, desert temps are on the way back. Rain? Used to have some of that stuff. Fog, used to unable to travel safely at times in winter, barely shows up these days. No climate change however. Just watch the news! DJ

I have a ‘53 Plymouth and according to my parts book those are the correct numbers.

additional information - carburetor priming made easy

On vehicles that sit for a long time between being used I put in an electric fuel pump. I prime it with the pump before attempting to start. Run it for about 6 seconds then turn it off, sure saves the starter. You can add fuel to the carb float bowl by attaching a small hose to the carb breather vent inside the throat, using a small funnel or syringe. If fuel pump is not working a remote fuel tank from a lawnmower above the carb should work if you want to run longer.

Back in the late '80's and early '90's, when I was first learning to use spreadsheets, like LOTUS, and then, later, Excel, I would load in the formula, run the data, then check it w/my calculator, as I didn't 'trust' the computer to do it correctly. Sometimes, when the spreadsheet produced the answer, it just didn't look 'right', so I'd run the numbers on my calculator and a piece of paper, and sure enough, I was right, and the computer 'wrong'. Of course, I'd loaded in some error in the formula in the spreadsheet, so, it was my fault. But, that's the way I learned to finally use spreadsheets.

Very nice progress. Although I may be a bit weird in that I kinda like the disassembled look of works in progress, I can hardly wait to see it when it's done. Not that I'm partial to D24's or anything...

you might be onto something there Frankie...

Whew......you “ Dodged “ that one....lol...very good I’m glad you are on top of things, can’t wait to see a driving video!

The original setup, when properly maintained, is fairly robust, and the fire risk is there but not as dangerous as ya might think...a dripping fuel bowl will mist during engine operation as the nearby cooling fan will disperse droplets, and the heat from the engine will flash off the volatiles...a severe leak will degrade engine performance, usually seen as stumbling at higher rpms as this reservoir level drops too low to be effective, and these performance drops would be significant enough to require attention. I was taught to remove the sediment bowls every spring and scrub the crud outta the glass, as well as replace the filter and gasket as required...this coincided with cleaning the oil bath air filter and changing the crankcase oil and lubricating the chassis, distributor, generator, etc

replace the seal if old and cracked and check in your maintenance schedule and you will be fine. MANY, MANY old fuel systems used them. Does not scare me.

Mine is always full too, unless I run out of gas it goes to about 1/3 full and is an easy way to tell there is something preventing fuel flow. I have had my truck for over 40 years, daily driver for 20 years of that, never changed the gasket and did not remove bowl until recently and never had a leak. So i am less inclined to worry about it now.

Thanks Bob....I will be bolting the HDO to concrete and could not find a definite on the mounting question. All Bend Pak installation guides have the anchoring process in the install. The move is complete now....it went better than expected. The lift had a couple inches each side rolling out the 10 foot door with the pump motor still mounted to the column...the shop bay looks plum naked with it removed. The roll across the dirt/grass met some resistance but did not bury down. Most damage done was when I spun the tire on the lawn mower I towed it with with initial positioning of the casters. Set in place on a squared grid...sits dead level, columns plumed even at full height.....checked all safety latch adjustments just as the smart thing to do. The front columns setting left of the lift sorta denotes the size of the one replacing this puppy.

I made up a temporary shaft years ago when I swapped a Mustang V6 with C4 into my little Dodge D50. Intended to use it to test drive and debug, then get a real shaft made by a real shop. Worked so well, I never got around to the better one. So my answer is obviously, run it 'til there's a good reason not too.

Here she is.

Big sellers do that a lot. Has to do with eBay's charge per listing. If they are out of stock and end the listing, when stock comes in they have to pay again to relist. Take down the pics, put a huge price on it and when stock is replenished just edit the ad.

Getting a pretty high reading on the Grumpometer......... ?