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  1. I have only replaced one flathead oil pump with a new one once...just because years ago. (70's) I have always taken them apart and measured the clearances/ checked for any scoring etc. on my flathead rebuilds...oil pressure always has been cold 45-50...hot high rpm 45...hot idle 30-40. Engine rebuilds are complete with all measurements taken after machine shop work to double check and extreme cleanliness a must. Modern engines always have done new pumps. No new flathead pumps for me unless engine had a catastrofic bearing or piston failure. Jmo.
    3 points
  2. I go down to Home Depot and buy storage totes and then all the parts going to Ziploc bags that are labeled and I use three different size bags sandwich quart and gallon. Then the parts going to the appropriately labeled tote and they sit on the Shelf till I'm ready for them
    2 points
  3. Grab the top and bottom of the tire - not the sides.
    1 point
  4. Two thoughts from my reading . . . How's your heat riser assembly? Could it be diverting heat all the time to your intake manifold. @keithb7 has a good video about this (just finished watching it, again) and you can search the forums. Oh. Also a good link in the reference section. Also, there is a heat shield for the fuel pump . . . I think wrapping the fuel line (picture foreground, left side) in foil tape. Cheers! John
    1 point
  5. Ditto, I sweated over it but it really wasn't that bad. Most valves go really easy, just some access issues around the center of the manifold. I used my old straight feelers and had no problem. After one round, I could hear a little noise from a couple so went back and touched them up.
    1 point
  6. This is not as demanding a task as you fear....you won't even have to sit inside the fender to do this......almost cheating. Gloves are ok, but regular mechanic's gloves will do, welder's gloves would really be awkward. I used the set of gauges that have been in my toolbox forever, nothing special needed.
    1 point
  7. Pflaming. Sorry to hear about your accident. As you know with age comes slower healing. But I do have a suggestion for you. You look like a go to kinda guy judging from that monstrosity project you're working on. so for the next 6 weeks you'll be bored. Get some parts and motorize that wheel chair. It will give you something to do and help with you mobility as well. A Silver Bullet II so to speak. Just put a crash guard around the foot sticking out so if you hit something at speed it won't delay your healing time. Joe Lee
    1 point
  8. I was going to put a new oil pump in my 48 DeSoto, but after looking at the prices, I had second thoughts. The one I bought in the 80s was still good and still new, so I said why not use it? AFter hearing your horror story, I think I'm glad I did. After all, the oil pump is really the heart of the engine. The heart pumps blood, while the oil pump pumps oil and turns the distributor shaft!
    1 point
  9. I use this now days to be sure of good pre-lubing a new or sitting engine...
    1 point
  10. I can sympathize! My dad and I rebuilt an old dodge over the past 3 or 4 years (still a long way top go) and we lost a lot of parts, some of them multiple times. I live about 3 hours away from the project site so I'd travel over for the mid part of the week and return home on the weekends to try to salvage my marriage. When we disassembled anything we put all the fasteners in marked Ziplocs and took pictures etc. I also put the parts in a specific location any time we disassembled, cleaned or painted a part. Any wear item that would be replaced during reassembly went into an old parts box, just in case. Often times (no every time) while I was gone my dad would clean the shop, straighten things up, clean a few parts, wire wheel a handful of fasteners, etc. About half way through the disassembly process dad decided to pitch that box of old parts, ugh. When we started prep for reassembly we could find nothing. All the fasteners had been mixed up during the wire brush / thread chasing step. Most of the medium sized parts had been squirreled away in the most random of places. I found stuff wrapped in plastic in the crawl space, wired to the rafters in the garage, in the undercarriage of a motorhome, in the trunk of any junk car sitting around - it was maddening. We spent days tracking down parts or assembling then disassembling then reassembling things because we finally tripped over a part we couldn't find. In a few cases I even bought a replacement because we couldn't find the original (AB may have been in cahoots with my dad). We now have a box of random fasteners in a box on the shelf and a bunch of modern mismatched fasteners on the car, ugh. So next time........ I'm going to make a dedicated spot for parts as soon as they come off. Be very regimented in opening only 1 Ziploc at a time. ensuring nothing gets moved or misplaced. I bet I spend just as much time looking for lost parts. I certainly enjoyed this time with the old man, some day he won't be here to grumble at for losing a part.
    1 point
  11. I do occasionally have issues, which just reinforces the pay attention to detail philosophy. As I have told my son, I am inherently lazy. I prefer to do the job once and do it right rather than do it over and over, moral of the story? Be lazy,lol.
    1 point
  12. You don't get a check in TX, if that where so I would have my entire roof covered with solar panels and bank the money, only about a third is needed to cover my needs plus a little extra. That was specifically a question I asked. You get credits for the power you make but don;t consume and in months when you consume more than you make you can draw down those credits, if I exceed the credits I have then I pay 10.3 cents a KWh, which is less than I pay now.
    1 point
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