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Hopefully I can get a quick answer here, anybody know what type of oil the rear axle and the transmission take?

That's exactly what mine looks like!

No I mean the crank/rods. The oil pan will be easy as it’s now removed so I can go to town on it. But I have no intentions of removing the crank, so I’d like to clean that up before I close it back up

So the parts arrived today and I pulled the oil pan, it certainly isn’t clean, nor would I expect an 80 year old engine that’s never had an oil filter haha! The pan itself isn’t too bad honestly, the rotating assembly just has a layer of “gunk” on it. What do you guys all think would be the safest solvent, simple brake cleaner or something like that followed up with some WD-40??

I think due to ease of sourcing the Coker tires I'll be going that route, as I said they are just miles from my front door. The other parts arrive Tuesday and my goal is to have them all installed by Friday (I don't imagine it'll take that long). During that time I can throw the tires on the wheels and with any luck take her for a spin Friday afternoon. If all goes well I'll take the truck back to our house for the winter this coming weekend so I can take care of some garage projects over the cold months. But, I assume it wont go as planned and it'll be here for a while

What is it that you don’t like about them? I’m not married to anything, there’s just a summit about 3 miles from my house so that was appealing

That said these were listed as "required parts" when buying the tires, the reviews are a bit iffy claiming the valve stems are super thin: https://m.summitracing.com/parts/cok-85640

So a set of these? https://m.summitracing.com/parts/cok-65500/none/images Im not sure they carry tubes for them, having a hard time finding anyone that does :/

Thank you sir! Ok now the decision of white wall or black wall tires?? Thoughts???

Thanks sir! Any idea where the serial number would be? Believe it or not I've actually got full copies of insurance policies dating back to the 60's!

I'll take a look at tires tomorrow when my big truck is in for a rotation. I'm not sure what modern tire would "look" right on it though? Any suggestions there?

My rims are actually 16's, I took a quick look at one tire and it's a 6.5-16, I'm sure there is a conversion for the right size. I'm just more concerned with mounting a radial tire on that wheel as it clearly wasn't really designed for the bead of the newer tires (as I read). Here's a picture of the spare, all tires are equally old but just mismatched.

Thanks everyone! I'm ordering the parts today, hopefully they'll arrive soon and I can at least get her out on the road for a quick spin. I'll certainly remove the oil pan and do the gasket/clean out of the internal portion. Any idea on tires? I'm all for keeping this thing original but I'm not sure which way to go there. I doubt it'll ever see speeds high enough to care about radial vs bias ply, but whichever will be most cost effective/original looking is what I'm after

Thank you very much! Any recommendations on the oil? The site I've quoted sells "Brad Penn 30 weight with zinc". I live just miles from a Summit Racing so I'm sure there would be more options there as well. I've got a bit of wiring I'll be replacing, I'm not sure if it got hot or just fell apart over time but there's a bit of exposed wiring near the steering shaft in the engine bay. It's certainly a positive ground 6 volt which is crazy to a 31 year old like me. I started my days on 125cc 2 strokes when I was 12 years old, eventually at 18-20 I was building 400hp 2.0L Honda engines swapped from CRV's into an older CRX and fabricating the entire setup by hand, soldering new chips into the engine computer and writing the software to tune them etc. More recently my toys have evolved into 700+hp CTS-V's and the like. Going back to something so basic is almost surreal, its so basic but yet hard to find things for. Where I'm used to trying to eliminate EPA required regulations and freeing up airflow I'm now worried about properly oiling an air filter haha! I kid you not, I've had the air filter off the motor for probably 2 months in my garage and this afternoon I knocked it over and heard liquid hitting the garage floor, I couldn't figure out what the heck it was and when it was oil pouring out my initial thought was the intake valve seals were beyond shot and I was somehow pumping oil up into the filter. Then I realized it was some of the cleanest 25 year old engine oil I had ever seen and thus I searched it. I don't have any issue with the 6v setup, that being said I do wonder (I can obviously search it) if all 6v things will work with it, I assume being DC they will need to be positive ground specific. I'd assume reversing DC wouldn't work out, AC is a different story.