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Good effort for 3 and a bit years...many of us take way longer.

A very nice looking automobile. Welcome aboard. Looking forward to seeing more of your car...

Great pics. Thanks for posting those. Am certainly envious of the sedan delivery. Look forward to seeing more of these vehicles...and sorry Bob from wandering off your topic...

Great pics. Thanks for posting those. Am certainly envious of the sedan delivery. Look forward to seeing more of these vehicles...

If it all comes off and you get this vehicle then you are absolutely in a good group of people. Lots of knowledge and some pretty active members with your vehicle year here too. Hope it comes to pass ...

That's really starting to look like a proper truck. Seeing the work of an old build project well done is such a fine thing. Am enjoying your progress from afar. Thanks for sharing...

Good post. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and detail...

Thanks for your continued attention that enables us all to participate here...

I keep learning stuff here. Thanks Loren. Unfortunately, no guarantee I will retain it, or I will forget where I learnt it... Still, even the initial enjoyment is enough to keep me checking through the posts. And pictures too!!!

Two very useful pieces of equipment there. The human one certainly bears resemblance to his paternal line...

The more I know...the more I know that I don't know...

I don't think 53Windsor has realised this yet and is trying to extract a threaded bolt instead of the pin...but I may be mis-interpreting this...

Smart thinking...good result. Will save this idea for the inevitable...

All that picture needs is you in the frame in a white coat and a stethoscope hanging from your neck...

Looks like you are really trying to solve this so my 2c would be to drop the tank, make a decent access/inspection hole and cover. Then you can do any of the above system checks. Including adjustment of the float arm. I had issues with a replacement tank for my sedan that fitted perfectly with the straps and mounting under the trunk floor but it had a different shaped pressed flange to mount the sender unit. It sat a bit lower in the tank. I needed to take it out a few times to adjust the float arm. Still isn't perfect but close enough for me to read. Point being, you need to be able to read and have adjustment access to all these various factors. Hope you solve it..

...am interested to know what "my endoscopy camera" was used for before ...?😄

Welcome aboard Scotty. You are in a good place for help and info. Not from me today though...my ride is '30s era. We all like pics though, if you can master how to post those here. Hope you enjoy your step into mopars!!

Looked through my rebuild pics but nothing there to help sorry. Someone might have a spare here or at least dimensions. Wouldn't be hard to cobble up. I feel it is very important for operation of the fuel system, same as the heatshield at the rear upper manifold, reducing heat away from the firewall area.

Thought I would leave a few things here about Arthur, aka Knuckleharley. Have had a few pm conversations with him over the last few years up until he went quiet on the forum some months ago. He had no close family that he had connections with so without that I wanted to leave a bit more about him here as a bit of remembrance. Arthur Hines got past 75. He never thought he would get past 25. In his earlier life he spent some time involved in the Vietnam War ( as you guys know it in the US, or the American War if you are from SE Asia ). As Plymouthy's post shows, he was in MACVSOG. Look it up if you need to...Special Ops then was a top secret group operating across North Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia running offensive ops against the NVA. Mostly 6 man teams running around poisoning their food supply, getting into their ammo dumps and salting them with 'ammo' that exploded when fired, pow snatches, hits on NVA officers etc, etc, etc. If areas got to hot they would send in a Hatchet Force Team to assault the NVA positions. This tended to make them a bit shyer chasing the 6 man teams...On one occasion he remembered being on morning parade with 6 MOH winners. When you consider how hard it is to get medals in covert operations, this says a lot. There were about 30 men in each FOB recon company at any one time. Some months the casualty rate was over 50%. Medal of Honor winner and friend of Arthur's, Franklin Miller, co-wrote a book called "Reflections Of A Warrior" covering these times. Arthur is mentioned a few times in this book. Knuckle has been a member since 2006. He had a bunch of mopars, '33 and '48 Plymouth coupes, '33 Dodge 4dr, '42 Dodge coupe, 49 Chrysler Windsor coupe and a '37 Dodge 4x4 truck. Also a bunch of non mopars - '32, '34, '38 and '53 Fords. Mostly coupes. He had got crook years ago with lymphoma, from all the 'friendly fire' agent orange that drenched him in the jungle. Not having family, he had arranged his estate to leave money to a couple of local charities. One for animals I believe. Anyway, that's a bit about Arthur...RIP.

Sad news alright. Lots of posts from Knuckleharley from way back that dried up a while ago. He had an interesting life in his early days, being a veteran of the Vietnam ( or American ) war - depending where you come from. I enjoyed some correspondence with him... Thanks for letting us know Tim

Looking very smart. You are making good progress. Certainly a very pleasurable thing putting things back together and understanding how it all is fitted and fixed. Puts you back with those designers and assemblers from so long ago. No plastic either...good pics.

Bit hard to go anywhere with this...

Double up send...sorry

Excellent job. So good when you find people like this. They are still out there but for you guys sometimes not in your vicinity. Is one of the highlights of doing a restoration, opening the wrap around the newly plated bits. Then the pleasure of remounting it...

Thanks for posting and doing the video. My view here is nothing but supportive. Your vehicle has a family story of generational pleasure in a fine automobile. Seems like that will continue, given your son's involvement with you. Somehow, all these enhancements seem to suit this vehicle too. I am envious of some of the folks you are able to collaborate with in these projects - George Ashe etc. To be fair though, I don't devalue some of the guys down here in NZ. Have met some great enthusiasts and craftsmen in this game. It's just great to see these things. Thanks again.