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I have my 37 that needs new running board rubbers, so can't wait for your photos.

Hi Robert. Your car looks fantastic a lot of labour goes in but the final product is fun and makes it worthwhile. I will have to bring my 37 business coupe to Lethbridge this year sometime.

I removed my transmission and throw out bearing/fork assembly from my 1937 Dodge business coupe D5 with 3 speed transmission. My question is in addition to the 2 circular springs used to hold the throw out bearing carrier to the fork assembly there was a small mangled spring in there also. Please refer to 2 photographs. There is a factory plate that has 2 tabs with holes in them bolted to the front of the transmission which then would have these tabs 180 degrees apart on either side of the input shaft flange. I think the small mangled spring originally had one end in there but I don't see where the other end was connected to. Was this a homemade solution to something or was it a factory item to return the throw out bearing when clutch was released? I don't see where the other end of the spring would go. I wouldn't think it would have been attached to the circular springs. Do I have a mismatch of parts or what? Should there be 2 springs? Thanks for your help in solving this puzzle.

I am installing an intake/exhaust manifold on an IND265 engine that didn't have a manifold installed. I was going to used grade 8 nuts and a couple of bolts for missing ones. I have read in this forum that one should use brass nuts, not sure exactly why however but I would like to do this correctly. I have seen kits available for this. So my question is in regards to this kit where do the steel nuts go and where do the brass nuts go? Also there are conical washers also - where do they go? What is the torque sequence for these and torque settings? Thanks all.