tmorelli

Thank you. I will take your advice on the brake lines. I read a very informative post on the fluid drive maintenance on this forum so it might have been James' work. I have a local firm that does restoration work (White Post Restoration) and I may have them go through the transmission, fluid-drive and differential so that I don't mess anything up.

Thank you. I am looking forward to taking it out on longer drives once I do the wheel bearing and brake-work. It is quite a transition going from this one to my 1963 Catalina. Things evolved quite a bit in the 15 years between the two models.

Hi Everyone - I wanted to share pictures of the 1948 D-24 that I bought a few months ago from a 101 year old WWII veteran. He was getting ready to move into a Nursing Home and had to sell off his possessions. The car has about 85,000 original miles on it and lived most of its life garaged in a barn. For that reason the body is remarkably good shape and the interior is not too bad either for being 100% original. It runs very well and the engine idles smooth. The only issue that I have discovered thus far is that it seems to slip when in 3rd gear and accelerating hard. I don't know if this is just the fluid drive performing 'normally' or if there is an issue with either it or the clutch slipping. This car was the owner's pride and joy and I promised him that I would take very good care of it. He kept very good records and even had the original Bill of Sale (bonus points are that the dealership where the car was purchased still exists and the original building signage from when it was a dealership was recently 'discovered' under several layers of siding). Based on the records I have the car has not seen much road action since 1980 (about 4,000 miles on the odometer since then based on VA State Inspection slips) and it last was inspected in 2005, meaning that it may not have even been driven on the roads much, if at all since then. I have taken it out on a few short drives since then and it does okay other than the apparent slipping and some noise coming out of the passenger side front wheel when going around curves (which is why I want to replace the bearings, etc...) Since I bought it I have put on new tires, flushed out the cooling system, replaced the oil and filter and am getting ready to replace the wheel bearings, brake components and rubber lines. I am going going to do a full tune-up on the motor. I also want to drain / replace the fluid in the axle, transmission and fluid-drive. Once I get through all of those items I need to replace gas tank and sending unit and re-do the wiring as much of the insulation is broken or missing - especially under the hood. It does not seem to be effecting the operation of the car though. I would love to hear any advice any of you may have and any recommendations that you have regarding things I should add to my 'to do' list. Dodge Bill of Sale_2.pdf