SaberMike

Wheels and rims question. The previous owner put massive tires on here. The rims are larger two but they have the right look. However as I get older it is harder and harder for me to turn the when at a stop or slow speed because of the tire size. Also other than the tire size the car is all original. I even still have the dodge hub covers in the trunk bi really think I want to go back to a more manageable tire size and really with white walls. I looked at Coker’s and they have nice looking tires but did t find factory original sized rims. What do you all think? The pictures are as she is today. She is still 6v pos ground and don’t want to change to a 12v and and power steering. Part of my love for the car is driving it as the original owner would have and having the same feel.

My wife posted just a fun little video about our 47 Dodge Custom, take a look and let us know anything she should add in. The 40s Mopar just don’t appear to get the public eye and love I think they should.

Wow thanks for all the fast and great suggestions, it did feel like a choke issue, I will look at it in the morning. The coke was replaced by a cable adjusted one in the cab by the previous owner. I almost never need to use it but it maybe an issue. As for the fuel, I guess its the worry in me, I keep all of my vehicles topped up full and I have to many vehicles so fuel in any one of them could easily have fuel that is months old. I have a rebuild kit sitting around so I think I will pull the carb just because, I think the float was sticking every now and then so it could use a rebuild anyway. Does anyone have a suggestion for fuel additive I could use? I add a Lucas lead additive to this car but nothing to deal with moisture or ethanol. Unfortunately in my area we can only get fuel with ethanol. Thank you all for your suggestions, wish this was a forum for all my non-Dodge projects corvette people aren't half as helpful. hahaha

All great solutions and possible. I will test the spark at each with an inline one once I can find one of the many I have purchased over the years and lost. The pump and tank are new, I replaced two years back but the line is original so possible, I only have the sediment bowl for filtration. I will look at the wires closer, inside my distributor looks better than factory original but points and condensers fail often these days. I have a pertronix 6v electronic ignition unit but figured I wouldn't bother trying it till I needed to replace points again. Maybe its time to try that out. I have always enjoyed the "originality" of this car but I am getting a bit older and want to be able to just jump in and go (within reason).

Ok update, after making this post I went out and the car started as easy as normal and once up to temp 165F I went for a drive around the block. All seams good but i think I hear a consistent misfire and the idle RPM is definitely higher. Thoughts?

So I have had little to no issues with my 47 Dodge Custom and put a few hundred miles a year on it. I religiously start and run it up to temp every weekend even if I don't take it out for a drive. However last month I went to start it and like more times than not it popped off almost instantly but immediately died. I use the owners manual instructions of one full pump then hold to 1/3 throttle with clutch in for starting. This almost always gives me an immediate start, actually better than any Ford I have owned to date. But now it will sometimes pop right off but immediately dies or it will chug chug chug and fire every now and then but not run for more than a second. Like a lot of people I just threw parts at it with no change. I am getting gas to carb and putting some down the through does nothing. So I thought maybe spark issue. So I replaced points and coil and after electrocuting myself several times I think I am getting spark to the plugs. My car is still configured positive ground 6v. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I was trying to find the exact model of my distributor but the rare on the placard is long sense left the party. I have all factory original 1947 Dodge Custom with the flat head inline 6. The distributor also I see has what looks like a oil fill port on it. Is this a for like a light weight pin oil? Thanks all for any information.

Thank you I will look at all that, I just received my service manual and that should help. Thank you for all the suggestions.

Wife and I just got our first Dodge and we picked a wonderful almost factory original survivor. In the last two weeks we have put nearly 100 miles on it in tooling around and after getting used to the three on the tree and drum breaks again it is a wonderful and fun vehicle to drive. However I would like to make it easier for my wife to steer, we want to keep it as original as possible but also making it as safe and drivable as possible without changing it to a modern resto mod. I don.t want to add power steering but is there a more modern manual steering box that people have swapped in? Any other suggestions are welcome, the only real change the car has had is new 235 75 r15 with steely rims have been installed.