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Generally the spring and weight will position the flap inthe open position, as the bimetallic spring and the heat of the manifold will close the flap to the intake. The likely hood is that the flap is siezed in the open position directing flow to the intake heat chamber. rotating it clockwise if you can get it free will reposition it in the closed position. I have mine welded in the closed position. Since I onlu drive the car in the warmer months, I have had very little ill effect from running it without heat.

In my experience after a replacement of one in my old engine, and a new one in my 2500 mile old rebuilt new (1956) engine, I have concluded that a rear main seal leak must be a MOPAR Flathead Character Flaw, as in both cases, newly installed parts, began to leak nearly immediatly. Granted both are much bettter than what they replaced, but non the less, still allow the slow but steady migration of lubrication. Perhaps there is some sort of force field set up by the clutch that sets up an irresistable attraction to the engine's oil, which the design of either the new or old style of seal is equipped to deal with. Think of the oil drops as your car's way of leaving a breadcrumb trail to find its way home.

just looked at the scarebird site. looks like good stuff but I did not see a specific listing for late 40's to mid 50's Mopars. what kit are you ordering??

35 to 40 while at cruising speed is OK for an engine with some experience. You might try switching to 10 40 or 20 50 but your pressures sound fine for a car that gets limited use.

Energy saving compact flouresent replacement bulbs have a problem. They, if you read the fine print, pose a mercury and lead hazard and are to be disposed of in a specific manner. Throwing them in the trash when they burn out put this dangerous heavy metal back into the environment when they borken, crushed or compacted.

I have been used multi viscosity detergent oil in my P15 for the last 5 years. When I first got the car back on the road, the original engine was tired and suffered from low compression and blow by, it got 20 w 50 and seemed happy. I currently have a freshly rebuilt 56 230 engine which I broke in on 10w 30, currently its diet is 15w 40 oil from Tractor Supply Company Traveller Brand. It is rated for use in diesel engines and has all the current API rating stuff. I believe it was 6.50 for a gallon container.

Interesting, here is a 41 which is reported to be a redo of the original paint scheme. Similar to Anthony's, but the dividing line is slightly different. As is the treatment of the trunk lid area. and a 41 coupe with two toned body silver fenders white (not bad IMHO) and another what not to do

I believe the trucks use an anti squeek pad or pads instead of welting. On the front fenders of my 46 plymouth car, there were pieces of rubber about midway between the fender to cowl attaching bolts and betweent he fenders and the grill support. I made repacements from sheet rubber, about 2 inches by 3/4, and attached them with weatherstrip adhesive to the body. I believe in another discussion on the forum this was said to be true for the trucks. You might want to try the search feature on the general discussion part of the forum for welting or anti squeek as you key words.

This help??? Here is a comparison of the gaskets showing the throttle plate area comparison, my guess is the two 1 bbls have more area.

Ed either your valves are sticking open, being held open by carbon, or may be burned (some sealing surfaces erroded) or you have a suspect head gasket. This would be evident as in 5 and 6. The cylinder pairs are siamesed, meaning there is a small space between paired cylinders. the head gasket commonly fails between siamesed pairs leading to a bleeding off of compression into the neighboring cylinder, and if that cylinder is on the an intake stroke, the compression from the neighbor will blow back through the open intake valve and throught the carb. I would suggest removing the head, inspecting the condition of the valvesand the head gasket. Since these areas are not open to colling passages, the typical symptom of bad head gaskets, spewing volumes of sweet smelling white smoke, will not be present. The area in the picture with the arrow pointing to it is where the failure commonly occurs in the gasket. You can see from the pic how the pairs of cylinders are positioned with the narrow casting and the wider casting with the coolant passages.

Anybody familiar with cable driven Tachs. Talking Motorcycle here, mine started acting up, cleaned and lubed the cable, no change. So might this just be a case of dirt or debris between the rotating magnet and the needle? Never been inside one before, was gonna play around but thought I'd pick all yawl's brains before taking it apart. Really have nothing to loos as I removed it because the needle movent was distracting, hasn't been on for a year.

Here is a what not to do.....

dakota regular cab 112 WB extended cab 116 WB

Hey Canadians, stupid question.....Do you folks do the Daylight savings time thing???? Are you changing this weekend like we are down here??? What about the rest of the World?? I know this was Ben Franklin's idea to give farmers more productive time but did it catch on Globally?

You can probably use any 2bbl from a 273/318. Think they were also used on the /6 power pack equiped deals. Should be availabe in the millions in bone yards. Common problem is eliptical wear of the hole in the body at the throttle shaft pivot causing eratic idle. Look for ones with good round holes

carter bbr. same as what was run on the small v8 in 56. I got a rebuild kit for my 56 engine's carb and it came with the stuff for the two bbl. I think it is still here if you want it, let mr know.

BRILLIANT, Have a Guiness to celebrate. Mother if invention indeed. This is a keeper for the tech section.

Supository Muffler.....now I know a guy at work that one of those might work for. Do you suppose they work on Methan powered exhaust????????

Used a puller on mine, whacking my ratchet with a 3 lb hammer. I had the oil pan off and blocked the crank from turning with a block of wood. I believe the torque is 125 lb ft.

Check the street rod publications, several sources offer this type of thing both under floor and firewall mount. Also post your question to the regular forums also, as several members have don this upgrade with boneyard sourced pieces.

Yesterday's high was a new low for March. Supposed to be in the 50's on the weekend. Gotta luv March. After basically no snow through the middle of January, we are now above average 115 vs 109.

Also be a good time to buy up some plates before the legislation passes and increases their "value".

Can you use this construction stuff called unistrut??? http://www.unistrut.com/Browse/cat_pg.php?P=S00_Channel

Ace Hardware has a nice Maroon in their store brand enamal. I used some of their water born acrylic enamal to roll an accent stripe on our travel trailer. It covered well has a nice gloss and so far has held up well. The color is Deep Burgandy, I believe it comes in oil based also. The pint was about 5 bucks I thing the quart is 8. I rolled two coats of Rustoleum thined about 3 to1 with mineral spirits on a winter beater about 15 years ago. Came out pretty well for a rush jib done in about a 50 degree garage.

John, when I was growing up, there was an old fellow down the road who had an Indian very similar to the one in your photo. I can't remember the year but he said he bought it when he was 19 or 20. He would have been my grandfather's age and grand dad was born in 1897. So 1917/18/19 maybe. Had that same great big headlamp, acetylene powered I believe. Had tires of white rubber, the drive belt was made of loops of riveted leather. When I was in my early teens he was in his mid 70's. A couple times a year he would pull it out of his shed, get it going. He would then put on a leather jacket, leather helmet, old eisenglass goggles, cavalry style knee high boots, and a pair of those balloon looking riding pants, and go for a spin. Quite a sight. He was about 6'4" and about 160 lbs. HIs missus never accompainied him though. His break neck travels at 45 MPH were more than she could stand. she prefered the more dignified transit in their 41 Pontiac.