Plymouthy Adams

I was sitting on the walk board, feeling the drop in temp, knew rain was coming....figured I was pushing my luck but continued to the front was completed. Covered it up, jumped on the mower, was going to gut the easements and drainage are of the easement ahead of the rains. Got that cut and could see the rain just up the road....continued cutting...well, rain did not make it to my yard, all is cut, I am cleaned up and a pizza is in the oven. tomorrow is another day

well I have been piddling with this off and on and the Barista van is staged under my walk board and ladders for roof access. I am in the van with a coffee with the selfie. The job is going slow....this one has shot me a learning curve or two. But I will prevail over time and have some fresh paint on the roof. For a short armed person such as myself there is no way to reach the middle of the van roof standing on the ladder...the walk board does make it easier and more comfortable to work.

how 'bout them long roof B250 Dodge Barista-mobiles

today that commercial is You can pay me now and you can pay me again later as I did not diagnose the problem correctly the first time, nor the second and subsequent attempts these days.

.030 of stock or max dia. 11.060 Most all shops have this and will not turn beyond limit...even if on a golf cart.....

I personally only refer to the stock 6 blade fan offered by Ma Mopar...it is correct is all aspects.

the envelope at the very top right of this page...now if you on iPhone, I cannot say what it may display there or how to access....

I sent a PM and am not sure if you activate PM notices on your account.....it is still unread.

gentle reminder here....them tires are way past their expiration/safe use date......?

most all the cables even through the 2004 Mopar cables I have used in retrofitting is the same basic cable and retainer size albeit different shape will lock the cable to the handle or the distant end adjuster or to the very rear backing plate and spanner on those models with drum brakes. Modern units can be two piece/three piece cable and connecting collars used...various lengths exist....easy retrofitting with these setups and are so readily available at the wrecking yard as this is an item that is 99% of the time crushed with the car even after offered to be picked over to the general public. The 48 bz cpe with the 2004 rear axle using the donor 04 cable all the way to the stock hand brake handle....where it got a single mod of the 04's switch for e-brake light to let you know it is set via the light on the information panel.

like all things, inspections, maintenance and common sense go a long way....in the absence of this, the lobbyist will tell you what you need...? I just replaced a set that was many and I do mean many years old, no crack, no weather checking but at last they start to separate internally...did I know they were on the way out , heck yeah, anyone but a Shriner in a clown car would have known....! Even at that, there was no external check, cracks or splits anywhere.

I have never had a radial tire fail that did not warn you well in advance that they were compromised and about to go.....

check that your Sissons choke is working and that you are in fact SETTING it proper when starting....it is NOT automatic to the sense of the later chokes, you have to depress the pedal with starter engage as this is when and where it gets it power and then let up on the pedal for the choke to set....

that is a effective trick....I often use a length of tube.....allow you to flex a bit and still get the nut started easily....other times just a tad of tape and the socket/extension length as need. the tube is also an excellent method of starting spark plugs into hard to access areas.....you did good!!

Another tool to add to my traveling inventory...this scissors jack is out of a late model hearse and the pad had a hump in it making it less than friendly for generic use. Being a heavy made unit, it does not appear to have been used really, I did a bit of slice and dice, weld bead or two, popped a hole in the now flattened pad and inserted a trolley jack saddle. I removed the swages on the crank handle so I can use a 13/16 socket to run it up and drilled the crank handle for a clevis pin so it can still be used as stock. Initial cost for the jack was 4.00 and a few minutes of work, dab of paint and I feel I have a very useful item now. While you still got to be careful with a scissors jack, trust them a bit more than the standard bumper jack. This is likely to be kept in the 1990 B250 van. 63 turns for full rise with the saddle 5 inch lowered to 16 inch full rise height.

your friendly Plymouth (1946-54) factory service manual lists the standard plug to be gapped at .028 and if you running resistor plugs, gap these to .035

but really, a certain company makes a glue that is to bond to anything with what one might call a 'gorilla grip'....BUT...you open the package and their own label is falling off........?

that picture easily defines the big bang....

This guide line may help.... Tire Pressure Charts by Tire Size - TirePressure.com

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Sadly many look at that as out of sight out of mind and just cobble it and get down the road....it only take a few more minutes to make it look like you actually cared about what you were doing. This is just a tip of the corner cutting you see all too often. If this was done while along the road and limping home, whole other ball of wax....!

when I worked DoD Navy, Shop 67 electronics, our crimpers were calibrated and inspected on a rotating bases. If you had a pair checked out, you get a notice to surrender for inspection a few days before their cal date was due...they took wire crimping seriously...

hard to find uninsulated connectors...I buy the three common sizes red, blue and yellow and when using them, I pull the insulation off and solder 95% of the time...when I do crimp I use a high end lugging tool, not to be confused with that flat distortion tool in the kits, but a quality Klein or Stake-On brand, I also heat shrink...makes for a very solid connection and cleaner look but then that is just my opinion but the factories never used insulated lugs.

the crumple zone in my old cars is my wallet....

you will placing the body in stress IF you add rubber bushings to the firewall mounts...this is your alignment points...and while I think the boat rubber roller may be a bit hard for the body bushing, they should be easier to turn on a lathe for the proper centering protrusion so to prevent shifting. Do not forget to properly torque your body mounts.