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Servicing Chrysler steering article from Motor Age Magazine December 1947 View File Article on servicing Chrysler steering from Motor Age magazine December 1947. Submitter JonathanC Submitted 08/02/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

Servicing Chrysler Distributors article from Motor Age magazine May 1948 View File Instructions for servicing Chrysler distributors from Motor Age magazine May 1948 issue Submitter JonathanC Submitted 08/02/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

Chrysler C-38 and C-39 wiring diagram from Motor Age magazine View File Wiring diagram for C-38 and C-39 Chryslers (1946-first series 1949) from Motor Age magazine Submitter JonathanC Submitted 08/02/2022 Category Reference Information  

Auto-Lite Voltage Regulator Adjustment instructions from Motor Age May 1949 View File Instructions on how to adjust Auto-Lite voltage regulators from the May 1949 issue of Motor Age magazine. Submitter JonathanC Submitted 08/02/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

1942 Chrysler Brake Adjustment Instructions from Motor Age Dec. 1948 View File B&W scans of December 1948 article in Motor Age magazine re: adjustment of Chrysler brakes (1942) Submitter JonathanC Submitted 08/02/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

1941 Chrysler windshield service (removal/replacement) instructions with illustrations from Motor Age View File From Motor Age 1899-2014 : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive Submitter JonathanC Submitted 07/09/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

1941 US Car specifications and tune-up information from Motor Age View File Various articles on 1941 model year cars for reference by mechanics found at Motor Age 1899-2014 : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive Submitter JonathanC Submitted 07/09/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

Various 1941-42 Chrysler service articles from Motor Age on Fluid Drive and M-4 Vacamatic/Simplimatic Transmission View File The Internet Archive (www.archive.org) has most of Motor Age up until the early 1960s in a collection which you can access and search located at Motor Age 1899-2014 : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive Submitter JonathanC Submitted 07/09/2022 Category Instructions, Manuals & Templates  

If you're in Renfrew you might get to see it in person. I live in Nepean. I noticed there's a cruise night at Odi's King Burger in the summer. I remember stopping there to eat on the way up to a camping trip near Algonquin Park about 25 years ago, and I've been meaning to get back there.

Thanks. I wasn't "sold" on the visor at first. It came with the car and my initial thought was to go more "Plain Jane", in fact I thought I would look for a 4-door. But it's growing on me. I might want a traffic light viewer, though.

My car finally made it onto the road yesterday. Due to its long layup and the need to get a new windshield made to get an Ontario safety inspection (required when a car is registered to a new owner), it took a few weeks. The car is in its new home just in time for its 81st birthday on Friday (how do I know that? Read on!). My first outing in it after buying it over the winter was 15 km of city traffic through a downpour to get home from the shop (on the plus side, I know I can count on the wipers). Driving it, though, was an experience that did not disappoint. It felt like piloting something substantial, and the car goes down the road very nicely. From my limited experience driving older cars my expectation of braking is about right. The steering takes some effort at low speed, but not too bad (it's got Coker 6.00-16 radials on it). My granddaughters are amazed at the idea of turning a crank to lower windows, and at what ashtrays might be for (in a car, or even in general...how times change). There are a couple of kinks that probably need a bit of working out: 1. The Vacamatic transmission seems to shift about like it should (although there's no real audible indication of the shift happening, on some I've heard a click which I've been told is more "ideal" than a thump), but the Fluid drive seems a bit draggy and the engine stalled out or nearly did a couple of times when slowing down, which I didn't think it should do. I am wondering if the first thing I should do is check and consider changing out the fluid. I'm not at all sure when it might have been done before (people do take these things for granted nowadays). I have read James Douglas' post on Fluid Drive fluid (and saved it, and printed it), so my plan would be if the fluid seems incorrect to get the Mobil DTE Light circulating oil. Anyone else here have any tips about that? Is it possible that I'll need to have a flush done? Other things I thought about that might contribute is the idle being a bit too slow but I have read that there's a "sweet spot" you need to be in for the transmission shift to work. 2. The passenger door lock displays some odd behaviour. I can't seem to unlock it from the outside. I can open the door from the outside by putting the key in and giving it about 3/4 turn, but it won't turn all the way and let me withdraw it to leave it unlocked as the manual indicates it should. I have to turn it back to take the key out, and then the door is locked again (so the key is needed every time you want to open the door from outside). From inside it seems to work OK. From the manual and the way the driver's side door works, it seems I should be able to put the key in, give it a full turn, and the door will lock or unlock, depending on direction. What do you think? Should I just replace the locks, or have a lock guy look at them? I think it's not original (the pass. side lock does not use the ignition key), maybe the wrong lock was put in? Thanks for any advice you can offer. Also, during the winter I got the build card (Thank you, Danielle at Stellantis), which is how I know the car's birthday. It's interesting but I'm not sure how to interpret some of the data on it...anyone know of a good guide to this? According to it, I read the following: -Build date of June 24 would be very late in the model year. That jibes with having body number 10,065 out of a total production of 10,830 1941 Royal club coupes. -The car was shipped to Syracuse and doesn't seem to have strayed far from there in its life, before making it to an auction in Toronto with about 29,000 miles (it's now just under 34,000). Ruslerholtz & Rossell advertised themselves as the largest Chrysler dealer between New York City and Chicago. -It looks like the car was built with a clock (not standard on Royals) but without a radio. When it came out of a long slumber in 2013 and was acquired by the previous owner, it had a radio but no clock. Now it has both (neither functioning). There is an extra blank plate in the glove box. My intention is to dig around the dash and see what model of radio it is first; maybe it was a retrofit but it certainly looks like a Chrysler radio of that era. -I'm guessing that the "3" and the punched hole at Trans refers to the Vacamatic. Not sure what the 1 and hole at "Gear ratio" means. -Lack of a punched hole for "Cyl. Head." likely means that it has the standard head (112 horsepower) and not any higher or lower compression option Chrysler might have offered at the time. Lots of other interesting things with holes punched in them, too, but at different locations on the card.

It would be...Plymouths got branded with every other Chrysler name in export markets. This one may have been built in Canada (maybe exported as a knock-down for local assembly and trimming in NZ). As an Empire country Canada would have had preferential trade terms with New Zealand in those days.

Hi all, This will be my first year with an old car, something I see people often have in theirs is a fire extinguisher. Is that something experienced owner/drivers recommend? If so, is there a model out there that hits a "sweet spot" for mounting in an old car. I bought this car to drive and enjoy. In a few weeks it comes out of winter storage (this is the first week around here that the temperature has stayed above freezing and we have hope of seeing the last of the stubborn patches of ice on the front lawn and swimming pool cover), and I'm looking to buy the things I will want in the car for when it's safetied and on the road sometime in May. Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. Here are some pics:

In a few weeks my car (1941 Chrysler Royal) will come out of storage and be readied for the road. I expect it will be a good idea to change the oil filter as part of that. Reading up, I am told the prewar long-block sixes used a bypass oil filter, and the postwar ones used a full-flow filter. Trying to identify the right thing to order for my car, since it will likely have to be ordered from somewhere. Andy Bernbaum lists one filter element (https://www.oldmoparts.com/parts/l_engine/oil-filter/) for all Chrysler six and V-8 engines from 1933-57 (presumably bypass or full-flow)...is that correct? Otherwise doing a search here I've come across numerous different part numbers from Wix, NAPA, and other suppliers. (NAPA 1010 Gold, Wix 51070, 51080, etc) from people with different models/years. I'm confused...not sure if these are all equivalent or there may be different sizes depending on filter cannister. Engine of my car with oil filter cannister is in this pic...I suspect but have no way of knowing for sure if that's factory original, the car has 34,000 miles on it.

I believe that is normal and how it works inherently...Chrysler believed that this would be adequate for drivers and encouraged them to just leave it in high and drive in third and fourth most of the time. Less shifting was the point and the whole design philosophy of American cars at that time. TBH, second and third are fairly close together (on the M-5 second is 2.04:1 and third is 1.75:1, near where second would be on a three-speed) so there likely isn't a lot of gain for stepping through them (and requiring the time for another shift). My car (1941) came with this cardboard sleeve over the driver's side sun visor and similar advice was given in the Chrysler owner's manuals of the M-5/M-6 era...drive around in high and only use low for starting on a steep hill or something that required more oomph. I believe that one thing to be aware of on downhills is that 3rd (and 1st) has no engine braking capability because of the overrun clutch that was used to unload the transmission for the 1/2 or 3/4 shift (it seems to have worked kind of like the overdrives of that era, but as an "underdrive"), so if you want to have engine braking on a downhill you need to go down from 4th to 2nd (which should happen with a direct downshift from High to Low range at about 40-45 mph, but that is probably about as fast as you want to go in that ratio).

If you google "FCA Historical Services" you can get a link to a copy of the form from various Chrysler clubs. Here's one that comes right up on Google. It was a PDF that I electronically filled out by inserting typing on it. I just sent the request in for the record for my car by email (with a scan of my registration), a few days later I got an email from Danielle saying that it's in the queue and they expect to be sending a scan to me in the second quarter of this year (so April-June, I guess). Maybe they developed a backlog during the pandemic and they're getting the numbers down. Also note that no records are available for Canadian-built or post-1967 cars.

I'm going with lap belts - I'm not sure how you would anchor a shoulder belt either and it seems like at that point you might have to butcher the interior trim around the pillars. This car has its original interior (pinstriped broadcloth!) and I don't want to risk mucking it up.