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It's looking awesome! Love the seat covers.

Nice work. Triangulated four link with coil overs? I'm assuming that is just a bar in place of the coil overs for now.

Wow, that fixed that up!

I like your door panel and seat, any pics.

Awesome car! Saw a feature on it in Traditional rod & kulture magazine. If I remember right I think it was on the cover

I'll see if I can find a picture tonight but on mine I undid the clamp at the bottom of the column and slid the tube up slightly to tighten the gap.

Sportsman club now offering " drive thru service"

Party till she's cute?

The lug with no wire on it on the motor I believe is a mount. The wire on the switch not going anywhere goes to the ignition for power.

Andy that engine is cool, but what's going on with the water pump? I've never seen one like that.

Wow! looking good, must be working night and day on it!

Does it look like this? if so here's the wiring diagram out of my shop manual.

My Canadian 40 Plymouth has electric wipers. I'm not sure if they're the same but I have the unit out right now and will take a picture it may help with the wiring.

I'm calling this weekend a success! My efforts to get the 40 timed better using a timing light and vacuum gauge worked, thanks to everyone's helpful advice on my "crank pulley markings" thread. Took the 40 for another drive today and it was a totally different car. This video is taken on the highway and is a little longer because that's how long it takes to get into 5th! It has better power to haul itself around in 5th now and I was doing 115 kmh/70 mph by the end of the video.

Thanks Greg, there could be some leaks I'll try that method out.

Very cool pics!

Oh this is a little embarrassing for me, fess up time! Stock cam, untouched motor and I'm carrying 2 spare carbs. They're Holley 94's and I couldn't get it to run well on all three so I blocked off the outside two. Maybe some day.

Thanks, It looks to me like an all metal pulley.

I don't think that there is rubber on this crank pulley. I also can't get the same vacuum as the service manual says but maybe that's due to my homemade intake or a worn out motor. It starts really easily. Here's a video of the vacuum gauge.

I think I have this fixed also, by undoing the clamp at the bottom of the dizzy and rotating it around a bit. Seems the flathead will run under any conditions (fuel and spark once in a while when ever)

Thanks that's what needed.Now how come with my timing light on it's flashing 1-1/2" away from any marks?

Does anybody have a picture of the degree markings on a 40 Plymouth crank pulley. It's raining here today and I thought I would spend the day and do a proper tune up on the 40, new plugs,points adjust the timing etc however I can see marks on the pulley but can't read them. I have spun the motor over to approximately TDC using a rod through the plug hole above #6 but the pointer is pointing to the start of the markings in that position. Is the pulley marked before and after TDC?

Awesome job. I've tried engraving with a dremel before it's very tough to do, you nailed it!

Thanks guys for the kinds word and encouragement! Yup I never got into 5th, but I have on the highway and the slightest rise has you shifting down. For the most part the gears are good 1st is easy off the line and 4th is a nice cruiser but I'll keep my eyes out for either a better ratio crown and pinion or whole rear axle. The 40 is definitely a "prototype" but it's close and will get better. I think of it as we're in the getting to know each other phase. My kids laugh at me every time I get the door key mixed up with the ignition key. It's been 20 plus years since I put my 51 Chevy pickup on the road and although I can't remember I'm sure it was less then perfect back then. Either that or my 20 year old self was so excited about having the truck running that the idiosyncrasies of it didn't bother as much as they do my 40 year old self. I'm super happy about the floor shift, it feels right and shifts easily. Yes David I still need a mirror I'll be in touch, thanks. Ed

Got the 40 out for another run this weekend. Drove the 50 km to take the family to the annual Maple Bay wooden boat show (pics in the off topic section) and the car drove well. On our first road test last weekend the temperature gauge registered between high and middle high the whole time , but when I would stop to check everything over the engine, hoses etc. didn't seem hot. Whatever was the cause of that it seems to have corrected itself the car ran normal temp all day. Oil pressure was good too even at idle. The smoking that the engine did when I first started driving the 40 has now stopped. (I checked there's still oil in the pan ) Overall I'm quite pleased with how the car runs and rides. I may have built a Bonneville salt flat special though! With the 308 rear gear ratio I don't have much use for the 5th gear I gained with the T5 swap. I'm not real good at math and have learnt never to do math in public but I think in 5th with a bit of a down hill run I could make 190 kmh if I wasn't afraid. It's also definitely stiffer riding due to the lowering but not nearly as bad as I imagined it would be although I still have to watch for bad chuck holes. Here' a video of the last cruise. If you can hear the engine pinging don't worry I had lowered the jet size to cure what I thought was causing the extra smoke, I have since gone back up on the jets and the pinging is gone.