knuckleharley

You could also buy on of that hand-held digital heat guns to check the accuracy of your gauge. I bought one from amazon a couple of years ago,and think I paid around 18 bucks for it.

You have GOT to get yersef a leopard skin jump suit,high heel boots,preferably with goldfish swimming in the clear plastic heels,and a leapord-skin fedora with a wide brim and a peacock feather in it.

It's all about priorities,and in the end,cars are just cars. Hope she doesn't need surgery and returns home soon.

You can also buy it at any auto parts store.

I have never understood how anyone could NOT drive a old car that was capable of being driven while gathering the parts and money to redo it cosmetically. I have a other brand 51 business coupe that I drive all over the place,and it actually looks worse now than when I bought it because it is 3 or 4 different colors now,from where I sanded surface rust to the bare metal and then used primer and rattle can paint to keep it from rusting again until I take it apart for bodywork and paint. I know I will like looking at and sitting inside the car once it is finished,but it won't be any more fun to drive than it is right now. Maybe even not as much because now I don't have to worry about flying gravel or parking lot dings.

I hope if you are replacing rubber fuel lines that you are using new rubber fuel lines built specifically to handle ethanol? If not,you will be sorry because ethanol will eat regular rubber fuel lines like acid. If you are replacing any hard fuel lines because you suspect they might have rust causing a restriction inside,or they might have pin holes sucking air,do yourself a favor and use the new nickel/copper fuel lines. You can bend them by hand without them kinking,and they will never rust inside or out.

Did you ever try to explain this to the engineers that designed all the cars made before 12 volt systems became universal?

You do seem to have your ducks all lined up in a row.

There is no doubt the oils are better,but so are the ignition,induction,and exhaust systems. Modern engines mostly have overhead cams,aluminum blocks to dissipate heat,and computer-controlled everything. When you add that all together,especially the computer controlled fuel,timing,and exhaust,it really makes a difference. Seems to be the only "weak" link in modern engines is the timing belt. If you can call replacing a timing belt ever 80k or so miles a weakness. I have friends with commercial garages,and replacing timing belts seems to be a large part of their business. It's not unusual to see cars in for repair at their shops that have over 300k miles on them,and still going strong mechanically. I also suspect they are balanced better than SOME of the old engines,although flathead Ford V-8's seemed to be balanced about as close as it is possible to balance one.

Sure. They get so hot they turn colors and get stiff. When they do that they are resistant to passing current. I call that crystallizing. If that's not the right word,I apologize.

Yes,you need both cables to be that size,or even bigger. If you have trouble finding cables long enough,you can usually get them made at a tractor dealer for a reasonable price. 6v systems draw a lot of amps,and lots of amps heat up small battery cables and crystallizes them,which limits the amount of amps they will pass.

How "fresh" is the gas? If it has been in the tank more than a few months,I would drain it and replace it with fresh gas. The second thing I would do would be to check fuel pump pressure. If the fuel pump pressure test shows it to be working correctly,I would then soak,clean,and rebuild the carb.

I'm good until someone recommends Quaker State. That's when I lose my cool.

That's been my experience.

Thanks! This looks like the right guy. http://www.moparpro.com/

Mikey who?

How much positive camber is necessary for old cars with radial tires?

Yup. I can't imagine not driving a car until it is finished. Have my 51 Victoria in a friends professional resto shop now to fix the roof. The roof is the only part of the paint that was redone. Probably because it was black and the paint got thin from the sun. The idiot used paint remover and then painted the roof without washing and scrubbing it,or even priming it. The paint remover also cracked and destroyed some of the old caulking around the roof seam/rain gutters,and as a result rain water got in the cracks and had no place to go. My friend has already removed all the old caulking so I can see how bad it was,and is supposed to be soda blasting ,cutting out the rust,welding new steel in place,and painting it this week. Hopefully,he will use primer. Damn shame because the rest of the car only has surface rust in a few places,but if your top has holes in it they MUST be fixed to keep water out of the car. If you don't fix rust holes there,you are wasting your time doing anything else to the car. Since the roof was originally black,it is getting painted black again. Soon as I get it back from him,I will be driving it again. Next step will be getting the toor panels and headliner redone. Already had the seats reupholstered.

Too bad it's illegal to slap them upside the head a few times to knock some sense into them.

I would try Tanks,Inc. They have a web site,and they seem to sell more new repo tanks than anyone. I have two of their tanks in cars I own. BTW,if you go to their website and don't see one listed,send them a email to ask. Getting emails from people looking for repo tanks is what tells them there is a market out there for that particular tank.

Only for a short while. Male customers weren't too fond of telling people they have a floppy disc,and the female customers were making rude comments and laughing hysterically.

Yeah,hammer was the key word here,and you are welcome. BTW,I have both the hammer and the anvil,and they are very nice.

https://www.eastwood.com/trim-hammer.html Here is one of them. Do a search there using "trim hammer" as the keywords. Here is a handly little trim anvil. https://www.eastwood.com/ew-trim-anvil-with-stand.html

Check out the Eastwood catalogue online for special little hammers you can use for knocking dings out of stainless trim. Very handy things to have. They have other stuff,too.

Here is a very helpful little tech tip for you. NEVER let your mother learn you said that. Females do not seem to have a sense of humor about that sort of thing.