Don St Peter

Car now titled and tagged in California. Tom ( the buyer) is finally driving his new purchase as We speak. End of story!

Update on my seized 1940 P-9. Luckily a friend of a friend personally knew the Wichita Kansas Police Chief. Once He got my written summary of events, He notified me that same day a detective had been assigned to the case on a priority basis. The buyer of the car, who the California HP had seized it from, notified him the very next day that the car was available to be picked up. Two full weeks of exactly no movement on the matter, including a lawyer I employed. Moral of this story..... do not ever ever burn any friendship bridges. Relieved in Fl.

Thanks for sharing your depressing experience. Well, the P-9 has been seized by the Ca. Highway Patrol pending an investigation by the Wichita Ks. police department, which is the place it was reported stolen back sometime prior to my purchase in July 2000 with a clear title issue to me prior to my 20 year restoration project. Guess We will see where this goes. Tx again

I am a POC member and I I have owned my P9 since 1999 and restored it to original condition over the years with the help of many POC members. The car was clear titled to me when purchased in 1999 in Kansas, and title reissued to my Trust when I moved to Florida in 2003. I recently sold the car to another POC member who lives in California. SUPRISE.... in trying to title the car in California the buyer was informed the title search revealed the car was reported as stolen many many years back. The story thickens however I will try to keep a long story short. I think I need to convince the police department that the body number on the fire proof plate on the engine side of the firewall, is the body number assigned by Chrysler. The body number is 2135042 and according to the build records I obtained when I started the restoration back in year 2000, matches the original engine number P9-345874. The police department reports that the body number is on the right front body hinge post and is 9079622. This is the number they used to do their search and ultimately used to determine it to be stolen. Currently, the Title shows the engine number P9-345874 as the VIN number. How/why this happened I have no idea. Can someone please help us ( buyer and I ) out in unravelling this mess?

I am trying to adjust the shifting linkage to get into reverse, which I know is there somewhere. Can someone direct me to the details of how the adjustments are made? The service manual does not address the issue. Thanks in advance for any help

Guess I sent something unfinished! I'll try again Thanks for reply. My P-9 is positive gnd. I've attached a pic of the meter I was using and it shot craps. Now I'm in market for new reasonably priced meter that will work for me. As I can only find a 12 V out there, I would probably go with a two lead tune-up analyzer that would read out volts, PT resistance, dwell and tach like the one I have unless you have a better thought.

I cannot find a 6 V Tach/Dwell/Volt analyzer, sooooo Based upon the discussion above regarding use of a 12 V timing light on 6 volt system; I assume I could use a 12 V Tach Dwell Volt analyzer on my 6 Volt system using a similar lash up using a 12 volt battery. Question is what would the hookup look like. I can't figure it out. Thanks in advance for help Don

Sorry I got it wrong Todd. I follow both yours and Tim Adam's post regularily as I have found both great sources of info! Don

Thanks Tim. Just realized I have the " Plymouth Shop Manual" for 40 series and not " Service Manual" which I shall order. So, is it a dumb question to assume that at idle my RPM's should be indicating 1/2 of 350 or about 175? Don

Thanks for hook up clarification. As you can tell I'm a novice at this, but will eventually learn. So could I purchase a battery powered timing light and use it? Also, I can't seem to find the recommended idle RPM's on my 40 Ply P-9 in the service manual. Can anyone tell me what idle RPM should be so timing will be right when correct procedure is done? Also, I want to determine dwell angle with my RPM, Dwell, Voltmeter but can't find what dwell should be with points set properly ( which is .020 for my 40). Thanks all Don

So Don; you are saying just buy a 12 V timing light and hook it up across my 6 v car battery and clamp the sensor to # 1 plug wire and proceed? Tx Don

Does anyone know where I can get one? I know Advance Autos sources does not make one Tx Don

Merle Thanks for the translation on the picture. I guess I am just confused when I see the black lead of tester hooked to + connection of the coil. Tx again Don

Thanks Rich and Merle. Got that part, but I still seem to have a mental block translating what you say to the ignition system voltage drop test as shown on the schematic I attached. For example, if I hook the red lead of tester to the pos. post of batt (gnd.)., then do I hook the blk lead of tester to the coil neg. and jumper the pos. of coil to ground or do I hook the blk. lead of tester to coil pos. and jumper the Neg. of coil to ground? Sorry for adding to confusion. Don

I have attached a file ( hopefully) showing tester hookup for checking ignition system for neg ground system. Can someone take a look at it and tell me how to hookup a pos ground system like my 40 Ply. Thanks In AdvanceScan0001.pdf