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  1. busycoupe
    When I was a little tyke my Father had a 53 Plymouth. I remember that he took the interior door handles off of the back doors and covered the holes in the door cards with snap in chrome buttons. I always told myself it was so that my brother who was 2 years younger than I wouldn't fall out. It was probably to keep us both in.
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    Dodge has studs on the drums. Plymouth has bolts.
  3. busycoupe
    I'm in the Masons and Hiram is a nick name for a fellow brother, so I sometimes call my coupe Hiram.
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    I had a cracked manifold that sounded like that. When the engine warmed up the manifold expanded and sealed itself. The break was on the ear at the front of the manifold. I took it off and had it welded.
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    It was 55 degrees in Massachusetts on Thurs. and my wife and I got the old Dodge out of the garage for the first time since New Years day. Our local dary opened for the season this week so we took a ride to get lunch. A great way to star the 2024 old car season!
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    It was in the upper thirties today in Massachusetts. Sunny, dry roads, no snow or salt. My wife and I took the Dodge for a mid winter ride. The ground is entirely bare as it has been in the 50's since before Christmas, but still I wanted to have some snow i my photo. The only snow we could afind was on the "bunny slope" at the Wachusett mountain ski area. The car ran great and we put 35 miles on it in mid winter.
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    As far as I know, five window plymouth coupe door will no fit onto a Dodge3 window coupe.
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    I think that the photo may hve been from my post. I used one of those kits to fix the passenger door on my car. It worked great and is still functioning well. The kit can be flipped to the other side, but like itsays on the box the right front kit will work on the left rear... left front to right rear.
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    For years I averaged around 1500 mi/yr but when I got the car inspected this last April it had only gone about 500 mi since last year. It is only 5 mi to the ice cream stand and with diabetes I don't eat as much ice cream as I used too.
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    Ditto to what others have said, but if it is third gear it should go much faster than 40 mph. It's sluggihness could be because something is out of adjustment and youdo not really have it in third, or it may need fresh gas and a tune-up after sitting for years.
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    I got seat belts from Juliano's. They have different colors to coordinate with your interior and they sell backing plates to go under the floor for anchoring points. I don't remember the length I bought, but my advise is to get the long ones.
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    I noticed the same thing that Andyd did. I don't think it could be assembled backwards. However, if you loosened the bolts holding the top frame to the sides of the radiator mount I wonder if there is enough "slop" to allow you to straighten up the top frame. On the picture I posted you can see that the hole in the radiator mount is slotted.
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    It is located by the front nose piece and the positon of yhe center strip.
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    I couldn't get a good angle for a picture, but on my 48 Dodge the e-brake cable leaves the firewall, curves down through a clamp attached to the steering column, continues to curve down and passes over the transmission cross-over between the transmission mount and the transmission. I have no idea if that is the factory routing, but it seems to work. I've had the car 15 years and it has always been that way.
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    I could open it on my ipad. He has a HF meter set to dc voltage and it reads 1888. The image does not show how the leads are plugged in.
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    Casco was an aftermarket parts company. I think it stands for Connecticut Auto Supply Company. The visor on my Dodge coupe is by CASCO.
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    I was thinking of taking mine apart to polish and straighten it, but it is spot welded together. Also the mounting tabson the back are not stainless and will rust. I picked up a spare that was strighter than the one I had but couldn' t use it because the mounting tabs were rusted off.
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    12 years ago I had the front bumper of my Dodge plated. When I got i back I decided to paint the backkside of the bumper with Por 15. No problem since then.
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    you will probably get an answer if you posted this on the truck section of the forum.
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    If you look at his first picture you can see he does not have a radio, but has two toggle switches in the radio knob positions.
  21. busycoupe
    I'm 70 and haven't rebuilt an engine yet. Lots of other stuff,,, manifolds, rebuilt carburettors, engine mounts, cooling system,electrical, etc. but I have not dove into engine internals yet. Never say never, but right now my engine is running fine.
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    Merry Christmas to everyone. My wife and I and our son and his family are all waiting for Santa and baking cookies. We had some freezing rain and a dusting of snow last night and the DPW dumped many truck loads of salt on the roads. My Dodge is in hibernation until spring. Dave B.
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    In the fall my wife and I took a leaf peeping ride around the local ski mountain. Coming around the backside of the we came down a rather steep half mile long twisty slope. Near the bottom there were a bunch of cars parked near a rail head. After riding the brakes down the hill it was all I could do to stop before hitting them ... standing on the brake pedal, downshifting, usung the parking brake. We stopped in time, but it was un-nerving. I am going to inspect the brakes before spring, but I think it was just brake fade.
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    I used a ZoomSpout oiler to put oil into the little tube on the back of the speedometer. That was 10 yeard ago, the needle is bouncing again slightly. Time to crawl ubder the dash again.
  25. busycoupe
    A great lobster roll!
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