austinsailor

I've never heard of that being a concern.

After watching it a few times, my best guess is his throttle stuck wide open. He was still hard on the gas as he came out of the ditch. What wasn't on the video, when he stopped in the middle of the road behind me, was he took off again full bore, spun around into the ditch pushing hard until he was buried. He forgot he had an ignition switch.

Merle, the next 50 miles to St. Louis I watched that fence real close. There were at least another dozen places where someone had obviously gone through or over it that had not yet been repaired. There were half that many that it looked like it had stopped someone. I, too, was quite surprised. When they put it up a few years ago they made a big deal that it would stop crossover accidents. I think they had a number of 95% or so, my observation says more like 30%. As you could see, it didn't even slow this guy down, much less stop him.

Merle, the next 50 miles to St. Louis I watched that fence real close. There were at least another dozen places where someone had obviously gone through or over it that had not yet been repaired. There were half that many that it looked like it had stopped someone. I, too, was quite surprised. When they put it up a few years ago they made a big deal that it would stop crossover accidents. I think they had a number of 95% or so, my observation says more like 30%. As you could see, it didn't even slow this guy down, much less stop him.

Merle, the next 50 miles to St. Louis I watched that fence real close. There were at least another dozen places where someone had obviously gone through or over it that had not yet been repaired. There were half that many that it looked like it had stopped someone. I, too, was quite surprised. When they put it up a few years ago they made a big deal that it would stop crossover accidents. I think they had a number of 95% or so, my observation says more like 30%.

I thought when I got home and blew up the video I would know, but he was already out of control when he came on view. Guy appeared to be in his 40's awake and alert, and still panicking after he first stopped.

Things can happen pretty quick! Was on the way to St. Louis to the chrome shop, when......

The oils marked "obsolete" on Don's chart still have zinc in the. They may be obsolete, but they are still made.

I haven't been to Uniqure in Jonesburg for a year, but when I was there Snake sat and talked about an hour. Problem was, he'd just become elegible for social security and was running the numbers time and again to see if he could quit. He was pretty sure he could get by. The first surprise was he wasn't elegible for social security yet. I was sure he was every bit of 75! I expect he's gone home to stay by now, I haven't had another clutch to get done lately. I'm hoping his replacement runs half as good a shop as he did. That last time I took a model A clutch, pressure plate and flywheel in. He resurfaced the flywheel, rebuilt the pressure plate, tossed in a new throwout bearing - and just gave me a new clutch, saying it takes too long to rebuild it and they'ed been busy. Charged me something like $70. It was worth the 70 mile drive! Gene

Isn't that just the coolest thing ever? Thanks for finding the video to go with this, TodFitch.

From what he described, it was much faster to do one - or 15, than to do one by hand. And a end up with a much cleaner gasket. I'll probably own one pretty quick - maybe tomorrow - and test it. Sounds almost too good to be true, but he's usually a pretty accurate guy, I think he knew what he was talking about. I didn't even know they made anything like that until about 2 hours ago.

I might have just found a new-to-me wonder tool today. My niece's husband recently got 2 40's Dodge pickups and is getting them on the road. He mentioned he'd rebuilt the carb and a few other things. I asked where he got the gaskets. He said he used his wife's Cricut machine, which is a computer driven thing, sort of like a printer, that cuts out about anything flat. He said he took a picture of the thing he needed a gasket for, sized it to measure the same as the real part, then just let it cut it out. You can cut all your gaskets, except metal head gaskets. What a deal - I never heard of them. I went straight to Hobby Lobby to look at them. For around $200 you can have a gasket cutter for about anything except headgaskets. What a deal!

page 2 of diff list, 1946 - 1954.

From my "MOPAR 1954 and prior year Passenger csr parts list" Apr 1, 1955, (1946 - 1954) this list of differential applications. If the resolution isn't good enough, message me and I'll email you a higher resolution version. One page on this post, second on next. Too big for both on one post.

Like forgetting to put the plug back in when changing the oil? Put 5 ate in, look down at the ground, seeing lots of oil in the dirt - and you have no more? 5 miles from town?

I used to talk to him all the time. I think he restored both the tractor and trailer, at leasat I thought it was the same tractor he bought there. It has been on the road. He just flat got with it putting it back in shape. He told of one trip to a show, on the way back he got stopped by a trooper. He had a license - well, maybe 20 across the front - like they did back in the day on long haul trucks. None were current, of course. Trooper questioned him a bit, come to find out the trooper was restoring an old truck himself. After looking it over, told David to have a good trip. That wouldn't be the luck I'd have! Heck, my last trip to Texas - the trip that I offered offered to haul something for you guys - I passed a new weigh station in Oklahoma. As I went by with this 40' empty trailer behind my pickup all sorts of lights started going off. I think those were all flashes taking pictures of me. Then neon signs started flasing saying things like "Pull In", "Must weigh". I kept rolling. Half figured I'd have a cop running me down. Didn't happen. Still might get something in the mail. In a dozen trips all over the country, some empty, some with a few vehicles on the trailer, never had anything like that happen.

I have a 48 Cabover, a project, I'll never get to if you're interested. Located in central mo. Go to austinsailor.net, scroll down and there are a couple pictures.

I'm in the heavy Dodge group, you're right, not much traffic. There's also justoldtrucks.com. Not just Dodges, but probably more there about them. http://forums.justoldtrucks.com/Default.aspx

It doesn't sound like it's been disassembled, just adjusted from the outside. If the worm and sector are not worn badly, it could be as simple as adjusting by adding or removing shims, or replacing worn or damaged bearings. All but the worm and sector are easily found. Figure out exactly where the play is, go from there. These are not hard to work on.

No offence intended - that is what I saw in the chatroom and I heard no complaints, so assumed it was a nickname. Didn't know it was something offensive. I'll be good from now on!

I knew he would come to his senses! It'll make a great wagon, glad to hear it'll stay MOPAR.

He did say it, Tim, I was there. Maybe he's recovered his better senses now!

Yep, my brother and I would save up change from where ever we could get it, always watching to see when we could buy another steel trap for our trap line. Western Auto always had a good selection. Times were simpler then.

Here's what is on Wikipedia: "Western Auto Supply Company—known more widely as Western Auto—was a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories. It operated approximately 1200 stores across the United States.[1] It was started in 1909 in Kansas City, Missouri, by George Pepperdine, who later founded Pepperdine University.[2] Western Auto was bought by Beneficial Corporation in 1961; Western Auto's management led a leveraged buyout in 1985, leading three years later to a sale to Sears. Sears sold most of the company to Advance Auto Parts in 1998, and by 2003, the resulting merger had led to the end of the Western Auto brand and its product distribution network." Pretty sad, it was a good store.

No fluid drive, 4 speed.