Captain Neon

New pump installed yesterday. Old pump was stalling at idle and not restarting. Car works great now. MMO good, or MMO bad? I probably just had a bad fuel pump. I was wondering if anyone else ever had issues using MMO. I'll go back to using MMO the next time I fuel up.

In a prior attempt to eliminate the "vapour locking," I disconnected the lines from my old pump, and wrapped the threads with Teflon tape before tightening them back up. The "vapour lock" persisted after this. I ordered a new fuel pump after that. The problem was corrected after replacing the fuel pump with new Teflon tape applied to the fitting threads. I've only ever read that Marvel Mystery Oil added to fuel would lubricate a fuel pump and help prevent what occurred. Any detractors to using Marvel Mystery Oil stated that it did nothing and was just a waste of money. I thought I was doing a good thing adding the Marvel Mystery Oil to my fuel. Maybe I wasn't?

I replaced a fuel pump on my 1946 Plymouth more door this weekend. It had "vapour lock." Car would stall while idling and not restart. It runs great now. The ethanol-resistant pump that came off was installed new just 4 years ago. Thinking I was being proactive, I regularly dosed my gasolene with Marvel Mystery Oil at the prescribed 1 oz./2.5 gallons petrol. Did I just have a bad pump or does Marvel Mystery Oil do bad things to fuel pumps?

I was never in the US military. My uncle, however, is a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. While my uncle served in Vietnam, my father displayed the Marine Corps logo on his car. I have a flagpole in my front yard. I routinely change out my flags for special occasions. I regularly fly an Irish flag bearing my family crest on my wedding anniversary and my parents' wedding anniversary. I have been wanting to display a Marine Corps flag on this flagpole on the Marine Corps birthday (November 10th) and my uncle's birthday (April 22nd). I have been hesitant to do this as I was never a Marine, and am hesitant to offend any of my neighbours that may have served. My uncle lives 700 miles away and will likely never see this tribute to him. I would welcome the opinions of the Marines on this forum.

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Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place? I don't see anything like that on Langdon's website.

So where does one pick up a phenolic spacer for a 23" L6?

More like #1; the one on top.

Are you saying that after all the effort of getting the clutch rod back into the fork pocket last night that you are recommending that I remove it to attempt to get the clutch fork to engage the throw out bearing?

I'd be very interested in seeing what it might look like through the port the clutch fork accesses the transmission. Is it easier if the coil spring is disconnected? I'm nervous about that as that is how the clutch rod came out of the pocket. No idea how it was so easy to unintentionally disconnect, but then so very difficult to get back in and in the process disengage clutch fork from throw out bearing.

1946 Plymouth Deluxe 4DSD equipped with stock L6 and 3 spd. transmission. I sort'a thought due to the nature of the forum that that was a given unless otherwise mentioned. My mistake.

In the process of repairing my clutch pedal linkage, I managed to disengage my clutch fork from the throw out bearing. It was already too late, and quite frustrated with myself, to try and get it back together. I'm lying on my back with arms and hands that seem more like they belong on a Sasquatch while trying to do this. My comfort zone resides around oil and wheel changes, and battery and spark plug swaps. What tips might someone experienced in this operation have to provide? Pictures would be a real bonus! Thank you.

I took the wife and my boys out for lunch on Monday in celebration of my wife remaining married to me for 18 years. An obviously blind cripple driving a Buick Enclave pulled out in front of us not even stopping before making a rt. turn on red. Had I not installed front disc brakes and been running radials, I know that I would have hit him HARD. It was that close! I mean, I guess I can just keep my car in the garage and only drive it in my driveway. I get the impression that that is what a lot people do with their antique cars. The majourity of the incompetent drivers out there have no concept of what is safe. They get away doing stuff where Honda Civics can give them the space they want. I don't modify my car to go fast. I have made them to keep my car safe from the incompetent that tailgate, swerve into a space just barely big enough for their car to fit, and idiots that pull out with less than two car lengths space. They don't care about their own vehicles and they care even less about mine.

I made the mistake of ordering a sweet tea in Chattanooga. More like tea stained syrup! I always order non-sweet now, and add my own sugar.

What is "pure straight gas"? I've never heard of such a thing. Gasoline has always been a mixture of various organic compounds. Please define "pure straight gas." Is it 100% heptane? Who carries it? Do you mean ethanol-free gasoline? If you do, why not just call it ethanol-free?