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Make sure you have the right gasket kit before you start assembly. I've had ones where everything fit until I got to the valve cover. (I had the '59 Ford kit but my '59 Edsel had the Mercury head.)

That's mighty purty,...and way outta my price range. Maybe the top mechanism might have a worn/loose hinge though. Seems like it should lie flatter above the side windows.

My serial number on the '47 is on outer face of the driver's side frame rail, (hidden by the left rear tire,) just behind the rear axle. It matches my title, but not my engine. Never had the original engine for this car.

Oh yeah! But then I build computers for fun. YMMV

I'd check all the coils with a good quality ohm meter & see if they're ok. If the ohm reading is lower than stock, (or zero!) they're burnt (shorted within the coil). If burnt they can read higher than stock as well. No, I don't know, offhand, the correct figures. I'd have to look them up somewhere.

Mine's supposed to be a '47 Special Deluxe. It's easy for me because the dash is sitting on a bench.

Actually, no they don't. The stock speaker is 7" and it's offset toward the top of the dash, so the bolt pattern on the basket isn't symmetrical. They did exactly what I did. They put in a 6" speaker with an adaptor (of steel instead of masonite.) That's not to say the have a bad speaker. It looks quite adequate. The thing to consider if you substitute a speaker is that it should be 8 ohm impedance and should have adequate power handling. Most any good quality speaker of 6" or 7" will be adequate, as the power handling has generally improved over the years. If the power handling is adequate, you can put two 4 ohm speakers in series, and that makes the impedance 8 ohms. Many other combinations are possible. Using less than 8 ohms will let the amplifier overheat. Using a bit more, like a 10 ohm is OK, & will run cooler, but the radio may sound slightly less powerful at full volume. But 8 ohms is the most common by far & you can find all types in that spec.

..and the mechanic as well.

BTW, speaker selection has nothing to do with the car being 6v or 12 v or pos ground. The speaker won't know any of that. The radio will care a lot though... A stock speaker is an odd shape witn an asymmetrical screw pattern. I traced the pattern on masonite, painted the face black & cut a hole for this 6", 8 ohm speaker from RadioShack. I screwed the speaker to the masonite and screwed the masonite behind the dash. If this looks a bit worse for wear, it's been in there for 30 years.

My filthy, 1972 model, 30 gal, one-lung, long stroke, cast iron Quincy compressor, bought new but as surplus from the Kawneer Co, about 1983. These were sold to open hotel doors etc & designed to run 24/7/365. It's never overheated or anything & I've run it continuously for hours on end. I've used this for over 30 years now. Only 1/2 HP and does maybe 4cfm @ 90psi, but works on 110 or 220 with minor re-wiring. This will not run a DA sander for very long before it must re-charge, yet I sanded & painted a truck and a boat with it, plus a million other chores. Air cleaner came from a Kawasaki 1500.

Make sure your oil pump is primed. On a car where it's internal, you can't prime it once the pan is on. Except, you can put about 12 quarts in the pan until the pump is totally covered, crank the engine slowly, then drain the excess oil once it's primed. Messy but it works. On the Mopar flat 6 or any external pump engine, you can do it later, but it's a pain to do after the fact. Prime it at installation.

It's here. http://p15-d24.com/topic/22985-im-back/ I just looked at your profile & clicked "find content", then went down the list a way.

Photos of various tools when I was modding my boat. That Jorgensen c-clamp is a classic. Old & beat to hell, but still better than a new Craftsman clamp. Also my DA sander. Hey, Don, there's those plastic sawhorses again...

Ok, the juice through the points does NOT go to the plugs. It goes to the primary winding of the coil. Current from the secondary winding of the coil goes to the plugs, after going through the rotor and cap. That secondary current doesn't flow with the points closed. They must close then open to cause it. When they open, the current in the primary winding stops, and a change in the magnetic field causes current to flow in the secondary winding by induction. The condenser makes it happen faster and stronger. If you take off the cap, touch the center coil wire from the coil near to the head, and with the key on, open & close the points by hand with a little wood or plastic stick, a good spark should jump from the coil wire to the head. If not, the coil, coil wire or primary wire to the distributor is probably bad, or the condenser might be bad. Also the little wire from the points to the distributor advance plate might be bad. Also the coil may be ungrounded.

Hey that little Roboplow is pretty impressive. It just needs a big saltshaker on the tail end...

I have not liked most of the Plymouths I've seen with the Olds-type fascia treatment, but this one looks pretty good to me, Even the VW teeth work well. I plan to build some similar flush skirts for my '47, but I'm going to re-shape the wheel openings. I don't think skirts look as good with that little tail on the back. That chop looks like a lot of work on a 4 door. The extra tumblehome means a lot of re-shaping.

I agree, but for a different reason. Here, people drive faster in the rain than when it's dry. Perhaps they're celebrating the rain, or they fear their cars will melt or something. I don't understand it. Anyhow there were several bad wrecks and rollovers this AM. I took driver's ed in Minnesota in the winter. We learned to slow down in bad weather. Before driver's ed I learned to file keys, and I used to steal Mom's 390 Merc, and go blast it through snowdrifts and do donuts on the ice. Every training driver should spend 5 minutes driving on ice IMO. Their level of respect would be much higher. Waaaaaay OT we are now guys...

Mine (803) too was round but with a flat spot at the top of the basket to fit the instrument panel. don't recall the size. I'll post a pic of my speaker later.

Which is the one place you'll really need one. We took a lot of Scout trips into the old ghost towns of Arizona & our water was carried in plastic Chlorox jugs. You pour a jug into the bag, hang it on the front bumper, drive in 100 deg heat at moderate speeds for a few miles, and the evaporation makes the water quite cold.

Don I've had a pair of the same plastic sawhorses for 12 years & they're OK for small stuff (I re-stained all our doors & painted fence boards) but I wish I'd bought steel horses instead. Not a prob now that I have a torch. geeze, what I need is a steel building. It's really raining today & my stuff is all outside under tarps.

I have 3 titanium implant teeth & will want a 4th when I cough up another $3k+. our insurance only pays a token of it. My guy used a different little torque wrench. It was stainless & a "click-stop" type with micrometer adjustment. The style was more like a tiny Snap-On. Each of the 3 were different situations, two required bone grafts & and the installation of one required a "sinus lift". After drilling out my upper jaw almost through (in the general direction of the brain) he smacked a 1/8" drift with a 12 oz ball-pien hammer to crack a thin layer of bone up into the sinus cavity. Well it was supposed to be thin. After ringing my skull without fracture he decided to drill deeper (you don't want to drill past the bone into the tissue, just form a pocket between the two) The deeper hole was still not quite, but after nearly giving me a concussion, it finally cracked. He told me i had about the hardest skull he'd ever encountered. My mom always said the same thing... I'm quite thankful for that fact, having had the need more than once.

Wow!.....and all these years I've been using a torch to make cables. I have 4 various electric soldering irons, but never considered this method. Any cable over a 2ga, I would have to use the BernzOmatic.

This is the real reward of our old car hobby. It's not about us restoring and polishing up the metal to show off for ourselves so much as it is about putting a shine on the dreams of others. Congratulations Trampsteer. we don't get to make wishes come true every day like that.

:)

I'm at the building a bigger trailer so I can get the frame to the sandblasters, stage. Also I'm holding out to get a TIG before I start welding the body. The one I want is only a couple grand, but somehow other things seem to gobble up my spare cash recently.