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I guess back then we did what we needed to get by

Pulled from a good running 34 Ford, if only they bought a Dodge.

I'm with you brother I got my little travel out of the way when I was young. When I was 16 I hitch hiked from Seattle area to Las Vegas with a friend. I got a job and had my own apartment, had to have a room mate 18 years old to put the lease in their name. Then somehow got hooked up with a carnival and traveled the Midwestern states. By time I was 19 I was back in WA and tried to join up in the military .... Son, we do not allow your kind here! Been back to Vegas a few times when needed a job. I then ended up in Washington DC, I lived there for a few months working but hated it, went to New York and left as soon as I could. Ended up working on a Horse ranch in West Virginia. By the time I turned 22 was working a union job in Tacoma WA and got married. I drug my wife and family across the state when I got a manager position for a new shop. A few years later life happens and move to Albuquerque New Mexico because Bugs Bunny told me so. Then explode my back and back to WA for 2 years with inlaws. Wife says, "Lets move to Texas" Here we are, house is paid for and I do not think I am going to do anymore travel. I feel like a honest been there done that ... Git off my lawn! 2 Months ago in August, wife drove to New Mexico to visit daughter ... you go ahead honey and have a good time, I will sit here with the dogs.

We have a old 1993 dodge caravan we inherited when the wife mother passed. FIL hated it always. Been a perfect lady since I have been doing the maintenance on it. I started driving vans as a carpenter years ago, keeps the tools dry and locked up.

If the brakes are free and drum turns your good there . You have the correct puller, I saw above you said a 4# hammer, thats correct. I think you are fighting rust ... can see the rust in the photo. Strange it appears the drum has been updated to studs and nuts. So seems that the drum has been off before. I think @ Dodgeb4ya has best advice, hit it harder. Is a tapered axle and suppose to be tight. It may help but I wont advise it, apply some heat to it to break the rust. Sounds to extreme to me, may cause more damage then worth. No doubt it would cook the seals, possible damage to other parts? I wonder what others think? Hit it again, what you got going on is way better then driving it with the axle nut loose. You only do that if you do not have correct tool, you have it.

Seat belts certainly play a part .... sometimes I think we need a little extra help. No way a passenger would have survived. Most my damage was from the seat belt. Broken pelvic. cracked ribs and broken collar bone. punctured lung & lacerated liver. The seat belt really was put to a test here and it passed with flying colors. Good chance I would be dead if not wearing it. T-boned from a drunk driver. I am thinking about seat belts for the truck. My current driving habits is all in town 25-35 mph, I probably will not. If I do a rear gear swap and start driving highway speeds Disk brakes and seat belts would be included in the swap. I still need a seat, If I do not go stock, will probably go Chevy Silvarado and they have the seat belts connected to the seat. I may end up with them anyways.

Glad it worked out, hope next year things are back to normal.

Careful there ... I have old photos of girlfriends I do not want to see. Old cars are cool

My first thought, I went to a local parts store for a set of points for my distributor. I brought the distributor with me and they checked the numbers. and pulled the part off the shelf. Was the wrong points in the box they brought out .... they said my distributor had been messed with and could not help. Next parts store same situation and had correct parts in the box. I have no idea how the wrong part ended up in the box, but it did. Might be worth just order a new one and hope it is the right one? I am guessing they only cost a few dollars, try a different supplier. Trying to return and ship one back would be a nightmare.

I am impressed easily ... I love we can pack the pilot bearing bushing with grease, and use physiques to remove the bushing .... It sends tingles up my leg. We know you need same correct size bushing to replace. The ID may change from wear, I do not think the OD would change .... there is no wear there. Because these engines are so old, there is many possibilities of past repairs .... you may have a 230 block with a 218 crank? You may have a 230 crank from a newer block? Just so many possibilities for a backyard mechanic to do a repair decades ago ... you need to match up what you have, that may give you a clue on what you own.

I am not understanding beets this year. They are 2"-3" tall, and zero under ground. They sprouted but never grew. I have grown beets in the past with no issue, different locations and soil conditions. I think the beets are telling me my soil is missing something and will have to improve it. Now is the time. Same time the asparagus patch out back is looking good for first year.

Life moves on, I have awaken with something different then a p-19 in my arms. Somehow we all manage to recover .... I think you will recover real nice, beautiful car. Welcome to the forums and anyone does not like the red wheels tell them to eat dirt

A clearer image

I want to say is more of a individual who was fed up with crap and decided to do something about it. Appears to have a company name, but we can all make up a name. His nickname is "tubman" Easy to pm on the H.A.M.B or the Ford barn website. He said he tried to advertise here a few years ago and was no interest so stopped hanging around. Showing a photo of the package he sent me. I think the quality is awesome, you could put it on a show car and be proud. I am guessing, the top of the brass canister will screw off, and all the magic happens inside, If the magic inside is 1/2 as good as the exterior quality, it should be a life time condenser. If something happens, you could also open it up and repair it 10 years from now. Looking at the photo, it is twice the diameter and twice the length of a stock replacement condenser. It does need to be mounted outside the distributor. It was designed and built to be mounted outside. I plan to mount it on my dodge on the coil bracket, will look right at home there. Just contact tubman on the HAMB and set things up with him .... he also sells tachs to work with 6 volt + ground.

My thinking was if it was possibly a bad wheel cylinder ... just poor machining and piston not returning. Is it possible 1 cylinder would affect both sides? I can picture a scenario where this may happen. Just throwing the idea out there because I am not sure.

Rubber hoses from RockAuto are dirt cheap. Same issue is the quality is dirt cheap. But who sells a quality made? Everyone sells the same crap made in China and just serves it up to you on a different plate. I was really surprised when another member had something similar happen to them. Car sits for a week then back out of the driveway and A brake is locked. Seems it was a bad wheel cylinder, Would not be my first guess, but may be a place to start looking on your rear brakes. We were told front wheels spin, but rear do not turn so good. .... is that both rear wheels or just 1? I would like to think you have 4 wheel cylinders on the 2 rear wheels. Whats the chance you have 2 bad ones?

I think I ask a ridiculous amount of questions to prepare me for painting. I never would have asked how to clear the vent hole. I needed the experience to learn the issues and then correct them. Same thing with the garden, In the past I garden in the PNW south of Seattle. Then again in Albuquerque. Just saying that ABQ is high altitude and took a learning curve. I may not be Farmer Fred but I got some decent crops. Then first year in West Texas I have issues. I have never had birds eat my crop ... That was totally out of left field. The soil I am using out of my back yard. I added a lot to it, I have some more work to get correct soil ... not perfect I just figure, as long as we are learning life is good. If I was in the 1800's and needed my crop to survive the winter we would be talking a different situation.

It is not magic, just little invisible people creating it. Putting smoke back in the wires, that is magic.

May have been a poor harvest for me, birds were happy and well fed. And I learned a lot, would be interesting to start the cool weather crop ... But I learned I put the boxes in a bad location and only way to move them is a fork lift or empty the dirt ... I have no fork lift. So now is the time, just get er did. I figure life is a learning experience, as long as we are learning we are going in the correct direction. While painting today, basically was running out of paint and thinking the gun was clogged. Trying to clean the gun with the hose connected and cup full of mixed paint ....Long story short, I made a mess & I learned someway the gun was creating vacuum and paint was not gravity feeding. When I loosened the cap I could hear air escaping. And then it sprayed perfect. Just saying it was frustrating, and happened to me before, end of the day I learned something and was spraying like a pro. Only point is, I learned something new in a day and very happy ... the garden is learn something new in a season.

So garden was pretty much a bust this year. First time in this gardening zone that's fine I did learn a lot. Weather is cooling down a bit finally and I think many of the birds have moved further south. October 1rst I have 2 tomato plants actually have fruit on them. First fruit all year, but the plants are old and burned out, I doubt the will actually ripen. Right now would be a perfect time to clean things up and start my cool weather crops. Temps range from 50's-mid upper 80's. I need to move the boxes, I thought the shade from the stump would help the garden in high triple digit temps, it actually hurt more then it helped. Will let the peppers finish off then remove the dirt and move the boxes, try again next year. Right now is perfect weather to work on the truck and the paint.

If I thought red wheels would distract from ugly .... my wheels would have been painted red instead of black a year ago

All I could do was chuckle about it ... is the right time of year for it ... no I would not want it

They certainly have a look ... but the hand is so over played for so many years .... Now it looks like a cookie cutter copy. I seen a 1960 impala drive by the other day, it was black with red wheels .... was obvious the paint was 40 years old. I really thought it looked great. I would not change a thing. While painting my truck black, trying to become more creative with the wheels and thinking yellow or tan or razzleberry

I am kinda the opposite thought. I might make a gasket out of a old truck tire inner tube. I want the toe boards easily removable for future maintenance. I do need to replace the floor. I have replacement floor and I have old one roughly cut out . I am honestly thinking about welding in nuts and making new floor removable along with the toe boards. Right now I can work on the master cylinder, work on the clutch pedal bushing, lift the trans right up through the floor and access u-joints etc. So easy for future clutch or trans maintenance. I do fear the floor is actually structural in case of a accident and should probably weld it in .... I have no desire to make the toe boards a ooie gooie mess to remove.

I am worthless here, what I found with 16" wheels they were 4.5" and with a 51 plymouth 15" wheel they were 5" . I do not know if the wider 5" was standard on all 15" wheels ... I suspect it was common but not the only answer.