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I get it ... I felt same way at first ... then after 10 years I kinda saw the advantage. This log is for your advantage ... not your employer. Can you remember date & miles when you last changed the oil, changed the serpentine belt, installed new water pump ... new heater hoses & vacuum lines on the wife car ? What about your daily driver and the work you have done to it? .... Lets throw in a project car and the work you have done to it ... Do you remember?, or would a cheap log be of some help?

I am talking something very simple & basic. I started doing this as a remodel carpenter ... it was taught to me from my employer. It really was worthwhile, everyday a few min to write down what you did that day. Not often was it referenced, but was invaluable when it was. One example, boss sends in a bill & client complains because they do not see anything being done. Then look at the notes and see the kitchen cabinets arrived 3 days late, took several hours to unload them, check them off the list, check for damaged boxes or materials, store them in a usable fashion so you had the first cabinets available & not buried. It spent time unloading a truck. Then 6 months later when the client is complaining the project is $400k over budget, you have logs to go back and show. For larger jobs we left the book in a designated place so homeowner come home from work & could read progress for the day. End of job we put the book in the folder with the the rest of the jobs information .... few extra min but worthwhile to have it written down a year later. So today while working in my garden, I decided I was going to make a log book for the garden ... Today I did this & that and planted x seeds. Write down when they sprouted, how well they did ... is summer time and getting too hot for planting seeds ... make a log of it and study it next year. Then I asked myself, why do I not have a log book on each vehicle? Maybe my house? Just a cheap book, and easy to store. Just curious here, does anyone keep logs on their vehicles?

Glad to hear you all good brother! As far as I know, a pro centers the steering wheel in the cab, then sets alignment to it ... technically it should be pretty close before any adjustment are done to the adjustments underneath. ... pulling the steering wheel was never part of a alignment. Sad I do not remember if you have the Dakota column / wheel or modified to use original wheel? either way I wonder how it got upside down.

My Ace really is not to bad, so far they have a decent selection of hardware. One isle is dedicated to cookware, household cleaners, I bought a meat thermometer from there last week. They have about 3 lawn chairs near the cash registers ... A well stocked firearm section with weapons & ammo, out front is hunting blinds and wheel barrows. Across the street is their lumber yard, is between 1/2-3/4 city block in size. & they have a decent paint department. Just saying they are not all the same, I am sure they stock what sells, the lawn furniture/household items here do not sell. Yesterday went there to buy 2, 3/8"x24 bolts ... 89 cents each ... spent $40 while there ? Almost makes me want to drive to tractor supply 30 miles away and buy a pound of them ... today I need to go back and buy 2 more 3/8"x24 bolts. I see TS sells in bulk, but they do not have the selection my Ace has.

They were so reliable, they changed the starter location in 1935, then later changed the water outlet on the head, in the 50's they came out with a 230 ci version. The 218 ci/230 was so dependable they continued to make it and sell in other Countries or industrial equipment into the 1970's. High rpm will kill them, the oiling system is maxed out at 3600 rpm ... keep the rpm down and they will run forever or a long time ... whichever comes first.

Simple self tapping screw and a pry bar removed all of mine ...

I love it, looks a lot better then mine ... But you can see mine is heading to the same paint scheme. Maybe someday I get the outside painted, but am painting everything underneath so it is protected ... I put 1 fender on today, next tomorrow, then inner fenders & radiator, hood. Might take a week or so. Sadly my goal now is to get the parts back together then move it out of the work area. My wife car needs some serious work, my daily driver needs maintenance. While I like playing with this old hound dog, I have to be a adult & work on them ... I assume will take rest of summer at my pace. Maybe next IWOYTD I will get to do more.

Well I heard my story on the internet ... We know it must be true ... Seems to me that missiles have wings, maybe my post was not to far off base .... Many products are created by the military and then later released to the public. Just saying water displacement to remove water from wings on a missile to prevent icing and course changes ... kinda like removing water from airplane wings to prevent icing at high elevations? Same story just a different story teller. Knuckle you old Bastard, you make too much sense. I have been doing my truck in steel .... I have thought many times to rip it out and start over before I finish the rear brakes.

Kieth I think you are on the right track. Watched your video today about the compression check As far as I know ... your engine is not wore out. If you picture it in your mind, we have tools to clean the ring grooves on the pistons. Then install the rings they need to rotate freely while working. Back then we had rings made of different materials. Today we have rings going 300k miles. If you picture your ring stuck to the piston from sitting, it will not rotate in the groove like it should. can be just a 1/2" section, but will prevent it from opening fully & spinning in the groove as designed. Is it dissimilar metals? I dunno ... Thats where mmo will help you, but it takes patience. Get the big jug, fill all the cylinders to overflow. Then let it sit. I let mine sit for 2 weeks at a time ... you wont like that ... maybe 5 days? If you turn the engine over all the mmo gets pushed out of the exhaust. Just a waste of time & product ... waste of time. No guarantee this will fix it, but probably best chance you have ... short of tearing it down & replace the rings.

PB blaster I I think is good for breaking loose rusted bolts ....I will not say it is best oil for lubricating door hinges ... many will have own opinions, if nothing else it is oil and better then nothing. If your wiring is original cloth, you can bet it needs replaced. ... my 49 was and totally shot ... cloth falling off it. You need to inspect what you have, if it is cloth chances are the headlight & tail light wire running in hidden places need replaced ... just disconnect all of that with the main power wire going from your battery to the car ... just run a jumper wire from battery to coil to hot wire it ... whatever you need for to get the solenoid to turn the starter over. Then work on wiring ... who knows it may have already been replaced and fine ... you do need to investigate it.

WD40 is a cleaner not a lubricant. iirc was created as a wing de-icer for airplanes. And it is a very good product, but is not a oil. A good example, when I worked in a tire retreading shop, everything was ran by air ... air tools would get gummed up & lose power. Clean with WD40 & regains power, but now you need to add a oil to lubricate them. You can spray wd40 on a car door hinge and it works smoother and stops squeaking because is clean, now you need to oil it.

This photo right here tells the story. I think it is a common story on these old flatheads. I know my T-stat housing had broken bolts on the housing ... Mine was the same, just it sat for 20 years before I bought it & looked at it. Exactly what I did, take a rod and a 3# sledge hammer & cleaned out a path, Then with all the soft plugs removed I ran water through it and cleaned the block with vinegar ... the thing ran cool at 160 without a T-stat ... for 2 hours ... was amazing when it sat idle for 2 hours, it would creep up to 190, raise the throttle and dropped right back to 160. Point is, if that motor was installed in my truck ... I would hit it and clean it. Since it is on @sniper engine stand. I would clean the middle just so the outside edges have a place to collapse wile pulling out ... Hell yah I would run that engine.

Welcome to Mopar ... there is little or no support. You have to ask yourself, are you going to make a original show car or a car you can drive? The $400 sounds correct to me for 1 new brake drum ... then a 2nd drum you have $800 in it, now you still need shoes and hardware. This is why many will swap in a modern axle with modern brakes & highway gears. By all means go original if you want to restore to original, look for used drums ... But yeah, not much support for old mopars ... just used parts when available.

I assume you will replace it. Amazing how tough that crud is ... like barnacles growing on a hull of a ship. What I did with mine is wrong, I just rammed some metal rod down it and cleaned it out. It actually fixed a issue I think the truck was originally parked for ... overheating. I will try to quote @Plymouthy Adams People do not realize the "laydown" room needed to work on a project. I can only take apart so much at a time, when cheaply painted & put back together ... maybe I drive it for a year and then pull the motor. I just do not have the room or mental capacity to blow it to pieces & put it back together. The engine work will come later after is on the road. Hoping the compression equals out, same time the rear seal is leaking ... we all know this engine is being pulled someday. When I only have a engine in front of me & not a full truck. What I meant to say, I think those barnacles growing in the middle of the wdt, actually push it out. So taking the time to clean out the middle of the tube, the thin metal actually has a place to collapse while pulling it out.

Makes perfect sense ... a lot of people or business owners going out of business. I actually have a friend in Fairbanks ... Alaska such a funny place, you better off not going there. My buddy works for FAA, he would be in charge of the guys tracking the flights coming in. Interesting guy. For years he worked for FAA and was sent out and dropped off in the Alaska bush country and repaired satellites, electronics. Camped out in the snow for a week, then they would send a Cessna airplane back to pick him up ... Now he is the manager of the office and sending others out to work, while watching the air space. Just saying, going to Fairbanks is like going to Seattle ... with more snow & bears, elk running across the road. Go to the North pole and see what you can there.

I would agree ... I think is a wonderful idea to do a compression check when you first get your car regardless how well it runs. Just creates a base line or starting point and as time goes by we have something to look at and compare in the future. Hoping @keithb7 ran a compression check when he first got the Chrysler. @Sniper my brother ... so much information can be gained from a compression test. What do I know, just a old washed up carpenter.... My first compression test showed a couple over 100 psi, couple between 75-90, 1 at 60 ... To me that suggest stuck rings and dirty valve seats. With mmo & love they are now all above 90 psi When they are all proper within 10 psi of each other and low, My lil pea brain thinks you have a good running worn engine that needs a set of rings. Back in the day, If you took your car to the Texaco gas station, they would replace the rings in 1 day. Of course you had to be on top of it, get the needed parts replaced before the pistons had to much slop & ruined the cylinders. I only think that if you get on top of a issue early, creates less damage. I think these cars had weak rings, they would wear out. They would first turn the rings into a oval during power & compression stroke, then they would turn the cylinders into a oval. @Sniper If you are happy with your oil pressure, you can keep it and just re-use the bearings. At least look at them. Hoping you run a compression check then report it is better.

I can relate to this. When I was younger I went to many concerts. The Who, Metalica, think I seen ZZ Top 6 times Probably at least 50 concerts by time was 20. The one I remember the most was the old 1 hit wonder Peter Frampton. As far as I know they only produced one album. They were the opening act for the band we paid to see. Nobody had heard of the band ... we were there to hear some rock & roll. So when they introduced some dude named Peter ... it was brutal ... crowd wanted to get the clown off the stage. Was the Seattle Coliseum & a big crowd. Foot stomping, BOOO's just noise to chase them off the stage ... Took about 45 seconds to shut everyone up. Peter started the mouth organ, which nobody heard before & he was good at it, Who ever ran the sound board was just as talented. They had the mouth organ sound, running in circles, then jumping from side to side, The person who ran the mixer board was very Talented and Frampton just sounded better live then studio. By the time they were done, The main act came on, Now they were BOO'ed just as bad and they wanted Framptom back ... may have been last time they were a opening act for another band. I honestly can talk about Frampton all day, but cant remember who we even went to see. We were kids and had to save our money for tickets, was only top bands we would go see. If we had a machine that could transport me today back in time to that exact concert ... I would have to pass. Is not the live music I lost interest in, is people. Wife cant even get me to go to the local cafe for dinner ... I do not want to eat with strangers. No way you get me to go to a concert. Now if you could transport me back to a empty coliseum and had the concert just for me, I might go My earliest remembrance of a phone was 1970 we just moved off the farm and had a party line ... our # started with ph5

Sometimes I think was born in the wrong decade. born in 1962, basically grew up in the 70;s-80's ... 14 years old at the roller skating rink skating to disco My generation of music sucked ... Lucky I had older brothers and sisters and listened to the classic 60's-70's I love the live version of it ... was it the "hell freezes over tour"? I have it on my hard drive listen to it often in the garage along with Lynard skynard , Uriah heep, yardbirds ... I got some good tunes ... shuffle & play and open the garage door so can listen while out in the yard ... I mix it in with some of the 80's hard rock. Alice in chains, Nirvana, Metalica ... modern Nightwish ... And lots of country, George Jones, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton ... sure the neighbors think I am nuts.

Just glad to hear from you Paul. Hope your move is going well.

That is a total new issue that fits here ... While My area is small, I have a chance to cool it with fans.

errr what I meant to say .... we have become our Grandparents.

Pretty much just life ... Some elders did not like the Rock & Roll of the 50's ... Pure devil music. Then we had the music of the 60's. Then 70's .. 80's 90s 2000's Not saying if it is right or wrong, just saying our grandparents never liked our music in the 50's-60's, nothing has changed in the 2000's

See if I can sneak this in and dance around the real problem. A few years ago 6-8? there was a bid up for the government wanting to create a data farm that would collect sensitive information collected from different agency cia, fbi, doj etc... Was the biggest data farm ever imagined ... something like 600 giilion jiga bytes. Was a lot of competition for the bid from many companies. Western Digital, Seagate, real hard drive manufactures that would develop new technology while building new larger hard drives to deal with the job at hand. Anyways in the end, the Government gave the complete contract to Amazon. While they have to purchase hard drives I imagine from others ... maybe now they are building them? Just saying Amazon already running the worlds biggest data farm, why would they not want to expand

Is a common term for construction also ... you just need a place to store materials, Is a term used & discussed for carpenters when first arriving on a new job site. Is also important in car restoration. It takes a lot of space to blow a car apart & still have a working area for the project. Same time try to keep it organized to make some sense and find things or work on them outside of designated project area. I simply do not have that space. Why I work on front end first, when is all put back together then work on the rear end. Brains are important also .... remember where all the parts go ... I would end up with doors & fenders spread around the yard rusting.

Los checks the zipper on mouth to be positive is closed All I got to say about this subject.