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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.

Still working on this .... really getting in the way of working on my truck, but is a chore that needed to be done. Got the box built ... I never planned on it but it just seemed natural to use up some extra materials. Should be painted just not going to take the time yet ... I have a full tray of plants that need a new home they are so root bound. I need a truck load of dirt to finish filling the box. We have had a wet spring this year, the dirt place is nothing but mud ... but they said would load it if I wanted it. Maybe next Friday. At least I can plant the tray of plants I have ... next year be better.

Looks good to me, have to admit about being ignorant about garlic ... Someday I would like to start a patch of wild garlic. Just to be able to go out and harvest some for use in the kitchen ... same with asparagus, have that planted but not garlic yet. I have to say that is beautiful. Reminds me of a yard I worked on in Albuquerque. I did not do the landscaping, but as a carpenter I built a few features in it. A few benches and a wishing well. On the well I used adobe blocks for the base because was natural in New Mexico, Then a wooden roof with 6x6 post, 3" white pine log for the pole & handle for the bucket & rope. I spent hours building the bucket from scratch out of oak at home. Epoxy in the bucket, rubber pond liner in the well. Then put in the biggest pond pump I could find at the local store. More cubic feet per min the more noise it makes ... fill the well up with water and pump it to the bucket, overflow and makes a nice waterfall feature. Sadly I do not want something like that for my veggie garden ... who knows I am making a sitting area, see what pops up.

One advantage you have is the old distributor. If it was me, I would go through it and rebuild it so it is ready to put in service. Then if needed if you break down. A lot easier to swap in your working spare distributor on the side of the road then trying to troubleshoot points/condenser and installing them, while standing on your head leaning over a fender. Remove the vacuum advance line and 1 hold down bolt ... are the caps the same? time it by ear and get to a place where you can work on it or use timing light. Is way easier to work on these distributors on the bench and fine tune them rather on the side of the road when already frustrated from breaking down.

Yeah we getting into legal advice here ... every state is different. I have gone through a bonded title in Texas and cost me $300 ... was painless Every state is different. Really a tough place to ask for legal advice though, what worked for me may not work for you. I personally would not spend thousands of hours & $$ on a vehicle with no title. If you are a seller and short of cash, This process seriously lowers the value of your car. Someone needs to go through the title process to fix & drive it.

I really doubt you will find much difference in engine tune up. Seems the specs would be the same, point gap, dwell, timing, valve lash Parts will depend on what you have, points cap rotor you always need to use # off the distributor to get correct parts. Same with carburetor. My 1rst 49 3/4 ton B1C was a old farm truck and had a 1937 P motor in it with a 1/2 ton front axle I also had a 1952 b2b with a 1952 plymouth motor in it I would assumed it was changed also. I cant remember where I heard this, could be no truth to it at all .... Think it was my Uncle. During those years, if they were running out of the T truck engines, they would use up the extra P plymouth engines ... clear them out & get ready for next years models. So if that is true, it is possible my 1952 truck had a original engine that was a P ... I dunno, they are basically all the same anyways. From 1936 forward. At least my understanding of it.

School in session .... Lucas=prince of darkness .. class closed. I dunno just seem surprising to me that after switching to a V8 with 12 volt that Lucas would be involved. I once had a 1969 Triumph motorcycle and never had a good battery with Lucas. One day at work the Boss walked in and said "headlight is turned on your motorcycle" I was really confused because the battery never took a charge for over 2 years. Not saying was a bad battery, just a bad charging system .... today I cant even explain the zenor diodes & rectififers I replaced to make it work properly ... just never did work. Los hears Lucas ... throws arms in air and screams like a little girl & runs away.

Moose are good for not running away, just find a mother with a calf and see where it goes. Was out hunting deer one day and skunked again, was dusk & driving out of the woods. Saw the papa and thought that was cool, came around the corner there was a calf & momma. I just stopped to look & watch, only time I seen moose in the wild. Then I had a 1979 lifted Toyota 4x4, the momma she looked at me ... then she moved closer ... then closer then she looked like she was ready to charge. I got the heck out of there quick ... She looked as big as my truck and was ready for battle to protect that calf.

??? I love it .... sad part is the kids might eat them too .... at least better then tide pods.

Will give you my honest opinion. Thanks for the reminder to drain water out of my tanks I really think this may be one of those areas we might be over thinking it. Compressed air creates water and you just need to stay up on it. You could use a acid and clean it perfect ... then use it and going to re-create the same situation. I would suggest rinse it out with water a few times, watch how clean the water is when you drain it. When it comes out clean to your satisfaction, call it a day and crack a beverage. Then just keep draining it when done with it. In the past when I was 30 years old I was a manager at a Bandag retread shop. Just incredible the amount of air we used. Picture if you can a chamber that holds 30, 11 R-24.5 semi truck tires. And fill it with 200 psi ... we had 2 chambers and changed both twice a day sometimes 3. That shop when we opened it, had a 60 hp 3phase and it did the job. When you loaded a chamber And started loading it, Just shut down the shop for 20 min while the compressor caught up ... every tool in the shop was powered by air. Break time After a year or so, we put in a rotary compressor and was amazing, we could load a chamber and keep on working. The 60 hp was still there, just as a backup. What we did for maintenance, Every Friday we drained the tanks before going home. Twice a year we call in a mechanic to do a service with new oil/filters. We seldom had a broke down air compressor. I have a little porter cable pancake compressor under the bench. Is perfect to throw in the back of the truck and go to a job and run my nail guns ... or fill tires. It shuts off at 150 psi, I swear it gets over 125 psi and it starts to rattle and works so hard ... I want to step away from it. My wife ask "whats wrong with that" I dunno, just cheap China junk. Years ago as a carpenter, my portable compressor went out ... at lunch time I went to Shucks auto supply and bought a $99 ... Holy crap I hated that thing, it worked well. Just weighed a ton. I wished it would die, just kept going. Thing was so heavy to carry around. I later bought a porter cable and worked fine for years ... while the new one I have is iffy See where I am going @Eneto-55I am the guy that service my lawnmower once a year, I oil the wood on my garden tools ... just clean it best you can and run it.

I swear I am computer stupid. I learned on a pentium 3 why we do not hot swap ram, sure makes a really cool sound though I started using gentoo on a P-4 & still use it today. Although in the shop I am experimenting with a binary arch distro. Pretty happy with it. I think will be moving the office computer off of gentoo soon. Explanation, gentoo is a geeky linux distro. You start with a bare hard drive and boot with a live cd, then download a few files and edit them ... you do everything on the command line. In a hour I can boot into my new system without the live cd. But it has nothing on it. Command line and connected to the internet. Analogy is, A windows 10 user or a binary linux user goes to a restaurant and orders a plate of food. A gentoo user is sitting at the all you can eat buffet ... I want some of this, some of that building my own plate. After 15 years of building gentoo, I get a working graphical environment with a firefox browser in about 2 days. Takes a week to get everything I want. With a gaming case, A xeon cpu, 32 gigs ram, takes 3 days with cpu running all out to run a typical full system update. Comparison is a binary linux or win 10 takes less then 30 min. Not saying look how smart I am, saying look how stupid I am for running this system for over 15 years. We get older we get wiser. I was always a hardware guy & troubleshoot as a hobby, I am no software coder.