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From the Barn to Paint...


PatrickG

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Frankie, your guys did themselves proud. But for two plays they may have won. Seems that's what they said about that other game. Seriously, have a great year.

To others: Frankie, for all his good points is a Texas U fan; I am a Husker fan. He won THIS year. Gonna wager my truck against his coupe for next year.:D

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  • 5 years later...

Looks good all over.   

How do you open the doors, trunk..... as there are now no handles nor locks?

 

Re the wipers.......there was a post just recently by someone who used an electric, one speed

wiper motor from the tailgate of an SUV to replace his vacuum motor.  He had to invent some

mounting hardware, but the size of the unit fit in the available space under the dash.   Just a

thought. 

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Bob, remote controlled solenoids to open the doors (door poppers), with usually a hidden handle, cable operated back-up to open-similar to a front hood set-up. Funny seeing these old threads pop up and seeing members that aren't regularly on nowadays. That car is nice, wonder what the status is.

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Hi guys. Credit to Bob for bring me back to life. Wow. Been a long long time.

 

As a matter of fact I have just recently started working on this car again. Around the time that I last posted, looks like over 5 years ago, I had just fired the motor for the first time and things were looking good.

What shortly followed afterwards was not so good. I got about 30 minutes of breaking in the motor and putting around the block, when it developed a funky sound and proceeded to eat itself alive.

 

I am not exactly sure what I did wrong but surveying the damage, and it being the first motor I had ever torn apart and put back together, I am fairly certain I installed a bearing upside down, preventing proper oil flow, which made short work of my freshly rebuilt flathead. -___-

 

At the time I was working very hard on my degree, and as a result not very hard on my bank account. Another rebuild of the engine was just not in the cards and so this car sat patiently in the garage waiting for something to happen.

 

BUT, here we are: 5 years, 2 engineering degrees, and 3 places of residence later, I have my own garage again, an awesome job as a mechanical engineer for Tesla Motors, and most importantly, a little bit of money to burn on the addiction we all share to old cars .

 

Rest assured my plymouth did not get an electric motor, but another rebuild on that old flathead, hopefully the last one it will need for many years.

 

For you viewing pleasure, here I am struggling to back into my tiny garage with a clutch that needs adjustment and no rearview mirrors...

 

https://youtu.be/5m6oZZGDaKM

 

I want to keep the momentum going and get this thing on the road asap, so there should be less than 5 years between now and my next update.

 

Cheers,

Pat

 

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Norm,

Everything you mentioned above came from Tom Langdon (www.stoveboltengineco.com)

They're carter weber carbs, which i went with over the holley's Tom also carries only because the Carters are all new (not rebuilt) for only about 10 bucks more.

For the linkage I used everything from Tom's kit, plus some scrap aluminum L channel to to mount it, and possibley (it's been awhile) some little bits from the linkage that came with the Offy intake (ordered from summit).

So it was a bit of a mix and match, but all the essentials were there in Tom's kit

Looks amazing.  I might have to pinch those ideas.

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