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#1
General Discussion / Vacuum Tank For Sale
June 15, 2014, 01:13:29 PM
Stewart Warner Model 122X Vacuum tank (fuel pump) -I believe I'm the 1st person to open it up in it's 80 odd years. Cork gaskets were still there. It appears to have sat on a shelf for the last several decades. Price is $250 plus the Canada Post postage.   
#2
This is a list taken from a salesman's booklet for Sept. 1/1928. It's not scanning very well but I think you can magnify it with Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and see most of it. Qs,and the Us, right from the start could have wires or discs as well as the high compression 'red head' which surprises me. 
I've added a photo of a set of wire wheel hubcaps I've had on my shop wall for sometime. I know they were correct for 1929 but MAY be correct for 1928 wire wheels. 
This should answer any questions about what type of wheels,wooden,wire or disc, a '28,'29 or '30U COULD have had. However it would appear 99% came with 20" and then 19" wooden artillery type Quick Demountables. Although I have this set of wire wheel hubcaps for a '28 or '29 I've never seen a wire wheel car in the flesh. Jay Fisher the founder of the Plymouth Club has wires on his '29 roadster but those are very rare. (If you ever find a set of wires for a '28 or '29 these caps are for sale. They fit a 6 1/2" opening.)
#3
General Discussion / 'Shocks' on a '28,'29 or 30U
October 23, 2012, 04:48:43 PM
I was rummaging around the site and came across a discussion about shocks. There are no shocks on Q,U or 30Us per se. Hydraulic Delco Remy,single and double acting, shocks came out on the '31 PA. And stayed until about 1937 when Plymouths got 'airplane' type tube shocks like we have today. What the early 4s had was a shock eliminator thing. It's an upside down bent piece of spring steel on the upper side of the leaf springs. It's been a while and I don't remember if it was only on the front half of the spring or not. It was to stop rebound which is what real shocks do. I really doubt they had any effect. They are held under one of the spring clips.          
#4
General Discussion / Old man's '29U
October 21, 2012, 10:34:51 AM
This isn't a topic just a 'note' from me to the rest of the forum. I no longer have a '29U but did a ground up restoration on a 4 door many moons ago. I never got it together because of family issues,moving/job etc.,(I was MUCH younger then,now retired old man) but I've included a photo of it as I brought it home in 1977. It was a complete original but as you can see had conical '29 Chev headlights and painted over chrome. If my memory holds out, there isn't much I can't help the forum with. I lived and breathed the '29 before selling it,again family issues, and moving on. A few years later when the dust settled and the kids had grown up and I had more space and income I bought an original barn fresh 1931 PA 4 door deluxe 6 wire wheeler with the leather covered trunk on the back. It and the '32 PB were the ultimate in the 4 cylinder Plymouths. The PA was much much faster than the Ford Model A,my friends and I raced them, and at 65 hp. the PB was faster still. The Ford guys could not believe the acceleration of the Plymouth versus their Fords. "Watch The Fords Go By" my a**. The 6 cylinder Chevs were slower still. And the Chev owners carry spare axles under the rear seat because they snap at a moments notice. They have to push in the clutch going over railroad crossings because the on again off again torque caused by slipping traction on the rails will snap a rear axle. You don't know how good you have it with your Plymouths.