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#16
General Discussion / Re: carburetor for 29 U & 30 U
September 19, 2015, 10:17:24 AM
Boy frank those bowls are REALLY dirty. They should very shiny brass. BTW the same bowl was used on Chevs in those years. I know because the Plymouth bowls split from frezzing up here and we all had to find new ones when we were restoring ours.
#17
General Discussion / Re: Shifting & Other Issues
September 19, 2015, 10:12:36 AM
I believe the black laquered wire with the red tracer is original.
#18
General Discussion / Re: Hello? Beuller?
July 23, 2015, 10:12:56 AM
Hospital phoned yesterday. I'll be operated on Aug. 5th. They will try to put both procedures into one ,so no second visit. I hope so. Daughter is still refusing to give up our new grandson. Still waiting for the phone call as of Thursday morning.     
#19
General Discussion / Re: Hello? Beuller?
July 20, 2015, 02:34:00 PM
Thanks Chet. It all water works problems so it isn't life threatening just annoying. I'm glad your sister-in-law made it. We lost our only son in '08 in an accident in TO.
   On a lighter note Pat and I were invited to a church social on the week end in Egypt. And they were going to have camel races! I said we had never been to Egypt but we lived a couple of klicks from Palestine. When we arrived in the Plymouth we were introduced as the couple from Palestine which got a big laugh. The "Great Canadian Camel Races" are tubes carried by 4 adults with a kid riding the "camel" in a race around hay bales. You might have guessed by now that this all took place in Ontario about 100 Km. north east of TO. I always get a kick out of going down through New York State and one of the 1st towns we come across is Mexico. You'd be surprised how many Americans don't know it's there. Hot as hell up here today. About 33 C (into the 90sF) and I'm into the pool. Just a final note. Pat and I are waiting for the phone call from our son-in-law that our new,and first, grandson has arrived. Could come any time now. As you say life goes on.   
     
#20
General Discussion / Re: Hello? Beuller?
July 17, 2015, 10:12:06 AM
Car's alright ,the Old Man needs surgery. Have had one, need two more in the next month. Ain't growing old GREAT!!!! Oh well I hate answering the phone these days as it's liable to be an update on who's being buried today. Was at a cruise on Wed. only to find out a guy who had a beautiful yellow Packard coupe passed on at 54 from a heart attack. I've made 71 so I should count my lucky stars. Pat and I will make it 50 years of holy acrimony next Nov. Hope I'm not depressing you guys too much but my wife and I have come to realize that retirement is not the "Golden Years" they're the "Rusty Years". She's mostly metal now like RoboCop. Strangely we have all this money and no mortgage now only to find out our body's are quiting on us. Wife and I were at another cruise and supper last night,nobody died. WHEW!   
#21
General Discussion / Re: Left Front Brake Inop
June 05, 2015, 09:52:24 AM
This is closing the barn door after the horse has left,and I believe I may have put this on this site before, but an old mechanic once told me the way you keep brakes from drying up their cylinder bores is to open the door of said stored vehicle every once in a while and push the brake pedal down. He actually said "kick the pedal" but I just sit on the running board and push it with my hand without bothering to get in the car/truck. The problem is the brake bores on our vehicles were not meant to let dry up. The designers expected the pistons to be moving back and forth several times a week. This keeps the bores wet and prevents chipped rubbers and ,to some extent, keeps down rusting on the bores which all lead to stuck pistons and leaks. I do the exercise once a month during the Winter on the same day I hook up a battery charger to keep the batteries from sulphating even a little bit. I get as much as 12 years out of a 6 volt battery usually 10. It works for me.   
#22
Again I'm going back in my memory but I seem to remember all the 4s,which were basically the same engine,(except the '28 Maxwell) used individual copper rings for manifold gaskets. You may want to go to a metal shop that caters to the public and see if you can buy a sheet of copper. The thicker the better. Copper is soft and will conform to irregularities. That's why they used it. Several layers cut in circles could stand in for the originals. The original copper rings crushed down and sealed and would not deteriorate with heat and pressure. Most car parts stores up here carry rolls of cut-your-own gasket material for water jackets and manifolds. The manifold stuff seems to have asbestos in it. (They also sell cork rolls.) From reading these posts over the years it seems we Canucks have access to more stuff than you Yanks. If you're not too far from the border you could go over into Canada and buy it at a Canadian Tire store. Every town and city has one,or several,and they sell all this stuff. I know Chet will know what I'm talking about. Mac's Ford in Tonawanda N.Y. has the gasket stuff in their catalog or did. But I dont' think they sold sheet copper. And I agree that the mating surface of the manifolds are not perfect after 80 odd years and should be tested,with a machinist's steel ruler, to make sure they are "flat" or "in line" whichever. I chased a head gasket blowing fault one Summer that turned out to be not heat related at all, it was a warped head. .20" skimmed by the NAPA machine shop and the problem went away.                 
#23
General Discussion / Re: center pillar
April 22, 2015, 02:19:42 PM
I remember a crude right angle bracket at the bottom of the B pillar and the ends of the wooden were mortise and tenon style. The bracket was laid into the pillar and into the floor so it did not protrude and the screws were flatheads countersunk into the steel.

BTW the correct terms for the pillars on a car or truck start at the windshield and are alphabetic, A being the windshield pillar called the "A post",the center pillar called the "B post",the dog legged pillar at the rear of the back door called the "C post". On a station wagon or a bus or van you just keep going down the alphabet to the end of the vehicle. The rear pillar on a station wagon or van would be the "D post".   
#24
I was a member of the Plymouth Owners Club for many years and somewhere around here I have a couple of lists of all the members and their vehivle year of ownership. I'll try to find them amd maybe there is a owner or 2 in your area or not too many hours away that wouldn't mind you looking over their engine for clues to your problem. 
#25
racertb where do you live?
#26
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 07, 2015, 09:21:37 AM
It looks like somebody has taken a grinder to the area under the pump? Ugh. There would normally be a "saddle" that has 2 vertical bolt holes in it to take the floating power mount. Then the rubber sandwich mount has 2 holes in it's other lower plate which bolt it to an "A" frame that supports the mount and the front of the engine and it's "legs" are bolted to the frame. I can't tell if those holes on the bottom are the original lower mounts or not. Memory not working. You have to wonder what possessd the person to cut 2 blades off the fan unless they broke of their own accord.

Story: One of the 1st mass recalls by a car maker was by Ford because of the fan on the very first Model As in 1928. Henry being the cheapo he was,would not balance the fan blades. So lo and behold new Model A owners had the thrill of having the fan spit off a blade which promply went right through the hood. The cars which are called "AR"s were recalled and the delaer installed a balanced fan and new hood piece at no cost. These are the Model As that have red rubber steering wheels and brake/clutch covers. And I believe the parking brake lever is on the outside left near the driver's door. Quite rare today.   
#27
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 05, 2015, 10:18:00 PM
Just my 2 cents as well.
   I think by the time I got down to '31 PAs my PA had 4 blades on the fan not two. I seem to remember the last Plymouth with 2 blades was my '29U. Whatever the control on the shift lever does it ain't Plymouth. No Plymouth from those years had such a control on their shift lever. The tranny and bell housing look "foreign" to Plymouth also but I'm not sure. '31 PAs were the 1st to have a set of  "Floating Power" engine mounts under the front water pump and under the tranny. I can't tell if they are there or not. I also can't see the front universal. It should be a ball and trunion 'Detroit Universal". If it's not,it's not Plymouth. I don't know why the engine serial number has a "T" in front of it except to indicate truck use but by whom? Chrysler did 4 cylinder trucks under the Fargo,Plymouth and Dodge banner around this time. But supposedly only for export.       
#28
General Discussion / Re: Cadmium rims?
March 05, 2015, 10:01:36 AM
All of the QDRs (quick demountabel rims) were cadmium plated to keep them from rust welding themselves to the fellow,the outside metal rim the wooden spokes go into, and the dog clamps. Most of the cars came with the cadmium 'nude' or natural so the rims appears 'white' in the old b+w photos. However there are factory photos around that show the rims in some dark color,maybe black,maybe body color. However I would think that the rims were still cad plated underneath.           

(fyi-'argent' is French for 'silver'. L'argent means 'the money' in French coming from the first kind of money which was silver coins. They never invented a newer word. You have to know the sense of the sentence to know whether they are talking about the color silver or money.)       
#29
General Discussion / Re: Shock Absorbers
March 05, 2015, 09:49:16 AM
When I had my '29U a guy who really knew his cars and Plymouths,told me the little 'reverse springs' on the top of the main springs were the shock absorbers. There is one under each spring bolt at about the middle of the spring ends. They look like miniature leaf springs. They were meant to modify the spring rate,slow it down or speed it up,I'm not sure.   
#30
Many years ago I was asked by a now deceased Plymouth guy to accompany him into the hinterland about 150 miles north northwest of Toronto to pick up a Plymouth 4 cylinder engine. We ended up in a logging camp of sorts in the back of beyond and the '29U engine was on a large farm wagon of the type used to collect hay bales. It had rubber tires and the yoke was still attached. The engine was mounted on hard wood pieces to make up for the missing frame. It looked just the same as yours and with the hood pieces and dash still in place. I forget how the engine drove the saw blade but the transmission was still in place. (I think it was with the common farm 6" rubber/cloth belt on a coned wooden block on the driven end and on the driving end. The same as old steam tractors drove threshing machines.)  A huge,possibly 8 to 10 foot in diameter, homemade saw blade was on sleeper blocks with half of it through the wooden planked floor of the wagon. The teeth were maybe cut 4" into the blade circumference. No safety cover above or below the wagon floor,nothing. It had obviously been used to cut very large trees down into usable pieces back in the 30 and 40s. My friend had been given it for nothing,just take it away. It still exists somewhere in somebodys '29U in Ontario I can't remember where exactly. This use of engines from cars was very common in Canada. I've seen others still mounted and ready for a day's work.