Vacuum Pump - Cleaned up the Kingston can I picked up the other year,(best I could) Frank left me some Red-Kote. So I coated the seams and left it to dry.

First problem. New wiring kit comes with smaller connectors for the headlight plug ins, they fall through. Old ones were crimped and were not intended to be reused. I tried to expand them, but they are splitting. Anybody know off hand a place to find replacements? (maybe a ford part, same headlamps) I'll give a look at a few catalogs, but will probably just try and solder them together.

Prepping for wiring. Uncovered the Clum switch, literally just the outline of it showing. It was so covered in years of grease and blow by, I felt like an archaeologist. Got it out, cleaned up grabbed my fluke and Ohmed out all switch positions to make sure they were good. Checked the connections to the wiring diagrams. Pictures below for those who may not have seen one, or just like lots of pictures. 

Quote from: chetbrz on June 11, 2017, 11:57:16 PM
Thanks Frank, I am sure Dave will keep us in the loop.

When I get there   

If a trip out is worth it to you, I would be happy to have you out. Will just have to coordinate a good time and take a few days off. We can trade numbers in PM or Email.

Headliner is in yet, I didn't get too crazy tearing it all apart. Will take a few more pictures.

Starting digging into my wood repair, some of it is a littler further gone than slapping some wood putty on it. (all though it would probably get me by)
The front piece in the pictures below is pretty bad on the passenger side. I think I can get it all apart with out too much struggle. I can pull the screws in the bows, pull the metal strips on the ends off and pull the whole room top (bows & slats) as one assembly and get at the other pieces easier for inspection and repair. Plus to do the headliner right, it show come out anyway.

What would you guys do? Pull the piece, remove the rot form, fill and sand?

Or try and remake the piece? There is enough of it there to get accurate measurements?  Problem with option, is I lack the tools and techniques to get it right. It is one piece, with lots of scary curves, and pieces......

Look what showed up today....



Quick glance, looks good. Well tagged. I will have to reuse some pieces , like the bakelite(?) headlight connectors.

Will get into details when I start to install.

Quote from: chetbrz on May 04, 2017, 12:39:38 AM

Sounds great Dave,  I think you made the right choice.  Please post more info once you get the harness.

Many thanks, Chet...

PS... Do I have the info correct:

YnZs Yesterdays Parts
333 E. Stuart Ave. Unit A
Redlands, CA 92374

Looks right.

Their site http://www.ynzyesterdaysparts.com/

Harness list http://www.ynzyesterdaysparts.com/pdfs/Plymouth.pdf

Yes. Ynz had options for add on's. They also offer lifetime support for their customers.

Other vendor info. Not ripping them, just my reasons for not choosing to use them.

I tried called harnesses unlimited. They don't/won't answer their phone (leave a message only) or take web orders. Mail order forms only. I didn't like not being able to ask questions or get confirmations.

Called Rhode Island. Sounded like a quality shop, but I would have had to tag and send my harness to them, for them to model a new one. More time and effort than I wanted to spend. Think she said after all of that if you didn't like the price they would send the harness back no cost.

Ynz answered their phone, answered questions, have done a 29 sedan before, offer lifetime support and will take a CC order over the phone. Winner....

Will update with pictures and install when it arrives.

Fun.

Let me know when you do your upper Midwestern tour.....There is couple of us hiding out! 

Quote from: Tinkeys on January 19, 2013, 06:28:17 AM
If I had to take a guess either long or short would be ok , I'm thinking early production had long pump and later had short !
Cheers Tony

I'm on board with this! My 29 sedan has the long pump... the parts I got from another 29 (coupe) has a short.... .but I'm good with either

Few things to report. Been scratching away at the parts needed to continue to make er original again. Looking for some warm weather and dry a ground ( farm testing, skipping the road for now) to convert back to an original vacuum canister.

Been cleaning up and inspecting the original base I got the other fall. Its about ready to go in.


Finally ordered the wiring harness, might be here in 6 to 10 weeks lol. Ended up going with Ynz. This should get me going again...

Picture from my resto thread.

Let me add to the confusion. My 29U with the 20" wheels, has 4 (2 damaged) of the smooth style.

And I picked up a rear end from a 31 for parts, and it had a hex style on it.

I have sheared one off, but was using a homemade garage engineered base. It happened when I cranked both bolts in tight, not a perfect fit apparently.

What comes to mind for you to check is the tab. It is offset. If installed wrong, I would assume it would fail but had a spare (wrong drive, same shaft) that was bent like it was installed wrong.

The other thing I did when attempting to straighten a bend tab was only put one bolt in the base. Then observe the wobble for troubleshooting, instead of bolting down hard potentially twisting it off. I straighten the bend one and use still use it today.

I have pictures for reference, showing the offset. If you already know this, I would check alignments.