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#91
General Discussion / Re: Oil Pressure Readings Down
October 19, 2015, 10:51:28 PM
Nice!
#92
General Discussion / Re: Hello? Beuller?
July 14, 2015, 07:51:34 PM
I'm nursing a large post surgery dog.  I may try to move my car into the back yard to get it under cover and also to allow my to putter with it for the next 6-8 weeks. She loves to sleep in the makeshift kennel I made her out there instead of inside.
#93
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
July 01, 2015, 02:39:02 PM
  I've had the car for 8 years now.  The guy I got it from received it as a wedding gift in the early 70's from his father-in-law. They left the church in it. At that time it had been gone through and had a fresh lacquer paint job. It was completely stock with all original parts.  It remains the same with the exception of an electric fuel pump but I got the vacuum canister with it.
  My plan is to make it mechanically and structurally sound and just drive it around town to the beach and so forth, no long hauls or formal car shows.
The paint on the hood top and trunk lid and other spots is rough, rusty and crazed. I may spot paint but I'm more inclined to clear over what's there. I'm going to keep both sets of wheels and switch them out as the mood moves me. It's easier and much quicker to swap the whole hub, brake drum and wheel assembly as a unit than to change either a wood or wire rim by itself. Cap, cotter key and axle/spindle retaining nut and you're done. I put the wire rim on because I was having trouble getting my demountable expanded back in place after changing a flat tire.  I've done it before but I have a seriously fouled up back that has slowed me down and forced me to look for easier ways to do things.
  Oh by the way, just to keep on topic of your original post I saw an ad of someone selling a bunch of parts to include 4 original shocks off a 29 Dodge.  The price for the lot was high but I may call just out of curiosity.  He's up north of San Fran.
  Wow, that's a long winded reply.  Okay Steve your turn.  Let's see some pictures of your 28. 
#94
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 30, 2015, 10:33:17 PM
This is one of my favorite features on the car.
#95
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 30, 2015, 10:25:44 PM
Thanks Steve.  So here's a few pictures I took today.  I've got the  bumpers and spare tire mount off so it fits in the short side of my garage where the washer/dryer is. I removed the visor when I noticed how wallowed out the mounting holes in the wood were.  My next milestone is to fix and replace as much of the wood structure as I can.  I've done a few spots but it's a job that will require the long side of the garage to be empty for a few weeks and I've already got a project in there.  The pictures should open up a little bigger if you click on them.
ski
#96
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 30, 2015, 12:07:02 AM
Steve, Yes it's a business coupe.  I didn't get pics today, stuff came up and I didn't grab my son's phone before he went off to work.  My phone = old and the wife has my equally old digital camera with her while visiting family.  I did start my coupe up today along with the other runners I have hanging around the house. Coughed right up on the first turn after sitting since mid May.  Here's a pic of another cut-down coupe I have stashed in the backyard.  It's a far in the future project. I have the hood and some 4 door sedan doors that I plan to turn into roadster doors.  Right now it's yard art.  My granddaughter digs it.

ski
#97
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 29, 2015, 01:05:05 AM
No problem Steve but I'll have to take a picture tomorrow, can't find one on my hard drive.  Believe me, the bigger the picture the worse it will look.  I need to start it up and move it around anyway as it's been about a month since I've done so.

ski
#98
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 27, 2015, 10:15:44 PM
Here it is.  I'd love to find some.
#99
General Discussion / Re: Shocking
June 27, 2015, 10:07:57 PM
I'm can't say for sure but my 29 has none and it doesn't look like it ever did.  I've got a picture somewhere of one with friction shocks. I'll try to find it and post.

ski
#101
racertb, I would make an individual cylinder compression check my next step just so you know what you have.  If you get a low cylinder check it again after shooting a bit of oil down the hole.

ski
#102
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 07, 2015, 05:35:39 PM
Thanks Chet, I appreciate that but I don't think this engine will accept the floating power mount due to it's lack of mounting bosses and holes as Old Man described. Every time I eliminate something it's not I get closer to finding out what it is. I am learning a lot about the whirlwind times WPC was going through during the late 20's- early 30's with the wide array of vehicles offered.

ski
#103
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 07, 2015, 12:16:11 PM
Here's a better pic of under the pump. No grinding but no floating power provision either.  The engine mounts are the same as in my 29U but I have to make an x-member. I'm researching Fargo, Packet, Freighter and early Plymouth buses when I'm unable to work in my garage.

ski
#104
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 07, 2015, 12:04:10 AM
Cast date on trans is 1931.  Nothing under water pump.
#105
General Discussion / Re: Engine identification?
April 07, 2015, 12:01:12 AM
Thanks for the info Old Man.  The fan was a four blade that somebody cut down.  I can't see anything under the water pump but there's a threaded hole and some other fitting under the tranny, aft. The universal is a knuckle with a female spine.  I figured the T may be for truck so I'll look in that direction. 

ski