I use odorless thinner for cleaning my oiled air cleaners. Flammability is low and the lack of smell is a big plus with me.

Tim,

Thanks for the input and insight. I may get a chance to give it a go with the oil this weekend. Based on input from Dave, Ken and you, I'll start at 5 psig and see what happens.

I Plan on using a 50 wt oil.

Ozstatman,

Thanks for the lead about Don Axlerod on the headlights. He had the bolts which I ordered and received yesterday.

I've not yet had the time to pressurize the Bijur system. I thought I would start at 15-20 psig and see what happens.

The line that went from the intake manifold to the fire wall had been repaired in its former life. The fix was not done correctly and the ?" copper line was a mess. Therefore, I decided to replace the ?" section. The 1/2 ' section was so extremely corroded that I could not tell if it had been nickel plated as well as the flange that bolts to the manifold

My question is what do I need to nickel plate and does the bulkhead fitting on the firewall get plated. Also, there is a vacuum switch on the bulkhead fitting. What is its purpose and does it get plated? Can it be tested to see if it works?

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DuPont use to have a radiator flush kit that was oxalic acid and sodium carbonate. You would get the engine hot and run it for 15 to 30 minutes after adding the oxalic acid. Then drain the system and flush the system with water several times. Then fill add the sodium carbonate and run for 5 or 10 minutes. Drain & fill and re-flush several times.

I used the DuPont kit on a 1962 Chevy V8 about 45 that started running hot. It did the trick the stuff that came out when draining the oxalic acid cleaning step was unbelievable. However, I think that the DuPont kit is no longer available. The kit contained about 2 cups of oxalic acid and a cup of sodium carbonate.

The last time I was in TCP Global, which was several years ago, their store brand was PPG. While they can't tell you that, they pallets of 55 gallon drums of PPG that they off load into quarts & gallon cans. It runs about 2/3 the price of what you would pay for PPG stuff.

My '32 was painted with their paint. I used their 2K Iso-Free primer. It stuck great and had good fill properties. The down side was it is a very hard primer that makes sanding a chore, but does provide a great foundation.

Their store brand of sandpaper is also very good and nicely priced.

To All,

Next time I'll end my joshing with a LOL.

TGIF for all you Packardites as the weekend is fast approaching and ~4:00 PM starts the weekend. But to us retirees, everyday seems like Saturday.

And yes this is another one of my tongue is cheek comments.

Oh well it's 3:50 PM here in California so it's toddy time.

To those in the mid-west and parts east bundle up as it looks like a severe cold front is moving your.

If I have offended anyone, I apologize for my sick humor.

Ozstatman,

Some nice looking cars. I especially like the '49 at the top of the series. However, I think maybe he flipped some of the images. Shouldn't #4 for the '49 look like this?

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Thanks for the all the information and the great photos on the headlight questions.

On the Bijur pressure question, I'm not sure that the question about the pressure is going to readily reveal itself. Being a retired aerospace chemist I learned at the bench that with a complex question with many variables may not have a single answer.

One can calculate the max pressure the system can generate with no leakage at the piston or elsewhere. But of course there are going to be a great number of leaks. In this case 35 points where you want to have leaks so you have a well lubricated car.

I posed the question because I'm going to install a small tank containing oil that I want to use for testing the system with and verify oil gets to those 35 points. I plan on using air to pressurize the tank and thought it would be nice to use a pressure that one would typically find in a functioning system.

It is one of the vacuum powered automatic Bijur. I would have thought it would be higher. I base this on the fact that the spring that pushed the piston, while it is not very strong, the piston's small diameter would serve as a multiplier, e.g. if the spring exerts 5 lbs of pressure and if the diameter of the piston was 0.1 sq. in. the pressure would be 50 psig.

However, I must disclose the fact that I'm a retired chemist and not one of those mechanical engineer types that could probably calculate the pressure given the spring's force, piston diameter, who knows what else.