Re: The Duchess Project: 1940 Super 8 Convertible Sedan
Posted by Joe Santana On 2011/1/11 1:47:13
Much progress over the weekend.
EXHAUST PIPE I pulled out the tail pipe and took it to Midas Muffler. Back in the day, like 1975, I bought a muffler there with a golden lifetime guarantee. The muffler is still good. They were terrific. I had marked the pipe along the bottom and indicated roughly where it needed to be bent to clear the gas tank and come out straight the back end. They bent it for me no charge. Lonnie, who started at Midas about the time I bought my muffler, was great. Very nice people. It's perfect now.
BRAKES I'd had a leaky cylinder and so dismantled and honed the rear cylinders. My son John drove up from Salem and gave me his Sunday. We bled the brakes, twice. Pedal is right up there now.
ENGINE We tried to start the engine but it wasn't responding. I'd poured a half ounce or so of oil into each of the cylinders and let it soak a couple days before turning the engine over with no ignition. We disconnected a plug and checked it for spark and it had plenty, sprayed some starter fluid in the carb and off she went. One backfire, poom, puuf, choo, hum.
Problem is we had an oil leak from the new (redone) plumbing of the filter. I tried to find the correct multiport fitting, but Fluid Connections told me to bring in what I had and they'd find or 'gin up something that will work.
After the billows of smoke cleared it was so nice hearing that big 8 ba ba bumming out the tail. Idles down to nothing and stays lit.
In my campaign to find all parts I pieced together the fromt bumper and fog lights. The Duchess started to look like a real car.
And I received the Save the Date card for the wedding July 1 in St. Helena that I'm trying to make the Duchess' debut along with Joey, my middle son, and Jordan's 5th anniversary bash in Santa Cruz.
Getting very close to taking her in for paint.
I ordered some screw-together top rivets from Ron Carpenter and from John Ulrich a set of gas straps (the ones I bought from someone else were simply big strips of plumbers tape), the metal heater return hose, and fuel pump shield. I repainted my heater housing, too, along with license brackets.
You know I can smell The Road.
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EXHAUST PIPE I pulled out the tail pipe and took it to Midas Muffler. Back in the day, like 1975, I bought a muffler there with a golden lifetime guarantee. The muffler is still good. They were terrific. I had marked the pipe along the bottom and indicated roughly where it needed to be bent to clear the gas tank and come out straight the back end. They bent it for me no charge. Lonnie, who started at Midas about the time I bought my muffler, was great. Very nice people. It's perfect now.
BRAKES I'd had a leaky cylinder and so dismantled and honed the rear cylinders. My son John drove up from Salem and gave me his Sunday. We bled the brakes, twice. Pedal is right up there now.
ENGINE We tried to start the engine but it wasn't responding. I'd poured a half ounce or so of oil into each of the cylinders and let it soak a couple days before turning the engine over with no ignition. We disconnected a plug and checked it for spark and it had plenty, sprayed some starter fluid in the carb and off she went. One backfire, poom, puuf, choo, hum.
Problem is we had an oil leak from the new (redone) plumbing of the filter. I tried to find the correct multiport fitting, but Fluid Connections told me to bring in what I had and they'd find or 'gin up something that will work.
After the billows of smoke cleared it was so nice hearing that big 8 ba ba bumming out the tail. Idles down to nothing and stays lit.
In my campaign to find all parts I pieced together the fromt bumper and fog lights. The Duchess started to look like a real car.
And I received the Save the Date card for the wedding July 1 in St. Helena that I'm trying to make the Duchess' debut along with Joey, my middle son, and Jordan's 5th anniversary bash in Santa Cruz.
Getting very close to taking her in for paint.
I ordered some screw-together top rivets from Ron Carpenter and from John Ulrich a set of gas straps (the ones I bought from someone else were simply big strips of plumbers tape), the metal heater return hose, and fuel pump shield. I repainted my heater housing, too, along with license brackets.
You know I can smell The Road.
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