Re: 1938 Super 8 1605 - adventures with a newbie

Posted by kevinpackard On 2022/12/18 17:25:04

HPH - The A/C set up takes up a ridiculous amount of real estate. The compressor on the engine is not too bad, but it interferes with the fan now that we are using a '39 water pump. But the entire underside of the dash is taken up with a massive air handler, ducting all over the place, and a stupid amount of wires. It's insane. The reason the engine raced when we started it the second time was the air handler had fallen down onto the gas pedal. I'm so tempted to just remove it all. Our temps here in eastern WA aren't too bad.

Once I get the list of above items sorted out, I will leave the fenders off and drive the car for a while. I'd like to work out any bugs before I put those enormous fenders back on.

Dave - to be honest I'm not even sure how to get the ignition cable off the ignition switch. I can't even see it, let alone reach it, with all the A/C junk in the way. I'm pretty sure the old wire caught fire inside the whole length of cable. Not sure how I'm going to clean that out and get a new wire in there.

The car is already 12V, so should be easy to do the electric fan swap. The 12V conversion and A/C was all done by the previous owner down in Texas. I can see how A/C would be helpful down there, but it's just not needed much up here.

Good call on Terrell Machine. I'll get in touch with them.

-Kevin