Re: The Duchess Project: 1940 Super 8 Convertible Sedan
Posted by Joe Santana On 2018/2/19 21:07:47
Enjoy the cool weather, Don. It's been such a warm winter.
It was cold today, in the 30s, but partly sunny. Snow Tues and days of rain after, so decided at the last minute to take advantage of this window and bring the Duchess home. John and I wiped off the barn dust. Lashed the driver door closed, but installed the vent window to cut down on wind coming in the driver window. Got gas and got on I-5 N.
She ran beautifully of course in our range up and down the scale from 50 to 65, with Molly following. The cooling system is working too well. Stayed at 1/4 temp most all the way. We had opened the shutters to 3/4. I will close them to 1/4 until we can install the new syphon thermostat from Max Merritt. There were recommendations to have Automotive Restorations of NJ rebuild it, but they must cater to the Amelia and Pebble crowd because their price they quoted this morning was $795 to rebuild a 1940 sylphon. Why not make it an even $800, guys? Pretty outrageous considering you have to provide the core and a brand new one from Max is $400 with gasket, no core required. Looking at these step-by-step instructions, we'll probably rebuild our core ourselves, since we have 2, when we have nothing left to do.http://www.secondchancegarage.com/how-to/thermostat-1.cfm
At the light after getting off the freeway, I thought she died. There was no sound or movement. I touched the accelerator before the starter button and she revved up.
All in all an amazing ride.
I'm going to take the air pressure down to 50 on the Diamondback radials.
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It was cold today, in the 30s, but partly sunny. Snow Tues and days of rain after, so decided at the last minute to take advantage of this window and bring the Duchess home. John and I wiped off the barn dust. Lashed the driver door closed, but installed the vent window to cut down on wind coming in the driver window. Got gas and got on I-5 N.
She ran beautifully of course in our range up and down the scale from 50 to 65, with Molly following. The cooling system is working too well. Stayed at 1/4 temp most all the way. We had opened the shutters to 3/4. I will close them to 1/4 until we can install the new syphon thermostat from Max Merritt. There were recommendations to have Automotive Restorations of NJ rebuild it, but they must cater to the Amelia and Pebble crowd because their price they quoted this morning was $795 to rebuild a 1940 sylphon. Why not make it an even $800, guys? Pretty outrageous considering you have to provide the core and a brand new one from Max is $400 with gasket, no core required. Looking at these step-by-step instructions, we'll probably rebuild our core ourselves, since we have 2, when we have nothing left to do.http://www.secondchancegarage.com/how-to/thermostat-1.cfm
At the light after getting off the freeway, I thought she died. There was no sound or movement. I touched the accelerator before the starter button and she revved up.
All in all an amazing ride.
I'm going to take the air pressure down to 50 on the Diamondback radials.
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