Thanks Don and Howard. This explains why the chrome bumper needs redone on this one. I imagine it's even harder now than it was in 1952 to get good chrome work done.

This is very interesting. The title says 1951. It does have power brakes which was not an option until 52, but I just assumed that at some point someone made the upgrade at a dealership. I will check the engine serial number when I get a chance to confirm the year. It probably won't be that hard to get a correction made to the title if it is in fact a 1952. Thanks!

Thanks for suggesting the owner registry. It looks like I was able to successfully register. I will update the registry with progress as it comes. 👍 🚘

Thanks so much for the reply! All of the valves appear to be opening and closing now that I removed all of the heat shield material from the mice nest. Do you think it's necessary to do a complete valve job? I may be too optimistic to hope that removing the nest material will allow me to regain compression from the cylinders that were low. However, The valves seem to be seating as far as the eye can see, for whatever that is worth. Thanks

I am new here and have removed some mice nests around the valves where mice made a nest out of the heat shield through the exhaust. I removed a good amount around several of the valves. I had no compression on several cylinders and believe this is due to the mice nest. I have removed all of the 11/16 bolts to remove the manifold, but there is one 9/16 bolt left that is very tricky to get to behind the manifold. Is there any advice for removing this 9/16 bolt? I believe I have to remove the fender panel as well as the passenger wheel to remove this bolt. Any advice or suggestion is most appreciated. Trying to get this beauty back on the road.

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