Thank you, Howard.

Update. I had a blown freeze plug replace as well as the water pump. All is well now with the car.

I did a search, and I could find pervious posts about converting the vacuum wipers to electric. Has anyone done this to a '56 Clipper? My vacuum wipers work fine, but I'm thinking of converting to electric as I'm driving the car more frequently during the rainy season here in Portland, Oregon. Any insights, suggestions and or referrals on how to do this is very much appreciated.

That did not last long. I think my next step will be getting a new control switch box (a newer solid state one). For now, I'm leaving the compensator switch (under the dash) in the off position, and manually leveling the rear-end as needed by grounding one of the solenoids.

Last year, I had to replace one of the trunk hinges. Attached are a picture of the clips uses to secure the trunk light wire. I forgot to take a picture of how they were attached to secure the wire and fasten to the trunk body. Can someone post a few pictures of how they work?

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Thank you for the help. The temp gauge works when grounding the sensor. However, I think the sensor may be bad, as the temp gauge need never moves away from the "C". Should it remain on the "C" while driving?

I'm having a similar issue with my temp gauge. How do I growing the wire from the temp sending unit; sorry for the newbie-ish question.

Where can I find more information on using the automatic antenna switch as a manual TL leveling switch?

Howard, thank you for the wiring diagram. It was the blue wire leading from the switch's "down" connection that fried. I'm attaching two photos of the fried wire and switch from underneath the dash. I'll trace back the black wire to see where it leads; I suspect it leads to the ignition switch.

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I came across this thread when searching for help to troubleshoot my automatic antenna on my '56 Clipper, but I didn't completely find an answer to my problem; so, here it is.

Over the past 12 years that I've had this car, the automatic antenna worked with no problems. Yesterday, when I pulled into my driveway, I turned off the motor and ignition switch, and then pushed in the antenna knob to lower it (I usually leave the motor on when lowering the antenna). As the antenna lowered, the motor slowed down to a stop, and then smoke started coming from the switch. Fortunately, no fire but it did smell like burning rubber.

After I let things cool. I crawled under the dash and noticed that one of the electric butts to the switched melted. Whiled trouble shooting and checked all the fuses in the fuse bus under the dash; all were fine (with the excepting of no fuse for the clock - I don't have a clock). My shop manual says the electric antenna uses an SFE 20 Amp. fuse, but I can't locate the fuse.

Any help the members of this group can give me is very much appreciated.

-Ken

PS: I had just returned home from buying a fire extinguisher. Fortunately, I didn't have to use it.