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Re: Burr Ripley L6 filter - how to modify inside filter
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I don't know the answer to your question but will be watching this closely for responses as I also have a 1934 with the one-year only L6 Purolator and am using the Burr-Ripley conversion. I've used the last of my Ripley cartridges some thousands of miles ago and am not aware of a current source and apparently no one picked up the Ripley tooling.

I don't believe simple soldering will give sufficient strength to the threaded nipple.

I am considering replacing the filter with a length of copper pipe to retain the oil circuit thru the cooler, and just run without a filter. With only 3-500 miles per year and an annua oil change I don't think there is much downside to running without a filter.

Posted on: 3/17 7:57
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Re: Chrome disc wheels on a 1932?
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Depending on the type of racing, one advantage that wire spoke wheels can offer is that they allow better cooling airflow around brake drums.

Posted on: 3/14 16:01
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Re: Chrome disc wheels on a 1932?
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Excellent Kev, thanks and that would seem to definitively answer the question.

Posted on: 3/14 7:31
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Re: Chrome disc wheels on a 1932?
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Kev, not applicable to the current question. Similar to the ACE-style covers, those you've shown are intended to cover over the steel spokes on the standard spoke wheel, a cosmetic effect. The wheel in question is a true steel disc wheel (available thru 1936 on Senior cars, IIRC), here's a photo of a one on a 1933 Super Eight. These were quite often found on export cars as they were a much stronger wheel than the wooden artillery or steel wire spoke.

Just my opinion but they had a lot more eye-appeal when wheel sizes were larger, by the time the smaller 17" wheels arrived (as in the enclosed photo) they had kind of lost their glamour.

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Posted on: 3/13 13:28
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Re: Chrome disc wheels on a 1932?
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Well Richard, that indeed is the question ECA asked, "were they or were they not an option in 1932?".

Posted on: 3/11 16:37
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Re: Jackstand points
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If I wasn't planning on doing any work to the suspension, then I often placed jackstands on my '56 under the suspension components, the axle shaft tube in the rear and the lower control arm in front. Where the stands were place depended on what service was planned.

Posted on: 3/11 13:30
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Re: Chrome disc wheels on a 1932?
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I don't know the correct answer to the original question, but in looking at the lovely piece of Packard advertising artwork that Richard Lambert has provided, we need to remember that display chassis prepared for showrooms were generally "dressed up" for eye appeal and could contain features not available on regular production.

Posted on: 3/11 13:22
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Re: Artillery Wheels
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You asking about the wood-spoke senior artillery wheels offered 1936 and earlier (17 inch and larger) or the later smaller diameter stamped steel artillery wheels?

No one making repros of either artillery wheel type that I'm aware of.

Posted on: 3/5 19:12
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Re: No Compression
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Many good carburetor rebuilders around, Daytona Parts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida among the very best.

Posted on: 3/5 11:54
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Re: Gauge Rebuild/Repair - Recommendations
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Mechanical type pressure gauges are generally based on the "bourdon tube" mechanism, not "Bordon". Google "bourdon tube" for more info, very elegant yet simple.

Posted on: 3/5 11:49
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