Technical What are you working on?

My project for the day is getting all the suspension bushings installed on the '48 Ford coupe. Yesterday, I realized that I didn't have a spring spreader, so I built one. Today, I find out if it works. Wish me luck.

 

Oh! I see. Throw the damn 350 in it, it can handle the 3000rpm trips better than the 216 id say.

 

Or go the Lloyd Stone route and get you an NP833

 

According to my Amazon Bosch tachometer, it’s 2800 at 50-55 now. Anymore than that and it sounds like the poor rods want to leave the engine. It can grande for all I care, but with my luck, it will happen in BFE between Paducah and your house! I’m reasonably sure the 350 will do 3000 all day and not break a sweat.

 

I would hate to call you and ask for a ride to your house and then to BG!

 

I thought about that too!!

 

Rear location time. . need to figure a removeable trans mount, with the ladder bar set up Then the coil overs, and pan hard bar.

 

Have the dent in my '39 fender fixed and painted. I got a few runs, so scraped them off with a razor blade, wet sanded, and the fender is ready to cut and buff now! Over this winter I'm going to cut and buff the whole car.

 

Removed this. and then this HEAVY little bastard

 

40 Ford trunk lid supports are hard to find, took a different year support and cut the rivets out that hold the top mount on. Made a rivet and put the correct mount on for a 40, works good.

 

Picked up a Mercruiser High Silicone Graphite casting 350 with super low hours in it. Bayliner hit a rock...Note the 750 Holley double pumper..Had a 4800 rpm rev limiter.... 50 DeSoto engine bay now has a mill ..

 

@choptop40 - Good deal, standard rotation the way it looks from a normal alternator.

 

Did it sink, and if it did, was it in fresh or salt water? Nice catch, by the way.

 

Oil is clean ,..ordered Pioneer FLA-159 , 168 tooth 1 piece real seal automatic flywheel...to replace the marine one....

 

Is the carb marine or standard car type ?

 

marine....an added lever riveted to throttle bracket..

 

Harvesting parts

and students did a comp test on the 292 previously posted.
150-low 160s.
Mid 40s oil psi
Mid 30s at idle.
We gonna do a reseal and paint

 

Man I bet that thing swings WAAAAAY out in a turn

 

I know , I know....you'd drive it

 

Had a box truck once with a lot of rear over hang damn near take out my front fender once. That would have been something to work on.

 

Yep. Got 3 of these beaters.
One with a very nice cab. I keep having visions of a car hauler.
This one has the 5 speed.
Who knows.

 

This thing used to haul very large mammals for my employer back in the day.

 

I once dated a very large mammal in college

 

One of my fellow Pepsi drivers was stopped by a younger girl in the inner city yelling "yo hit ma mama ! Yo hit ma mama !"
Poor guy thought he had ran over someone but it turned out he clipped a car with the tail of the truck while making a left turn. Lol

 

Marine carb should have tubes that bend back over the top from the vents. Does the alternator and starter have USCG approval stickers on them?

 

Worked on cleaning up the tempest engine bay, very rust free. I discovered the engine cradle brackets are centered it's the mounting brackets on the engine that are offset. It looks like if I flip em left to right it will offset the V8 1 inch to the pass side which would be perfect.

 

Looking very closely at the 1962 HRM article it kinda looks like that's what Mickey did.

 

Would that be a positive or negative offset?

 

Would depend on if you lived here or in another country where they drive on the wrong side of the road

 

but are you measuring to the inside or the outside of the bracket?



I've been installing stereo equipment in the plastic fantastic...just because....