Technical What are you working on?

you and prudhomme!

 

Whenever I took my woody out for the first real drive last weekend the breaks had a spongy feel to them the closer I got to the house and my wife noticed that it was making a noise in the front whenever I was turning into the driveway. So I finally got around to looking and come to find out the pin either broke or the fastener came loose because it was missing. So I put the new parts in and deglazed the drum and put it back together.

 

Stopped by this project this afternoon. Got the grille installed correctly and had the plates for the carburetors to mount them sideways. Worked on a list for fuel line fittings and trying to map out throttle linkage.

 

Two books, three rounds of cleaning and hours watching how to videos…
Overhauling my tranny.

 

Good luck. I build mine standing on a 35 gallon gear oil barrel that has a hole cut in the lid.

 

Thank you.
My first crack at this.
We will see how it goes.
I was really intimidated, but I’m gaining more confidence as I go along.

 

I have some seal protectors for this transmission, sure helps with a rebuild.

 

Changed out the clutch pedal bushings on my 40 Ford, really made a big improvement. The old ones were pretty worn but the pedal and shaft were still good.

 

Lately when I first fire the Henry J I've been gettin some poping out the right pipe, get out on the road and hit a few rpms it clears up.
I do a lot of this around here, sitting in traffic, so I figure it's just a fouled plug.



The other day at a steady 3000 rpm I could still hear it, so a couple romps it cleared up again.
Today I pulled a plug to just see what story they had to tell, they said "you're choking me daddy-o !"
Early in the year I had dropped 2 numbers all around, today I dropped the primaries another 3 and cleaned the plugs off, I'll take it out tomorrow and see how it does.
Might be like a regular 2 Lane Blacktop moment around here, gotta check the jets !

 

Billy, those polished Mickey T's are beautiful.

 

Billy, I have had to tune a bit with the crazy humidity we have had here for weeks. If you get in lots of traffic, maybe a hotter plug may be in order.

 

Well, things looked like they were going good, until I discovered this.


Cracked rear servo housing caused by installing the servo out of sequence. Totally my screw up.
I don’t believe it can be saved, but boy oh boy did I learn a lot in the process.
I may look for a good used TH-400 case and swap parts or cut my losses and buy a pro rebuilt.
Remind me to tell you guys about the first time I tried to sweat copper water pipe.

 

"I don’t believe it can be saved"

Oh, a little JB Weld and/or duct tape and you're back in business.

If I had a case you'd be welcome to it. Sweetie is in Mokena right now celebrating her son's birthday.

 

Raw US steel wheels…..match painting has become an understatement to say the least. I do like Max 2K Glamor Clear.

 

I didn’t know if JB Weld would work, or are you just kidding?
I didn’t know if this was under high pressure or not.
Mokena city center is a great place for music, they have done a great job there.

 

took off the wieand /Holley 4 brl intake and carb today and put the Edelbrock 3x2 intake on. I blocked off the secondarys till i get it fired and tuned properly on the primary carb. It's got to set overnight till the ultra black i used to seal the ends cures. Looking forward to tomorrow!

 

Sorry; just kidding. That said I've heard some whopper tales that claimed to be true so you never know.

 

Bummer man
Dan

 

@Robdski - sorry, man! But you're out there giving it the 'ol hot rod try. Actually doing it yourself instead of just checkbooking the project.

Randy - I see custom pushrods in there! Bet it's gonna run like a top on a single 2.

 

Been running my brake lines on a 28 DeSoto pickup

 

Huh! And I thought dropping a nut into the intake manifold on my '48 was bad. Project was to remove the old 94 and install the new 97. Pulling the intake seemed to be the only option. Recto-cranial inversion followed immediately by missing removing one bolt and breaking the intake manifold. Sometimes, wedges and long pry bars are NOT your friends.

 

Small progress on Wifeys T-Bird…

Found the worst rust on the car,

Behind/under right headlight buckets.

Where I ended up calling it an evening yesterday.

 

Oh this brings back memories…….
I had a heater hose break on my wife’s OT Town Car with an 4.6. It runs under the intake so you have to pull it off which isn’t a huge deal but whenever you have cataracts and everything is a complete wash out blur so it sorta complicates things I tore the top side of the motor off and replaced the hose then put everything back together. It took 3 days to do a 6 hour job because I couldn’t see a damn thing. My dad came over and inspected the job and made sure I had no loose ends and whenever I fired it up it made one hell of a rattle in one of the cylinders and before I could shut it off it stopped. Cranked it up again and ran fine until it started smoking like a freight train. Come to find out part of the intake gasket which was hard plastic fell into the cylinder and it either punched a hole in the piston or it gummed up the cylinder walls and ruined the rings. Either way I destroyed a nice low mileage 4.6 because I always work on all of my cars and never send them to a mechanic.

 

Thanks and I see you guys remembered my fake name tag shirt. Lol

Philip

 

If ya ain't screwing up and/or breaking things ya probably ain't doing anything!
Dan

 

I can honestly say, as a non-mechanic, I wasn’t trying to take money away from the trans guy, I just wanted to give it a try, to learn something, for my own benefit.
For you guy’s that have the knowledge and talent to do this for a living, I have a new found respect.
Thanks to everyone for the kind words, it was a learning experience. I’ll take the loss and move forward.

 

Alan, I gave you a like because I’ve done that kind of thing too and feel for you. Not because it happened. I’m looking forward to seeing you again at LF-3!

 

I happen to have a stock 48 intake on a shelf in my garage if you need one buddy

 

Had to add a leaf to drivers side of the Power Wagon . Me and full fuel tank on that side , for years caused a bit of a sag .

 

Yep! Crazy Philip. Or Bad Ass if you prefer.