History My Grandfather's 32 Roadster, A True 50's Hot Rod

Josh, the main ingredient is tetrasodium EDTA.
Tom

 

Would it devalue the vehicle if we bought a brand new gas tank? This thing is in rough shape. Probably an inch of rust sitting in the bottom.

 

The Kool factor of this car is Substantial!!
I would spend a week cleaning that tank...
Before replacing it...
I would use the acid, Rinse, an throw a quart of diesel in it, then rinse with a lil gas...

 

I'd buy a new tank, paint it to match the old one. Clean out the old one and keep it on the shelf, no different than worn out water pumps, keep all the original worn out parts. Bob

 

Josh, you have a P.M.

 

My Uncle told me the other reason for the left hand shifter was to make it easier to speed-shift from 1st to 2nd... then he added the part about ease of putting your arm around the girl.
That car is unbe-*#*%@!-lievable!!! Practically perfect in every way!

 

There is a guy in Florida? who rebuilds YOUR pumps and sends them back to you. He uses new design impeller blades that swirl instead of Fords straight fins. Someone here will know who he is

 

I have used POR15s gas tank sealer for about 40 years. Excellent stuff. I put sharp pointed rocks, short pieces of chain, large nuts and a quart of metal prep and rotate the tank so the bits move around and scour the rust off. Often I strap the tank to a tractor rear wheel and drive around. POR15 tank sealer is awesome, stay away from kreme which is liquid PVC. After putting the sealer in and rotating so the sealer gets everywhere, ya gotta drain out the excess. I left one tank on saw horses to drain and my 8 year old son came running over and told me the sealer was trying to stop up the 5/8" drain hole! They used to advertise the sealer using something that looked like lace and showing the sealer closing all the holes. I welded the top and bottom of two tanks together to increase volume of my 35 Ford tank and first check for leaks showed a dozen places in my weld that were leaking. First thought, weld each leak. Second thought, just use tank sealer. That was more than 30 years ago and no problems ever.

 

Devaluing the car. What does that mean. The car is priceless. It has been in the same family for decades. It should not be sold for decades to come. So, we will never know what it would sell for or what it is worth. Just put a high insurance valuation on it.

 

Insurance value of that car is $100,000, but no company will write a policy for that amount. I tried with my patinaed 32 and they said it wasn’t worth much with the old paint.

 

My 32-sport coupe had limited use since built in 1989 & found the tank had some type of internal sealer curling & coming loose, a local radiator shop quoted $100-150 to remove it & would require heating via a torch, thought it might compromise soldered areas so purchased a new unit & bumped the capacity by 3 gallons. While it remains on the shelf for now, I have poked/prodded & seem to have it relatively clean however the internal baffling prevents very little access or visibility for certain, probably ok with good filter maintenance.

 

Skip Haney is the guy in FL. Here is his website.

http://www.fordcollector.com/water_pumps.htm

 

Send the water pumps to Skip Haney in Florida.

Pix are of the flyer I got when I had my pumps rebuilt. I'd try to contact him to make sure the chrome can be preserved.

 

Amazing! VERY cool 32!!! So sorry about the loss. We have good friends in superior that watched the fire from their rooftop deck. Just missed em by a few hundred yards. (condos over by the airstrip) I am also into Z cars and that shot of your dads car was heartbreaking, it went around the Z pages online.

 

Quick Glo will bring those pumps back to life. BEST CHROME POLISH EVER

 

Old chrome doesn’t need polish!

 

Hate to sound like a broken record (or Gibb’s oil salesman), but rub some Gibb’s oil on the old chrome!

 

My old chrome has plenty of 10w40 on it.

 

How do you date a fuel pump. The fuel pump rebuild kit that I purchased doesn't match the pump that I have. The holes on the diaphragm don't match up. I thought the engine was a 1941 but maybe it's 40??

 

Post a photo

 

Really smart use of tubing to protect the plug wires and it makes it a lot neater!

 

With respect to the old chrome thing, nealinca a regular here on the hamb, is big on the old chrome parts, I presume he zero'd in on the many Calif. cars that followed the chrome everything trend over the years & picked it up whenever reasonably priced. I'm sure plenty was floating around as the older built hot rods changed hands or were updated, he may well be a good source for reviving while preserving the natural aging important to a prime example of a true period hot rod.

 

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Well if I was to date a fuel pump the first thing I would do is to buy it dinner. In hopes that it would put out!!

 

From the original post you made, it looks like a 47-48 style fuel pump.

Like this: https://www.speedwaymotors.com/Offe...73RU0vWKtLtVBPOTN6nG1D9nrxFM13MRoCcYcQAvD_BwE

But supposedly the fuel pump rebuild kits are all the same 41-53?
https://thirdgenauto.com/product/1941-53-ford-flathead-v8-ful-pump-rebuild-kit/

Below is the 37-40 style:


~Peter

 

That's exactly what I thought. I got the rebuild kit from third gen. It looks like everything else fits as it should.

Are the screw holes a little off because the diaphragm is supposed to have a little play?

 

Great survivor and thread
And I do love my roadsters

 

My guess would be yes, meant to be a little wiggle-room in the rubber. They should be able to confirm that over the phone. I got mine from them already rebuilt, so I can't speak to the rebuild process.

~Peter

 

1975...had a chance to get a steel 3w, no motor from the wrench on my friends, stepdads top fuel car. $4500! Rented a trailer, went to get it with my dad, and my dad refused to let me buy it! Heard he sold it to some guys in Santa Barbara. Never saw it again...

 

That really is a nice car! Lucky dog!!!!