Fun looking cruiser. On the tire size thing. Play with this tire size comparison chart a bit. A 235 tire is going to be right at 9.3 inches wide no matter what the aspect ratio is A 215 will be about 8.5. https://tiresize.com/comparison/ It's interesting to play with and helped me pick the tires for my 48 the other day.
I’m trying to have a wicked good summah cruisah guy thanks! That’s my goal with it lol thanks! I’m noticing on the car that the issue isn’t so much how wide the tire is, it’s how much offset the wheels that are on it have. I’ll probably have to find another set of wheels for it. Small update. Been trying to grind out getting things done on this car whenever the weather will permit me to (I didn’t know I moved to the PNW apparently) got all new soft lines in the brake system, the one on the torque tube was a little too soft, so I decided changing all of them was probably a good idea. I have a new bushing for the upper steering column that needs to be installed, I have to figure out how to get the horn ****on out on this steering wheel. It doesn’t seem to be the same as a 40 wheel, or the ****ons just seized into the steering wheel somehow. the big thing though, tonight I was trying to fix my issue with the lack of brake lights and I have figured out the actual problem. The entire wiring harness has been completely butchered in the car. Parts are spliced and hacked up, there wire nuts in it everywhere. Every non factory wire in it is black, there is 0 guesses in it to top it all off (something I find very scary) in conclusion there I think I’m going to end up re wiring most of the car, I wanted to start cleaning it up a bit today however I don’t want to go cutting **** willy nilly without knowing what things do/ where they go. I’ve found some photos of diagrams on Van Pelt’s site, however the resolution isn’t great on the photos and I can’t quite read the text on them, does anyone here have higher resolution scans of them? Thanks!
Looks like a nice car that hasnt been taken apart left out in a field to rot and get destroyed by Bubba Hogwallop (expert) and put on facespook marketplace for $45k, ran when parked before taken apart to rot How much did you pay $$ ?
Does the starter have the front support clip that goes to a pan bolt on it? If not, I would highly recommend one. Third Gen Automotive in McMinnville, TN has them.
I’m honestly not quite sure if it does, I’ll have to crawl under and check it tomorrow. Got some film scans back.
Happy Memorial Day my fellow HAMBrs Small update. I’ve started work on the wiring, stripped out all the non factory wiring, it seems it’s all for an aftermarket blinker kit someone had installed into it. I think I’m going to just run it for now without blinkers, they’d be nice but it’s a 1941 legally it doesn’t need them and they’re just creating more issues at the moment. Whoever had wired it too, boy what a job they did. Every wire they installed was black and made no sense at all. I’m shocked any of the lights worked to be honest. The original wiring In the car seems to be decent at least, I’m still replacing the rear harness and the tail light pig tails for my piece of mind. I think another part of my issue I am having with the brake lights is the really questionable power brake setup someone has installed into the car, it has a very one off bracket to push the master cylinder far enough back that the booster can fit between the frame rail and the X frame, it has an odd taillight switch setup on it that may or may not actually function correctly. To top all that off it had a really ugly vacuum canister poorly mounted to the firewall, I’m removing all of that, going back to manual brakes and an original style switch. I think it will not only make the car simpler but also help aid in being able to fill the master with fluid.
yep, it lines up close enough with the 2 center holes on the bumper, I have to either get creative with the outer or use a torch and bend them to actually fully bolt it onto the car though. It’s about to be fully off once my new master shows up
Jesus I ain’t updated this thread since May? My bad. I got my new master installed, dual circuit master kit from old yankee, the correct pressure taillight switch and the tail lights wired in, no blinkers right now but it’s a 41 it doesn’t legally need them. have been having a ton of gremlins with the fuel system on it, put a pressure regulator on it to help the carb not flood, 3 different carbs that all seem to be… not great. None seem to make it want to idle. Despite that I’ve put a couple miles on it so far, everything else seems to be pretty ok except one of the brakes sounds like it is metal on metal. I have pulled it apart and found this I think I’ll call that “suboptimal” getting new shoes is no problem, millworks has them on their site for I believe $80, they’re somewhat local so I’d probably have them in a day or two and could bang it out after work. However I’m not putting new shoes on drums that look like that lol. I think they’re grooved too much to turn even, not that I know of anybody local that turns brakes anyway. I’m kind of weary of buying aftermarket parts for things like this on these sorts of cars.. I’ve been down the road with **** Chinese parts too many times before as is. So I’m not quite sure what I’m going to do yet I guess.
Been way way too long since I've updated this thread, I do have an update however I appear to be running into issues with uploading photos this go around so I need to figure that one out (I love technology) Anywho, I am in the middle of converting the car to 12V neg ground finally so I have been using a lot of VanPelt's diagrams to Figure out what I am doing. I came across this one diagram and find myself a little confused as to what I am actually looking at what really confuses me with this diagram is that it shows a sealed beam headlight if i am not mistaken, my car does not have sealed beams. has my car been converted? I was under the impression it would be the other way around and a lot of early fords had been converted to run sealed beams back in the day, but now seeing this diagram I am not so sure. It would explain why I cannot seem to find a lens for my driver's side headlight lol.
What @BJR said. This pic looks like what you describe, a sealed beam (?) on p***enger side, bulb and reflector on driver side. Probably converted way back with older stuff. You will need to find the parts to convert back. I don't have a Hollander Guide (interchange) but I'd guess this would be 40 and 41, and possibly 46-48. Your pic indicates 41-47.
Here's a listing for bezels. Are yours as described and pictured? https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...nal-2-rib-headlight-trim-bezels-pair.1346199/
mine look like that yes, I have a 47 pickup too that i can maybe use as reference as to what the headlight buckets are supposed to look like in this car. I feel like I am doing too much converting to stock for a hot rod forum lately lmao.. its coming eventually guys trust me
Update on this turd I have managed to finally get my hands on a set of the correct 16x4s for this car, and as ****tastic as the paint on these wheels are i think having the "correct" size tire on the car makes it look significantly better. I am also in the process of doing a 12 volt conversion on the car, and as you can see in this photo I bit the bullet and put a stromberg on it, the car runs miles better now than it did before. Of course with it being me the conversion has snowballed a bit into cleaning up the engine bay and the mess of spaghetti that was all the hoses willy nilly everywhere in it. I have also delted the oil filter, at least for now anyway. I think that filter and how it was plumbed was where my low oil pressure issue was coming from. Time will tell. I had the starter bendix shear itself in half magically late last year.. replaced that and took the time to clean the starter up so its not covered in oil and mud. I have also started stripping the blue paint off it and priming the car, more because I need to rather than wanting the paint to not look raggedy, The body on this car is nice and I plan to keep it that way. One last bit of work I have done to this far is Put a much less sketchy dual circuit master in it with the "correct" pressure brake light switch in line too. Back to manual brakes which honestly I kind of enjoy.
I love the one-off 41's, the grille is gorgeous, and I love the park lights on the fender tops. The ribbed Plymouth bumper looks great in my opinion. Replacement in original style is way overpriced, and this is a nice subtle touch with the ribbed look. I am working on a 40 Mercury Town Sedan and have more to do than your rig. Good luck with that blue paint, and I'm wishing you some miles with smiles.
Thank you man! The replacement bumpers don't even seem worth it, that's what this car had when I bought it and all the chrome was peeling off of both the front and rear bumper, I still have the rear on it but I really should put my other 49 bumper on this car lol. Just having the chrome be not completely haggard makes the car look so much better.
Monthly bump on this thread I guess halfway though the 12v swap, I still need to order a Distributor for it, the other project car has been recently ****ing me dry at the current moment. I have however found something that may be of interest to all of you here on the HAMB, or at least those of you with 7" rounds in your cars, Toyota stocks H4 conversion kits for Land Cruisers with an OEM part number (81110-60P70) supposedly if you can find them at the dealer the whole kit, housings wiring and all is $25ish, i found a kit on amazon for about $96 after all the import fees/ shipping bs we get at the current moment. Still waiting on that to get here before I go spilling all the beans about it. As I had mentioned in a previous post too, I acquired proper 16x4 wheels for this car, I am running into an issue with getting tires for them now, or rather acquiring tires that i can actually afford for them. My question here for the day is what are my tire options here, I see what Coker has for "cheaper" options and I'm still having a bit of sticker shock from those, I ***ume I have to run tubes with wheels this old regardless of what I buy for tires. anybody know of any Chinese 6.50 16s? lol. All I seem to find is either Cokers or tractor fronts. also I see that they say that a 205ish size tire roughly "fits" but I have a hard time believing that an 8" wide tire will even come close to fitting on a 4" wide wheel, and even if it did I imagine it would look ridiculous and rub on all sorts of **** like crazy (like my old 15x7s with a 215 would)
Update for you fine gentlemen. Got the 12 volt conversion ****oned up, ended up buying an e fire dizzy and Noble Speed wires. Once I got those parts getting the car going was pretty easy. Best damn thing i've done for this car honestly. Fires right up on the 1st compression stroke instead of having to play around with the throttle and the choke to get it to attempt to start. I'm starting the repaint process on the car now, not really because the paint bothers me that much but because I don't garage the car and when the roof keeps peeling off to bare metal that's a problem. I had a week off for the 4th and decided to take advantage of that time. Once I got that done and hacked half an exhaust back on the car so I don't suffocate myself driving it I decided to see if it'd make it to my buddy's house in New hampshire. It did without any real issues. I notice that the oil pressure drops below 5psi sitting at stop lights once the engine is warm. I am choosing to ignore that. Then we have what I would call a conundrum. Decided to take it out for a rip and let my buddy drive it and well it started making a very strange noise... started to sound like a diesel with any throttle input and died... right in front of 2 cops, lucky for me they just helped me push it off of the road and went on their merry way. Car magically has no fuel pressure. I am figuring that is the Amazon fuel pump on it and have already order another for it. Good times!
I said you'd have a lot of fun with this car. I think I was right. LOL I know the issues can sometimes seem to be never-ending. But I guarantee you this... In years to come... Exactly where you are with this car right now will be some of your favorite memories. She's a good old car.
This thing for sure is making memories for me lol. Thing is definitely making me mentally stronger one breakdown at a time. I am having a lot of fun with it, absolute blast to drive the thing... I don't think it would be the same if there wasn't the stress of wondering if the car will make it to where you're going or not.
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