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Technical Cured My Flathead’s Occasional Overheating (The Hard Way)!. Updated 1-6

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by hotrodA, May 28, 2022.

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Which project?

Poll closed Jun 17, 2022.
  1. 40 coupe: Replace blown flathead with on hand 283 and all the parts. Drive by Aug.

    42 vote(s)
    68.9%
  2. 41 pickup: Get back on Desoto hemi powered pickup and let coupe sit. Drive by ???

    11 vote(s)
    18.0%
  3. Have a pre-estate sale and take up model railroading.

    8 vote(s)
    13.1%
  1. Been on a 10 day vacation, doing Thanksgiving with family, so no work on Fatso.

    It may be a while, as I came home to the bad news that my lift cylinder is unrepairable, or so the hydraulic shop says.:mad: But they were glad to quote me some exorbitant price on a new one!:confused:

    I’ve e-mailed BYB/Advantage for a price on a replacement.

    Unless I win the lottery, it’s back to the old-fashioned, but time honored, tradition of raising it on jack stands:eek:. I hope these old bones can get both down and back up, and the results are positive.

    Reporting as things progress. Or not.

    Over and out
     
    Last edited: Dec 4, 2024
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  2. No closure on the cylinder yet. No word from BYB.

    Did manage to get the Gennie Shifter boot installed.
    Another PITA, even with indexed and pre-drilled screw holes.
    Still doesn’t lay right.
    It will have to do until the junk carpet is replaced.
    Beats the ragged carpet and the oversized hole.
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    On another front I picked up my half priced Brookville 32 steel fenders for the roadster that I bought off the HAMB.
    Thanks to BlakeTerry for hauling them from Concord, NC to Elizabethton; only had to drive 50 miles , instead of 200 one way
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    Last edited: Dec 11, 2024
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  3. I heard back from BYB on the cylinder.
    New OE one shipped to me for $695 + tax + $50-100 shipping. :D
    Sounds pretty good, since the hydraulic shop quoted $12-1400!!:eek: Screw them! :mad:
    I think either they missed something on the first rebuild or contaminated the inside of the barrel.
    Only other option is to haul it to Knoxville and get a price on just a new barrel and seals.
     
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  4. Still waiting on BYB to send me an invoice.
    We do have computer service here in 10-UH-C.
    Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock.
    C’mon, how difficult can it be?:rolleyes:
    Going on a week.
     
  5. Well, whatta ya know. Merry Christmas to me.:cool:
    Got in touch with the right guy at BYB and finally got an invoice from them.
    Cylinder is going out FedEx Ground on Monday, hopefully.:D
    FWIW, shipping, delivered to my door was $120. A little more than estimated, but I don’t have to drive 40-50 miles to pick it up at an LTL terminal. Fair enough on the heavy 4”x72” SOB,
    Maybe get back to it on Fatso 40 in a week or so.

    Merry Christmas, ya hooligans!
     
    Last edited: Dec 24, 2024
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  6. SS327
    Joined: Sep 11, 2017
    Posts: 3,193

    SS327

    That’s a true Christmas Miracle! Merry Christmas!
     
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  7. Ahhhhh - always nice when a plan “starts” to come together and there’s light at the end if tge tunnel - Merry Christmas indeed!
     
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  8. Santa stopped by today!:D

    We were coming home from Nashville, and my Ring camera went off. It was a FedEx van.
    Since I had not received any shipping notice from BYB, there was no chance that it was the cylinder. Plus the van was just that, a 1/2T van, and the driver had parked where I couldn’t see what he unloaded. Figured it was a package.:)
    We got home at dark and there it was, wrapped in a cardboard tube and all taped up. The cylinder!
    It was on the front porch. Don’t know how he got it up there, it’s a heavy son of a gun.
    I’ll get it unpacked tomorrow and maybe get it installed, if my neighbor is available.:cool:
    Stay tooned.
     
  9. NoSurf
    Joined: Jul 26, 2002
    Posts: 4,625

    NoSurf
    Member

    Is it in yet? Cmon man the sun is almost up....
     
  10. Not yet!
    Neighbor Bob is out of town, but I did get it from the front porch back to the shop in my truck. Found the RING vid of the FedEx guy with the heavy SOB on his shoulder , climbing the steps and carrying it to the porch!
    What a gorilla! HA!
    Anyway, got it unpacked and of course it hooks up different than the original one. o_O
    The box that came with it has two lengths of hydraulic hose, some 1/4” plastic tubing, some fittings and a check valve, but NO instruction sheet!
    Rather than do it wrong I’ve got to send pics to BYB and wait for them to get back to me. WTF!:mad:
     
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  11. Still NO response from BYB as to what they sent and how it hooks up!
    Yeah, there was a holiday. Yeah, people take vacation.
    But if you’re taking off does no one pick up your slack?
    Are you closed for the week?
    Just crickets.
     
  12. Finally a day without rain or snow, just cold and sunny, so me and good neighbor Bob rolled the 40 outside and got the heavy ass cylinder installed.
    Of course, with different plumbing, some improvisation will be required, plus I want to install an in-line filter to protect the new investment. Looks like Monday for BYB.

    Stay tooned for more swell adventures on the road to clutch adjustment. Shit’s getting old.!!
     
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  13. Update on the project that never ends.

    Well, I mocked up what BYB sent me. FUBAB

    The hose that replaces the old rigid steel inlet tube on the old cylinder is a foot too long!. Guess I can either loop it to take up the excess or have my local parts house shorten it and pay for a new end.
    Regardless the elbow fitting they sent hits the release linkage for the safety stops. That won’t work! Will have to drill another hole in the side of the track once I figure out where.
    Tried another call today and left a message but no return call! Imagine that!
    Maybe they’re snowed in at Hanover, PA?
     
    Last edited: Jan 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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