Projects Resurrection of a Family Heirloom….

Yea, she was out in the shop the other day and saw it****uming it was water in it. When I told her it was gas she wasn't real excited. Guessing I will end up getting to buy a box of those little*****ers to put our honey in soon...

 

Putting it into the motor. There’s a thread on it somewhere on here that the consensus was that Kroil was the go to next to a little bit of kerosene. I’m going to pull it all out to lube the linkage and motor since the seals are dried out on the wiper arms and they need to be replaced so it will not leak whenever I wash the car or it rains.

 

It’s coming along with some more hubcaps and a little dechroming

 

Aw it ain’t broke it’s just being persnickety like mine is doing. Have you changed the flexible fuel line on it yet? I honestly think that the problem was with it being cracked and letting the fuel evaporate because after swapping it out I haven’t had the need for the pump other than flooding the motor out the other night when I put Stabil in the tank.

 

Okay finally messing with the hot rod today so here’s a few pics of what I’ve got done…

 

Interesting. I wondered what you meant when you mentioned an NOS hose. Someone has apparently cut the end off my hardline coming from the tank and then screwed a short hard line with no end into the pump so a normal bulk hose with hose clamps can go on it. Hoping I can mess with mine this afternoon and evening.

 

I lubed the wipers and the speedo cable and now I have to dig through this mess and find all the bulbs and replace the ones that are not working. I miss my Painless Wiring harness I had in my last shoebox because everything was very neat and in order under the dash and I could see everything perfectly

 

just found your thread. great car with a great back story. I am excited to the progress.

 

Apparently there’s two different types of hoses that can go on the car, ones for the ‘49-‘50 and the ‘51. The ends that fasten to the fuel pump are different, the earlier ones have a conical end and the later ones are just flat. Fortunately my pops had several boxes of them for both types. Nothing wrong with just a bulk type of hose it just makes it easier to replace.

 

Thank you, my dad was wanting to drive this one more so I’m having fun getting it ready to put on the road for a daily while my other OT daily hot rod is being torn down for a paint job.

 

Finished up today with changing trim rings out to the accessory ones and took the trunk guard off. I really like the look without the trunk guard even though it’s a pretty rare accessory but it cleans it up a lot.