hey guys, well heres the up date threw in the new Correct reducer and it fired right up perfect drove it around town for about 20 minutes waiting for something to go wrong and to adjust the brakes a bit and everything was fine untill i drove out of town. TING TING TING goes the fan on the radiator...cute. i get home and realize that i didnt have ONE bend blade on the fan but that the whole thing is sitting **** eyed. ive got another better one in the trunk but this is at about 40 minutes untill i have to get the hellout of dodge. so i bend the fan blades enough that when i lean on the rad supprt i dont hit anything when i dawns on me that it was NOT body flex making it get to close it was the damn chain i had holding the hood shut --just being paranoid-- slapping the rad at speed . well alright should be fine. gas up and have some one follow me the first 6 miles, runs PERFECT. my speedo doesnt work and a flathead with almost fully open exhaust all kinda sounds the same to me, nice wonderfull, but the same rev wise luckely my hokey *** gas pedal set up has a funny bind in the hinge right at 55 mph sweet i get 50 miles away and stop for gas, getting about 15 mpg in stupid hilly country in a car that hasnt been driven for 11 ish years. its driping just a touch of anti freeze but doesnt seem that warm. chalk it up to 85 deg weather and continue on my 160 mile one way first trip out of town with the car. i get about 30 more miles and the car shutters to a halt, cloged fuel filter blow it out shake it about and when its not rattling and blows free i put it back on and fire it up....after jump starting it....i had second thoughts about the gen but forgot to grab my spare battery before i left, wonderfull. get it back on the road and ten minuts later i see its sprinkling......on just the drivers side of the windsheild???? i gota go to cl***, ill post the rest when i get back but heres a few pix for ya till then tim gasing up getting ready to leave iowa loss hills two rock chips in the windsheild, driving a 50s car is like seeing the world in hi fi panorama
Cool man! That things a ****ing cream puff! I like the nosed, olds taillights, no grille and hubcaps. Get some bias plys for it and it'll look like a high schooler's car!
Looking good Tim. You've come a long ways since the old days talking about your Nova LMAO! Looks like some sweet driving roads for a reliability run!
alright got about a 20 minute break so ill type some more dont know if ill have time to add more pix though im just in the library lab. hmmm were was i, oh yes the rain. so after i realize that its only "raining " on my side and start to slow down i hear hamber blacksteelies behind me blaring the horn trying to tell me something was wrong. she pulled up behind me on the shoulder and the front of the car was speckled with anti freeze. id been foging the road for a bit i guess :S i speed out of the car, unlock the hood and throw it up to find the whole everything hosed down in green. i grabed some paper towls and whiped it up and pulled the breather off the carb to get ride of the pool on top of it. i figure i blew just under a gallon out :S wait for it to cool off and put some anti freez back in but i dont have enough so blacksteelies donates the water bottles from her lunch and jump starts me again. its starting to get dark about now but we get a good 30 miles in before it starts stumbling again, i stop and smack the filter with a mag light and keep on driving. make it to a small town and throw the cables on the car to let it charge up some before we leave while i get some water from a sink at a tiny gas station. 3 year old boys star and mumble "cl***ic car" another later says hot rod down the road and all of them wont move with out there parents draging them away saying sorry. i just smile. its pitch black and if i turn the lights on th car dies, lettingoff the throttle and going from harely with drag pipes to silent idle freaks me out enough so i have black steeleis lead me in the dark. for some reason my park lights and tail lights wont shut off so i figure im good to go from behind. ill jus tbe carefull. the car stumbles again and were on the side of the raod. i cant get the hood open. its shut TIGHT not even a pry bars getting this open. while i think about the imposiblity of jumping it or blowing the filter out if the car dies i realize the latch must be hitting funny, go figure the one time my hood suts all the way and it wont open. get it open with some ********* and tae the filter off to blow it out. i dump the ga out and it and blow on the end sending a cannon of **** and gas mist onto the shoulder of the road. pop it back in and run like hell after another jump start. it runs alight off the battery but it wont start it...oh well its working for now. we get to freemont and realize that the 2 1/2 hour drive has takin us 5 hours 1 gallon of water 3 clocked filters 4 jump starts and way more pateints out of blacksteelies for driving with me then id ever expect out of anybody. i pull ahead of blacksteelies and drive to my grandmas house, a block away the filters plugging again. i idel to her drive way to shut it off and leave a note. so close lol. im going to try and get some extra hands and stuff to rebuild the generator and head out wednesday afternoon to try and get it patched up. i figure it over heated because 1: bent up fan 2: 85+ deg on its first drive in 11 years but over all once it cooled down it was fine, it puked after an 1 1/2 drive but the next 4 or so hours that it was running....driving maybe not but running, it was fine . nice and cool so ill get new brushes? for the gen and swap my "good" 3 blade fan on and make a run for the last 60 miles home. ill see if ive got time for some more pix ina sec
first break down "its a memory, 5th brake down this is getting old" gota be representin hole curtisty of 30 cal interstate in the dark
Well, at least it was 600 miles!!! Sounds like a fun trip...been there, done that more than once...don'tcha love old cars? And them kids is hooked for life now. R-
yeah ive never even driven anything this old before let alone out of town after I brought it back from the dead i cant beleive how nice it rides, im talking like a pillow man. i was expecting it to ride like a plank or something and it was like the road was paved with clouds lol tim
Great post. Yea, those old cars ride great, especially with those 1 foot thick seats which are a kind of suspension in themselves.
Man, you're smarter than me...I tried to go Omaha-Ohio and I didn't have no one behind me! It's a trip you'll never forget, and, if you're like me, never repeat! Good luck getting that generator back up and charging. Tucker
yeah bringing all my tools and some tools that werent mine lol definatly was a huge help but i still would have been screwed with out some one else driving along with me tim
Me on delivering Tim's gas tank to him a month ago from Carkiller's inventory: "Hey Tim....be sure to clean out the gas tank before using it. I see a little rust falling out of it." Tim: "Yeah, I'm gonna run some acid through it." Me: "Cool. It also helps to throw a handful of roofing nails or a tow chain in it and shake the **** outta it to dislodge the loose rust first. Don't forget to remove the fuel sender first" Tim: Uhhhh....yeah." Now..........Tim? Take the tank out and remove the sender and any fuel...rinse with water a few times and leave a quart or 2 of water in it, duct tape all the openings shut after throwing a few handfulls of roofing nails and/or a length of chain and shake the livin **** out of it. Buying a fuel-tank sealing kit from Speedway for $20 is optional but it worked for me.
actualy rock i did just that, doesnt leak a drop and was fine for the first 80-90 miles. guess my "shake the **** out of it" wasnt enough tim
Driving without headlights had to be scary as ****, and super dangerous, I don't think I could do that. Plan on having yoru radiator recored as soon as you get it home, or replace it with a new one. My '53 that I had since I was 11 did the same ****, I always thought I could fix it by swapping out thermostats, changing fans, adding shrouds, etc. The radiator was junk and there was now way around it. The car ran incredibly well with a new rad. in it. You'll want to have it next time you're on a long trip. Nice looking car though.
yeah im gona flush this one out big time and swap that fan, see what happens. other wise rad looks cheery other then a few nicks. probably wasnt the best idea to take a 150+ mile one way trip for the first more then two blocks out of town drive lol. i also think as long as it sat and ideled while i dinked around with stuff out in the heat that probably didnt help the over heating situation at all. like i said drove for 2 hours and the car was running for 5-6 hours tim
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