Morning coffee

[mustang6984]

Oh...it'll ship...question is...do you WANT it bad enough to pay the shipping fee?
As to where to put it...well...guess an ad-on to the shop might well be forthcoming...LOL!!!     Admit it, you have been looking for an excuse to add on now...haven't you? 

[djfordmanjack]

I may be running out of property, Hugh. the add on, to the lean-to, to the extension of the first add on.... oh boy !

But there is just something to old machinery and tools, that pulls me in as much as a 57 Ford tailfin or a Chuck Berry guitar riff.

I think that Manley press is totally beautiful. Check out the details like the cast crank handle, valve block, gauge or the rivited name plate.
Those are details that they don't make'em anymore today.

[mustang6984]

I understand the pull...I am the same way. Old tools are the best. Heck...for the most part...old anything is the best. LOL!!!

[rmk57]

  Couldn't you just replace the bent channel with something a little beefier? That's what I would do.

[djfordmanjack]

Yes Randy, that's what I am eventually gonna do. But these are the moments where my doubts about all of that cheap low quality products are the loudest. I just dislike junk like that. If I had more space and found an old industrial one locally, I'd certainly go for that instead of a repair on the crappy new one. It doesnt even make sense to buy another new one for $500 or so, because it will be breaking just the same in a few years from today.

[abe_lugo]

slow weekend- sometimes you run out of gas.
We decided to take the '33 out to the Farmers Market this weekend. I needed to drive it, I have not drive it in a while as it not my car.
So moving the '57 was in the books.
Basically all I have been doing it moving in and out of the driveway, we have a tandem situation and a skinny long Driveway. You know, a running project

So the hilarity ensues- I got the '57 out and had it idling, as wife got her '33 warmed up.

I noticed my '57 stopped idling- It ran out of gas! ha! I had just used my last 2 gallons on it a few weeks ago.
So I rolled down the driveway and parked/pushed it in front of the house.

The thing is, my Wife said we should fuel check the '33, it too has a funky jumpy fuel gauge. It seemed to have something just looking into the tank.

We had just gone to a cruise night/coffee thing last Wednesday. 

She said she needed fuel and drove off, She ran out of gas down the street! I was already driving  to go get gas.

Well, I ended getting her a few gallons, got her going, then followed her to the station.

I guess her fuel gauge is next on my project for that '33.  It go original wiring, the whole car very all original, the tanks needs to be dropped and see what going on at the sender. More research on the gauge and the sender will be done. In the mean time we made a trouble stick, and marked the lowest of the low reading and the full reading.  The '33 has a rear tank you can basically take a look at by opening the cap.

Back to 57- that turns right on. I got the shifter somewhat sorted, column shift now! no leaks from Transmission. Got some new tires on the 14" Steel wheels.  I need to start filling in and floor holes, firewall holes, like the shifter hole on the hump. Also Need to soft out a NSS/back up on the c4 and continue cleaning up wiring under the dash.


We did get gas, We go out to the Farmers Market, the '33 drove fine.  We went out to lunch and came home, all good. I drove it on the way back. My wife has it down to a science on turning it on. Its go the manual choke and idle speed setting on the dash, and foot pedal to hit the starter.

[mustang6984]

Nothing like a few challenges to go down the street a few blocks! LOL!!! good thing you weren't planning a 3 day trip across the country...might have taken 8 days like my last one did!

[abe_lugo]

ha! yeah no long trips, but would be nice to plan something out, I love your stories!

[rmk57]

  Talking about gasoline. I put insurance on my 57 on Saturday checked the wheel nuts, fluid levels and so on and I also dumped in 5 gallons of gas I had laying around. I started up and it idled fine in the garage but the first time out on the street under moderate acceleration it start to ping and rattle a bit. Came back and drained it out immediately. I started thinking how old the fuel was and it dawned on me it was from 2019 as I really didn't drive the car much last year. So what they say about gas losing it's octane and going bad is absolutely true.

  Down to the Chevron for some fresh 94 and the old big block is happy, happy, happy. The old gas gets dumped into the Mazda Prot?g? beater and the lawnmower, I dont think either of them will care.

[mustang6984]

ha! yeah no long trips, but would be nice to plan something out, I love your stories!

Yea...reading them is probably entertaining...living them...well...at times can be rather stressful and annoying. To say the least! 

[RICH MUISE]

I just got back from a nice 2 day trip with the wife to Oklahoma. No, not in the '57, but a nice trip anyway. I had a free room, steak dinner for two, and $50 playing money at a casino North of Witchita Falls. We went there because it was just a 45-minute drive south of where she wanted to go see. They built a replica of the Holy City back in the days of Christ in the Witchita Mountains wildlife preserve. Really neat place, but with her knee, she couldn't walk around too much. We drove up Mt Scott and visited Medicine Park, a tourist town since the early 1900s on the river just bordering the wildlife preserve.
I was really surprised that the Holy City of the Witchitas was built back in the 30s by the WPA! Very surprising to me that the government got into building a religious-based park.
Today, it's back to working on the '57. I've got it apart fixing some things that have been adding up over the years. When I had the new rack put in last week, I had to remove 1/2 of the grille so we could replace a leaky power steering hose that went to the fluid cooler behind the grille.
.......I've had some leaky heater hoses that necessitated removing the fender to get to the side panel where the heater/AC bulkhead is.
.......I also wanted to build a "dam" around the AC condenser because there is too much space between it and the radiator.
.......I'm replacing my aftermarket horns with a nice compact unit I took of the Mark VIII donor car. The aftermarket ones are just not loud enough.
.......one of my parking lamp sockets got water in it and rusted pretty badly. I could not find a replacement for it locally, and Classic Auto in OKC wanted $40. plus shipping. I looked around some more and found one locally that had identical electric components (the plastic piece with contact plungers/ springs) so I cleaned up the outer housing, treated it with rust converter, and used the innerds from the new socket. $5 is much better than $50ish.

[Ford Blue blood]

After pondering my belly button on the routing of the HVAC hoses I decided to go through the kick panel as well.  But instead of putting connectors there I put in rubber grommets.  The hoses from the engine to the HVAC box are one piece.  They can be replaced by simply removing the right front wheel and the glove box.

[RICH MUISE]

Where do you have your VA heater shut off valve? You got me thinking (now that I have all the leaks fixed ), I may pull all that stuff out of the heater hose with all it's adapters and see if I can run it as you did. One problem is the metal heater hose engine fittings are metric.

[Ford Blue blood]

In the dash Rich.  Lots of folks worry about a leak starting.  Figured it can't be any worse then the stock 57 heater control valves leaking so put it there.  Been good so far.

[gasman826]

inside on the first car and outside on the second install