Landman

After a few hours of Honey-do I removed the two plates in front of the bell housing. That gave a clear view of the rear of the pan. Oil pan gasket is OK. It looks crooked but that is paint on the cork. We can see the oil between the rear main cap and the crankshaft flange. :eek:

Roger, Unfortunately no seal in a '34 Chevy. Just the slinger mentioned in posting #378. And of course the oil pan gasket.

Redoing that black certainly brings it out doesn't it.

Maybe the number of an inspector?

Received a few more goodies. Installed the door check rubbers on the links for safekeeping. Ditto with the dome light switch. Thought some of you would like to see the car in my avatar. Removed the transmission, clutch & flywheel. Used the jack a lot since these old shoulders can't handle the weight anymore. At least not at arms lenght. Turns out that oil is NOT coming from the plug at the end of the oil gallery. It IS coming from around the crankshaft. So before I go tearing the oil pan and the rear main cap off, I'm waiting for opinions. I doubt the rear oil pan gasket is the culprit since it comes from between those pans. I think if that was the case it would leak against the rear of the oil pan. :confused::mad::eek:

This looks like another case of git'er runnin' and enjoy it as is. Nice find!

I support what Mark says about the stand. I did an Oldsmobile 8 which would be very similar and it bent the plate. i ended up supporting the front with a correct piece of wood on the front of the stand.

Turns out the borescope is $250 so I'll just go ahead and remove the transmission. Got as far as separating the u-joint. The yoke won't retract all the way into the torque tube. That is a corner I cut in post #77 that's coming back to haunt me. Instead of drilling out the dowel which holds the drivesaft bushing in place and replacing the old bushing with a new one and a new dowel, I followed someone's example and just inserted the new bushing in front of the old one. That's fine as long as you're not planning to remove the transmission. :mad::eek:

Here's photo that a friend gave me today. It was his dad's car. Looks like a 1932 Plymouth.

Received the gauges yesterday. Installed them in the dash to see. I'm happy with the way they turned out. Re. the leak in post #378, I took the photos to the cruise night last night and we confirmed that the slinger is there. So no need to replace the crankshaft. Next suspect is the oil gallerey cap (the tube is also visible in the block photo in post #378). Before I start removing the transmission, I want to attempt looking in there with a borescope.

Hi Ian, you are right, that's what they are. We also call them buffaloes although a real buffalo doesn't look anything like that.

No Mike, Those are near Matheson.

Today, went to work to forget I may have to pull my engine. Saw some interesting stuff: Not one but TWO 1955 Chrysler New Yorker St-Regis in the same spot Some strange looking cattle A 1960 Pontiac which is both a Laurentian and Strato-Chief. I assume the Strato-Chief donated a fender.

We adjusted the valves today. The same friend with the '48 GMC came and helped me. He also refined my ignition adjustments. It now runs absolutely still at a steady 170 degrees. By the way Roger, we also confirmed why it wouldn't start. I used to set my distributor by centering a bead in the flywheel in the hole in the bell housing. Well guess what, there is another hole on the other side with a pointer in it. So I was always off with the distributor as I was looking in the wrong hole. :eek: And there is the leak. The 1934 crankshaft has an integral oil slinger which fits in a groove in the block and rear main bearing cap.First photo shows one of the old ones I removed. The one on the sawhorses is the one I installed. Looks like the NOS crankshaft I installed has no slinger.

That's only part of it Roger. His collection of stuff is huge!!!

Good eye Keiser, Actually, that glove box door is from New Zealand. I bought it on eBay. The Lord only knows where the original is. It may have been knocked off by the shotgun blast.

Earlier when I was trying to start the engine I noticed some oil coming from the flywheel cover drain hole. I was wondering if just cranking generated that much oil, what would it be like once it runs? Well, there it is. The people at VCCA think it may be the plug at the rear of the oil gallery. It is small brass plug and sometimes it leaks. should have been checked by the rebuilder. I don't relish the job of removing the transmission, clutch, flywheel and bell housing to go fix that. Gave another coat of base color to the dash & garnish moldings. After much deliberation I decided to retain the shotgun dimples.

Thanks guys. Roger, I suspect either the old condenser or that I was off a bit with the distributor. It one of those two things. Once I got new parts in there it started.

Well...yesterday was a turning point. I decided to concentrate on chasing down all the reasons why it won't start. I started by priming the oil system because I expected a lot of cranking. Brought the oil up to the rocker arms.Then I put new innards in the distributor. Then I checked the compression, spark at the points and put everything back together. Set up a 12 volt battery and the gas tank from my snow blower. It coughed and spat then sputtered to life barely idling. Gave it a bit on the idle speed then it ran reasonably well. I attach the evidence, a hint of smoke and a blurry fan. Later I went to take photos of a friend's '48 GMC for someone who is interested in purchasing it. The '48 Chevrolet is for sale too. Don't know about the Merc. He's had it since new. that car has never been touched. It is as close to a new '66 Park Lane convertible as you can get.

JB, I support Keiser. That looks like an amazingly complete and solid car which you can use and work on as you go.

Ian, if you look at their website there is a picture of what I believe is a Buick sidemount and it has both rings. I assume they do both if they show both. It may be worth a phone call. They show an email address but they don't go there according to them. they had someone to look after that who quit.

Looks and sounds like fun. God I can't wait!!!!!!

Hi Ian, Here's an actual picture of mine. As you can see there isn't a top band like on the tan car, just on the face plate.

Here's a '34 Chevy 5-window coupe a cousin of mine gave me. It is made of the same ash stock that I used on the real thing. The dark wood is walnut.

I had a toy dump truck when I was a kid . I was steel, with a red cab and a blue box and as best as I can recall it would have been a 56 or 57 GMC or Chevrolet. It might have been about 15" long. Does anyone have an idea of who the manufacturer might have been. I am in Canada so it likely was a Canadian company although it could have been imported too.