marcapra
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These are some really great clues guys! Thanks. I still don't know how fish would help though. Alive or dead?
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I'm trying to put my horn wiring together and I am trying to push the horn wire down the steering column and out the end. But about 3/4 of the way down, the wire is getting hung up on something. I think there is a trick to putting the wire in. Maybe you have to put the wire on a straight piece of clothes hanger wire to push it through. anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Marc.
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Does the clock also need a ground wire? Is that what this post is for on the clock? it's near the speaker in these pics.
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I checked Amazon and now Mobil sells the Light Circulating oil in one gallon containers. Buy two of these and you can fill the fluid drive with a quart left over.
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The fluid drive oil is a light circulating oil like Mobil One DTE 32 iso on amazon. I think it only comes in 5 gallon buckets. You only need 7 quarts so this might be the better oil.
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I found my old glove box light that was riveted to the old, long gone glove box. You can clearly see the ground wire riveted to the old glove box light. This is not shown in the car's wiring diagram. I got another glove box light from a 47 DeSoto that was fastened to the cardboard with very small screws and nuts. So I have to make another ground wire and mount it under the screw. By the way, that tube thing is for the glove box light to do double duty as an ashtray light also. Oddly, the 47 light has a plastic prism inside that tube, but the 48 tube does not.
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Most components on my 48 DeSoto are grounded by the metal dash. But my glove box light is screwed to the side of a cardboard glove box. Would it need a ground wire? I guess I could test it with a multi-tester.
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I used a pressure washer with cold water on my 48 DeSoto chassis. It only gets off the loose dirt and sand. It just bounces off the greasy caked on grime. You have to use a spatula to get off the hardened grease. And then use a steam washer.
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I guess I'm thinking of Pontiac and maybe Oldsmobile that had a choice of sixes or eights flathead engines.
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I think you got a very rare Buick. I've always seen 4 door sedans as 39 Buicks, but never a small coupe. Looks Chevrolet size. It looks green to me. Is it really blue? Does it have a six cylinder engine like a Chevrolet?
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yes and no. My earliest memories of driving with my dad must have been 1953 and later. His dad died in 53 and my dad inherited his 50 Dodge club coupe. He always drove us to work on Saturdays so our mom could have some free time. The only thing that I can remember him saying is "Uh Oh! there's a frog in the road!" Maybe you can guess what happened after that! That Dodge might have influenced me since my first car was a 50 Chrysler club coupe. In 1957 my dad sold the Dodge and bought a brand new Ford Fairlane convertible. Then he sold it to a sailor in San Diego in 1964 and bought a new Mustang coupe. In 1966, he traded it in on a 66 Mustang convertible. So I guess you could say he was really a Ford guy, but not really a car enthusiast. My mom traded her 50 Pontiac convertible and got a 53 Mercury station wagon, which she kept until she traded it in for a 61 Buick wagon. AFter that she got a 65 Chevrolet station wagon. All of her later cars were Oldsmobiles or Buicks, except for the 73 Lincoln which she got used from her sister. I own a 48 DeSoto, so I don't think my parents influenced me much, or I would be restoring a Mustang.
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This is probably of no help and I haven't seen the movie in ages, but in 1951 Red Skelton made a movie called Excuse My Dust, about an inventor in 1895 who makes a gasoline engine car. I don't remember if there are any electric cars in it though.
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Also, I'm getting ahead you here, but just in case they do turn the fan (turn clockwise when you are facing the fan), and have a battery hooked up, don't have a remote starter hooked up when you are grabbing the fan. Even better, disconnect the battery ground cable when you are holding the fan. On another site, a guy posted a pic of his bloody fingers when he was turning the fan to top dead center and his chest pressed the remote starter button! The fan on a running engine is a dangerous thing. If you ever want to start the engine with the radiator removed just to see if it starts, always remove the fan first. The fan is invisible when turning at a fast idle, and someone could put his hand in there!
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I never had this happen to any car I have owned except my 72 Gremlin. I owned it in the 80s and paid $300 for it, so it should have run better, but I guess things happen with a name like Gremlin. It probably had carbon deposits that got hot and provided the spark to keep the engine running after I had shut off the ignition.
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On 2/29/2024 at 9:28 AM, Pete O said:
What, two guys and one gal? 😁
You only get two girls for every boy when you're going to Surf City.
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Sometimes door latches need a new internal spring to make the door handle go up after you turn it down to open the door. That is the problem I'm having now with my 48 DeSoto. I got an NOS spring on Ebay. THE HARd part is unscrewing the door lock cylinder set screw. They are always rusted tight, so you have to drill them out.
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Flathead Terry has some excellent videos on YT. One of them deals with clutch chatter on his 37 Plymouth. Worth watching. He aligns the bell housing with the transmission using shims, and checks the flywheel for runout using a dial indicator.
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Seems like a priming plug would tend to flood the engine.
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Some of their videos are still on Youtube. They seem to be a kind of charity garage who fix up late model cars and donate them.
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I guess a soap box car does not have an engine, so these cars from the early thirties are called what? I didn't know Groucho and Harpo raced these.
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John and I briefly owned a 41 Dodge 3 window coupe back in the 80s. I remember the front fenders had a seam, which the 42-48 fenders do not. It doesn't come apart to my knowledge.
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I've owned several of these Mopars. The decal faces the passenger side.
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I bought YOM plates for my 48 DeSoto back in the 80s when they were a lot cheaper than now. I'm in Calif. and my state used to issue a plate for a certain year, Like 1947. The 47 plates were used through 1950. In 1951, California issued new plates. The 47 plates were yellow with black lettering. The 51 plates were black with yellow lettering. Instead of issuing new plates every year, they issued small metal tags that you screwed onto the right corner of the plate. When I took my 1947 California plates to the DMV, they said I also had to have two matching 48 tags with the same serial numbers on the back. So I bought those, and then registered the 48 DeSoto with NOS YOM plates. They were still in the original paper envelope. And yes I have to pay a $10 extra fee for using YOM plates each year I renew the registration.
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I don't know where that wire goes because that panel with the wire connected is a junk part. The other panel without the wire is my control panel that I am wiring. So the screw is for removing the ignition switch. That's great, I would not have figured that out myself. So that's why it's not mentioned in the wiring diagram. Thanks, Joe!
How do you put the horn wire all the way down the steering column on 48 DeSoto.
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Thanks John for clearing that up. I was about to go to the PetsRus store to get some goldfish. But I think I found the answer. I went to HD and bought a 48" long rod 1/8" thick. I put it in at the steering wheel and it was too short to come out the end, so I took a chance and let it fall. It fell right through! I could feel that there is a cross member that was stopping my wire. So I pulled the rod up so it would go under the cross member and it fell out the other end. I think all I have to do now is to solder my horn wire to the rod and pull it through. Easy!