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jari12

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  • Birthday 10/01/1966

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  1. Must be one of those things are opposite "Down Under" things huh?
  2. Thank you for posting this photo. I have looked for images of the two tone paint scheme for late 1927 sport roadsters and have had difficulty finding any. This is awesome. Thank you.
  3. I'm looking forward to following along on another one of your projects. It's a pleasure to watch your work.
  4. I agree with Mark. I am no expert and have learned a lot from the other members of this forum. I asked the same question at one point and received an answer similar to what Mark said. It is just the body number stamped by Budd when the body was built. I would agree that the "T" probably stands for Touring. My cowl has an "R" at the beginning of the body number and my car was a Roadster before it was cut up at some point in it's past.
  5. Until I find an original one, I made my own oil can holder out of the wire bail (handle) from a five gallon bucket and a piece of thin flatstock. I just bent the wire using a hammer, anvil and vice. One bucket handle was almost the perfect length.
  6. Thanks Stakeside. I do not have that publication. I have been scouring this forum and the web looking for info but will probably need to invest in some reprints of a few publications.
  7. Time for an update. I spent all of July traveling to see family, gardening, canning, and fighting with my carburetor. The new float is just enough bigger to tease me with the idea that it would work but would end up sticking in the float chamber. The mount (hinge) from the original snapped from all of the bending I did trying to tweak the adjustment. So, I made a cork float and a new hinge from copper. Worked great until it soaked up fuel which did not take long. So I ordered some float sealer and that worked great but the carb still flooded. I found out that the float needle was not sealing. I had to buy a set of deep well 1/4" drive sockets to remove the seat. The new sockets were still too wide to fit in the carb. I turned the socket down and finally got the seat out. The same day, my new rebuilt original Detroit Lubricator carb showed up from Romar DB parts. I still think the Winfield Carb is cool, but I wanted this thing to run for more than a minute. The new carb looks great. I put it on but the choke lever slipped when I was installing it. Once I realized that and reset it the engine fired right up and stayed running. Now I get to dial it in but need to get the radiator in and the coolant hoses installed first. It's been a long frustrating summer but it's pretty cool to hear it run.
  8. I thought I'd give a little update. Still struggling to get it running. It ran for a few minutes today before flooding. I have been battling float issues with my carb. The old one is riddled with cracks. I've tried soldering them, sealing using JB weld, sealing with nail polish, etc. There are so many cracks that the weight of the solder or JB weld to seal it makes it no better than if it fills with gas but they both failed and it filled with gas anyway. So I tried to find a new float for a carb that has no parts support at all. I decided on pictures alone that a Holly 94 float looked similar. I ordered one for less than ten bucks including shipping and only had to wait three weeks for it. It is a little bigger but I thought I'd give it a try. I took its mount off and swapped the one from my old float on. It was tight but I thought it would work. It got stuck and flooded. So I pulled the carb apart yet again to tweak the mount and I snapped it. Heading to visit family in the morning so I'll take another break and think about making a new float mount. The pic is of my old float and the new one before I swapped the mounts. It is the same shape but a bit larger. It came close to working so I have hope.
  9. This sounds like how my summer is going except for the fact that I haven't got to the short test drives yet. It seems like the list is never ending and as soon as one thing gets close to dialed in something else comes up. It's all good fun though right? Good Luck.
  10. I've bought brass fittings for my fuel lines and vacuum tank at my local hardware store.
  11. I've been fiddling with the car all week. I was fiddling with carb/fuel and timing all at the same time and was getting no where. I pulled the valve covers off and checked valve position in relation to compression on #1 and rotor position. They all looked close but i wasn't getting it to fire at all. Checked spark and didn't have any. I had left my ignition on at one point and had felt a really hot coil so I checked the low voltage loop and it was working but couldn't get any spark through the high voltage loop. So I bought another new coil and put in new plugs and plug wires at the same time. I also noticed a crack in my cap running from the coil pin to pin #1. I scraped the crack out with a razor blade, cleaned it with carb cleaner and filled it with super glue. I don't know which of the changes was the culprit but I'm sure they all helped. First crank and the engine caught and ran for a half a minute but wouldn't keep going. I have a friend coming over today so I can have a second pair of hands to rotate the distributor while turning the car over to see if we can dial in the timing.
  12. I have had the carb apart quite a few times. I think everything looks good but there is not much (not any) info available for this carb nor is there a rebuild kit. There are kits available for the later Winfields but nothing listed for this one. I made new gaskets for it, took everything apart and cleaned it and reassembled it. I used the initial settings that are listed for the later carbs. Hard to know if it's right or not. I'll shut off the supply from the vacuum tank and give it another go. Thanks for the advice.
  13. Still not running. I spent half the day yesterday chasing fuel problems. My carb was flooding because the float was set too high. I adjusted the float level three times before I broke the solder where the hinge was attached to the float. I resoldered it back on and then had a leak and a my float filled with fuel. I fixed the leak and then the float kept getting stuck. I must have had the carb on and off and the played with the float at least a dozen times. I think the float is finally right but the carb may still have something going on it is still dripping ever time after a failed starting attempt. The engine wants to run. It fires on 1 or 2 cylinders every time but just doesn't catch and take off. Still backfiring out of the carb every once in awhile as well. Don't know what to try next.
  14. I just caught my own mistake. I was looking back at my last post and noticed in my picture that my firing order was wrong. I had labeled my plug wires when I took my engine apart and put them back the same way. I didn't check to be sure that the order was correct. The firing order in the pic above is 1432 and it should be 1342. I'll fix that in the morning and see what happens.
  15. Finally getting back to work on my car. I went and picked up my newly rebuilt starter and a few other bits and pieces from George at Romar last Friday. I got the starter in and it works great but my engine won't start. I put a new gasket in the vacuum tank, replaced the fittings on the fuel line and made a vacuum line. The starter works, the vacuum tank works, but the engine is backfiring out of the carb. I did have a fuel leak and wondered if it was running too lean so that is why I redid all the fittings on the fuel line. I still have a little fuel dripping out of the carb so something else is going on with that (it's not a stock Detroit Lubricator but it was on the car when I got it). I also checked to be sure that my timing is correct and I think it is. When I can feel compression build in #1 my rotor is approaching that wire on the dist. cap. I'm a little bit bummed out. It's kind of weird, it only backfires once each time I try and then just turns over without firing. Today after checking the timing it backfired out the tailpipe but again only once. Any ideas?
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