Plyroadking
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This is a '38 overdrive with '39 shifter forks. Pretty much the same though, ply33 is correct, you're missing this ball. It just drops in and isn't spring loaded.
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9 hours ago, 35Joe said:
Would you sell just the od unit? I am looking for a R10B-1G or 1R case.
Thx.
What would that be out of?
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One of my fellow night shift electrical technicians at a previous job had a rav 4, it wouldn't start one winter evening and he asked if I'd give him a ride in. When I picked him up he said the ignition was frozen since it was so cold. He was a very animated asain that I always had a hard time not bursting out laughing at the stuff he said. He got the idea in his head that he'd pour hot water on it to "melt the ice" in his ignition switch. I recommend against that but I was just suppressing him because I didn't respect him and fully appreciate his royal dynasty heritage....... when I dropped him off that morning he insisted i hang around to be proven wrong. Sure as snot he boils a gallon of water and pours over his steering column and dash. I'd bitten through both lips trying not to laugh my ass off. He was furious when everything shorted out and went dark, he threw the funniest angry asain dance/song/rampage/throw fest I've ever seen. Me rolling in the driveway laughing didn't help the situation. The next day he was just as furious that I let him go ahead and do that, and since I hurt his feelings and disrespected him by laughing we were unable to be friends. I moved to engineering shortly there after and never saw him again, the car was totalled.
Before that I worked part time at a kind of shade tree shop while in jr college. About the first time I met one of the other "mechanics" he was smoking crystal meth from a pipe made of brass fittings. He showed me this really handy trick. If drugs have screwed up your sense of smell and you have a bucket that ether has diesel or gasoline in it you can lite a match and hold it in the bucket. Its super easy to tell which it is, diesel doesn't ignite, gasoline does. He demonstrated, I'm not sure if it was fortunate or unfortunate that it was diesel.
I tried to only work on pre 80s, but occasionally got roped into helping him out. He did an engine swap on a 1998 suburban and somehow hooked a heater hose up to a vacuum port, I think the pvc. It ran close to 10 minutes before it locked up.
He had a 60s Mercedes on the rack and whatever he was doing the front suspension was in the way. Instead of dropping the K member style assembly in one piece he entirely disassembled it piece by piece. We had one heck of a struggle trying to put that front end back together.
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I think I was 9 or 10 years old and found a 69 road runner 440 6 pack with 28k miles for $2,500 my father said no, and I had almost enough saved up. I still have the wheels and deals ad somewhere. I probably would have wrecked it though.
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I've done my share, I rebuilt an engine for my 40 Plymouth with mostly good used parts I scrounged up, it was a little tight. I ran several batteries down trying to get it to fire. My father took a look and suggested we drag it down the street in gear. While doing that the overdrive bound up somehow and we drug it home. I was sitting in it trying to figure out where I went wrong when I noticed the ignition was in the off position. It fired right up after that and I got to drop the transmission and replace the spragg clutch assembly next....
Part 2 of the screwup didn't become known till a little while later. It developed a tiny knock. I tried the pull a plug wire to determin which cylinder but couldn't find anything. It developed into sizeable knock but I needed the car to get to school so I drove it till I found another engine. I tore it down just to see what failed. Apparently I hadn't fully seated a wrist pin retainer, that pin had just about worn through the block and into the next cylinder.
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On 1/6/2018 at 7:22 AM, trimacar said:
Technically, the largest insurance company that insures antique cars is State Farm. As you state, J.C. Taylor may be the largest one which solely does collector cars, from antiques to hot rods.
With such a large collection, I'd go to my main insurance guy (for home, building etc.) and see if he can provide a bundle policy that saves you money. I know State Farm does this, maybe others.
Good luck! I learned my lesson real quick with state farm. I had an "agreed value policy" on a '40 Plymouth. The car was deemed "totaled" after a minor wreck. I called and asked for my check for the policy "agreed" amount, they said it doesn't work that way, they send an appraiser out to determine the vehicles value and give you a check for that amount.
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3 hours ago, RICHELIEUMOTORCAR said:
I was not going to comment here about having too many cars. When I hear guys saying they can't handle caring for 5 or 10 cars, I laugh. I am not proud to admit this but I am jammed up, bumper to bumper with stuff that I have not even seen or touched for what seems like centuries. Some stuff was passed down to me, other stuff I picked up as I grew up. As for having an understanding wife, my Queen not only could care less about how many cars I have, she also keeps a lookout for old cars that she knows I would be interested in. At times, she tries to talk me into buying more old cars if the deal is just too good to pass up. She even offers to pay for the cars. Although she was not a car girl when we found each other, she now has about 15 of her own cars. Most of her cars are from before 1930 and my sweetheart is not even 40! She can drive any automobile built. She can get our steam cars fired up by herself. Geez, where was this girl hiding? She can run my 21 Speed Mack Diesel trucks faster than I can and this is no joke. As long as the house and yard are kept nice and clean and the cars are out of sight, she is happy. I do agree with most of you, there comes a time when it gets out of control and you need to start clearing both your garage and the garage in your mind. My restored cars have not been out for some time now due to the fact that they are totally blocked in. To get a car out for a Sunday drive, would take several months worth of work. When I was single, younger and had alot of free time, it was great. This was just a way of life for me growing up. Now, with work, raising little kids and all the other family responsibility that comes to a man in his 40s like myself, there is very little time for the cars. Maybe someday when I reach retirement age, I will dig back in. I do know one thing for sure, I "DO NOT" want to be stuck with this amount of cars when I am 70 or 80. The thought of it scares the crap out of me. Don't turn into me guys. It is an addiction that takes over. I know this and it's not as good as it sounds. I still love the cars, the shows, our fellow collectors and the hobby itself. The passion, excitement and drive does not go away, at least not for me but it can get overwhelming at times.
Does she have a younger single sister??
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I think I have 8 classics now in Iowa and a couple more in CA. I don't have anything newer than 1986, and a 3 car garage. My loose rule is, if I haven't done more than put a tarp on it in 2 years I sell it.
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That raised marble originally only came on one side, I can't recall which. It has/had a silver reflective coating on the inside.
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My 30U has insert bearings, I've got several spare engines and all of them are also inserts.
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You are correct! It's been a while since I pulled a mopar 6. I must have been thinking of how I did the Buick. I think I have pulled a bell housing to engine bolt and found one a little longer and used it with a generator bolt.
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I usually use a starter bolt and a generator bolt.
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If it's catastrophic I'm parting out an '85 D30 6.2L with 74k miles in Des Moines, Iowa.
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I wanted to go deck over but thought the approach incline might be a little too much for lower cars. I ended up ordering drive-over fenders and the extra wide deck option. The '56 was about an inch away from scrapping the exhaust tips. I don't think wide low cars would do well driving over the fenders though.
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Must be a Kansas thing, here's the "Dodge" I bought last Friday
https://wichita.craigslist.org/cto/d/1954-dodge-plaza/6301322679.html
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3 hours ago, mrspeedyt said:
the biggest maintenance expense of owning a trailer are the tires.
I'd have to disagree, the biggest expense is that you've got the ability to haul stuff home that you'd normally walk away from because you don't want to mess with renting a trailer and going back for it......
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$6k to buy it or that's what he's willing to pay someone to endure the shame of hauling it to the crusher after dark?
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I'm interested, would you crate and ship to 50320 Des Moines Iowa?
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Well when you're out gently rubbing carnaube body lotion on everywhere with the 85-90wt gear lube scent crossed with slight essences of gasoline in the background with some good tunes on the radio, and then slowly teasing the wax off with a 100% cotton terry cloth towel folded in fourths, it'd be awkward if it didn't have a female name......
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I've got several
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On 10/1/2017 at 11:41 AM, keiser31 said:
As stated above, looking for a 1950-53 Plymouth overdrive transmission for a friend's car. Thanks in advance.
John
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We have the derelict, 57 3/4 ton 4x4 IH we drug out of a pasture a couple years ago, still have brakes to do before it's road ready.
A neighbor gave me the Buick after 20 years of pestering him about it. Brush painted in the 70s, and a 51 super engine was rebuilt and dropped in it then and never started. His grandfather blew the car's 2nd engine in 1954 and it was parked till the 70s then my neighbor started rewiring the car with all #8 green wire and when he got to the dash he had a huge bundle of green wires. He got slightly confused and back in the shed it went till I pulled it out two years ago. Re-rewired it, pulled the engine apart for fresh gaskets and fresh assembly lube and I've been driving it since.
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I probably could have made that a little clearer, I was wondering what the original poster's overdrive was out of, I've got a stack of them and don't really want to dig into it if his out of something I know I don't have.
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36 Plymouth P2 Transmission Issue
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My indents are towards the front. In my picture the transmission is pointing south and yours is pointing North. They should be pretty much identical as I robbed parts from a '36 transmission to put one of mine together. I can measure the diameter of the ball for you this evening. It just sits there and has no spring or other hardware. The top strap keeps it captured when everything is assembled.