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I don't know about the video, but this may help you. I put it together for my 1932 Dodge Brothers restoration thread.

Just three! ? I've heard it's a bit harder to seal up the silicon fluid, but I'm pretty sure it's the washers that are the problem.

Rolling my frame out of the garage for a good fall cleaning, I noticed a small amount of brake fluid on the drop-cloths on the garage floor. A quick inspection leads me to believe the copper washers are not crushing properly where the brass fittings assemble to the brake cylinders and are allowing a very small amount of fluid to escape. This is over six or seven months, so it's nothing catastrophic. I seem to remember a post on this subject a while ago on the forum, and plan to do a search tonight. I think the problem is that the modern washers are too hard and must be annealed to soften them and make them more "crushable." I'm glad I'm using silicon fluid or I'd be repainting my backing plates and rear axle.

My engine splash pan came back from the powdercoaters and I installed them today. No easy job as I had to remove the wheels, undo the spring shackles and drop the front axle to get them in. I can see why these were rarely, if ever, put back on once they were removed. I used stainless hardware that matches the original bolts.in size and configuration. The pans went on and fit perfectly. Ed Thomas really did a great job on these. He worked from a set of original pans and he got everything right. I didn't have to alter or enlarge a single mounting hole. Everything fit right into place with no hassle. It's kind of hard to photograph these things, but here's a look at the installed pans, my greasy fingerprints included.

Watch where you're pointing that thing! Looks terrific, Ian.

I'm looking for a rear footrest for my 1932 Dodge Brothers DL sedan. Just the brackets are fine if the wood piece is gone. I thought I'd found one at Hershey. The guy said he had it at home. When he got back and took a look at it, it was for a 23 not a 32, so it's back to the drawing board. i suppose I can make them as they are flat steel, but I'd prefer an original if possible. Thanks for looking.

I'm looking for a rear footrest for my 1932 Dodge Brothers DL sedan. Just the brackets are fine if the wood piece is gone. I thought I'd found one at Hershey. The guy said he had it at home. When he got back and took a look at it, it was for a 23 not a 32, so it's back to the drawing board. i suppose I can make them as they are flat steel, but I'd prefer an original if possible. Thanks for looking.

Location? Is the car a sedan, coupe, roadster, touring car? Pictures will help you sell this car.

I actually found the last missing pieces for my 32 Dodge Brothers restoration. Perfect weather. Too many empty spaces. I'd rather see them eliminate one of the fields and make walking easier. Way, way too many golf carts and pickup trucks constantly driving down rows. I'm 70 and walked all the fields in two days, what's with the teens and twenty-somethings running around in golf carts? Some of the fields looked more like a parking lot than a vendors area. My wife and I found many vendors were not up at the seven AM starting time and had to wait almost an hour before many opened up. Is it that hard to walk the ten feet from the motor home to uncover your items? Despite all my previous bitching, we had a great time, met lots of old friends and some new ones, enjoyed the weather, the Dodge Brothers Club tent and Friday night dinner, and getting to see lots of great cars and neat stuff.

Perfect weather today and more of the same forecast for tomorrow. Looks like Saturday is going to be wet for the car show.

It's a lost wax piece for casting - probably bronze for this one. They encase the wax model in hard casting plaster with a vent hole. The plaster is then heated to melt the wax out, leaving a perfect negative void of the sculpture. The bronze is then poured in and once it's hardened, the plaster is broken off and you have your art piece - a bronze replica of the wax sculpture.

Nice car!

We probably wouldn't have time to stop on this trip anyway. Maybe some weekend in the near future. If you get the chance, Hershey is really something to see.

Where is your booth, I'd like to stop by.

I'm not sure if it is worth the money to install an original style harness (correct color and cloth braided wire) when the car has been hot rodded and has none of the original drivetrain. As far as ease of installation, since the car is not original, conventional wiring diagrams will be of little help. Correct length for some wires may be a problem since the harness manufacturer has no real idea how the new stuff is set up and wired. I would go with one of the hot rod or modified style wiring kits that gives you options. At any rate, your new wiring will not just drop in the way it might in an original car. Be prepared for some detective work and lots of routing and rerouting before you are finished. Fishing the wires through the correct holes, proper grommets for said holes, proper clips and fasteners for the wires are all part of a correct wiring job, and are a must to avoid the rat's nest look and future damage to the new wires.

Machinegun Kelly would be proud. Let us know if the authorities are the least bit amused.

A very nice start on a rare and handsome car. I'll be following your restoration with great interest.

Yeah, it's like a Chinese puzzle - no matter what I try, something is always in the way. If it didn't have the end tab, I'd be okay. If that clears, then the spring is in the way. Many things, especially the Floating Power set-up is rather a Rube Goldburg approach on the 32s.

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Would you have a 31-32 Dodge Brothers rear foot rest with brackets? Other Mopar of the same years may fit.

And a very good question it is! Someone probably didn't want them in the way for whatever reason. I notice that they have "air scoops" at the front and have to assume they were designed and installed for a good reason back in 1931. I doubt if the motor was ever removed from my car until I did it for the restoration. But the original carb, air cleaner and possibly the vacuum clutch (if Daphne ever had one) were removed and never reinstalled, so I'm assuming the engine pans ended up in the same scrap heap.

Maybe the repair folks at the dealerships pointed out the engineering deficiency in the 32 DB design. Trimming a bit off one section of the pan might solve the problem, but after all the effort Ed went to to get these exactly like the originals, I'm not going to butcher them. Taking the shackles off and dropping the springs and axle shouldn't be that difficult - famous last words.

Last Spring, fellow Dodge Brothers Club member Larry Yirga graciously lent me his engine splash pans as a pattern to have a new set made up. My body guy Ed Thomas finished them just in time so that I can take the originals back to Larry at Hershey next week. There are two side pieces and a front piece that spans the two under the radiator. They really came out great - but Ed says he'll never do another set as they were the biggest pain in the you know what he's ever worked on. Here's the old and the new side by side. Now they're off to the powdercoaters while I'm at Hershey. As a side observation, I can see why these were never put back on once they were removed. As far as I can tell, it's impossible to install them without removing either the motor or the front springs! The rear spring shackle interferes with the part and you just can't get them in place. It looks like I'm going to have to put the frame up on jacks and then remove the shackles and let the rear of the springs and the axle drop down far enough that I can get the pans up into place. I'm sure most of these were tossed after they were probably damaged getting them out in the first place. You would have to bend the heck out of them to get them off if the front springs were in place. I'm surprised Larry's were in such good shape, although Ed did do some minor body work to the originals when he made up the new ones.

Glad you got the axles out. Sliding the drum has always worked for me, but it may not be the solution for a 1950 axle. We'll be heading through Indy next week on the way to Hershey.