Edwin The Kid

For what's it's worth regarding the lift: I would've used the 4 post but there's already a Packard light eight on it. I didn't notice any flexing on the Franklin.

Some more firsts: first time running out of gas! And then today my fuel pump failed(full tank of gas now!) so I'll need to find a rebuild kit for it.

Kinda wish they hadn't, it's an expensive system! I was just looking at the hydraulic brakes on a 21 Duesenberg Model A that visited the school on Wednesday. A very strange brake setup! I'll make sure to do that!

More progress today, one step closer to having brakes! Pulled the car into class at McPherson to work on the brake lines. Having the car on the lift made making the new nicopp lines a breeze. Finished up the fuel line as well.

Exciting progress!! The car now moves under its own power! Clutch is lined Installing in car with 3d printed alignment tool Transmission install was remarkable easy, clutch is adjusted and functional! New wheel cylinders installed, next is to redo the copper hard lines with nicopp Cleaned gas tank installed, as well as rebuilt driveshaft, and the Franklin drove itself outside for a much needed wash. Limiting the amount of driving I'm doing as the only brake is the hand brake, but it runs and drives around the storage units very well! I'll be driving the car into the school shop here at McPherson this week to finish up the brakes, hopefully will have a roadworthy car soon! I'll post some videos as well.

If I recall the discussion of this at the judges meeting at the last national meet, batteries under floors/seats that are not visible can't be judged and no points are deducted.

I drove down from McPherson to check it out and get in on the Buick photo. Mostly Model T and A parts there.

Still waiting on clutch and brake parts. New pilot bearing is installed, and a throwout bearing is on the way. Master and wheel cylinders are getting sleeved, and I need to order a few rebuild kits. Nicopp hard line is in the mail and new nuts from the club are here. Today I made some progress on the driveshaft, installing new u-joints from odyssey into the yokes. Once all the parts get here it's going to come together pretty quick! The Franklin is also in the corner spot while the Corvair gets some attention as well! Taking pictures of this car makes me realize how bent and crooked my bumpers are, lol.

Ebay is more interested in selling advertising space than it is car parts, and the search pages are filled with sponsored listings that get pushed to the top no matter if they are anything near what you are actually looking for. I hate having to search through all the garbage listings just to find one real listing to find it sold years ago. Same reason I avoid looking at cars on craigslist. No matter what I search I get 30 listings for the same car. I much prefer parts hunting on forums like this!

For what it's worth this is what the copper contacts look like inside the coil. I gutted the coil out of my switch and am converting it into just an on/off switch to retain original function and look but have a serviceable ignition coil mounted on the inside of the firewall.

The coil in the diagram is also the ignition switch. This is less obvious if the car doesn't have the original coil/switch in it. They're a combined sealed unit as Paul mentioned. All this switch does is send power to the ignition coil. All other electrical systems(the lights) get power directly from the ammeter terminal. There's not much to it. With your setup, the foot starter switch is replaced with the button, and the combined coil/ignition switch is replaced with a regular key.

Got to check out this sweet 60 Invicta custom while I was working as a mechanic at the Barrett Jackson Scottsdale auction. It won the Barrett builders cup. Pretty sweet car!

It is a Super! I'm not sure when I'm going to get back to working on this thing, but I'll be sure to update the forum with progress!

I took some clips from GM promotional videos and turned them into GIFs for a presentation on the XP300 I gave in my history of automotive design class, figured I would share them here!

Been slowly picking away at the car while I wait on the clutch to get relined. I removed the mystery ring from the transmission and sealed it up. I painted the shifter black because that looks better than peeling chrome! Pulled the master out and disassembled it as well as all the wheel cylinders. I will be sending the master and 2 wheel cylinders for relining, and buying two new front cylinders from Jeff Hasslen. Also took some time to clean up the bellhousing part of the engine. I also fixed the speedo/odometer, and found out my clock works! \

Home for the holidays, but never enough time to work on the Buick. Another reminder of just how rough this car is makes me.feel better about everything I've done to it. Someday I'll get to finishing it... I also took some time to organize all the parts so they take up less space. Hopefully some day I'll be able to use some of these parts when I get a nice 50s Buick.

Been busy with finals week but finally finished one seat for the Franklin! hand stitching the rear cover

My big confusion is that it isn't a snap ring- there's no gap in it, its just a solid metal ring.

I have the same style snap ring in that location. I'm inclined to just remove the loose ring, as it doesn't fit anywhere

Do you have a picture of it installed? Having a hard time figuring out how it gets out in

The ring is between the first/reverse sliding gear and the rear bearing Potential assembly error at some point?

The wood wheels definitely look great on this car! Case closed. Here's a mystery: what is this loose ring in my transmission? I pulled the cover to reseal it and check the internals.

I'm pretty sure it originally had dual side mounts. I have old photos of the car during restoration that show the wheel bracket on the passenger side. Not sure why they got rid of it.

Thanksgiving break starts this week so I'm taking some time to clean up my workspace. The Franklin needed to move so I could push it outside and sweep the floor. I pulled all the wheels off and removed the nasty wheel cylinders and adjusted the brakes so they weren't touching the wheels. This was just to get the wheels to spin freely, I will go through the brake system in the spring. I also cleaned the old grease from the front wheel bearings and repacked them. With all 4 wheels moving freely I was able to roll the car outside and give it a good wash, as well as sweep the floor so I have a nice clean floor for reinstalling the transmission. Friend came by in his Model A And his Marmon 68 Marmon made itself useful pulling the Franklin back inside after a good wash. The spots I missed in the first wash have been driving me nuts, so this felt great. Franklin sitting pretty on a clean floor.