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One pair of vintage cowl lights for repair/restoration. You know what they are for if you need them. Overall O.D. is 4". One lens has a stone or storage chip, same lamp has a good ding in the bucket. Bezel rims have some typical brass cracks. We believe these are for the 1929 Nash Standard Six. $60.00 plus shipping from 06705 Ct.

Why are you being punished in this way.

I saw MG guru John Twist fill an engine cylinder with oil with piston down,screw in a plug adapter with a 3 foot clear hose on it and turn the motor over slowly by hand and watched the oil go up the hose till it peaked! TDC! Then made marks on the pulley and what ever for the future. Hard part was sucking out the left over oil when done....not too bad a job..just a pain. Funny!

You can solder on small brass screws on the back of the plate and hold it on with the nuts.

Just hand polish like others said with fine grit papers from mild course to finer,you can go to 1000,1500,2000 with soapy water to flush the paper, but after 800 to 1000 you can hit the buffing wheel with compound if you have that stuff. Many Chryslers of this period have 2 size hub cap thread size which is dumb. The larger hub size up front,as you found out. Now for the puller, there is always at least one vendor at Hershey with a table/tables loaded with the old style wheel/ hub pullers, and ones scattered around.. bring a 6” machinist scale and a cheapO thread gauge. If you have a choice ? pick one with a split in the side wall of the thread barrel and a clamping or pinch bolt.

Retro fitting modern type shell bearings to a Babbitt bearing application is something not to be taken lightly.It can and has been done but usually only by very very knowledgeable folks with very good friends in the custom engine building field who will spend the time, lots of time ,to research and figure it out and the cost is scary. The block and rods usually need to be modified in some manor and the sometimes the shells. Even with no close by Babbitt service to you, you will do much better to send out your main Babbitt bearing shells and rods to who ever you can with a good reputation and on return have them bored to fit your crank and block at your favorite engine machine shop near you. There are no drop in replacements.

Cables may very with these cars even of same models same year through production and export models.

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Speedometer cable unit complete ,clean and would be working condition=not busted, is believed to be for an early Chrysler Six model. Total length of cable casing and end fittings is 58". The actual inner cable with drive keyed pin and square drive coupling extend some beyond that 58". Square brass drive is about 3/16" I.D. The speedo coupling ,male end with screw to speedo case tab is 1/2" diameter into the speedo housing. The transmission drive end ,pin and key ,is about 1/8" diameter by eye. The screw Farrell I.D. at thread depth is around the 13/16"-7/8' area. $55.00 plus shipping to you from 06705 Connecticut

I’m on the floor laughing my old booty off... This is stupid, The more money you can spend on the biggest best car you can afford from the era you like is going to bring you the best drivable car period ....duh! A 1932 Buick is going to be heads over a 1932 Ford any day..for drive and comfort. For silly wast full fun maybe not. For class ...and construction yes.

1931 Plymouth was a 4 banger right.. . plugs maybe similar to the model A Ford In size and range... maybe not as hot as un-informed model A-ers go for. Start with a simple easy to get autolite 3076 plug should do ok in the slightly over medium to warm/ hot range.

I did not read past the heading which was nothing I ever heard or read of in automotive writings in the past 100 years of material Great for those wonderfull who responded.. But I am not curious of a piston shaft setting other than " what the hell is that?. I really don't want to know. Leave me under my rock. 😝

I love Steve. Mack 100 persent. But comparing one's selfish addiction to another doen't really work.

Mine is getting involved with vintage automobiles at age 5. I would have done more great and meaningful things in the time I spent on crappy old cars , and YOU TOO! But here we are.. You and I can can redeem ourselves,but it is unlikely for most of us.As we are too selfish in on our wants and desires. And don't every think your not selfish....with your unneeded toys .

Paul D. You can have all the gizmos on the back of your old car...it makes no difference, people are paying attention or not... I drive ,like you ,every day ,following people who do or do not use their signals at all,,but we (you and me) pay attention and watch what’s happening right. You can jump out of your old car wave a flag and the idiot behind you will still bash into you as he is sexting his pen’e while pulling up to a stop light behind you and bash your car. Best we all can do is telegraph( Our) intentions as early as possible while driving,and hope for the best. Modern or vintage . , as long as we don’t get too hurt.....cars are just metal....never worry about the car......,

We use to have on all our old cars “Support your local Police” frames to cut down on being stoped with pre 1932 cars for having one tail lamp. This summer we were pulled over twice with one tail lamp... we took off the the “support your local police” frame and stomped on it right then and there while being detained and getting a warning ticket for being legal... Yeap...I’’m the guy......who goes to traffic court for the 25 bucks, The judge passed on it. I don’ t know the word. Moron cops.....waste a lot of time and money...lucky I didn’t get shot,

Leo, oh crap, that is what we find from cars that usually came back from South America, quite often. Was your car ever on a long vacation? Open Model As and early open Chrysler seem to have these adaptions .right or left hand drive. We just want to drive these old beasts for some unknown reason. We put no value at all to this old iron and see it as a disorder like hoarding pennies and toilet paper.. If you don’t plan on driving your project at every available moment when done, stop now, or put your energies toward something that matters! Like use it for some positive good when your done. Support and Drive it regularly to your local disability olympics and volunteer , instead of the car show or sit polished in your garage. Take all athletes for a ride and bring a smile and a happy day win or lose. Shame on those who restore cars and let them sit....so you can say I have 16 choice Packards and don’t use them ..Your an Ahole. Share your sickness for,god sake. ,

Thank you all for the interest and comments.

Why? Is my stupid reply. You can run on one of those wood burning gizmos hanging off the rear end,too,,but again why......too bored. Be different,,,lack attention? In certain hard times under duress one may have to relent to such measures,,,,but why look for unneeded troubles or tension...again you want attention and be different. If so,,paint your hair blue and paint your finger nails black,and claim your sexually fluid...Or go just electric......😲 I’m being my usual pre-K...but it is food for thought. Hard enough to keep this,rust on target.why look for more problems.

Oh I always check every ring in every grove in the piston it is now married to and in 3 spots up and down the bore. All Standard size rings I have ever seen in 50 years covers stock bore to .010 over size... I am not jumping to some grossly over size ring and not checking the gap! I'm a jerk...but not that kind of jerk...

Ring gap will not be a concern on this bore...standard size pistons with over 117,000 miles...eck! On.a 1927.automoble is almost impossible.

Thank you for all your replies. Funny how..absolutely nothing embarasses(and should) or intimidates me with people (and should) but at over sixty some dumb car repair does...that I would have thought nutton about 10 years earlier I'z got the pistons out..through the bottom... I found NOS STD to .010 over rings(by luck for 20 bucks) . The bore though worn and pistons are STD..so some honing..we will slowly get it back together. It did need rings and some serious glazing cut through... I could straight blade shave in the gloss of the cylinder walls. . . ..

I did not read any farther then the head line...Screw values.and opinions and investments. unless your just into money money money and not personal satisfaction and enjoyment and preservation of automotive history ,then I say move on...many an idiot has gotten into old cars at the expense of many other idiots trying.to make penny..😁 .. Buy what you want and like and pleases you and feeds you with out worring about ,will I be rewared with $$$$ in the end for the most part This hobby was not driving by money orginally...but a certain sect was found to capitalize on it like all things. Most of the most historical cars and collectors cars would not have been saved if money was anywhere in the equation to preserve them. The whole thing is stupid anyway and I never had or will have any respect for any dopes(my self included) waisting time,money,and bloody hands on old obsolete iron..It's moronic...and a mental defect. As proven as 99% of the world population sees it as a disorder. I start a 12 step program January 2nd. Free coffee,dounuts.or pizza. After 4pm is the harmonica(mouth organ) collectors addiction group..I'll pass on,but.at 9pm is the "banjo players anonymous group.. I should make a serious effort.to attend.. 4 string banjo too...is a serious.issue..like Model Ts...gulp. Lets get a real life, .get married,get a girlfriend,hell get a boy friend...but try not to get another old car if you can help it. .. ..