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When I started my car, I was only idling the engine. Maybe I should rev it up a little and see if the gauge shows any pressure?

I got the new oil pump gear from Mark Young. Hopefully, it will be cooler at the shop this week and I can drop the pan and replace the gear. Also hopefully, this fixes the "no oil pressure" problem.

I have been looking at lifts lately but I am a few spaces short of fitting all the cars in there now so if I put a lift in the shop it would end up storing two cars in the space of one but there would still be no room to more anything around enough to put cars on and off a lift without moving 4 or 5 cars (most of which don't run. I am thinking it would be a better use of space to put some containers in my back parking lot and storing a few cars there but I still wouldn't have room for a lift that I could load and unload conveniently. If anyone says I could sell some cars, they surely are not car guys. They sound more like some wives.

I don't have a lift at my shop. The photos you may have seen of my cars on a lift are at a friends shop who lets me use his. It has been in the high 90's outside and low 90's inside at my shop. Since the Stearns can't be moved right now, the oil pump will be done as most of the other underneath work that I do on my cars with me on my back.

I have been emailing with Mark Young. I ordered a replacement oil pump gear from him. He said " The pump bodies are iron. The opposing gear is steel." so only the one gear is needed. I haven't dropped the pan yet. It has been way too hot at my shop to work on anything, but as long as I have the pan off to see if the pump is the problem I may as well replace the gear.

I got a replacement part from an ACD guy in Canada. It's at the speedometer shop being assembled and calibrated.

Ed, If you are going to check out the oil pump in AJ's car, I will wait to see if it needs replacement. If so, maybe we can go in on a group project to have parts made for several owners at once to save on costs.

Was the Willys-Knight pump or the Studebaker pump remade in brass? Would which ever in brass be a replacement for the Stearns-Knight pump?

Mark said he had made gears in the past and would check but didn't think he had any more. The pan appears to be removable without doing anything with the engine. I have been able to trace most of the ownership of my car. It was sold new to a doctor in Los Angeles who, sometime in the late 1930's or early 40's, had some legal problems due to charges of quackery. The car has always been in Southern California. From the photos that Mark sent me that were taken around 1960, the paint job looks very similar to the seven passenger that Duane Perrin currently has for sale.

Mark Young has informed me that the oil pump gears were pot metal and are probably the source of my problem.

I got the fuel pump back today and put it on the car (1929 J-8-90 limo). The pump worked and the car started as soon as the gas hit the carburetor. The carburetor will need to be adjusted but the car is smooth and quiet and not much smoke...but I shut it down after 15-20 seconds because the oil gauge didn't move. I had changed the oil a couple of months ago and there was plenty of fresh clean oil in the crank case. I checked the oil filter which I had also cleaned out and there was no new oil in it. I took out the oil pressure regulator adjustment screw and the was a small remnant of old oil but no fresh oil in it. Before I drop the pan and check the oil pump, does anyone else have any other suggestions. Since the engine was seized with old coagulated oil when I got it and spent almost a year soaking the cylinders before I was able to free it, I am wondering if the oil lines are also clogged with old hardened oil. If that is the case, does anyone have suggestions on how to clean the lines out without disassembling the engine? Thank you. Steve

Thanks for looking.

Ed, Do you have contact information?

John, Thank you for your suggestion but the piece is stamped steel, it needs to be balanced which it wouldn't be with added material, the shaft needs to be in the true center, and the shaft needs to be at an exact 90 degree angle. I have already shown it to two gauge rebuilding shops and they have said I need to find a new part or a new tach.

The tachometer in my 1936 Auburn died recently. Upon inspection, I found that the stamped metal part that has the needle shaft and spring assembly has broken. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement part or of a repair service that would be able to repair it using a correct original part? Thank you.

The tachometer in my 1936 Auburn died recently. Upon inspection, I found that the stamped metal part that has the needle shaft and spring assembly has broken. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement part or of a repair service that would be able to repair it using a correct original part? Thank you.

AJ, I don't know. The previous owner had it chromed which is the way I received it. The shell is out right now to have the white stripe added.

I was going through some photos that Mark Young sent to me of my car taken around 1960. It settles the question of the gas tank cover and crank hole cover. I have asked the previous owner if he has any addition parts for my car several times but he says no.

Will you be able to select or exclude platforms such as nothing from ebay or car trader only?

I used your old site a lot. I like the new one. Will you be adding sorting so you can set the order of found items by year, make, or whatever? Will you add a parts search later? Thank you. Steve

Ed, My car sat unrestored and undisturbed from at least 1951 until the owner before me got the car. I am pretty sure that the gas tank cover is what was on it from the factory. If it was modified it would have had to have been done in the 1930's which seems unlikely to me. Since it also matches Darryl's cover, I am now pretty sure that it is the way it came new.

Ed, I first saw the Lasalle around 1961. I kept in touch with the owner and after 57 years he finally sold it to me. It is all original but shabby (like all my other cars). It has original paint and upholstery. It runs well.

Thank you for the photos. Here is the one that came with my car. I have cleaned it up and fixed some of the damage. After looking at some archival photos along with the ones Ed sent I thought that maybe it was totally incorrect but it looks to be the same as Darryl's. I have no rubber on my running boards. Can anyone recommend a good source?

Ed, When you take photos of the rubber running board covers can you also take some photos of the gas tank cover at the rear of the car. Does it have wood strips topped with a thin chrome strip or does it have wide chrome strips only? Thank you. Steve

A.J. (Ed) and CookieMan, Do you have the original running board covering material on your cars? If so, is it like the photo below or is it something else? Thank you. Steve