nearchoclatetown
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Read my response just above carbking's.
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Contact the DB club store and buy the reprint for the carb. It has measurements you need. Then, down the road, you will have the paper for reference.
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You are right, lots of overhang.
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More dual WWs. I don't think I have ever seen any in captivity. That's a real combination, paper boxes and corsets.
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There are some more dual white wall tires, both inside and out.
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Those two little seats you have circled CAN come loose. Hold it up in the air and tap on the side to make sure they don't drop out of position. If they do push them back in and stake the metal around them to hold them in place. I would not use lacquer thinner on the commutator, might melt the insulation.
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There will be no one that know of with something like that at Hershey. You wouldn't like shipping cost anyway. Contact a local Amish carriage shop and give them dimensions.
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Nothing but good things about Ron from me. I understand now why you are getting so much done, with adult supervision. I like the trim on the top. I zoomed in and didn't see any Philipps anywhere. Those colors are very much like The Other Dick Perry's Senior.
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My father had a '52 Ford with a Sears six cylinder engine. Used as much oil as gas. When they looked in valve cover it looked like it had 100000 miles on it. My mother worked at Sears for a few weeks. On Friday they would mark up prices by 20% so they could have a 10% off sale on Sat. She quit.
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They look like a new penny, Matt. Impressive to see how it's done, with no Phillips screws in sight. Is the head supervisor still there?
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Fordy, mine were already disassembled when I bought them. Is there a better way then forcing and ruining the teeth to take them apart if the wire is disconnected from the latch? I need to look at mine closer. I may need some new ones if you have extras.
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That little tab pushes against a spring loaded wire to disengage teeth that keep cap from coming off. Good luck. The wire could be made over easily but the teeth not so much.
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Matt, I am sure it's kind of fun doing a few wheels every once in a while. It would be neat to see the progress. But can you imagine doing hundreds or thousands a week every day, every week? There would have certainly been guys turning spokes and others drilling and others assembling. Thanks for sharing the process.
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Did you talk to the tech advisor for '34's in the DBC?
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So Matt, if these are Kelsey wheels are the spokes the same width and thickness on other cars that use Kelseys? I'd have to look at the Haynes notes again but I think they were looking for contactors that could guarantee making 1000 wheels a week. That a lot of whittleing.
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I'll leave my cars as designed, no substitute parts.
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Before this gets buried there is something that should be discussed. VW had a design problem with number 3 cylinder overheating. Most blown VW engines happened to number 3. So for years they ground the distributor cam different for that cylinder by about 3 or 4 degrees retarded to compensate for it. With VW firing order of 1432 and DB at 1342 it would effect number 4 cylinder on a DB. You may want to put this Chinese distributor on a machine and check it. Also check the advance curve against what DB used in their unit.
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The 9625 should be the date code. 9-6-25.
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The easiest is to go to General section and put "reproduction distributor cap" in the search. It's the same guys that sell the ignition parts at Hershey, Old Buicks. They explain that the molds for the caps are between 10 and 40 thousand each and they may only sell 100 to 150 caps of each style. A friend spent a lot of time trying to find someone to make new points. He finally found someone that would do it. I THINK the minimum order was 10,000 sets. So NOS points are worth the price. The reconditioned condensers are hit or miss whether they are good or not.
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You may want to look up top here and read a thread started by Peter R. about reproduction distributor caps.
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That DA touring body would be a rarity in the US. Very few of them. And it looks in good condition.
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It's yours to do with what you want, you paid for it. But this is like walking into Grandma's house for Thanksgiving and pulling down your pants to show off your new snake eyes tattoo. It's not the time or place here. There are lots of hotrod sites that will appreciate what you are doing.
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It's good there is finally adult supervision. Things will be done right now.
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Or why not have a mold built to mold new caps and rotors like they have done? About 15-18 years ago I had a mold priced out to make new caps for injection molding with plastic. Estimate was around $10000 and that did not include the inserts or actually making the caps. No idea what it would cost to make a real bakelite cap like Tom has. And then sell maybe 100 or 150 of them?
Carlisle and Hershey
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Who's going to Hershey or Carlisle?