imported_Phil Knapp

I would put the joint at the top! Reason being that if the joint leaks at the top, you'll see it. At the bottom, the leak will soak into everything below and won't be noticed until a lot of rust and/or mold appears, which might be too late!

Nice dashboard, Jeff.

Bob Mead has a Picasa photo album of the GOF XLI at Latham NY last month at: http://picasaweb.google.com/32Plymouth/LZOCGOFXLILathamNY Bob has some good shots there. If you click on the “download” option you get the full size image which is very large and in hi resolution. Interesting photos of the home-made dual intake manifold on a ’41 Zephyr and the linkage and fuel distribution setup to make it work. Also, of considerable interest is the 1940 Continental with 1939 Zephyr headlights. I gotta wonder why he did that – those old bulb headlights don’t provide enough light for confident night driving. I suspect that it would have taken some body work to make them fit, but it certainly looks different!

Hi Phil, Here's how to post photos on this forum:

Merv Adkins (Pomona, CA) is a lot closer! He had a bunch of V-12 blocks a couple of years ago, and probably still has them.

Nice photos, Bob. Thanks for posting them. It'll be a long pull, but someday my 1941 Zephyr convertible project car ( http://rides.webshots.com/album/547784099zrftQj )will look like the one in CIMG0872.JPG.

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS TOM!

More from John Murphy: "More on the conundrum; Went back into the parts garage and polled the spare engines (all used). I have a total of 12 engines with attached intake manifolds. Altogether, four engines have the gaskets pierced with a hole providing access to the crankcase fumes and eight are holeless. With eight well used engines "holeless" I wonder why the vent tube was ever invented? Hope the "Forum" can provide some answers. Ol conundrum John"

Here's a question from John Murphy in Florida regarding the differences in some V-12 intake manifolds. I don't have an answer, but perhaps someone on this forum can shed some light on the topic. "Got a puzzler for you and need your input. Was looking at a V-12 intake manifold gasket prior to mounting on an engine and noticed that there was no hole in the gasket where the tube from the air cleaner is mounted. I checked my other cars and discovered that the gasket in two do not have an opening and two are opened. I wonder how many of our cars do not have the gaskets opened. What about yours? Doesn't not having access to recirculating the crankcase fumes defeat the purpose of the air cleaner tube? I am not a mechanic....just puzzled." How about it, Dee?? By the way, John has several interesting lincolns, including this gorgeous 1940 Continental. (That bronze color isn't bogus. It's the original special-ordered color for that car.)

Yeah, cats don't like baths!

**NICE** car, Ian! Thanks for the photo. I was planning on painting my 1941 Zephyr convertible "project car" Darian Blue. I bought the paint just before Color-Rite stopped doing paint. In the meantime, I was fortunate enough to acquire a black, mostly original, relatively un-molested 1941 Continental convertible. (A car that I have wanted to own ever since I can remember). Since the Zephyr was originally black, I decided that the two would make a nice pair if the Zephyr was black as well. Fortunately, Tom Overfield's '41 Continental was originally Darian Blue so we made a deal on the paint. I'm glad to know that it went for a good cause and I'm eager to see what it looks like on Tom's car. I'll bet it will be spectacular. I have Webshots photo albums of the 1941 Zephyr convertible project car at: http://rides.webshots.com/album/547784099zrftQj and the 1941 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet at: http://rides.webshots.com/album/557478162IZJiRf The '41 Continental was owned by a good family friend in Nebraska in the early 1970's. We lived in California at the time so I never saw the car, but I knew that he had sold it to a doctor in Iowa. It turns out that this is the same car. It's a small world for these old Lincolns!

Good luck with the weather Tom. I'm anxious to see how that Darien Blue paint looks on the car!

Here is the procedure for adding photos to this forum. This procedure will probably only work until the new forum software is installed. At that time, all bets are off!

My solution to water leaks is simple - don't drive in the rain!

This may not be a big help to you, but I made these brackets from an old pair of motor mounts. The bolt hole spacing fits exactly between 2 of the studs. Obviously, this is a partially disassembled engine being removed from a junk 1941 Zephyr. For an assembled engine you wouldn't need the long spacers and you could pad the part that contacts the head with some pieces of an old inner tube. Be sure to pad the fenders a LOT!