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I believe the warranty is still there, but he would be trading a good old tool (granted, a broken one) for an inferior new tool. If you like the exchange idea: Ace hardware also has craftsman now, if they are a more local to you option. Gas money might be better spent cruising yard sales for an inexpensive replacement.

But not of Ed.

I believe that having the hood up long enough to place or adjust twenty or so clothes pins may be sufficient to temporarily fix the issue.

I would ditch any two part valves. I have seen what happens to the inside of an engine when they fail.

@Mark Gregush Does this lubricator have more of the design you are after. I just pulled it off of engine 254770, so a couple years older than yours if the carb is original to the engine. I have no history on it.

I was thinking the same thing. On my earlier dodge brothers I have a split rim that is easy to get off of a petrified tire, assuming you have a tool to compress the split rim. I don’t know if this is still the case by 1922.

Pre- Covid all car projects were expected to be twice as much time and money than expected. post Covid I think 3 or 4 times the cost and time estimate is to be expected.

I am 6’4” and 265lbs and drive a dodge brothers just fine. Fat man’s wheel required.

On a very worn but unrestored 1915 the front seat is about 7.5 inches tall, the rear is about 8.5 inches tall. My guess is that an inch could be added to counteract age and use.

David is correct. I will add that that is a well designed and above average cutout pedal. Likely a $100.00 or more item.

There are actually companies that have spent a great deal of time and money figuring this issue out. Just use google earth to look at an overhead view of a Cracker Barrel parking lot. Busses, trucks, and campers all get in and out fairly easy… we eat at them often when traveling with a trailer for that reason. Long trips can have me ready for anything but Cracker Barrel!

The last time I purchased flat sheets of foam for a car seat the cost was high enough to have springs made… but that didn’t work for the more modern car application… now, if you are dealing with used materials that is a different deal and used mattresses and couches are free everywhere. Look at how slightly earlier car seats were made… a wood balloon frame with canvas straps pulled tight across it… then you could go with fairly thin (2-3”) foam over the top. I would gladly throw a tape measure on the seats of my 15, but assume they would be a little different than a 1920.

In Indiana anyways, a receipt from an auction house is one of the things that will get a new title issued without hassle. The list of hassle free ways to come up with a title is getting smaller though.

Generally speaking a call to Romar or myers is the first step towards finding out what your options are. As often as they will offer to sell you something they will steer you towards a private individual that they know will have what you are after.

I refer to it as Saint Me Day, and do have a green car to share! I don’t suspect it will stay green for long though.

I have, for some time, been impressed by the man. He has reasonably priced cars on the market with stunning regularity. He has to be better than anyone I have ever met at finding them and negotiating a purchase price, or he just loses money on a car five times a year.

He is mildly active on these forums as well. He sold me my 15 DB and sold my father his T touring. Very smooth transactions and a nice guy to deal with both times, even after the fact helpful when one car had a title issue.

That is absolutely true.

That’s a neat jack! I know nothing about the jack collecting market so cannot offer advice on if this style or model has a strong collector value, but… I and several of my friends use old mechanical jacks because we trust them more than cheap hydraulic jacks and high end hydraulic jacks are freakishly expensive. A good mechanical floor jack is worth two cheap ones when I am buying… so 80-150 bucks.

If committed to the change, pressurize the system with nitrogen to about 300 psi, soap and water will find the leak. as for replacing the refrigerant, I am not a huge fan of 134a in an r12 system. 417c is a drop in replacement that does not require getting the oil out or you can still find jugs of r12, I recently sold one for $575, you usually see asking prices closer to 1000. 134 is over 500 for the same size jug now as well, which sucks because I need to buy another. Do not just add 134 to the r12 system without a full evacuation. 134 is a blend, mixing it with 12 creates a new unstable blend… even if it works, as it leaks out it will be daily changing as it will not leak out uniformly. Eventually it will turn itself into a compressor killing blend. Modern car technicians are not equipped to service or repair old car AC, find a refrigeration service tech.

I don’t believe so, but it was outside on a pallet in GA for some time before I left it outside on a pallet in IN. I did get a few good valves out of it for a 16 I owned briefly last year.

You should specify which model of Studebaker, as the needed parts will be different on the four or six cylinder cars.

fuel pumps on these dodges tend to be problematic. Any chance you are forcing gas past the “choke” and never really metering any? Vacuum leaks at the butterfly can make you starve under load too. Dodges can pop and buck rich as well, so keeping and feeding ye on plugs and exhaust is a good idea while troubleshooting.

James, If you want to make the drive to Lafayette and visit the ‘15 you used to own there is this carb is attached to an engine and transmission from a 17 or 18 and just about every piece of it could be spares you may need some day. I will trade parts or handshakes if you want it.

A couple of years ago I used one of the parts store ceramic coatings that cost about 1.5X the price of a normal spray bottle of quick wax. Worked and looked fine, but I wasn’t blown away and don’t think it stayed as well as a good wax job. I have a friend at work that had a detail shop ceramic coat ($1300) his brand new car about the same time and it looks new and freshly detailed after every rain.