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Today I mounted the last of the radial tires for the wife's Crosley Super Sports, not sure if I like the wheel color but time will tell. I had to put 4 new clips for the hubcaps on two wheels. And with time leftover in the day I was able to paint the heads on the 1948 Lincoln. The intake manifold should be natural aluminum and not painted, so not sure what to do there. I will now pull the spark plugs and clean them up and reinstall. Then on to painting black...

Here is my plow jeep decorated for Christmas 🎄. Hopefully it will not snow!!! 1956 Jeep And the Hallmark car tree in blue in memory of my dad.

Merry Christmas to you Matt! You deserve it!!!

Today I fired up the Lincoln. Oil float gauge works and with 40 weight HD oil I have 50# oil pressure on a cold engine. No leaks as of right now. Thanks for all the help and advice!

Finished up putting everything back together and added oil to the Lincoln and fired it up. The oil gauge float works and I have 50# oil pressure when cold. And as of now, no oil leaks.

Get well soon Steve, hope you are on your feet in no time! Dale

I have had the two corner pieces of the rear back light at Hershey for several years and has no interest. And the price has been right!

Oh, forgot to ask, how many quarts of oil does it take? With or without filter? Thanks

Glued gaskets to the oil pan and installed front and rear seals and installed oil float. Then I installed pan on engine. No oil leaks, of course there is no oil in it yet!

Oil pan is on! No leaks! No oil in it yet... Lol

That's what I did! Thanks.

Gaskets arrived Sunday from Herrel, awesome service! Float tested and a small hole was found and repaired. Starter and pan is painted and once dry will be ready for installation. Hopefully I will have it running again soon!

The gaskets arrived on Sunday and the float has been tested. I did have a small hole to solder, but now it's repaired and ready to install. The pan and starter have been painted and once dry I can affix the gaskets and prepare for putting everything back together!

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Some places don't get the local paper anymore. I wish we still did!

Is your oil pan black or green?

Any other pictures? Is the oil pan painted black? Mine looks to be black.

Repaired the oil float yesterday. Should work fine now!

Yesterday I did some cleaning of the oil pan and starter motor and I repaired the oil level float. I still need to test it for leaks, but I think it will work fine now. It was collapsed and once I had the cracks repaired on the top side I used compressed air in the hole on the bottom of the float, which I unsoldered, to blow the float back into shape. Now to order some gaskets and clean things up.

The last few days have been very productive and the oil pan is off and the offending oil float is out and full of oil. Now to clean everything up, get new gaskets and fix or replace the float. Should I do anything else while the pan is off? I don't want to go down the squirrel hole!!!!

Thanks to all that helped, the pan is off and the sunken float is full of oil. Starter came off nicely Charles. Had one hidden bolt on top of the pan above starter but found it before I did any damage. Now to repair or replace float and get new gaskets. Need to clean everything up too. Any thoughts on the oil pump???

I think you will find the holes where the split in the rubber bump strip is. Where the white strip is missing. But you will have to drill the rubber. Check on the back side of the bumper for the hole before you drill the rubber.

Was it the two on the brush plate end?

All the bolts are now out of the oil pan and it is loose, but the starter is holding it in. How do you get the starter off? I know it sounds dumb, but I only see the two bolts on the brush end of the starter. I loosened the one to get the bracket out of the way of the pan but didn't take it out. I am afraid to take both out as the starter will come out in pieces, right? I will have to look through all the books I got from my dad's stuff to see if i have a shop manual for this thing! LOL Thanks for your help!

Making progress on the pan removal. This car has low oil pressure when it warms up. I know that is a common problem and that most people say drive it, but I was wondering if I should do anything while the pan is off besides cleaning the oil pan and pump screen?