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acdeegillnn

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  1. I was looking on line i think they make a fuel pump kit for the original ? if I run the electric pump for 5-10 minutes it starts right up? I am going to get a vacuum gage and test the fuel pressure?
  2. I have the electric fuel pump mounted on the right frame rail about the center of the car. i did not use the rubber hose i use steel lines.
  3. I did not check the fuel pressure? The fuel pump could be weak like i said it came with the car a barn find from 1973 to 1992 . i might go to harbor freight and get a vacuum gauge and try it . I was not old enough back then to drive and do not know how good they started . I hooked up the hand choke because the choke was staying closed I believe ? when i shut it off and flooding it out? That when i started having the problem getting the fuel up to the carb? I have been using ethanol free gas and it runs better in my dodge and 56 Chevrolet . I stayed with the 6 volt system on the car but got the idea about the electric pump from someone at the car show? . thank you
  4. i have a 1951 dodge Meddowbrook that i have been playing around with and have being trying to work the bugs out. i installed a electric pump as a back up and appears to work fairly well . I would take the car for a ride and when shut it off it was hot it would flood out. I had to hold it to the floor and crank the hack out of it. so i hooked up a hand choke and that appear to have fixed problem? The small problem I have now is when the car sits for a day or two i have to turn on the electric pump and leave it run for ten minutes for the car to get gas? then it starts and i turn the electric pump off and the mecanical pump ones it starts works good but it came with the car it is fifty years old? . The gas appears to run back into the tank? i heard some time ago from someone at a car show that they hooked up a check valve in the fuel line? Does any body ever had this experiance? Jerry
  5. Thank you very much for your reply. your information was help full . About the pull cable you say it can be pulled out to shift the transmission to 3 manual and then pushed in to fluid drive? I dove the car and the fluid drive a pears to work I have it hooked up to a toggle switch . I have not had to use first witch is real low . i have been taken off in second and shifting to third . I can stop at a light and not push in the clutch. I have been putting it in second and shifting to third. I have been having a good time driving it. I do have the shop manual.
  6. i plan on this winter taking the engine out and i can get some better photos? ,I have the wires on the transmission hooked up to a tougle switch ? what trigers that over drive besides the cable that goes to a level on the transmission? when i got the car the engine was sized up and was able to get it free and it was running good . then the rods starting knocking . i dropped the oil pan check the crank and did not appear to be that bad? i talked to a guy in a machine shop and he said you might get away with a set of new standard bearings and not to use oversize ? i put a new set of new standard bearing in keeping track of the bearing caps and tighten them to specs and guess what it still knocks not bad but it is there. i plan on taking the engine out and have the crank turned and might as well rebuild the rest while i am there . Does anybody have any suggestions on the removal? I was looking at it and i plan on pulling the drive shaft then the transmission and radiator . I see a cradle front motor mount and the bell housing rear mounts . Ones i get the radiator out i might have excess to the front mount? course all the linkage and wires and fuel lines. Jerry
  7. Yes it does look the same. When i drive the car and pull the cable it does not appear to do anything? I am not sure that i have the wires hook up correctly ? I looked at the wire gram in the repair manual and it does not show a overdrive unit? Someone could have added it or maybe out a later model?
  8. attached are more photo of the right side of the transmission .Could it be a later model transmission somebody added? Somebody change thing around a little i noticed when i rewired the car according to the wire gram that there was supposed to be a switch on the carb to trigger the fluid drive it was hooked to a switch on the gas pedal linkage . when you stepped on the gas it turned on the fluid drive thu a relay. I fiquired that i and it seams to work good. Jerry
  9. thanks I will take more photos of the transmission. Jerry
  10. I redone a 1951 dodge Meadow brook fluid drive barn find and it has a pull cable under the dash and it goes to the transmission . i have talked to different people that i thought it might be over drive and they say fluid drive does not have over drive? some say it could be a free wheel for the transmission? Let hear from you dodge people people as to what it is? Jerry
  11. This is a 1951 dodge Meadow Brook fluid drive. there is a cable under the dash that hooks to the transmission? nobody knows what it is for? they say fluid drive does not have overdrive? some people say it might be a free wheel? come on you A A CA Mopar lovers what is it? Jerry
  12. I restored a 1951 Meadowbrook that has fluid drive and overdrive . I had to rewire the vehicle . I have the shop manual and used the wire diagram to get me though the positive ground system. The vehicle has power to the body and the frame? I do not know if this is normal ? I touch the test light from the - cable on the battery and it gets power? The transmission has a pull cable for the overdrive? The cowl has a relay mounted on it next to the horn relay that I believe goes to the overdrive ? The transmission has the solenoid -governor-interrupter . I do not know if the overdrive connects to any of them? I seen in the wire gram that the carburetor had a switch to control the fluid drive. But when I got the vehicle had a two way switch mounted on the engine gas pedal linkage the came on when to stepped on the gas pedal to activate the fluid drive which I do not think is original? But it must have worked . The vehicle was in a garage in Jersey city from 1973 till I brought it in 1992. I am just getting it together .I have drove it around the block and have shifted it manually but to not want to drive it any distance till I get everything on the transmission hooked up correctly . Any help from anyone with experience in fluid drive , overdrive ,positive ground please give some advice. Thank you Gerald c Linen
  13. I restored a 1951 dodge Meddow brook . I did everything over.including the wire harness . i am having a problem with getting the horn to work? I understand that it is a positive ground system. I have the wire gran and have followed that . I thought it was the relay ? I purchased a new aftermarket relay and have tried to get it to work and have tried it every with way but to no pervail? The body has power to it sush as the cowl and radiator support when i touch it with a test light I would think that this is meant to be with a positive ground system ? If I touch the wire from the horn to the neg cable it works? But it does not work with the relay? Any help from someone with experiance in this positive ground system thank you Quote Edit
  14. I I restored a 1951 Meadowbrook that has fluid drive and overdrive . I had to rewire the vehicle . I have the shop manual and used the wire diagram to get me though the positive ground system. The vehicle has power to the body and the frame? I do not know if this is normal ? I touch the test light from the - cable on the battery and it gets power? The transmission has a pull cable for the overdrive? The cowl has a relay mounted on it next to the horn relay that I believe goes to the overdrive ? The transmission has the solenoid -governor-interrupter . I do not know if the overdrive connects to any of them? I seen in the wire gram that the carburetor had a switch to control the fluid drive. But when I got the vehicle had a two way switch mounted on the engine gas pedal linkage the came on when to stepped on the gas pedal to activate the fluid drive which I do not think is original? But it must have worked . The vehicle was in a garage in Jersey city from 1973 till I brought it in 1992. I am just getting it together .I have drove it around the block and have shifted it manually but to not want to drive it any distance till I get everything on the transmission hooked up correctly . Any help from anyone with experience in fluid drive , overdrive ,positive ground please give some advice. Thank you Gerald c Linen thank you
  15. I need to locate a window regulator that the motor is attached to that runs the window up and down on the driver door ft ?I don,t need the motor its good.But if it come as a unit ok?I would like to buy a new or rebuilt one if I could? It is a 1982 buick electra 4 door.Does anybody know where I can purchase one?I see every one has the replacement motors including napa.Geraldlinen@aol.com
  16. I know what your saying about the tires and the and the trannmission gear I should have said i had taken the speedometer out because it stop working.I thought the cable was bad but it was the speedomter head.I took it apart and put in a used odometer it now works but the speedometer is off 20 miles.
  17. can someone tell me how to calibrate a speedometer on a 1956 chevrolet. I estimate its off 20 miles.I would like to do it my self.but don,t know how to go about it?I have put it in the vice and took a piece of cable with a drill to run it any advice other then send it out and pay $200.jerry geraldlinen@aol.com
  18. information on the Lumis horseless carriage.made in westfield mass 1896-1903 I understand mr gilbert lumis was a deceaced member of aaca I have found some very interesting information on mr lumis.Does any one know about his membership and any history about his vehicles? jerry
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    Lumis

    does anybody know where I can get some information on this vehicle? It was made in west field mass by mr. Gilbert Lumis year? thank you jerry 518-237-1884 geraldlinen@aol.com
  20. thank you very much tom for the information. the web site was very interesting information.jerry
  21. Does any body know what this vehicle is?it has surrey written on the front?jerry geraldlinen@aol.com 518-237-1884
  22. Thank you for your responce i will try lowes for the paint and metro rubber for rhe bushing.
  23. thank you for your responce I will try both of the places you sugjested for the bushings .on the dash and trim thats interesting about the silicone in the paint .I know on regular painting the last thing you want is to get silcone near a car when painting it because it will fish eye.I started doing body work in 1970 .This was done before I was born.I need advice how to do it from and old time bodyman from 1950 when they used lead and straight lac and enamal.when car were made of real metal and bumpers like a freight train.jerry
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