1940 Buick Super Restoration

[kgreen]

On 1/4/2019 at 2:04 AM, 1940Super said:

Brake lines finished, just waiting for the authentic style clips to arrive to install. The 2 lines to the front brakes were fine, just needed a clean. The 3 lines to the back brakes were very corroded and the pipes broke when try to release some of the nuts.

 

Where did you go to get the authentic clips? 

 

I stripped a car that did not appear to have been restored, altered or mechanically rebuilt and found two different clip styles holding the rear brake lines onto the trailing arms of the torque tube assembly. As others have said, things happen in assembly that just get the new car further down the assembly line.  I'll go for all the same style though.

[kgreen]

What type of finish did you apply to the oil filter, fuel pump and gas and vacuum lines?

[1940Super]

8 hours ago, kgreen said:

Where did you go to get the authentic clips? 

 

I stripped a car that did not appear to have been restored, altered or mechanically rebuilt and found two different clip styles holding the rear brake lines onto the trailing arms of the torque tube assembly. As others have said, things happen in assembly that just get the new car further down the assembly line.  I'll go for all the same style though.

 

The Parts Place Inc

 

https://www.thepartsplaceinc.com/product/1948/1948-buick-full-size-br-push-in-3-8-spring-clip-for-metal-lines-set-of-10-black/81095

 

If you order direct from their site you need to spend a $19 minimum but they also sell them through Ebay too.

 

The fuel lines are 1/4 inch but the trailing arms have the armor spring wrap to the clip size is 3/8th. I also ordered some of their 1/4 inch J clips. I found ones I had ordered from Bob's didn't fit properly on the pipe. I had a couple from CARS, they were a better fit.

[1940Super]

8 hours ago, kgreen said:

What type of finish did you apply to the oil filter, fuel pump and gas and vacuum lines?

 

For the oil filter I used KBS Silver Rust Seal with KBS Clear Diamond finish over the top. I was using the rust seal to undercoat the chassis and thought it looked suitable for an 'Aluminium lacquered' as stated for the oil filter in the Buick Facts 1940. An earlier version of the filter that has a seam at the bottom was painted black according to 1940 Service Bulletin. 

I painted the gas and vacuum lines are the same finish as the oil filter but when I take them off i'll probably spray them a with something a closer colour to bare steel to differentiate from the filter.

The fuel pump is a clear coat of KBS diamond finish over the bare metel

[1940Super]

22 hours ago, 39BuickEight said:

I used a spring compressor to release the tension.

I mean these. The only way I could see as fitting them was to drill out the rivets, fit in the rubber shaft seals and bump stop and bolt back together. The 39 looks the same?

[FLYER15015]

Matt,
The engine looks absolutely stunning !
Did you do the bypass valve modification that stops engine overheating ?
That is where you install a "frost plug" in place of the OEM bypass valve (under the thermostat) and drill a 1/4" hole in it.
It is done so that the water coming up the radiator hose does not "overpower" the water coming out of the head.

Also, did you take the little screen out of the head where the oil line from the bottom of the filter runs up to the front of the head and lubes the rockers ?
Many of us do that just to make sure we get lube oil upstairs.

Mike in frozen Colorado

[Grandpa]

Quote

 

The pictures, below, are 1941 Buicks being assembled in Linden, New Jersey, USA.  The 1940 Buick engine is likely painted in the same fashion - - - Engine color on the manifolds, a cadmium plated water pump pulley, the harmonic damper is fitted after the engine painting (but not sure of the color), the exhaust pipes are painted chassis black, the generator mounting bracket is painted engine color, and the fuel and vacuum lines are painted engine color.

[Grandpa]

Additional comments on the engine pictures I submitted (above) - - -

• The engine with the normal looking fan is a Special / Super engine.

• The engine with odd looking fan is a Century / Roadmaster engine.

[39BuickEight]

3 hours ago, 1940Super said:

I mean these. The only way I could see as fitting them was to drill out the rivets, fit in the rubber shaft seals and bump stop and bolt back together. The 39 looks the same?

That is a part of much discussion.  Some cars have the rivets drilled out and replaced with bolts (some say dealers did this all the time back in the 40’s and 50’s when performing maintenance.). There are also 2 different versions on the shafts.  Some are threaded into the eye (and have a larger eyehole) and some have rubber in the eye hole.  Mine are threaded into the eyehole (like yours it appears, and if so, I would love to know how to order the correct seals).  When I ordered the seals, I was sent the incorrect ones and told my arms were incorrect for my car.  Many people have mixed and matched these over a few year period.  Apparently they fit many years.

 

As as far as putting the shaft back in I pried them apart.  I put one end in first, then used a giant screwdriver through the other hole for leverage and pulled while someone else got it started.

 

I told Dad we could drill the rivets out and replace them with bolts, but he didn’t like the idea of changing it.

[1940Super]

11 hours ago, FLYER15015 said:

Matt,
The engine looks absolutely stunning !
Did you do the bypass valve modification that stops engine overheating ?
That is where you install a "frost plug" in place of the OEM bypass valve (under the thermostat) and drill a 1/4" hole in it.
It is done so that the water coming up the radiator hose does not "overpower" the water coming out of the head.

Also, did you take the little screen out of the head where the oil line from the bottom of the filter runs up to the front of the head and lubes the rockers ?
Many of us do that just to make sure we get lube oil upstairs.

Mike in frozen Colorado

 

Hi Mike,

Thanks very much. No I left the bypass valve as it was. It seemed to make sense to me at the time of looking at it and reading about it in the manual. When you say overpower in the head do you mean before or after the thermostat opening?

When I first set up the engine for a test run it was overheating very quickly about 2 minutes after starting it. I thought it may have been the pump but i tested it and the pump was fine. I tested the thermostat and it was fine. What I think the problem was I had the thermostat upside down, I didn't take note of which was it was. I made sure it was the right way but and tested again today and I ran it for half an hour with the temperature sitting around 180 degrees.  

 

The little oil screen from the head was already missing. I did think about buying a NOS one but thought with the oil filter its probably not needed.

 

[kgreen]

10 hours ago, Grandpa said:

Additional comments on the engine pictures I submitted (above) - - -

• The engine with the normal looking fan is a Special / Super engine.

• The engine with odd looking fan is a Century / Roadmaster engine.

I've seen the odd looking fan on one Roadmaster engine, but have also seen several Roadmaster's with the conventional fan.  What is the purpose or function of the odd fan configuration?

 

I just tried a search for this topic but can't find anything.  My first problem is that I don't know what this fan might be called.

Edited January 6, 2019 by kgreen (see edit history)

[1940Super]

10 hours ago, Grandpa said:

The pictures, below, are 1941 Buicks being assembled in Linden, New Jersey, USA.  The 1940 Buick engine is likely painted in the same fashion - - - Engine color on the manifolds, a cadmium plated water pump pulley, the harmonic damper is fitted after the engine painting (but not sure of the color), the exhaust pipes are painted chassis black, the generator mounting bracket is painted engine color, and the fuel and vacuum lines are painted engine color.

 

Great photos, thank you. Both exhaust and intake manifolds the engine colour? I know the muffler was coated in lead but didn't know the pipes were painted. It looks like in those photos that the lever arm shocks and steering box are painted black but I have seen really detailed 1940/41 restorations where they painted them a silver metal or cast iron colour.

Below is an article on the 1940 model, wish i I find a clearer copy to read it. From what I can tell the water pump pulley is black which I what I painted mine. Only parts of the intake manifold are the engine colour and strangely the rocker cover is black,  it was one used for testing?? anyway it definitely wasn't black for production. Not sure if the men are running the engine or not in the photo but if so I like how they do it in their nice suits and tie.

[Grandpa]

The odd looking fan on the 1941 Roadmaster engine is designed to produce less noise.  From my experience with my 1941 Roadmaster, the fan may make less noise, but doesn't cool the engine very well.  Buick recognized that there was a cooling problem and redesigned the fan postwar.  I installed a 1952 Roadmaster fan on my car and it does cool the engine a bit better.

 

[kgreen]

On 12/28/2018 at 1:25 AM, 1940Super said:

For a while things were busy at work so I hadn't made any progress on the car for about 4 weeks. I have some time off until after new years so I'm making the most of the car project despite the hot weather. I have reassembled the rear axle. Somebody in the club had a rebuilt 4.1 ratio center with NORS ND and Hyatt bearings. I'm hoping i'll notice some difference in RPM for highway driving with the lower ratio. I wasn't able to find any NORS wheel bearings so i bought some China made ones from BOBs. 

The propeller shaft came off quite easily on the old pinion shaft spline with some light tapping with a hammer. It was very tight on the new centers spline so I clamped some steel up against the pinion gear and then used a jack between the doorway of the shed to press on the propeller shaft. I went very slowly making sure I wasn't bending the shaft in the process. 

Now that you have taken your rear axle assembly nearly completely apart, you have become the expert for my question.  In the photo below I am pointing to a set screw with a locking nut on the differential carrier.  The carrier has two of these.  I've read my 1940 shop manual and there is no mention of them, at least as I would recognize a description. 

 

1) What do they do?

2) Do they require any specific adjustment?

[kgreen]

Another detail that I don't see covered in the shop manual very well is the torque tube removal and re-assembly.  The shop manual says that the torque tube and differential carrier should not be separated.  Do you know why?  I've spoken to others who like you separated these parts and others report that they had no problems afterward.  

 

There is a thin gasket or spacer that I am pointing to in the photo below.  The shop manual says these are "special" gaskets.  I can't determine what the gasket even seals.  What are your thoughts?  Did you replace yours? Source?

 

[FLYER15015]

Matt,

Grampa is right, so if you can find a '52 Roadmaster fan please put it on.

I could not find one, so I used a 6 blade "flex " fan, and painted it black.

Plus I had a  18 " pancake" electric fan in front of the radiator on a toggle switch under the dash board.

Used it a lot on some long pulls up hill.

Since I live @ 8500 ft. the air is much thinner and we are either going up hill or down.

I had to replace the "mains" in the carby and go down 2 sizes to get the plugs to show a decent colour. A little Aussie spelling don't ya know.

 

Regarding the bypass valve, there are many many forum threads pertaining to overheating.

Please do a search and read up on these, particularly if you are going to use her as a driver, and not a trailer queen.

 The '39's and '40's Buicks were noted for overheating, and my LTD was no exception.

It wasn't until I did the bypass fix with a frost plug drilled with a 1/4" hole in the center that I finally solved the problem.

It helps the hot water exit the front of the head.

 

Mike in frozen Colorado

[Bloo]

3 hours ago, kgreen said:

In the photo below I am pointing to a set screw with a locking nut on the differential carrier.  The carrier has two of these.  I've read my 1940 shop manual and there is no mention of them, at least as I would recognize a description. 

 

1) What do they do?

2) Do they require any specific adjustment?

 

Aren't there three?

 

They push forward a collar that holds the front pinion bearing in place (by forcing it to the bottom of it's bore. FIrst, one makes sure the collar is all the way forward, then the 3 set screws are tightened evenly, (probably with a torque wrench by 1940). Once the set screws are torqued, the locking nuts are tightened down against the case to lock the set screws in place.

Edited January 6, 2019 by Bloo (see edit history)

[kgreen]

1 hour ago, Bloo said:

 

Aren't there three?

 

They push forward a collar that holds the front pinion bearing in place (by forcing it to the bottom of it's bore. FIrst, one makes sure the collar is all the way forward, then the 3 set screws are tightened evenly, (probably with a torque wrench by 1940). Once the set screws are torqued, the locking nuts are tightened down against the case to lock the set screws in place.

 

Yes, you are correct there are three.  

 

If I remove and replace one set screw at a time will I upset any pinion positions?  I want to replace them with others that I have as this differential came from a junk car that sat on the ground for decades.   The screws are in very poor shape though apparently holding.  Adding further to the story, this differential has the 3.6:1 ratio so I've swapped the carrier into my axle and torque tube.  The axle housing and torque tube that sat on the ground has severe pitting but the interior of the differential was in great shape.

[Bloo]

31 minutes ago, kgreen said:

If I remove and replace one set screw at a time will I upset any pinion positions?  I want to replace them with others that I have as this differential came from a junk car that sat on the ground for decades.   The screws are in very poor shape though apparently holding.  Adding further to the story, this differential has the 3.6:1 ratio so I've swapped the carrier into my axle and torque tube.  The axle housing and torque tube that sat on the ground has severe pitting but the interior of the differential was in great shape.

 

They only have a torque value. There is no adjustment to upset. IMHO the only danger is the support ring falling out of position if you removed them all. If you do them one at a time and torque to spec, then tighten the locking nut, IMHO there should be no problem.

Edited January 6, 2019 by Bloo (see edit history)

[Grandpa]

Re. engine running hot - - - A friend had a 1941 Buick Super in his shop that was running too hot.  The engine had been hot tanked and rebuilt by others.  With the use of a pressure washer (garden hose water connection and a compressed air connection) he cleaned out the water jacket in the back of the block through a water pump opening.  He used a straightened coat hanger to reach the rust debris that had accumulated in the block.  The cleaning took a couple of hours, but yielded a lot of rust debris.

 

Also, note the finishes on the shock absorbers and the generator pulley.

 

[FLYER15015]

 Hey Grandpa,

I did my '40 with a 1/4" neoprene hose adapted to a garden hose while she was still in the car, when I first got her.

Wiggled that thing pretty far back and blasted away

Taped a big sheet of plastic over the radiator, and a big pan underneath the car, just to see what came out.

My pile looked like yours at the bottom of the tub.

It helped, but did not solve the overheating.

 

The next year, I put 3 gallons of  Evap-o-rust in her and drove with it for about 2 months.

Worked so well, I had to replace the front and rear frost plugs.

But she was squeaky clean, even at the bottom of the back cylinders.

 

The bypass fix turned her into a long distance cruiser @ 180 degrees in mid summer.

 

Mike in frozen Colorado

[kgreen]

50 minutes ago, Grandpa said:

 

Also, note the finishes on the shock absorbers and the generator pulley.

 

 

 

Is that correct?  I've always seen the shocks chassis color.

 

[Grandpa]

Re. the finish on the shock absorbers (question from kgreen, above) - - -

The factory photos of the assembly of 1941 Buicks at the Linden, NJ, plant clearly show the shocks painted chassis black.  I would go with a black finish.

 

[Bloo]

Grandpa: How would you interpret the harmonic balancer finish in that picture?

[Grandpa]

Re. the finish on the harmonic damper (question from Bloo, above) - - -

The harmonic damper is fitted to the engine after the engine is painted.  I am not sure what the correct finish is for this part.  From the factory photo, it appears that the damper has a couple of different finishes; it looks like the pulley on the damper may be cadmium plated.  I will have to check into the correct finish for this part.

 

[1940Super]

14 hours ago, kgreen said:

Another detail that I don't see covered in the shop manual very well is the torque tube removal and re-assembly.  The shop manual says that the torque tube and differential carrier should not be separated.  Do you know why?  I've spoken to others who like you separated these parts and others report that they had no problems afterward.  

 

There is a thin gasket or spacer that I am pointing to in the photo below.  The shop manual says these are "special" gaskets.  I can't determine what the gasket even seals.  What are your thoughts?  Did you replace yours? Source?

 

 

You're right I must have skipped past that text in the manual. They manual says its because the tube and carrier are matched and lined up during production but I think it may be Buick just being extra cautious. It's pretty common for owners of 1940s Buicks to completely swap the differential carrier with Buicks up to 1955 and I haven't heard of any problems. I didn't take much note of what the manual said because I had just followed the instructions from club members who had done this procedure many times before.

 

I replaced the gasket. I ended up buying it from Bob's Automobillia, it just looked like ordinary paper gasket. Oil from the diff can leak past the pinion bearings into the torque tube and so it stops oil leaking out out the connection.

 

This is something I found baffling in the manual, it shows a bearing puller removing the axle bearings with the backing plate still in place. The backing plate needs to be removed to pull the bearings and seals out

[1940Super]

15 hours ago, kgreen said:

Now that you have taken your rear axle assembly nearly completely apart, you have become the expert for my question.  In the photo below I am pointing to a set screw with a locking nut on the differential carrier.  The carrier has two of these.  I've read my 1940 shop manual and there is no mention of them, at least as I would recognize a description. 

 

1) What do they do?

2) Do they require any specific adjustment?

As Bloo pointed out there are 3 of them and I believe they lock the pinion in place. It does appear the 1940 manual skipped past the part about these nuts and removal of the pinion. I didn't have to touch them because when I bought the differential carrier from a 53 model Buick the pinion bearings and side bearings had been replaced and set correctly so all i had to do was just simply bolt it onto the axle housing and torque tube.

[1940Super]

11 hours ago, kgreen said:

 

Yes, you are correct there are three.  

 

If I remove and replace one set screw at a time will I upset any pinion positions?  I want to replace them with others that I have as this differential came from a junk car that sat on the ground for decades.   The screws are in very poor shape though apparently holding.  Adding further to the story, this differential has the 3.6:1 ratio so I've swapped the carrier into my axle and torque tube.  The axle housing and torque tube that sat on the ground has severe pitting but the interior of the differential was in great shape.

 

What model is your car?

Dropping to 3:6:1 ratio would be great for highway driving and fuel economy but i'd have concerns about it being gutless up steep hills especially if loaded with passengers

[1940Super]

10 hours ago, Grandpa said:

Re. engine running hot - - - A friend had a 1941 Buick Super in his shop that was running too hot.  The engine had been hot tanked and rebuilt by others.  With the use of a pressure washer (garden hose water connection and a compressed air connection) he cleaned out the water jacket in the back of the block through a water pump opening.  He used a straightened coat hanger to reach the rust debris that had accumulated in the block.  The cleaning took a couple of hours, but yielded a lot of rust debris.

 

Also, note the finishes on the shock absorbers and the generator pulley.

 

 

This is one of the detailed restorations that studied closely. The brake backing plates are cad? plated too. I assume Bill Anderson had access to an illustrated components book for 1941 models. Perhaps different factories did things differently as there are many conflicting differences in finishes between this restoration and the original photographs you presented.

After seeing this photo, before re installing my engine i'll flush out the water jacket too

[1940Super]

13 hours ago, FLYER15015 said:

Matt,

Grampa is right, so if you can find a '52 Roadmaster fan please put it on.

I could not find one, so I used a 6 blade "flex " fan, and painted it black.

Plus I had a  18 " pancake" electric fan in front of the radiator on a toggle switch under the dash board.

Used it a lot on some long pulls up hill.

Since I live @ 8500 ft. the air is much thinner and we are either going up hill or down.

I had to replace the "mains" in the carby and go down 2 sizes to get the plugs to show a decent colour. A little Aussie spelling don't ya know.

 

Regarding the bypass valve, there are many many forum threads pertaining to overheating.

Please do a search and read up on these, particularly if you are going to use her as a driver, and not a trailer queen.

 The '39's and '40's Buicks were noted for overheating, and my LTD was no exception.

It wasn't until I did the bypass fix with a frost plug drilled with a 1/4" hole in the center that I finally solved the problem.

It helps the hot water exit the front of the head.

 

Mike in frozen Colorado

 

Yes I will do some reading up on the bypass valve and speak to some other Buick owners on their experience. I'm going to flush out the water jacket too, see if anything comes out. I'm not sure what the engine re conditioner did

[1940Super]

On 1/6/2019 at 1:47 PM, 39BuickEight said:

That is a part of much discussion.  Some cars have the rivets drilled out and replaced with bolts (some say dealers did this all the time back in the 40’s and 50’s when performing maintenance.). There are also 2 different versions on the shafts.  Some are threaded into the eye (and have a larger eyehole) and some have rubber in the eye hole.  Mine are threaded into the eyehole (like yours it appears, and if so, I would love to know how to order the correct seals).  When I ordered the seals, I was sent the incorrect ones and told my arms were incorrect for my car.  Many people have mixed and matched these over a few year period.  Apparently they fit many years.

 

As as far as putting the shaft back in I pried them apart.  I put one end in first, then used a giant screwdriver through the other hole for leverage and pulled while someone else got it started.

 

I told Dad we could drill the rivets out and replace them with bolts, but he didn’t like the idea of changing it.

 

I just went and had a look at your control arm arm, they look the same as mine with the steel bushing. The dirt seal to buy would be https://bobsautomobilia.com/suspension-and-steering/lower-inner-shaft-seal-1937-57-ss-378/ but the only way to get them on is to drill out the rivets.

 

37 and 38 had steel bushings with smaller bolt spacings on the shaft. I would assume 39 had the same bolt spacings as the 40 and up models but had a rubber bushing which is apparently replaceable. 40-42 had a composition bushing in a steel shell that didn't require lubrication, with a larger spacing in the shaft bolt holes. 46 and up went back to steel bushings. Mine had been converted to the steel bushings but they left off the seals because they didn't drill the rivets. 

 

Now that I've seen your lower arm bumper again I see it must but the type that a bolt keeps in place. I bought the original trapped mounted type which requires the again drilling of the rivets to install.

 

[1940Super]

Yesterday I set the Engine up for a test run. I had run it 1 and a half years ago but couldn't run it for long because of overheating. I went overseas shortly after which I why I couldn't diagnose the problem at the time. After being able to run the engine for half an hour this time with a steady temperature I put the problem down to the thermostat being wrong side up.

 

Procedure to testing engine:

1. After a little research and finding many mixed opinions about the generator running I removed the brushes and also the field coil because when I opened it up I found it very dirty inside so I cleaned it out. So I reinstalled it with just the armature and casing so that nothing could be generated.

2. using a hand pump i pumped 'running in' oil in through the gallery, tipped some in the rocker cover and filled the filter canister.

3. Connected up radiator and filled coolant

4. Removed spark plugs

5. removed rocker cover

6. Check timing in distributor with the help of a friend. While I was turning crank he watched marking on the flywheel and checked valve movement was in correct sequence. reinstalled rocker cover.

7. connected fuel from an elevated tank

8. adjusted the point in the distributor

9. connected battery and power to coil, checked spark in distributor

10. cranked engine over to with no spark plugs, checked oil pressure reading on gauge and that fuel pump working and fuel at carby. There were a couple of leaks in the fuel lines fittings but after tightening them up the leaks stopped.

11. Reinstalled spark plugs and leads

12. cranked engine over and it fired up in less then a second first go. using a 12 volt battery probably why it was so quick, will be buying a new 6 volt this week

Ran good for half an hour but the oil pressure was starting to drop off at the end was around 25psi. is this normal with running in oil? Some of the oil line brass fittings leaked too, will probably have to buy new ones as the old ones are starting to strip and cant tighten much more.

I used the gauges from the dash because I had them re calibrated and wanted to check they worked and also another new oil gauge to compare readings.

 

 

 

 

 

[1940Super]

 

 

I have a short video of it running but not sure how to upload

[Ben Bruce aka First Born]

2 hours ago, 1940Super said:

 

What model is your car?

Dropping to 3:6:1 ratio would be great for highway driving and fuel economy but i'd have concerns about it being gutless up steep hills especially if loaded with passengers

 

 That's what second gear is for!      Seriously, I installed a 3.36 to 1 in my '50 with 248 CI.. I had no problem, or at least none I recall.

 

  Ben

[1940Super]

34 minutes ago, Ben Bruce aka First Born said:

 

 That's what second gear is for!      Seriously, I installed a 3.36 to 1 in my '50 with 248 CI.. I had no problem, or at least none I recall.

 

  Ben

Good to know, if I ever come across a lower ratio i'll grab it

[Gary W]

1 hour ago, 1940Super said:

I have a short video of it running but not sure how to upload

 

You can upload it to You Tube and just imbed the link here.  With only 9MB limit, your video clip will be only one or two seconds if you upload it directly to the Forum.

[FLYER15015]

Matt,

Regarding your low (25psi) oil pressure, here is the standard fix.

Pull the pan and drop the pump (2 bolts), and pull the bottom plate on the pump.

I made a new gasket for where the pump bolts to the block out of a manila file folder and used no sealant.

On a good FLAT surface, start with 60 grit emory, and move to 120 grit, then 240 grit and get that bottom plate SMOOTH.

The dark parts in my picture is where the pump was leaking.

Clearance from the gears to the plate should be NO MORE than .005"

Apply a THIN layer of Permatex around the perimeter, and screw her back on.

Also clean the bypass plunger and passageway and spring of any "gunk".

When I did mine, I used an old used car lot trick, and stuck a 1/4" spacer behind the pressure relief spring.

She now has 65 at cold start up, 40 at a hot idle and 50-55 at cruising speed on a hot summer day.

 

Oh, and when you have the pan down, set it up on some wooden blocks and hammer the bolt holes flat.

It takes a whole lot less gasket sealer that way.

 

And here is your oil filter cross reference chart.

 

 

Mike in Colorado

 

 

Edited January 7, 2019 by FLYER15015 (see edit history)

[1940Super]

15 hours ago, FLYER15015 said:

Matt,

Regarding your low (25psi) oil pressure, here is the standard fix.

Pull the pan and drop the pump (2 bolts), and pull the bottom plate on the pump.

I made a new gasket for where the pump bolts to the block out of a manila file folder and used no sealant.

On a good FLAT surface, start with 60 grit emory, and move to 120 grit, then 240 grit and get that bottom plate SMOOTH.

The dark parts in my picture is where the pump was leaking.

Clearance from the gears to the plate should be NO MORE than .005"

Apply a THIN layer of Permatex around the perimeter, and screw her back on.

Also clean the bypass plunger and passageway and spring of any "gunk".

When I did mine, I used an old used car lot trick, and stuck a 1/4" spacer behind the pressure relief spring.

She now has 65 at cold start up, 40 at a hot idle and 50-55 at cruising speed on a hot summer day.

 

Oh, and when you have the pan down, set it up on some wooden blocks and hammer the bolt holes flat.

It takes a whole lot less gasket sealer that way.

 

And here is your oil filter cross reference chart.

 

 

Mike in Colorado

 

 

 

15 hours ago, FLYER15015 said:

 

 

Thanks Mike, i'll take it into consideration. Nice job of straightening the pan. 

[1940Super]

Video of it running on 

 

my friend Joe controlling the carby

 

 

[1940Super]

Being back at work has slowed progress, will probably be until the weekend before I can do any more. 

 

Here are some photos of simple little bits I made up for the engine. 

Flywheel housing inspection cover. Was missing and thought I'd never find one so I made one from the looking at the 2 bottom pictures of an original posted on Billy's 39 thread. Just a bit of sheet metal and used a press, vice and file to shape it and glued on the prongs that hold it in place.

Inspection cover in place

Clip that holds the cap on the distributor. The original had a broken hinge and would not hold down the cap.

 

I was missing the 3 clips that hold together the vacuum, fuel and vacuum advance piping together. From photos I could see they were a C type clip. I used an original clip (top one) holding the 2 x 1/4" front brake lines over the steering box as a reference and had to make one side a bigger as the fuel line is 5/16th". These clips are probably available somewhere but they would end up costing $20 just to ship them out here. Also made clips to support the fuel line at the thermostat housing and oil pan and a wiring clip at the carburator