project 1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[PhilA]

1500 miles elapse, check.

Oil change. Needed it.

[PhilA]

I now wish I hadn't taken the heater fan out.

The motor has a brush that disintegrated and it's all overheated and... Dead

 

Ordered a replacement. It'll be here Tuesday.

[PhilA]

Bought some brushes, modified them to fit.

That got it running again. It won't last but should be ok until the new motor comes in.

Filled the transmission up with new oil.

$60 at Tractor Supply. Seems to be better, will give a full report once I've done some miles on it.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Yeah, initial impressions are that's helped. I'll see how it behaves in traffic.

[PhilA]

New fan motor. Blows nicely now and it's almost silent. The old motor is kaput.

[hairnet]

beast.

car too.

 

[PhilA]

Spot what I'd done wrong with the old brakes (don't ask me how I managed it).

Left side coming unbonded, that would be ugly if it let go.

Car looks goofy, cleaned the wheels being as they're there.

[PhilA]

Gave the paint a bit of TLC.

[PhilA]

Something to fix on the car today.

A little while back I had accidentally jetwashed the paint off this wheel trim.

Keyed the area with 1500 grit paper and masked it off.

Much better, pretty red now.

Well, crap. I'll know it's there.

[Asimo]

Those brake shoes - are they upside down? The lining looks to be offset toward the handbrake cam at the bottom rather than toward the wheel cylinder at the top.

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Asimo said:

Those brake shoes - are they upside down? The lining looks to be offset toward the handbrake cam at the bottom rather than toward the wheel cylinder at the top.

No, I had just put two leading shoes on that side. Don't ask, it was getting late in the day when I put those brakes together.

I've corrected that error with the new shoes.

[PhilA]

The day cooled off enough that I could polish the roof. 

Car always looks better in indirect light, it bleaches out in bright sunshine.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

thats completely different to when you were scraping the laquer peel off it

 

[Crackers]

Such a cool car. 

That's all I've got to say. 

[PhilA]

4 hours ago, hairnet said:

thats completely different to when you were scraping the laquer peel off it

 

That's each time it gets polished, the sun is making it all peel off on the side that gets parked to face the south.

[PhilA]

Just been driving about. Weather has been cooler than average (10-15c) so it's nice to have the heater on. 

Photo courtesy of daughter, on the way home from Walmart. Lovely.

It's been used to go to guitar lessons, traveling about in general. Gearbox working well in the cold proving the heavier oil is what it needed. I think 50W for summer should see it work well.

Wife and dog joined me to D&D for milkshakes. Dog was barking at everybody. Chilly night, the heater was most welcome.

Today went get some abrasive papers, and saw this.

It was followed by this. Time for an oil change.

[PhilA]

Oil and grease this morning. 

Oddly the Mobil1 Delvac diesel oil was cheaper than the off brand store own brand oil. So that's what it's got in it.

[hairnet]

On 3/20/2023 at 7:39 PM, PhilA said:

 

 

No onions no beret? *Runs

[PhilA]

A suitable tachometer has been obtained.

Better than the one I have in it which is starting to get flaky and has the redline less than half way across the sweep.

[PhilA]

Need to paint the bezel black but that works.

Phil

[PhilA]

Nice night last night so I decided to take the car out.

Ran horribly for the first few miles, bad misfire on two cylinders which cleared up once it got warm. Stopped for milkshakes, Thursday we're out of town and the last few weeks we haven't been.

Car looks so small parked there.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 17/04/2023 at 16:03, PhilA said:

Need to paint the bezel black but that works.

Phil

or make the others shiny

[PhilA]

10 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

or make the others shiny

But that's twice the work.

[Noel Tidybeard]

46 minutes ago, PhilA said:

But that's twice the work.

but will look thrice or fource times betterer

[PhilA]

1 hour ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

but will look thrice or fource times betterer

I think I'll un-peen the bezel from the tach. I want to mark the orange and red areas on the face anyway. I'll paint it black at that time.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

That'll do

[Zelandeth]

One of the few cars where a HGV rev counter would fit the scale better!

[PhilA]

3 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

One of the few cars where a HGV rev counter would fit the scale better!

Trying to find ones that work both off a set of points and also the alternator W terminal is difficult though. 

I just need 0-4000 and this fit the bill perfectly.

[PhilA]

Oops.

Pulled up to the end of the street to wait for the school bus with my kid, and tore the exhaust pipe off.

Yay lowered cars.

[hairnet]

hooligan on the verge