project 1951 Pontiac Chieftain

[noseypoke]

Is that an automatic dip switch on top of dash,or those thingy's for looking at traffic lights when your right up to the pole???

[PhilA]

Thinking about horns, have you heard a mid-70s GM horn?  The one on my Pontiac has a nice sound and presumably costs about $6.45 + tax.

I have and they do, but this is also a bit more about the aesthetics too. Windtones have a particular look to them, particularly as they are meant to be mounted right up on the firewall behind the engine.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Is that an automatic dip switch on top of dash,or those thingy's for looking at traffic lights when your right up to the pole???

It's a Guide traffic light lens.

 

To stop people asking I think I need to find an old broken Autronic Eye and fit it.

 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

 

Little bit more shine. It is a pleasing shape to polish.

 

 

Phil

[hairnet]

Perv

[PhilA]

Yes. It's very curvy.

[hairnet]

Please post no video of you stroking it

[busmansholiday]

Please post no video of you stroking it

Please doooooo

[PhilA]

Y'all have some serious issues, you know that

[Guest Hooli]

You said that like it's a bad thing.

[busmansholiday]

Y'all have some serious issues, you know that

I thought that was a prerequisite for being on here.

[PhilA]

 

I rewired the gear shift position lamp to get rid of the crusty old wire. I then tried to solder it to the slip ring, but my soldering iron couldn't get enough heat into it.

 

 

Fought with the steering wheel for a while and removed the mechanism. Cleaned it up and soldered it with my blowtorch set on low.

 

 

Bingo.

 

I'm going to pull a new wire through the column and get that set up hopefully tomorrow or at the weekend. This also ties in with doing the wiring to the indicator switch.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

 

I found some worse wiring!

 

Also found the engine number. That was a pleasant surprise, it's a numbers matching car.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

Ooh man $$$$$$$

[tooSavvy]

Also found the engine number. That was a pleasant surprise, it's a numbers matching car.

Phil

YaY..... Nick (see: Nick's Garage youtuber) took 20yr to find his 'numbers matching' dream

[SiC]

It's a miracle that this car hasn't had a big electrical fire in its life. Especially in recent years.

[PhilA]

Yeah really. It's been hacked and bodged about a lot to try and prevent that from happening.

 

I'm trying to do it properly now.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

My air cleaner arrived from South Dakota.

 

 

Sitting in a field under a car for 40 years quotient? High.

 

Home to mouses? Check.

 

Stinky? Check.

 

 

Set about cleaning it up.

 

 

Found the mouse house.

 

 

Got it clean enough for storage.

 

 

Inside is fairly clean, thankfully.

 

 

Good enough for now. It's in remarkably good shape for its age.

 

Phil

[vulgalour]

Are these an oil bath type air cleaner?

[PhilA]

Are these an oil bath type air cleaner?

Correct, is oil bath. There's a conversion to dry filter for them available, I think I may go down that route. Externally you can't tell the difference.

 

The wagon wheel part should house a filter screen which is missing- i think that was a replaceable "cartridge" because I can't see a way to take it apart, unless it's all stuck.

 

The oil pan is the really dirty but at the bottom. I'm going to have to chisel the old muck out the bottom of it. South Dakota is very poor, dusty soil and man, it's gotten over everything.

 

I also need to get in touch with the Pontiac owner's club and find out how the far end of it is supported. It's far too heavy to be just hanging off the carburetor.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Turns out the filter mesh is still widely available for tractors. I may see about restuffing the filter element with that and do the oil bath thing after all.

 

Wikipedia has that picture of the "Pontiac straight eight" and there appears to be a bracket off the head bolt front right to the underside of the air cleaner housing for support. Makes sense, I'll have to either source one or buy a length of steel bar and manufacture something. That may explain why that head bolt has a washer under it...

 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

Somewhere inside the resonator can there's a few bits of crap rattling around. There's only 3 holes in the tube, about 1/2" each, leading to it but I can foresee these bits of crap either getting drawn in or rattling around forever.

 

I'm trying to devise some method of cleaning them out of there. Typically the thing is all spot welded together for convenience.

 

Phil

[busmansholiday]

I remember buses here having oil bath air filters. Clean them out with petrol was the usual way forward. Remembering to tell whoever got the job that they had to be filled up with fresh "engine oil" afterwards , not petrol ....

[hairnet]

Y'all have some serious issues, you know that

pot kettle (grits)

[PhilA]

I remember buses here having oil bath air filters. Clean them out with petrol was the usual way forward. Remembering to tell whoever got the job that they had to be filled up with fresh "engine oil" afterwards , not petrol ....

Well the oil bath dish isn't the issue, it's the nuts and mouse poo and rust rattling around in the muffler can.

 

Phil

[hairnet]

and the filter?

[DSdriver]

My air cleaner arrived from South Dakota.

 

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Did the seller actually send that by post? How was it not blown apart in a localised explosion by a bomb disposal expert?

[PhilA]

Did the seller actually send that by post? How was it not blown apart in a localised explosion by a bomb disposal expert?

Yes, it arrived via UPS.

[hairnet]

Did the seller actually send that by post? How was it not blown apart in a localised explosion by a bomb disposal expert?

because not air freight because common sense?

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

Oil bath filters work very well on series Land Rovers.

Filters out the muck well and reduces the induction noise.

 

With the bits in the "muffler", repeated shaking may well get the bits out.

Else you could cut open the inner tube where it doesn't show on the outside.