What are you working on?
09-01-2013, 07:25 PM
#3441
4th Gear Member
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As some of you know my Dad and I have been working on a 1948 ******. It has been getting a complete frame off restoration.
Today, for the first time in 30 years it started and ran and purred like it should. It was pretty uneventful actually. It re-entered the world with very little fanfare or commotion.
We filled the carb bowl, turned the key to the "on" position and pushed the foot starter that is connected directly to the 6 volt battery through 00 guage wire and it started like it had never left.
The little bit of Marvel Mystery Oil that had been put in the cylinders to aid in upper cylinder lubrication during the first startup burned off through the exhaust and the fan turned pulling air through the 65 year old radiator but nothing made a sound other than the light tap of solid lifters on the flat head "Go-Devil" engine.
In other words... IT WAS F_@*&#&$ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Pardon my language)
Today, for the first time in 30 years it started and ran and purred like it should. It was pretty uneventful actually. It re-entered the world with very little fanfare or commotion.
We filled the carb bowl, turned the key to the "on" position and pushed the foot starter that is connected directly to the 6 volt battery through 00 guage wire and it started like it had never left.
The little bit of Marvel Mystery Oil that had been put in the cylinders to aid in upper cylinder lubrication during the first startup burned off through the exhaust and the fan turned pulling air through the 65 year old radiator but nothing made a sound other than the light tap of solid lifters on the flat head "Go-Devil" engine.
In other words... IT WAS F_@*&#&$ AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Pardon my language)
09-01-2013, 07:43 PM
#3443
4th Gear Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Close Enough
Posts: 1,413
I had a 99 Jeep Wrangler Sport that I really liked. Kinda wish I hadnt gotten rid of that one. It was the Desert Sand with tan top and interior. 4.0 straight six and 30x9.50 factory wheels and tires..
I bought it 2 weeks before Easter in 99 and somewhere around here I have pictures of me with it sunk up to the top of the half doors in a mud hole Easter weekend. That's what a Jeep was made for.
I bought it 2 weeks before Easter in 99 and somewhere around here I have pictures of me with it sunk up to the top of the half doors in a mud hole Easter weekend. That's what a Jeep was made for.
