You can always tell these coming because with the DRL's being the high beam on "low", all the way in the middle they look like a motorbike until you realize it's a car.
Phil
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- Sun Jun 16, 2019 11:17 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Saturn
- Replies: 30
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- Sat Jun 15, 2019 2:58 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
I need to go to the hardware store and see if there's anything I can find to repurpose as a dual pipe clamp. When taking the lower heater pipe out I saw that there's a screw hole in the frame where the pipes pass through, to stop them chattering. Also to note, both heater matrices were disconnected ...
- Sat Jun 15, 2019 12:52 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
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- Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:13 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
Hair pins!
There is one in there that fits the brake clevis. Win.
I think tonight will be a bit of cleaning and some rust treatment.
Phil
There is one in there that fits the brake clevis. Win.
I think tonight will be a bit of cleaning and some rust treatment.
Phil
- Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:13 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: Unparallel Renault 16 Happenings
- Replies: 346
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Re: Unparallel Renault 16 Happenings
Just to be bloody awkward the bleed nipples on the front calipers of my Renault are 9mm, really long and easy to get to. The rear cylinders are 7mm and set back in the crook of a large horse-shoe shaped chunk of cast iron (probably to silence the brakes, but in reality will just be used to store hea...
- Fri Jun 14, 2019 3:02 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
- Views: 650590
Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
20190613_190025.jpg Using a large Persuader, I removed the brake pedal. 20190613_192052.jpg Someone had failed at the lubrication schedule. 20190613_202202.jpg Cleaned up the clevis pin, cleared the grease nipple. 20190613_200623.jpg Cleaned down and painted the brake pedal, rod arm and spring. I'l...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 8:55 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
Well, don't forget 49-55 were real boom years in the USA and manufacturers were still in the "making machinery good for the military effort" mindset. '56 on began to see a downturn in the economy, as that rather artificial boom began to collapse. 57-59 saw the real exciting designs occur b...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:06 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: The Wots It From Thread?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 17806
Re: The Wots It From Thread?
The clock in my Pontiac is made by Jaeger.
The gauges are AC though.
--Phil
The gauges are AC though.
--Phil
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:00 pm
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
This car is from a different era. It reminds me more of the cars we had when I was growing up- 40's and 50's designs dragged on through to the 70's. For the most part, this car is designed so the parts that wear can be refurbished with regular tools, no particular machinery in a lot of cases because...
- Thu Jun 13, 2019 2:40 am
- Forum: Motorised Conveyances
- Topic: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
- Replies: 1962
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Re: 1951 Pontiac Chieftain
I surprised myself tonight. Didn't think to before but I offered that blue up against the paintwork. 20190612_200905.jpg That's not actually a bad color match for something off the shelf at Wal-Mart. 20190612_201008.jpg That's where the plate fits, held snug by the felt insulation. 20190612_202035.j...