Well, You know how things snowball. I got in to do a manifold, and broke a bolt off, took the inner fender out to drill the remainder etc.
Looked around a bit and here's where I stand.
-Tie rod ends
-Electrical *FULL rewire* with original style (correct colour and cloth covering)
-exhaust system
- blast and paint inner fenders and various
- have heater and rad boiled, tested and whatnot.
-Radio complete re-tube and refresh
-Get manifolds blasted and ceramic coated (maybe)
Anyone know of a good Rad shop in the K/W/Stratford/London area? same goes for exhaust.
Since i'm doing a full re-wire, here are a few pictures. The radio is in there, also a coil on pack driver board I designed and finally built for another project.. :) Just cause.
A little bit about the re-wire and my old dodge in general. This old girl is all original. someone painted her, but she's all intact.
My approach with it is that I'm not changing much, lets say it was around 1953 and I was a young guy, not too rich
but had a nice flathead dodge. Since i'm only 35, I'd like to experience that.
I'm gonna mill the head, put on my dual carbs and a split exhaust manifold. that's it for rodding. Maybe disc brakes, but that's for safety.
Anyway, I'm keeping it 6v positive ground, it's always started. It's record for starting is -36 degrees. I know that if I want high beams,
a heater and a radio, I need to pick 2! :)
From my experience with other cars, mostly 70s BMWs. People will moan and bitch about a charging system not working, and then not service what
is already there. too many friends put 80 amp alternators in the place of 45 amp ones to discover their headlights were still dim...
So, for me it's the experience of driving this car somewhat authentically. 12v is easier obviously, but meh.
Also, I have a HUGE motorola 806(I think) tube radio to deal with.
Anyway, enough words. Enjoy the pics
Wiring bits all came from http://www.ynzyesterdaysparts.com/
I'd love a more local place where I can get some of the weird ends and such... those eyelets where the wire enters on the side, or the flag shaped spade
connectors.
I managed even to find the little nips that are on the inside of the bulb holders, so the wire gets replaced all the way through.
As far as the radio goes. my dad's a retired electrical engineer, and i'm a ham radio geek, so I started by testing tubes.
The radio was a little weak in it's receiving, the RF amp tube and mixer tube are the same type, the Amp was bad, but the mixer was ok, swapped them and
reception got a bit better. Mostly though, it's paper capacitors that needed replacing, and the electrolytic will be too. And the speaker. OK it's a full rebuild. I will likely add a aux-in plug so I can
play other music if I want. But usually driving this car, that's not what I want.
