Projects Not Another 41 Pickup Project!! (Update: 12/06)

Got the rear m/cyl to residual valve section made to run along with the front piece, and on the first try!
Glad that opportunity is over with!



Bad picture but you get the picture.

 

Well, I’ve spent part of two days trying to find a NIB Kelsey Hayes adjustable proportioning valve that I’ve had for years. Checked every shelf, box and illogical storage place in my parts room, every cabinet and tool box in the shop, and everywhere else except a body cavity search, to no avail!
This pisses me off to no end. Just another opportunity to spend some more money and wait on the mail, and just when I assumed to be making progress. Of course it will magically appear in the distant future.
Other fun things to do rather than rear brake lines, I guess. Whoopee. Stay tooned.

 

Did you look in the pantry, next to the cereal? I find a lot of 'lost' parts there! now....where was I?

 

A whirlwind of time consuming things have had me doing everything BUT working on this pickup project. Still have nearly three weeks ahead of more of the same.

Did sell off two projects that I will never get to, a 40 coupe and a 77 Early Bronco. Just have to deliver them. Very time consuming.
The funds are going to pickup body work, paint and interior, and some shop finishing.

See ya’ll in a couple weeks, hopefully.

 

Tell me about it! Been the same with me! I am just breaking out of it now and let’s see what I can get done as the holidays roll in …..

 

Check off one. Got the 40 coupe delivered!

 

UPDATE:
40 coupe sold and delivered. 1500 miles. Chk.
Thanksgiving travel. 500 miles. Chk.
Bronco sold and delivered. 1200 miles. Chk.
Storage cleared out and gas pumps, B bangers and transmissions, couple of rearends and frame table home. Chk.

Not so fast, Kemosabe. You just thought that you were making progress.
Slipped on wet trailer, jammed and almost broke leg. Fortunately ground broke fall.
Can’t stand on it for long. Could have been worse. Truck on hold.
Stay tooned.

 

Glad you are ok but be careful - I also did that slip and fall off a trailer some 20 years ago myself! Not fun!

 

Sorry to hear about the mishap, glad it isn't a lot worse. I am not a Dr but I could spray that leg with this Polyester primer and it should set up like a cast. Maybe even block it out, candy apple red, lite flake.

 

Thanks! But I probably need to pass on that procedure, Doc. I’m allergic to pink.

 

Yup, this getting old ain't all it's cracked up to be. This evening we went to a Christmas event at our local county park. Had to climb around forty steps and of course I triped on the last one. Turned so I'd land on my shoulder and not do a face plant. Tore up my knee and elbow pretty good and I can barely move my arm. We need to be more careful out there. Hope you have a very Merry and Safe Christmas Bill.

 

Thanks, Lee! Hope that you’re on the mend. Been stuck inside for a week now, and can limp around some. Just no standing on concrete. Merry Christmas to you and Miss Linda.

 

Got back from family Christmas and another 1000 mile chingo and the gimp leg has been healing.
Couldn't let this year end without doing something on the pile-o-parts pickup, so I bent up the last of the frame run hard brake lines.
Not much but I'll call it progress, if nothing more than mental therapy.
Happy New Year, ya hooligans.

 

Happy New year Bill.

 

Leg has healed enough to stay on it a while now.
Tackled the hard brake lines across the rear axle.
A real PITA for something that's hidden.
NiCopp is too expensive to screw up!
Anyway, DONE! Line clamps next.


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Keep up the great work!

 

Thanks, Tom! How’s your recovery going?
I decided to run the fuel delivery stuff before I get back to the engine and trans install, so I reread your entire thread to steal any ideas.
You settled on a Holley red pump? I used one on my roadster for years. Just noisey. Found a new one I had squirreled away! $$ saved.
The 40 frame doesn’t have a lot of places to mount a pump below the bottom level of the tank that are easy to access when it’s on the ground.
I have a perfectly placed crossmember that mounts the upper shocks, but it will be just above the bottom of the tank. Hope that will fill the pump OK. It gives me good access with the bed on. Maybe just make a flat hanger to drop it down?
Need to have the filter before the pump, but this gives you the idea.

 

Not so fast there, Bubba. If all else fails, read the instructions!
“The pump MUST be located below and as close to the tank as possible. The pump is not designed to pull fuel out of the tank.”
Anybody ever disregarded this? The fuel pickup outlet is ON TOP of the tank, not on the bottom. Any pump would have to pull fuel up and then down to the pump.
UPDATE:
Now I found this: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ric-fuel-pump-question.1199473/#post-13662632
Tom had already asked the question, it was logically answered, and it is apparently OK!
ROCK ON!

 

Electric pumps push better than they pull as a rule of thumb. I buy a lot of cars and I have seen them install all over the place including the engine bay but for best performance and longevity I would mount near the tank and gravity fed into the pump if that option is available. I like them inside the tank, less noise, they stay cool and they work very well. In fact all my cars currently have that configuration.

A suggestion, mount that pump on a chunk of rubber to quiet it down. I have a NAPA semi truck mud flap that I have been trimming pieces off of for stuff like that for years. Air pumps for overload bags on my OT, basically anything motorized to isolate it from the frame. But don't forget to run a ground strap to the pump if you do.

 

Thanks for the tip, BB!

 

My pump came with some rubber to mount it to but I also have an old mud flap I could cut up as well. Thanks for that …..

As for a gravity feed, I don’t have much but I have some. My plan is to put some gas in the tank, start the pump, and see what happens.

In my roadster I have a cheap electronic pump to prime my 94s before attempting to start it using the stock flattie fuel pump. Can the same idea be used for a Holley pump setup - one pump priming the other - do you think?

Just a thought ……

 

Tom, going back to your pump thread, there was a recommendation for a Walbro FRB-13
pump that can PULL fuel 4 ft. 18,000 hr run life. 6-8 psi. They sell direct.

https://www.walbro.com/fr-series-fuel-pumps/frb-13-reciprocating-fuel-pump/

FRB-13 RECIPROCATING FUEL PUMP
FRB-13 RECIPROCATING FUEL PUMP (FOR REFERENCE ONLY)



PERFORMANCE

• Voltage: 12 Volt (9.0 min – 16.0 vdc max)
• Minimum Flow Rate: 162 liters per hour (43 gph)
• Deadhead Pressure: 42 to 56 kPa (6.0 to 8.0 psi)
• Maximum Current Draw: 2.3 amps
• Life: >18,000 hours
• Dry Lift: 48 inches (120 with optional outlet check valve)

 

Spent the last week getting parts priced, labeled and packed for the Nashville swap meet. I need a bigger swap space!
I will start listing stuff on here when I get back.
Not looking forward to the shipping ordeal, but I need to wise up and get rid of stuff.
Anyhow, I managed to make a bracket to lower and make the pump inlet and outlet even with the bottom of the tank. We'll see how that works with the filter above it. Got the fittings and the tubing, on to the fuel lines!

 

Really dragging ass after getting back from doing the Nashville swap meet by myself!
Unpacked the truck and put up some unsold parts.
Did manage to get some fuel lines bent up and installed. Maybe get to the front tomorrow. Stay tooned.

 

I run Walbro in tank pumps on 3 of my cars right now and they have been fuel proof

 

Fuel or fool proof? Or both?
I looked at those, but I already had this new Red so thought I would use it. I had good results from the one on my roadster for 30 years. Of course a new one will probably turn to crap right away.

 

Well, it looks like the only thing I brought home from Nashville, besides unsold parts, was "the head cold from hell". Kickin' my butt.
But I managed to finish the fuel line up to where it connects to the pressure reg and the engine. Of course that last union won't tighten up, so it's back to the parts store tomorrow! %!#@$ opportunities..
Next: oil prime and leak check the Desoto, if I get to feelin' better.
Stay tooned.

 

Nothing going on except finalizing the fuel line job that won’t end. Painted the pump and reg brackets I made up. Did the FINAL(!?) assembly and mounting of the filter and pump. Couple more tweaks and line clamps to drill and tap and I'm calling it quits. Got zero energy with this cold. Poor pitiful me.

 

You have the fuel line job that won’t end and I have the exhaust job that won’t end! Lol!

 

What is the part number for the A/C fuel filter you are using? I like that set up.