Great looking car and crew! I wish I still had my Tudor. What is that wired in from the hot side of the solenoid and the alternator feed? Circuit breaker? Maybe I missed it in an earlier post. Need it for my coupe. Thanks, and keep up any updates.
This is the main fuse for the system. Battery is connected to one side and the other is the alternator and power feed for the main car harness. It came in the Painless kit and protects the system from a dead short.
A bit of an update on the 40. So far it’s been a good around town cruiser. Out of curiosity I put an oil pressure gauge into the car to see what the oil pressure was on this old flathead. Turns out I have next to no oil pressure. When hot it would be 1-2PSI at idle and 10-15PSI at cruise speed. Swapped out the 10-40 for some 20-50 and Lucas engine hunny with our any change. When cold it goes to 60PSI but once it’s warm I’m back down to the 2-15PSI range. Engine seems to run okay without any knocking or banging and dose not seem to burn any oil. At this point I think I know it’s an old worn out Flathead and we are just going to see if I can get the summer out of it. This morning we just did a 30 mile trip to take the family out for breakfast and again no pressure but it ran fine. Wipers even work on the car Seems like a good time to start checking over the 283 though to have it ready to swap in. Looks to have been rebuilt at done time with .030” pistons and standard mains and crank. Came out of a running car but unfortunately was left outside in the rain for a day or two and got water inside. Hopefully I’ll just clean it up and go back together.
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