Good day y'all. I pop in once-in-a-while with a query about my '59. In the past few years, I have rarely had a chance to work on it but as of this weekend, he's coming home with me.
Yay.
I'm terrified.
I need to change the oil first before I even dare drive it up on the tow dolly...probably been about 427 years since last change, and as with everything else on my boy, all is not as it should be. The 'person' that had it before rigged so many things that whenever I delve, it is basically a sh?tsh0w.
Upon removing the housing and filter cartridge, it looks like whomever was in charge of the shindig just put things in some random order, and likely did not have all adequate parts. A spring fell out but doesn't look like anything was there to keep the cartridge from basically just floating around in there for an eon or two. There are willy-nilly washers and gaskets and of course, to keep it from leaking, they just tightened the works down to within an inch of everyone's life so there's a lovely bent brass washer that looks like it has seen better days.
I have a PDF of the service manual, but other than the suggestion of using rainwater to fill the cooling system, there isn't much of anything specific for anything. Is there anywhere I can find a diagram of what SHOULD be there so I can buy whatever parts may be available at the auto parts store, up in the NC mountains, before I crank him over and drive him all of 12' forward?
Thanks a bunch as always.
-TRACY
Yay.
I'm terrified.
I need to change the oil first before I even dare drive it up on the tow dolly...probably been about 427 years since last change, and as with everything else on my boy, all is not as it should be. The 'person' that had it before rigged so many things that whenever I delve, it is basically a sh?tsh0w.
Upon removing the housing and filter cartridge, it looks like whomever was in charge of the shindig just put things in some random order, and likely did not have all adequate parts. A spring fell out but doesn't look like anything was there to keep the cartridge from basically just floating around in there for an eon or two. There are willy-nilly washers and gaskets and of course, to keep it from leaking, they just tightened the works down to within an inch of everyone's life so there's a lovely bent brass washer that looks like it has seen better days.
I have a PDF of the service manual, but other than the suggestion of using rainwater to fill the cooling system, there isn't much of anything specific for anything. Is there anywhere I can find a diagram of what SHOULD be there so I can buy whatever parts may be available at the auto parts store, up in the NC mountains, before I crank him over and drive him all of 12' forward?
Thanks a bunch as always.
-TRACY