First 500 ....Doing what I said I would

The odometer rolled past 500 miles today, not bad considering the recycled 40 ford woodie has been on the road just 6 weeks. (two of which I wasn't able to use the car at all.. )

BUT..

more importantly, as I said I would, I have been driving the car everywhere I can. Today I drove to the "Wheels of Time Rod and Custom Jamboree."

IN THE RAIN..

and came home none worse for the wear..

Technically it is a "Station" Wagon

Took the family for a Sunday drive recently. and stopped at a recycled Train Station..

The "Pretzel DEPOT" which is housed in the former Royersford, PA train station, (history) is hosting their first benefit car show on September 13, 2009.



Although I've yet to enjoy their fare, I've never met a Philly soft pretzel I didn't like,


the station dates from 1932, therefore, its likely that this isnt the first 1940 Ford station wagon that paused here to collect or disperse passengers.

Tow vehicle?

Today, I brought my other 40 project home..

with the woodie





high resolution:


HI RES, photo.

difficult to see in this photo is my "towbar"

luckily its only 3 blocks from home to the storage.

Solutions

UGGG..

this was the cause of my continual (intermittent) fuel delivery issues..

I had purchased this fuel tank (and electric fuel pump) at swap meet in 2008, it was used and I never figured out why someone would sell it..

now I might know.. Perhaps the previous owner had issues as well.

apparently the fuel hose was just loose enough to not supply sufficient pressure to the engine.. THUS intermittent and inconsistent fuel delivery. additionally, I realized that this is just regular old fuel hose.. NOT the submersible type necessary for this application

chased my tail too long on this one..



while I was at it I added a new sock filter, re tightened the clamps. and reinstalled the pump,.

We're were back on the road..

Problems

yesterday I took a little trip to see my friends Clark and JR at baddonkee hot rods to inquire about some parts for the recycled40ford woodie.

The boys had attended an auction in Indiana where they scored parts of a 46 ford woodie. Luckily, I was able to get a lower rear gate hinge (which I'll restore for my car and a few other bits from the same car)

unfortunately the trip there was not without incident..

near Abbotstown, PA the car suddenly started running rough, I quikly found a nice safe spot to stop and realized that the mallory distributor cap and come ajar..

The cap was trashed, but luckily I was able to keep running as the juice arced from the cap to the rotor.. Unfortunately, this process damaged the rotor and sent parts of plastic down inside my new distributor.

luckily I was able to "arc" my way to the boys where a new cap awaited, later I stopped to visit another friend (and pickup a rough 39 ford rear fender) where I decided to swap out the distributor modules in case it had been damaged..

At the end of the day. I managed to pull of 15MPG (even running rough) and made it home (slowly) but safely.

today I ordered a new cap and rotor hopefully this should solve any issues..

Morgantown Cruise..

Having spent some time with edelbrock TECH support, now understand how the Fuel Injection adjustment works.

SO.. I took a little ride, to a small cruise nite, in Morgantown, PA.

no other 40 fords there, so I settled for this parking spot.

Strange MOCK UP

No words necessary... The little Scotty is looking sorta.. BIG

NO hitch on the woodie

Fuel injection is my friend.

I like technology, old, new, borrowed, Recycled?

last winter I purchased an older edelbrock proflo , however I am just now learning about its performance..

I was abit skeptical, having bought used performance parts before, this was akin to playing roulette.. but anytime someone has a uesd proflow for 250.00 you better buy it.. OR I will.


although it looks like its paying off.. , my biggest fears have been realized..

I had to call Edelbrock TECH support..... TWICE..

and both times.. the conversations were under 5 minutes..

my first call was to find out that I had the wrong CHIP in the unit.. (apparently the proflo's previous owner wasnt running a lunati 3/4 race cam)

during my second call.. I found out that I was missing the mark on my fuel delivery MAP adjustments. but now thats cured.. and all is well..

as a result.. the car tears off the line, pulls hard through the gears and cruises at 70MPH at about 1900 rpm..

its working so well.. that I am abit scarred of hurting the rear axle..

New tooth..

Swapped out grilles this morning. of course this is a spare I had around.. its an old repop that I ran on my 40 convertible sedan for awhile..


Now if I could just find a hood center stainless trim strip!

Haulin'

The Recycled 40 ford woodie passed its first test on Friday. a 90 mile run to a show in Machungie PA provided good exercise. Tokyo rode shotgun and starred at the proflo controller in awe as we tried different speeds/ loads / different acceleration methods.


After enjoying the show, and buying all the good parts in the swap meet we headed home.





just down the road.. RAIN..


all was well, until we noticed the car "missing" under load, turns out one of the plug wires moved and got singed against the exhaust manifold..

the wires were used, so a new set went on today..