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..