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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Tennessee .

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all !!

Does anyone know of a good shop to re-babbit bearings in the south east, the last shop that did babbit here in Knoxville closed 20 years ago. I have a good 35 block that needs lots of machine work, babbits, crank turned, and punched out to 60 over, some I can get done locally but no babbit work.

Same problem with my 35 Woody, I used to reach under the dash and short the resistor with a coin while cranking and it would start. I finally got a good replacement (possibly OEM) resistor and problem of hot start went away.

Along with the 8V battery there also was a dual 6V with an added solenoid to give 12 volts for starting only. The 2 sixes normally ran in parallel until you tried to start the engine, hit the button and the solenoid would engage putting the 2 sixes in series to give a big boost to the starter. I...

If using 12V to jump a 6V car only hook the jumpers up when the starter is engaged, also be careful and make sure all lights are turned off, this can be a quick path to all new bulbs.

They look like aftermarket radio noise suppressors, coil lead and each plug gets one to help supress the ignition noise picked up by the radio..

Here it is in the car.

I used a 1" brush, and high temp black for the exhaust manifolds, after 5 years in the car it looks just as good.

The 35 has it's classic look, maybe why I've had nine for 43 years.

Here in TN it is 25 years and an initial inspection for originality (no street rods).

After bashing my knuckles I gave up and drilled the heads off, my spare engine came with a clean set that were not rusted.

My neighbor owned a used car lot, he filled his tool box with a complete set of tools that he found in trunks, the rusty Craftsman tools went back to Sears and were replaced with new ones under the lifetime warranty.

Exhaust manifold bolts go into the water jacket, a loose bolt can leak. When I went to pull my manifolds I took the head off of one on each side, was able to pull them then took a torch to the remainders of the bolts, was able to screw the remains out with a pair of vice grips after heating. The...

I went to Sears and bought the largest 6V battery that would fit in my 53, at -20F you could count the teeth on the flywheel when the starter engaged, always started first turn. Used to take about a mile or so before the oil pressure registered, never got much heat even with the radiator...