Recent content by Jake's 40

thanks for clarifying.

nice batch of interesting pieces just posted (not mine) https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?item=285926499254&rt=nc&_trksid=p4429486.m3561.l170197&_ssn=alamomilitary

here ya go.

the brass one is Dearborn. interesting key ring, too. it reads; FREMONT MOTOR CO. LANDER WYO. FORD MERCURY

thanks for your note. nothing to speak of. a couple of ROUGE shift badges (... as they were described to me decades ago) and a couple of tool checks. my great grandfather was the original owner of this '40 Town Sedan and when I found out that (maybe it's true) all pre-war Merc's destined for...

finally! at least I'll be able to enjoy the photo :eek: https://www.ebay.com/itm/186111410380?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=2be1ace4291440db9204e1e5f8421e09&bu=43188109047&ut=RU&osub=-1%7E1&crd=20231008032733&segname=11021

interesting topic ! my thanks to all of the contributors especially Gary in MN for detailing the different mounting styles. I have a handful of these badges as SWAG for my great grandfather's '40 Town Sedan. nice to discover the early vs. late details. Jake bought his car new and lived in...

all; earlier in the week I dug my coil adapter out of storage and swapped it in. still no go. today a buddy who is more methodical than I am gave me a hand. the coil adapter had 2 issues. the high tension coil wire was bad. easy fix but not enough. this "can" coil is a conventional neg...

@Mart the for the clarification. @Flathead Fever yes, I have a VOM. I'm getting 5 1/2 VDC to the coil. what should the resistance readings be ? @petehoovie your message was blank (?) currently the points have been cleaned & the dizzy reinstalled. still no spark. I'm done for the day...

couple of pix. I don't think it has an hour of run time. thanks for the feedback re: Carpenter and the tip about Haney. it was the Carpenter coil that got hot. the current unit is NOS Motorcraft. dragged a t-shirt w/ some brake cleaner on it across the points and came out clean. I'll try some...

thanks Mart. I presume this means pulling the dizzy ?

FB: ran a couple of searches but I either get WAY too many results or none at all. so... symptom: no spark @ the plugs. history: did a boatload of work to the car about 18 months ago when a neighbor was breathing down my neck to buy the car. (turns out he was blowing smoke up my ... but...

full jaw vice grips. drive the lower jaw into the seal as far as possible. lock the jaws and whack the end of the vice grips several times. for the second drum I'll buffer the vice grips with a piece of thick leather at the edge of the seal opening. I did deform the channel for the snap ring...

it was suggested to simply drop the drum on the pavement. (the weight of the bearing would do the trick ?) did a good job of shredding the paper.

hmmm... OK, let's drill a small hole & see if I can pry it out with a punch / drift. no joy.