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    Best oil for an 8ba

    10-30 multi -vis non- synthetic in my 37 Ford 59AB hot rod engine.
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    Best oil for an 8ba

    My house in Long Beach, CA built in 1920 still had the two concrete strip driveway with dirt in between the strips. that was functional landscaping!
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    Runs great until it heats up

    Both idling and under load, but more pronounced under load. Haven't ruled out vapor lock. I did rule out the ballast resistor for the coil. I put a new one on, problem continues. Coil is hot enough when I got back to cause me to take my hand off of it really quick.
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    Runs great until it heats up

    Thank you guys. This is my attack plan: 1. Take all connectors off of coil and resister and clean them. Test. 2. Check intake manifold. Test 3. get new resistor. Test. 4. Get new coil. Test. The resistor (OEM) under the dash is disconnected. I'll carefully inspect spark plug wires and coil...
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    Runs great until it heats up

    Anthony: Happens under load and idling.
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    Runs great until it heats up

    Tinker: What's an MMO carb dump?
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    Runs great until it heats up

    Thanks Deuce. Mine starts right back up, even while hot, but resumes missing like crazy. Start it up while cold, no problem. Jay: When I mentioned "it recovers" when pumping the gas, it would be more accurate to say I can coax it down the road a bit doing that, but the missing with resulting...
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    Runs great until it heats up

    1937 with a 59AB engine, offenhauser manifold, sharp heads, denton headers, two stomberg 97 carbs. Has a mallory electronic distributor with the corresponding coil. It ran great before. Now it runs great until it gets hot and starts to miss and evolves into stalling with the foot off the gas. It...
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    Christmas present from New Zealand

    One of the best things about this hobby is there are no shortage of items we can give ourselves, or others. I want to thank Chris in New Zealand for selling me a pair of 1937 fender skirts, packaged well and arriving unmolested. Since they are made out of unobtainium, I had a little worry about...
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    FORD vs FERRARI

    Henry Ford II- "What did he say about me"? (asking about Enzio's conversation); Iaccoca- "He said your fat sir".
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    Wanted for 1937 Fordor

    Need two horns. Need a Unity Model J-1 Spotlight. Asking for a lot here, but Ford made fender skirts (rear, 1937) would be a find I would have trouble believing. But it would be nice! Thank you. srggilgal@live.com
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    Help i.d. 1937 inside window garnish trim

    That is a window garnish for a deluxe model 1937. I need one badly. I have a Fordor. I have three. They are under the steel interior window trim on the interior.
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