1928 Sport Coupe
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Last Saturday July 6th I finally had some time to get my Town Sedan out to work on it. I have had the car for about 1 and 1/2 years. Before I bought the car at auction it had been setting in various barns under 3 maybe more owners for 20 to 30 years. When I got it home I oiled the cylinders and hand cranked it. Previously to this day I pulled the pan and valve cover to clean out the sludge. It had some sludge but not an excessive amount. The odometer shows 35,999 miles. I rebuilt the oil pump with the cut down shaft while it was out. As I had time I rebuilt the distributor, carburetor, water pump, starter, steering gear, and flushed the radiator. the neck on the radiator had been bent and cracked the solder joint so I straightened the neck and resoldered it. I had some help so I decided it was time to see if it would run.
We pushed the car out into the driveway. Borrowed a battery out of another car and proceeded to try starting the car. I cranked it over to pump some oil to the valve chamber. Cranked a short time and got cotton batting out of the muffler. Tried again and it hit on 1 cyl than 2 and so forth. It filled the entire driveway with smoke. I then filled the radiator and tried again. It started again and sounded fairly good I used an old water pump rather than my rebuilt one so there was some noise from it. It idled down fairly good. I decided to drive it around the yard. I have 1 1/2 acres' so I did not need to take it on the road. I had a 1 gallon temporary tank mounted for gas and ran it out twice before putting it back away. Everyone got a ride and I got to drive. The old motor meter even worked and only went up about 1/2 way all the time we were playing. I had an oil gauge installed and the oil pressure was up to 10 when cold and about 1 to 2 warm. By the time we quit it was just barely smoking from the exhaust. The muffler is loud and definitely needs to be replaced. I may get it out one more time to ride around before pulling the engine to rebuild. I wanted to see how the trans, rear axle, brakes, and etc worked before rebuilding. I had more fun that day than I could have imagined. Of course we had all of the cameras out to video it.
Unfortunately I do not know how to down load a video here or if it is even possible.
We pushed the car out into the driveway. Borrowed a battery out of another car and proceeded to try starting the car. I cranked it over to pump some oil to the valve chamber. Cranked a short time and got cotton batting out of the muffler. Tried again and it hit on 1 cyl than 2 and so forth. It filled the entire driveway with smoke. I then filled the radiator and tried again. It started again and sounded fairly good I used an old water pump rather than my rebuilt one so there was some noise from it. It idled down fairly good. I decided to drive it around the yard. I have 1 1/2 acres' so I did not need to take it on the road. I had a 1 gallon temporary tank mounted for gas and ran it out twice before putting it back away. Everyone got a ride and I got to drive. The old motor meter even worked and only went up about 1/2 way all the time we were playing. I had an oil gauge installed and the oil pressure was up to 10 when cold and about 1 to 2 warm. By the time we quit it was just barely smoking from the exhaust. The muffler is loud and definitely needs to be replaced. I may get it out one more time to ride around before pulling the engine to rebuild. I wanted to see how the trans, rear axle, brakes, and etc worked before rebuilding. I had more fun that day than I could have imagined. Of course we had all of the cameras out to video it.
Unfortunately I do not know how to down load a video here or if it is even possible.
