'30 Tudor Refresh

Beautiful car!
I noticed in your pic above somebody hacked a hole in your dash for an extra switch. My '29 had the exact chewed-thru hole in the exact same place.
 
I think easily 50% of unrestored Model A's I have seen had extra holes drilled in the dash rail. It is an easy fix with a modern mig welder.
 
I'd like to add my concern about the fan. I appears from the pictures that the fan could already be cracked. If it is cracked, simply don't run the engine again until you address the problem. There are a number of threads on what do do for a replacement. You have several options. Gar Williams
 
OK, I am well overdue for an update. I have been busy, hard to remember all of the things I have done. Here are some pics I took today, you can see in this first one that I have replaced the sealed beam conversion with original type headlights. You can also see the new shocks and dogbones.

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The new wheels and tires really changed the way the car looks... But that running board is rough!

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Gotta have a nice spare.

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Closeup of the B distributor that I sent to FS Ignitions, they rebuilt it with a new upper plate, springs and weights and now it has 28 degrees of advance. They did a great job, it works great and I love how it looks.

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I also switched to a B carb, I am getting a lot of fine red dust out of the gas tank and am using an inline filter to keep it out of the carb. Works great until it fills up.

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I am driving it a lot, next up is to replace the running boards and fine tune the brakes. Then hopefully just pick away at little stuff and wait until winter before tackling any big projects. Good plan as long as nothing major breaks. :)

Happy Motoring,
Will Kimble
www.kimblemandolins.com
 
I noticed that the light switch looks like it's upside down? Was there a problem with the switch? I'm running into a small problem with my switch when it is in the correct position.
 
Hey James, got the new intake on today (A bored out for B carb) and it is a nice improvement - more than I expected. Much smoother everywhere, idles smoother and at a lower RPM, and pulls harder.

I had to remove the inline fuel filter as it was causing gas starvation issues.

Will
 
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