back in the saddle

mrmoose

mrmoose

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I haven't posted here in months, and I'm sorry about that....hopefully can spend a little more time here now. My last posts were regarding my transmission repair which happily is now complete. During the course of the repair lots of other things were attended too, and the results are quite fine I think. I know you all like pix, and I have suddenly remembered how to post them, so here are some of the job.....
Easter 2011, while giving stepson David a tour about 5 miles from home, 2nd gear is lost. Limp home. Amos sits till Thanksgiving waiting for an infusion of ambition (easier to come by than money of late, but still rare!)
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the lovely mrsmoose (aka Nurse Ratchett) assists with the dismantling
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David, in town from San Diego for the holiday, finally gets up out of his football chair, and promptly takes credit for the extraction (he actually had perfect timing...his mother and I were rolling Amos off the ramps and needed engine guidance, which he accomplished superbly)

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The little flathead gets stored until Christmas....
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Over this Christmas holiday I pulled the transmission, steering column and box, and the speedo. No pix of that event. Took the ****** and steering box and column to a local shop for redo. In retrospect, I could have done the ****** myself with Mac's book and some moxie, but was afeared I'd screw it up. The lower steering column was torn in half, and the repair was finding two incorrect columns and welding them together...turned out beautifully. Leaking box was fixed. Speedo was redone by another shop (odometer had never worked) with a new face. While that stuff was being done, I cleaned up the flathead, a '37 bearing motor with water pump block off plates I had machined some time ago (37s had block mounted water pumps whereas 34s had then in the heads), and had built with an ISKY Max 1 cam, stainless valves, and lightweight adjustable lifters from Reds. Motor has '34 replacement iron heads, Stromberg 48 carb and correct fuel pump (Ken Ct), Skips pumps and coil...and mostly correct everything. Stock single exhaust but with a long Smithy's and a slightly oversize rear pipe-just a little bark!
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John Munro stopped by to give me a hand. We did as much laughing as work I think!
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At some point in April I got my parts back and reinstalled them, including ******. Needed help getting the motor back in tho....

Next thing you know, Jess Saxon shows up, and we go to town.
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Early May I put on the radiator, grill, hood, intake, exhaust, carb, etc., and fired it up...success. A couple of weeks ago I brought Amos over to the home of the fellow who built the motor a few years ago and he adjusted the valves (neat trick with the drilled block to insert an allen wrench to hold the lifters while adjusting....I had no idea) and he is running quite superbly.
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So that's where we stand now. I know all you folks like photos so I thought I'd send a few. Good to be back.
 
Damn bro, that is one sweet looking truck. I looked for a 34 for years. Wound up with a 53 that I love, but ....

bill
 
Great pics of a great ride!
Below please find a pic of the REAL Nurse Ratchet!
 

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Jeff, good to see you back in action here. We'll have to get together sometime soon if I can ever stop traveling on the weekends. the truck looks super. Vic
 
Hi Jeff, welcome back to you and Amos! I hope all is going well there in St. Petersburg for the Moose's. We missed seeing Amos at the Barner's picnic this spring. Thanks for the update and pictures. I was a little surprised that I did not see even one empty bottle of Schlitz laying on the garage floor. ;)
 
welcome back, mrmoose.....great pics.....did your engine turn colors during the winter wait??.....lol.....glad it's all back together and you can enjoy driving....Mike
 
Nice work! Glad you are having fun with friends and family - it counts for a lot.

Great looking truck.

Mart.
 
Great pictures-loved looking at them-I have a question. It looks like you did not put the trany on the engine before installing the engine. Is that right? I would think having the ****** on the engine would make it easier to install.
 
mrmoose, Thanks for sharing the pictures and story. Great looking '34! I just purchased a house in Lakeland and will be taking my '32 5W down this winter. Hope to meet up with you & your '34 sometime. Pat
 
I have always said Amos is the finest truck like it I have ever seen, and now it is even finer.
Sometimes you see a particular truck that starts a lifelong craving for one like it. Amos is that truck for me. Just beautiful in every way.
 
I do not know how to respond to your individual messages...looks as if each answer shows up at the bottom of the post. Dang, I feel like a newbie again. So I guess I'll respond to all with one post.
Ken, hope you're well. Any progress on Georgia move?
Rick, thanks for the compliment...we're both blessed to own '34s, and I'm sure yours will look at least as good as mine at some point.
Bill, I looked at the picks of your '53 and it looks pretty danged good to me!...gorgeous truck.
Alan, if you ever saw mrs moose's eyes when she gets angry, you'd think Louise Fletcher was a kindergarten teacher! By the way, she named herself for that particular operation, just like she's named all our vehicles...and the names stuck!
Vic, we really do need to get together soon. For various reasons life has been sorta tough around here for awhile and getting together with good friends goes a whole long way in fixing that.
John, I place the empties gently back in the box after I swizzles them so as to make room for the next one. Also as I stumble around in the garage I don't wanna trip over empties and end up thumping my noggin.
Hey Mike, just repainted engine in the same color (Macs green) and I think it came out looking good. When it was built (3 years ago) they painted it with my paint but a little thin...they also had trouble with the r&r and spilled stuff on it...builder did a great job but the shop he works for and in particular the fellow who did most of the r&r were a little .....to put it gently, lacking in skills...I was lucky to get it back in one piece.
Bill, hello to you and Lee both!....How are those knees doin? I wanting to sock some $$ aside for shock therapy, but having little success so far. Maybe I should call Nurse Ratchett for help?
Mart, thanks, and you're right, doing the job with folks you love is the best reward!
Ken, thanks, I'm glad I finally remembered how to post. And by the way, I would love to see pix of all your iron together sometime...some of the very nicest stuff I've seen. Also, we acquired a (rescued) manx recently (tailless cat), who walks just like a dog, and is proving to be a good buddy.
1937Pickup, the engine install actually went very smoothly, and I was much more concerned with getting the ******/universal/driveshaft just right than I was with the engine/****** linkup which looked straightforward and was. If I were doing it again I'd do it the same way, although others may have different opinions. Also, I did the ****** install myself without any help and really wanted to spend time seeing just how everything linked up....a good learning experience.
Pat, welcome to sunny Florida then, and by all means we'll need to hook up. Where in Lakeland did you end up?
 
thankyou Jeff for sharing your pics of the truck i think i'll pick one of those up some day love the lines on the grill to hood and the front nose...already know where a motor is for one of those stored in my at my friends ranch....he's been living there 60 years!
 
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