Help identifying a 1931 roadster

Thank you Bob! So I take it that the battery should be placed under the car's floor, driver's side, and not under the seat.

It seems I won't be able to remove the battery from the lowsy placement it has in the firewall area till I deal with the brakes first! mmmmm....

thanks!
 
Some of the head studs stick up too far.
Remove the distributor cap and wires and use the original style.
I'd also use the original style upper plate.
I'd also remove the cast wishbone ball cap and rubber boot and use the original clamping kit.
The ****** and bellhousing should be green.
 
36 conv sedan said:
And here is my distributor. I am hoping it is also a wrong cap the one it has, but I prefer to ask... does it look like the correct distributor for a model B or model A?
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Your distributer is a Model A. The Model B had automatic advance but on this one you can see the rod going to the lever for the advance. The condenser shouldn't be mounted inside of the cap so there is something else going on.

Charlie Stephens
 
36 conv sedan said:
Thank you Bob! So I take it that the battery should be placed under the car's floor, driver's side, and not under the seat.

It seems I won't be able to remove the battery from the lowsy placement it has in the firewall area till I deal with the brakes first! mmmmm....

thanks!
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Some of the suppliers sell a combination battery box and master cylinder mount. You might post a question asking what kind of luck they have had with these units and whose unit they have. I have heard some of them are to thin and flex.

Charlie Stephens
 
Cosmetics will have to be correct someday... painting everything in the correct shade of green... but that will have to wait.

What I will be doing now is correcting the "parts problems"... so, thanks for pointing out the A distributor and that it does have the wrong internals (my mechanic told me he suspected they were changed, but it works great and uses more modern points, but anyhow, eventually it will be corrected)... and of course needs it's correct cap and wires... I will get to all of it eventually. I will also get the upper plate and the correct clamping kit... hopefully I can find most of the parts with a supplier like Snyder's or Macs.

I will also check on the battery box and master cylinder mount... though I am not looking forward to that but to reverting the car to mechanical brakes. A friend of mine down here tells me he has everything needed to convert them back to original, so I might take that route.

Thanks for all the help!
Victor
 
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I am no expert at 30-31 Cowl lights, but l would think that if you examine the installation, you should be able to determine if the Lamps were factory installed or installed later. I am sure someone can expand on this thought.

Factory installed would be a Deluxe, added lights would be a Standard.

Darryl in Fairbanks, -8 F
 
36 conv sedan said:
Cosmetics will have to be correct someday... painting everything in the correct shade of green... but that will have to wait.

... I will also get the upper plate and the correct clamping kit... hopefully I can most of the parts with a supplier like Snyder's or Macs.

I will also check on the battery box and master cylinder mount... though I am not looking forward to that but to reverting the car to mechanical brakes. A friend of mine down here tells me he has everything needed to convert them back to original, so I might take that route.

Thanks for all the help!
Victor
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Excellent idea to go back to good original mechanical brakes.

For parts suppliers I've mostly used A&L, Bert's, Bratton's, and Snyder's and have been satisfied with the service, speed of delivery, and most of the time the quality of the parts. Vintique parts aren't know for quality, but sometimes you have to use what you can get.
 
Charlie Stephens said:
Your distributer is a Model A. The Model B had automatic advance but on this one you can see the rod going to the lever for the advance. The condenser shouldn't be mounted inside of the cap so there is something else going on.

Charlie Stephens
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Charlie, why cant he run this modern upper plate made by Nu- REX, MANY PEOPLE LIKE THEM AND IT KEEPS THE HEAT AWAY FROM CONDENSER. Have fun modelAtony tony white Lafayette, LA
 
modelAtony said:
Charlie, why cant he run this modern upper plate made by Nu- REX, MANY PEOPLE LIKE THEM AND IT KEEPS THE HEAT AWAY FROM CONDENSER. Have fun modelAtony tony white Lafayette, LA
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I wasn't trying to suggest that the plate was bad just that he should know it is not original. It makes it easier to order parts that way, you just have do do it once (and probably from the local auto parts store).

Charlie Stephens
 
Charlie Stephens said:
I wasn't trying to suggest that the plate was bad just that he should know it is not original. It makes it easier to order parts that way, you just have do do it once (and probably from the local auto parts store).

Charlie Stephens
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Oh, I got ya. Always great to see you comment on site. You and Tom W. always keep me interested. Ya'll help so many, thanks for making this a # 1 site. Have fun modelAtony tony white Lafayette, LA
 
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Yes! I love and appreciate all the help I have been getting to determine what is and what is not original. That way I know what I have and decide eventually what will be corrected... ideally, everything that is wrong, but time will tell.

Thanks for all the help! Great forum.

Victor
 
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