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Well, I haven’t taken it on a lengthy drive yet, so we’ll see how it holds up. We had no problems with it in Kerrville, but I usually let it warm up for at least 5 minutes, so I may not have noticed it. It made all of tours, over 300 miles, with the only minor issue being a leaky water pump, since repaired by repacking.
Dave
Hi John, Donna told me she wasn’t going to keep pumping the hand pump while we drove, so I had no choice but to fix it.
Success. I didn’t have a magnet that would fit into the compressor body, but putting a piece of 1/4″ I.D. soft plastic tubing down the hole and sucking lightly on it brought the ball out. I did not notice any crud inside and everything that came out was oily but otherwise clean. I flushed the housing with WD 40, ran a pipe cleaner(remember those)down it (again no crud) and reassembled. The pressure built up immediately upon start and held at just over 3.
When I took the outer lock nut off, it was loose, not even hand tight. I am wondering if pressure was leaking past the nut gasket so it was just taking a long time to build pressure. I would have thought that the tank pressure would have bled off when I let the car sit for 2 hours, but maybe there is a check valve somewhere downstream that prevents pressure from bleeding back out the compressor when the engine is not running.
Dave
Thanks Paul. It sounds pretty simple. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Dave
Bill,
Paul Morris put the slide show together. Sorry you couldn’t make it.
Dave
Congratulations Roger. Fantastic job, well deserved.
Last one, for now anyway.
Jane Smith in her and Merlin’s Weis Trophy winner 1931 Model 43 Convertible Coupe.
and another…
I agree, all of the organizers did a great job.
A few more pictures of the show.
Thanks John. We had a great time. We really enjoyed the tours and the car ran flawlessly. The trophy was a complete surprise.
Dave
Car Show on Friday
Dinner in San Antonio
Outside Atwell Collection
Atwell Collection
LBJ Ranch
Bill,
Sorry to hear you’re having car troubles. Your message sounds like you are not coming by some alternate means? We brought Jolie along with us this year so you two could get reacquainted. Maybe next time.
Dave
Peter,
The uncompressed seat cushion height is the same. The seat compressed down 5 inches or more when I sat on it. It now compresses no more than 2″. As a temporary test to see if decreasing the compressed height would help, I opened the bottom of the seat cushion and put a couple of 2″x6″ boards between the spring frame and the wood frame of the seat cushion. The 1 1/2″ pre-compression made a enough of an improvement that I went and talked to the upholstery shop. While I had the cushion open I noticed that the springs were quite rusty.
The first suggestion the upholstery guy made was to put the covers on a firm block of foam which I quickly vetoed. We discussed new, firmer springs and longer springs that would be partially compressed as well as putting blocking between the coils of the existing springs. The guy that did the work was not there when I picked the cushions up so I don’t know exactly what he did. The result was very good and changes the angle of my legs and makes it easier to operate the pedals.
Dave
Adding to what Stuart said, on our ’28 Series 36, I had an upholstery shop firm up the lower cushions. I am not sure exactly what they did, although new, firmer springs were discussed beforehand. It gives me about 3″ more sitting height which made a big difference in leg room. (I’m 6’4″”).
Dave”
Tony,
Can you print e-mail attachments? I can attach the registration form as a pdf and send it to you.
Also, we tried to book an extra night at the YO before the meet and were told the hotel was full with another group. We had to make alternate arrangements.
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