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Cislak should have a cast iron replacement pump available, give him a call. He use to have new and used cast iron units that will fit a 29 & 30, but he may only have one type available now.

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Well done! Reproductions were made years ago, and haven’t been available for ages. Always much more to these projects than people realize.

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Fantastic find………and on the shelf as just as good as in the car!

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I am very guilty of taking things off topic, it doesn’t bother me as long as it stays car centric, as far as led bulbs, I have been using them for two years in dash and tail lights on several other non PA car…….they work great. I will get around to installing them in my cars soon.

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Doesn’t surprise me……….I think when actually towing a trailer for long distances I will add air shocks to the rear…..or maybe airbags between the frame and spring. Kits are available. You can then level the car by just adding air……a good setup.

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I know the car…….its very nice.

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Sad but true……..buying a Pierce from anyone not in the PAS for several years can be a very risky adventure. Parts also………there have beed two PAS members who had their garages broken into and parts ended up on eBay. With very elderly mambers, many don’t even check on the garage/barn very often, and the parts theft goes on for months or years. A collection in the northeast had a hole punched through a concrete wall……..they took signs, tools, everything that wasn’t part of the building. One car was restored, they jacked it up and sold all six wheels with tires and hubcaps. Caution and investigation is now always in order.

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Mine is very heavy. I would guess 300+

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Dave, 359 pm, they won’t open, will try again when I have a better connection.

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Sorry Dave……I’m a little out of it lately, too much work………..see you soon. Ed

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You are correct that the carb is often plugged in the internal passages and most people can’t get the plugs out to clean them. It is NOT easy to get them out. The UUR2 is much improved over the UU2. Interestingly there are FIVE diffrent UU2 bodies, and three diffrent UUR2 bodies, and they are not all interchangeable, but the “odd” ones are rather rare. Cleaning the unit and replacing worn shafts that leak air is 50 percent of thr battle. Getting correct internals is the other 50. John is a great resource and makes most every part you will need. Be sure to rebuild your fuel pump and clean the gas tank, or you will get to do the job over………..several times!

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Most restoration shops will not give out car owners names. I will see the owner of the shop this weekend at Amelia, and I will as him if he is willing to share a name. Ed

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Mark, I’m not sure off the top of my head which size jets and venturies are correct. You definitely want to be in the rich side. I use a five gas analyzer to tune the carb after setting it up. With E10 pump gas you definitely need to add more fuel than stock. Since Pierce was one of the largest CID motors to use the UUR2 most swapped out carbs are undersized as far as the internal components go. I loaned out my Stromberg catalog with all the part numbers and specifications and it didn’t get returned so I can’t look up the numbers for you. You can use the old fashion method of reading spark plugs, but fuel today doesn’t tend to leave much sign of the burn on the electrodes. If your running an electric fuel pump, be sure to keep the pressure on the low side to prevent fires from over pumping, also, too much fuel pressure will cause the car to run too rich.Without starting from a factory stock carb, getting everything right can be very challenging. If the large and small venturies are correct, jetting it is fairly straight forward. If thr carb is way undersized then getting it to perform correctly overall is very difficult. Your best bet would to contact someone with another model 43 and see what they have in their carb. Ed

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Mark……not offended. Just want to see your car going down the road in the best possible condition.

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E10 is already seven percent leaner than regular gas, and the lean condition can also cause the head to crack and the exhaust manifold to split. Doom and gloom, no, but I don’t want to see a car or an owner suffer unnecessarily for a relatively simple repair with parts available very easily. I have been doing this forty years, and my cars all run they way they should. Ask David Coco or Dave Stephens if setting up a carb is important, not only to prevent damage, but have the correct power, idle, and hot start soaking. The car was at the track with me……..yes, I remember it on the tour. I did three Strombergs this week two for Model J”s and one for a DV-32. I have probably done fifty of them, Cislak has done hundreds………..at the meet this summer I invite you to drive the car we bring, and see if the throttle response is different from what you are use to. Idle tubes, power valve, idle air bleeds, and several of the springs can all be changed to make the car start and idle much better today with modern fuel. And the car will run cooler. As they say….it’s better to be safe than sorry. Ed

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Jim, I agree there is a very strong resemblance.

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It’s not a club sedan, look close, three windows, and the doors are too big.

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Increasing the jet size will NOT help with vapor lock. Your car is 366 CID, the stude carb could fit a engine as small as 198 CID……..don’t take the chance. A few years ago a car at the PAS meet swapped out a carb for someone’s spare when they had a problem, and the piston melted.

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You need to change the small and large (2) venturies, the idle tubes, main jets, idle air bleeds, and be sure you have the correct lower, air horn, and choke butterflies………….the UUR2 was made for almost 200 applications, yes……200. There are an endless number of different throttle and choke shafts, as well as hardware. Do NOT bolt that thing on and run the car, you will end up melting the valves or burning a hole in a piston.

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There were no 1931 V-12 cars. The 32 V-12 Coupe is a LeBaron Custom body for the 1932 New York Auto Show…..it is correct. The 1931 V-12 New York Auto Show Sport Pheaton was a factory body, and didn’t have the trim rings. It did have other extra chrome, but not around the side mounts, and as Greg said…….you can go overboard with to much bling on the car……….too much hurts the resale value of the car today, and its a very expensive proposition to both put it on and take it off.

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