Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024 Well, I lifted the 56 Plymouth for the first time with the QuickJack 5000 last week. The QuickJack system had been assembled for about a month, but I hadn’t lifted the car with it. Fortunately, the QuickJack worked flawlessley — no hydraulic fluid leaks or need to re-bleed the lines. It […]
Oil bath air cleaner conversion project progressing
Saturday, June 8, 2024 I spent much of this afternoon working on the oil bath air cleaner project. I primered the lid and the lower half of the main housing. Prior to today, I had to smooth over the spot welds securing the lid to the lower part of the original center section. I used […]
That’s the brakes, I suppose …
Sunday, June 4, 2023 Today I was going to finally wash the Plymouth and perhaps take my wife for a ride into town. It started up just fine. But when I prepared to back out of the garage, I hit the brake pedal and it went effortlessly all the way to the floor. YIKES!!! For […]
New / old parts make me a happy car guy …
Monday, July 25, 2022 I haven’t been buying too many parts for the Plymouth on eBay, though there are some I would love to have but don’t want to pay the asking price (think tail lights). But today, the USPS man brought me an item I snagged on eBay just as soon as I saw […]
Plymouth parts arrive …
Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022 Happy New Year to any readers lurking around this blog! For the first time in quite a while, my wife and I actually left home for New Year’s — we went to the lake house of my wife’s best friend for the night. Good time! The local car club continues to […]
‘Well, there’s your problem!’
Tuesday,, Sept. 7, 2021 I posted some photos from our cruise to Taylorsville Saturday on Facebook, and Lisa, the widow of the man who owned the car all those years, let me know that the Plymouth’s gas gauge has NEVER worked correctly — which explains why we’ve run it out of fuel twice! I had […]