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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 02-13-2024, 03:50 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,090
Posted By Karl
Re: Third Gen Automotive

Ditto -Michael you are the best -Karl
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-29-2024, 03:42 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,156
Posted By Karl
Re: Bead blasting 33 hood

Blasting done wrong ie at high pressure to save time will destroy your hood. Low pressure = good job = lots of time = lots of money -Karl
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-10-2024, 03:00 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 1,639
Posted By Karl
Re: Alternator that looks like a generator. Is there such a thing.

Yep The original 33 generator I had on my early 34 fordor had no built in cooling vanes at the front -Whitney refused to make an alternator using the 33 casing due to the risk of overheating -We...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 07-20-2023, 08:15 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,126
Posted By Karl
Re: Ford oddities on my car….

The passage of time makes things complicated But they certainly didn't all come from the factory equipped as the books say-
My early RHD 1934 Fordor Has a 34 Grill, Shock arms and most other...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 07-18-2023, 06:58 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 847
Posted By Karl
Re: Using epoxy resin on a radiator lower tank

I've used epoxy resin to repair a broken dental syringe. I reattached the handle with it . We autoclave after use each time to 130C and has held together for the last 5 years. So will probably...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 07-16-2023, 11:25 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 2,126
Posted By Karl
Re: Ford oddities on my car….

Oh yes indeed !! Oh how I envy you guys with your supply of LHD parts
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 07-12-2023, 09:11 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 684
Posted By Karl
Re: 1933 stock v8 40 compression test results & advice welcome

I think those figures are fine.

For the dizzy remove the generator/Fan and the fan belt
Place a piece of cardboard against the radiator (To Protect your knuckles )
Remove the ...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 07-05-2023, 10:08 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 1,682
Posted By Karl
Re: KR Wilson distributor fixture V-126

I have one but never use it - I have a 'Bear" Gauge which is easier to use and allows you to set up both the left and right points with much more accuracy than the KRW unit
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 05-21-2023, 11:47 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,711
Posted By Karl
Re: Broken greyhound leg repair

Mine had been repaired previously with some sort of Glue
Was virtually invisable -right up to the point were it fell off last week
Not sure what I will do as obviously lost the broken...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 05-16-2023, 04:25 PM
Replies: 154
Views: 31,093
Posted By Karl
Re: what was your first car and how much did you pay

1967 Austin Mini I was 16 cost $750 (Dad Paid) in 1979

First car I brought with my own money was my 1967 Sunbeam Alpine in 1983 (which I still have) . I was Med student $2000 down (what the...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 05-09-2023, 06:17 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 2,050
Posted By Karl
Re: Shipping a Ford/Heyer test set

I looked at buying one and shipping to New Zealand and found I just couldn't justify the shipping cost . Probably the easiest way is to ship in the back of someones car container. Maybe worth...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-22-2023, 08:08 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 11,957
Posted By Karl
Re: Conversion to 6 volt, positive ground, LED headlights

Yep thats our country. You do of course realise that LEDs are illegal as a retrofit in NZ and you won't get a WOF . The problem is that LED light scatters to much unless set up perfectly at...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-15-2023, 10:21 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,826
Posted By Karl
Re: C&G lack of service

Yep it all comes down to the dollar and in fact we probably need to accept that if we want quality we will have to pay for it and refuse to accept junk,

However Kube's point is not about ...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-08-2023, 08:18 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 1,902
Posted By Karl
Re: shipping help needed, transmission

Try shipping something to New Zealand!! I met someone today who is an international shipping agent -He tells me that international shipping rates out of ASIA after soaring with COVID are now back...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 03-06-2023, 04:41 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 5,899
Posted By Karl
Re: 1931 Duesenberg Model J was hidden in garage

My Father was offered Chris Amons / Stirling Moss's Maserati 250F Formula One car for 50 pounds as a young man He declined as he only had 60 pounds in his savings account-Aghh
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 02-21-2023, 03:57 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 4,673
Posted By Karl
Re: Le Claire, IA & American Pickers visited today

I suspect I'm old fashioned , maybe I'm just not a good business man but the spectacle of a couple of sharp boys trying to screw some one out of something for the lowest price and then boasting...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 02-15-2023, 09:07 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 2,597
Posted By Karl
Re: alternative to red fluid fuel gauge?

I use the original fluid that I brought of ebay complete with its corroding bottle. I wear gloves I don't smell it and I don't drink it. I apply it to the top of the gauge using a small 1 ml...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 02-13-2023, 05:45 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 819
Posted By Karl
Re: Firestone Whitewalls made in New Zealand??

I can't give you an exact date -but not for sometime ie decades. I believe that the dies were sold to Vietnam -If so then even with the made in New Zealand its possible that the tyres were made...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-31-2023, 11:12 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,898
Posted By Karl
Re: At least it has a ford engine in it !

Graeme Don Adams was in hospital in Wellington during the Second World War when he was in the Marines . Also the Tiger in the clip is now in New Zealand and is owned by Barry Hoffman in...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-31-2023, 11:09 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,898
Posted By Karl
Re: At least it has a ford engine in it !

Graeme I think he has passed on - certainly his Tiger was sold a few years ago. The originality is the thing I like about it most -I'm probably mad but on reflection if we have to put a new...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-31-2023, 06:22 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,898
Posted By Karl
Re: At least it has a ford engine in it !

Its the 260 . Only the Mark 2 at the end had the 289 (and Chrysler by that stage owned Sunbeam and could not live with a ford engine in one of their products and stopped production rapidly) The...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-29-2023, 04:49 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,898
Posted By Karl
Re: At least it has a ford engine in it !

This is the engine -a tight fithttps://waimakclassiccars.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/23.jpg
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-29-2023, 04:02 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 3,898
Posted By Karl
At least it has a ford engine in it !

Just about to purchase my dream car ( apart from my 34)
I've lusted after one of these (Sunbeam Tiger) since I brought my Sunbeam Alpine (same body shell but much less go ) as a fresh faced 19...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-23-2023, 10:14 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 4,199
Posted By Karl
Re: Distributor outer cap gaskets on dome distributors

Say that again -I'd like a dollar for every radiator scrape my knuckles have taken ! Took me a while to figure out that the whole job is a lot easier if the generator and fan is removed ...
Forum: Early V8 (1932-53) 01-18-2023, 08:18 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 5,703
Posted By Karl
Re: Jeff Beck passes.

Yep the band spawned Eric Clapton , Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. All brilliant guitarists. Of the three I have only seen Clapton live -A brilliant guitarist but like his good friend George Harrison...
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