'59 Plymouth Forum

Thanks, Dan!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!!

---John

Did you ever find what caused the loud bangs in the engine?

I've now put 11,000 miles on this car since completion. Just south of us there is a big car show just before Halloween every year, it usually draws 300 hot rods and classics, but this year rain was forecast and many stayed home. It was clear on the drive there, and rain didn't hit until a couple hou...

Hope the rest of the car doesn't look like that data plate beneath the shiny paint!

I use that same product with good results, too.

---John

Glad all is good at your home, Dick!!!

Prayers sent!

Hopefully Matthew fizzles and goes back out to sea.

---John

Great advice! It's entirely possible you're getting too much advance, or earlier than you should.

That doesn't look good.

Batten down the hatches!!

2 head gaskets may lower the ratio enough to help, but retarding the timing slightly would be my first direction.

---John

There's a good chance that the compression ratio change could be causing the pre-ignition. Try a higher octane fuel, if that doesn't help, retard the timing some. Pinging will eventually harm the engine if it persists.

---John

That was an ingenious way to remove the axle, Dan!!!!

---John

I'd be happy to let you use the tools, do you already have the slide hammer?

The brake drum trick works on conventional axles, but our tapered axles I do have doubts.

---John

I use a slide hammer like the one shown above, I bought a threaded adaptor from the Snap-On dealer that threads onto the slide hammer shaft, and the other threaded end is the same pitch and diameter as the threaded part of the axle. I welded two axle nuts together, so I can screw this onto the axle ...

Another option is to use Dash Specialists out of Medford, Oregon. Their product was as nice as Just Dashes, but much less expensive.

---John