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Published: 2013-08-19 06:58:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 410; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 3
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(1958 Plymouth Plaza, PowerFlow 6 engine, 3 speed (3 on the tree with overdrive)TookΒ MarcelineΒ out for a quick ride the other night with 1 headlight might I add, along with my dad, 54 year old uncle, and dad's friend (Just for the sake of riding and/or extra hands to help push should something have gone wrong) Drove 3 miles or so on an stretch of road around sunset and came around back. Cruised about 47-52 mph no problem whatsoever. All around drum brakes take a bit to stop a 3,000+ pound car. Just glad that the brand new tires have some miles on them and also my uncle was quite amazed that I shifted so smoothly with 3 on the tree. Overall great time, besides being passed by a guy with a truck n' trailer.
Oh right, this picture. Just a shot I took in the morning after I drove her the night before.
Engine temp was around 224 degrees/Radiator 191 degrees (on top) [diluted water only, 0% of any coolant/antifreeze]
Might think about removing the thermostat, after all the engine is 56 years old.
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Oh it is, just can't drive around in it too much, I still need to change the oil in the transmission and differential.
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It'll be cool when it's done
Cool"er" I mean
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Haha, yeah. With due time it will, I'm just glad I have a place to keep it out of the elements.
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looks good! looks a bit like an oval track car without hubcaps.
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I just realized that makes no sense.
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Lol it's alright. Hm that does give me an idea though, I might add a sepia effect and some filters to make it look like it was shot in the early 60s or something.
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i guess you understand what IΒ meant then. thanks!
anything new with your plymouth?
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Yeah pretty much.
And nothing much other what I described in the description above, just waiting to fit a six bladed fan in place of the old 4 blade.
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Oh okay. I've been working on a '54 Bristol 403 at the shop, and it has a 2 blade fan and it's shaped exactlyΒ like an airplane propeller. We've also got a '41 Buick at the shop that has 5 blades, but they are all offset. My dad told me this was because the fan was designed to make a noise at a frequency nearly inaudible to the human ear. pretty cool stuff.
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Tells you how innovative car manufacturers were back in the day, today's cars just have a standard 4-6 blade electric fan.Β
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Sorry, i looked at it yesterday and it's 5 blade. It seems like it would be really unbalanced but I guess not.
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5 blade isn't that bad, I mean most ceiling fans use that design and it works great, not sure if it does the same for cars lol.
I want to keep the 4 blade fan, I think installing a fan shroud should direct more air through the rad.
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Probably. My car runs pretty cool without one but there's also a lot of room in the engine bay.
Plus the grille openings are pretty massive and leave the radiator pretty much exposed. They were.nt vuilt with a screen or anything to keep bugs and stuff out of the radiator fins.
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Oh cool and yeah the old classics had a crap ton of space haha. Though my car has about 67,000 actual miles on it and the engine is about 56 years old and it sat for awhile. From what the original owner told me, it sat throughout the 70's (oil crisis and such) before they ran it again for 5 more years at car shows in the late 80s early 90s before it sat for another 10 years. I might think about removing the thermostat I need to be in the 180-190 degree temp zone, and right now its in the 225 degree zone evenΒ when the wind is blowing directly at the rad as I drive.
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maybe the thermostat wont open up all the way.
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Well when I got the car, it had no thermostat installed. So I put one in myself, a 180 degree one but the temp is still at 225 under normal running conditions, no up hill climbing or anything. So I'm saying if there was a reason why there wasn't a thermostat installed in the first place before I got it.
I mean I already flushed the cooling system 4 times to the point until only clear water started to come out of the block and rad.
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Maybe the water pum isn't pumping enough?
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I took it apart once, the impeller seemed fine. I cleaned out the rust on it and rust resistant spray on it. the thing spins fine. Its just being a weird car lol. The engine is so simple and yet I can't figure out this problem..
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I talked to my shop teacher about cooling systems today, He mentioned things like thermostats opening and closing at the wrong temps, getting stuck, etc.
He also said that calcium buildup (among other things) can constrict the water jacket, radiator, etc. and flushing doesn't always remove it.
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Oh I know that, but today we're stuck with chinese made parts and I think that brand new thermostat I put in 2 months ago might not be opening fully.
I see, and well when I first got the car I drained all the old coolant (there wasn't much) filled it up with water, and drained it again.
Ran coolant in it, then drained it, ran prestone heavy duty cleaner/flusher and then drained that. Ran nothing but water and drained that (what the bottle specified) and did a few water flushes after that like 3 of them. Right now it just has water in it. Distilled water that is, not the chemically treated water from the faucet or anything like that.
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Oh okay, good. We replaced a thermostat on a '28 Studebaker and before we put it in, we put it in a pot of hot water on the stove to make sure it worked correctly before we put it in.
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Yeah. oh cool. and well my thermostat had to be special ordered in from autozone. It worked fine before I put it in, but I guess the cleaner/flush loosened up rust particles and lodged them into the thermostat. So it might need to be cleaned out.
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sounds very possible. I would check that.
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Yeah I'll look into it this weekend, since I don't have the car here.
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cool beans.
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