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Last seen: January 26, 2026 1:29 pm
The cast iron parts of your engine were a dull aluminum color. I'm told that Duplicolor has an aluminum silver that works well after a thorough clean...
Amazing!
I can get speedy sleeves from both my NAPA or O'Reilly's parts store locally. They're pretty thin walled, and don't have an impact on the seal diamet...
Just a quick "hello" and welcome to the club and the online forum! Keep us posted with your progress. Tim
Most clocks can easily be brought back to service with a cleaning, light oiling, and cleaning of the points. My former office mate and all around goo...
Your dash was painted in a low gloss in order to reduce reflective glare. It was also a textured paint, which is a little tricky to duplicate, but ca...
The pinion seal is what I took Larry to be asking about. My local parts store has a mixed success level on using old part numbers. Sometimes they cr...
Just Dashes out in California provides recovering services for that dash. We're hoping to get our dashboard back any day now for the Adventurer we ar...
Good to hear from you Larry! There should be a part number that you can find on the outer flange of the old seal underneath the dirt and grease, and ...
Mark, The Carb Shop's phone number is 785-827-3057. (central) Good luck!
Carbs aren't 2nd nature to me, so I've come to rely on people that specialize. In our "vendors" tab to the right is Jeff Dreibus "the ...
Can somebody speak to the two shades of woodgrain on the dash? As a garaged survivor, I would expect that fade might be minimal on Tim's car? I'd be...
Here's an interesting detail about the '56 DeSoto. We've determined during the teardown that the entire body exterior from the firewall back was pa...
It had to happen sooner or later, Mark.... Since you have an unbroken mercury bulb, can you measure its dimensions for me so that I know what I'm l...
well, here's the ugly of it. (don't tell anybody) It's original to the car. It worked when it came in. Since about 12" or so of the wire show...