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After almost six months, I finally pulled the voltage regulator out last week, popped the top off and found this: Guess I can understand why the charging system wasn't functioning correctly now. Ordered a new one, got it in this evening, and wouldn't ya know it, it finally has more than 23...

I dunno how they do it either. I just got tires (stock size) for my '17 Rubicon and it was free shipping as well.

Finally got around to switching out the cannon plug on the light switch this evening. I'd originally tried to save it as best as possible, but the insulation was just too brittle. So I ordered a takeoff from John up at Midwest Military a few months back. Trimmed the old tape off, marked all the...

Oh aluminum, that does make it much trickier! I like 51's method then, won't hurt the ally but will eat the steel. Alum (the baking additive) will do the same thing, but I can't be sure what it may do to aluminum. I'm a goldsmith and use alum to eat away broken bits that get lodged in gold.

Me, I'd probably do some very fine finessing with a torch and cut the nuts off. And with the amount of heat that would be put through the bolts at that point may have taken some of the hardness away. And use a fresh Cobalt drill bit. Slow and a lot of cutting oil/ lube.

A week's worth of evenings and a full day today and I can finally say I have all the lights working, correctly I might add, on the C. About 40' of new wire, and a couple dozen new connectors, it's good to go, and I didn't have to shell out $800 for a new harness. I will say I was quite amazed at...

I used the pretty, expandable mesh loom on the 53, it almost looks like old fabric loom lol and I like it better than tape.

Been working on refreshing the wiring on the C over the last few days. It was a rats nest of hacked wires, crumbling insulation and just outright broken wires. So, I finally ordered some wire and Packard connectors (I know, not the correct style) to start the process. A PO had put in a pull...

Thanks! I guess I learned a little something from factory life lol. Not sure about the horn yet, parts are out there, whether or not I want to pay for them remains to be seen lol. I have a foot controlled push button on my '53 because that horn rod is froze inside the steering tube 🤣 so either...

Snagged a horn, no mounting bracket, so let's make one! Of course I realize after all this that I don't even have a horn rod in the column. 🤦‍♂️

Mocked up my spare tire carrier for the C today. Not once, but twice! I made the upper mounting tab the wrong direction which caused a bit of swearing on my end. But, I prevailed and now it's off to a buddy to laser cut the pattern and have it bent before it comes back to me for assembly and...

The YS carb is designed to need vacuum to start since there's no true accelerator pump, I had no clue there is an actual start up procedure for the A1 until I ran across it in the manual. Once warm it isn't always necessary, but that doesn't mean it still needs a little help lol. Now this is a...

Is the #1 intake valve opening enough to get the full charge in? Like, is it possibly hanging up or worst case, bad lobe. I can't think of much that would let the other three run rich (sounds like carb needs backed off a little) while one is lean.

It's Timothy Slawson's A1, this pretty example!

Sounds correct to me, in order to get more clockwise rotation, it needs clocked in reverse of that. Each tooth is 30° worth of timing, so unless you're waaaay out, one tooth should be sufficient.

Iowa isn't too much different, we don't have to register as a classic to run year of manufacture though. I just slap the plates on, keep the current plates/registration in the vehicle and I'm golden. I'm still on the lookout for a pair of '52 plates, the set for the '53 I found pretty quickly...

Always a great feeling to get an old mule running again!

So I'm preaching to the choir then! 🤣

Your last sentence, condenser. Swap it out, always heard it's best just to carry an extra one with these old horses, along with a set of points. Mine happened to go out randomly, no hints at all, just stopped running. That's the nice thing about the simplicity of old vehicles, not much to chase...

@Maverick1701 I feel your pain on the coil. I lost power in the '52 not even a month after I picked it up. When I pulled it, this is what I found. Definitely understand why the cheap ones don't last.