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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...

So this morning I finally decide to make a mock up of the spare tire carrier. I had a buddy send some pictures of one he has last fall but hadn't got around to even thinking about doing anything with it. Went pretty smooth, my template came together quite nicely, until........I noticed that I'd...

For poops and giggles I had went to the wiki page for the Camp during my initial search, there's nothing really listed unit wise for the 50's, only the WWII era units.

Current listing of stationed units there:

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...

If you haven't got it installed yet... Gasket, then glass, then locking strip. I tried doing it with the frame laying on a table. Much easier for me at least when it was vertical on the Jeep. Used a lot of Windex and thumb pressure. Let gravity help you, set the glass in the bottom of the...

Only a handful of decals used, can't remember if I picked my set up from DeBellas or Midwest Military. Either of those are gonna be a good choice. As for the engine bay, Google A1 engine bay and select pics, because there's not much in the way of rhyme or reason to how it's done. There is this...

@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.

Yup, someone wanted a tailgate back on it, and they made a rear seat for it too. The seat is out now, the gate will be out eventually as well. Nice call sign BTW 👌

I picked up another YS last week for the '53. So, I went ahead and ordered up the correct crossover hose and fording valve and now have an engine bay that looks a little closer to how it should. Throttle cable is installed, choke as well (it already was), brackets on and everything is working...

After seeing a picture of an engine bay on a buddy's A1 thats being redone, it hit me that the generators are black. My alternator (mine is a 12V setup) isn't black. So, that had to change! Other than smashing my pinky breaking the pulley nut loose, it was a quick and easy transition.

That's amazing! You got a great one!

Looks very nice, not even any dents in the front fenders!