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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: So it's not a 3A motor so...

« on: May 12, 2013, 06:41:45 PM »

No motor plate. Well I hate to say it but the whole kit and kaboodle is up for grabs now. I'm about to make the ad.

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: So it's not a 3A motor so...

« on: May 11, 2013, 05:01:37 PM »

Well there is a curve that could be the bottom of a 3 but it's in such bad shape it's very hard to tell. I thought 3a motors had the boss behind the oilfilter?

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: So it's not a 3A motor so...

« on: May 11, 2013, 03:21:08 PM »

Just browsing the images it looks like it may be an M38/MC block. So what's an MC?

Water pump boss number J143005.

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / So it's not a 3A motor so...

« on: May 11, 2013, 02:11:56 PM »

Any ideas what it's from?

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: 53 Horn

« on: May 11, 2013, 10:47:37 AM »

Wow, good eye. After a quick google search for indian horn I found this (be sure to have safe search turned on, just saying).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1946-47-Indian-Sunburst-horn-41-42-43-44-45-48-49-Harley-/310667432889?pt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&hash=item485538d3b9&vxp=mtr

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: 53 Horn

« on: May 09, 2013, 07:59:37 PM »

Here it is.

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: 53 Horn

« on: May 09, 2013, 07:47:39 PM »

I'll try to get one. May take me a bit to figure out how to post it though. I'm sure there's a sticky around here some where.

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / Re: 53 Horn

« on: May 09, 2013, 06:32:18 PM »

Well none of those look like mine so I'm guessing it's an aftermarket thing. Weird part is that it fit perfectly on the stock mount. Oh well.

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"Original"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Observations / 53 Horn

« on: May 08, 2013, 10:58:02 PM »

The totally rusted out 53 I just bought managed to have what I assumed is the original horn on the inner fender. I pulled it off and decided to run some power to it and to my surprise it worked!

I figured it would be a cool small project to pull it apart and restore it and this is where I'm confused. I looked on walck's webpage for a replacement horn to see the original colors and his looks completely different from mine. All the cutouts on his are parallel and on mine it looks more like a star pattern.

So is my horn an aftermarket replacement? I can try to get a pic if need be.

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"Modifications"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Incites / Re: Jeep diesel upgrade?

« on: May 09, 2013, 08:10:45 PM »

Why do you say that? A mechanically injected engine will burn oil. Even the TDI motors can have "runaway" from a blown turbo seal sending oil into the cylinders and the motor will keep running even when the fuel is shutoff.

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"Modifications"-- Technical Questions, Answers, Incites / Re: Jeep diesel upgrade?

« on: May 08, 2013, 11:11:16 PM »

I dig it. Course I'm biased since I'm putting a diesel in my MB. There is a guy in the willys section on pirate4x4 building a flatty with this motor.

Definitely something I'd consider doing. It would be nice to be able to burn used motor oil as fuel.

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Once You've Joined / Re: Rooney77 is back

« on: May 11, 2013, 10:43:16 AM »

It's good to be back. Thanks guys.

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Once You've Joined / Rooney77 is back

« on: May 08, 2013, 10:52:15 PM »

Well I'm back. I was a member on the old forum and pretty much disappeared after selling of my 49. I've always regretted it and have since found a basketcase 53 that I will restore. My father has always wanted a father son project so it made the perfect excuse to get back into the resto world.

If anyone remembers (not likely) I was building a 42 MB rockcrawler and it has since evolved since we moved to east Texas. It now has a VW TDI diesel as a powerplant.