Thread: 1929 Essex Highboy

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Well thank you very kindly Larry, Crazyrat. You got no call to talk though. I been following your build, and you are doing some great work! I love your truck, as I told you before. Makes me want to remodel my '47 truck. It is sitting there waiting patiently while I spend all my time (and most of my money) on the Essex build!
So-------today, I went out and first thing got the stoves going!!!!!
It was cold up here this morning. Ice in the water bucket! Anyways, after a bit of a warm up, I started on the timing--distributor thing! Got some info on how to set the distributor and thus the timing from my Mentor, thanks again Friend, so I dismantled the dizzy and cleaned it all up, then primer, then hammered silver. After a while to allow the paint to dry (some) I proceeded to put it back together. Then, following my instructions, I (finally) got the distributor in place and in time! Only took me an hour or so! Then tightened the clamp to hold it for now. Then I removed all of the old plugs, gave each cylinder a squirt of Mystery Oil, put in new plugs and hooked up the plug wires. After that I pored through my parts box and found a pair of battery cables and hooked the ground wire to a bell housing bolt, after cleaning off the paint, and the hot wire to the starter. Then connected both to my newly charged battery. Then I took a short piece of wire and connected one end to the inboard terminal on the starter solenoid and touched the other end to the hot lead at the starter connection, and BINGO. She turns over! Whooooeeeee! I cranked her over a few times to smear the Mystery Oil over the cylinder walls a little, and just wanted to hear her speak. Then I put in a grommet for the PCV valve, then put some gasket sealer on the valve cover gasket and put the cover on and bolted it down. Then put in the PCV valve and hooked up the vacuum line to the intake! Now all I need is fuel and coolant! And then I can fire it up. WOW. Yeah Jim, seeing some light at the end of the tunnel now! I cut up some old radiator hoses and got the angles and all, but they were too small to go over the motor connections. So soon I will take these to the parts store where my Grandson works (Advance) and get some the correct size with those bends, I hope! Some pics! Perley