The tires on the car look great but they are 30 years old and rock-hard. I was going to try and get another year or two out of them but I started to see cord though the rubber. So I ordered new Coker Classic radials. Wide white walls of course. That and new tubes make these the most expensive tires I have ever bought. I took them to Precision Alignment and Tire who as usual did a great job installing them.
Before and after shots:
I found a 1941 Ohio license plate in good shape. Like most states Ohio allows cars to display license plates from the year of manufacture. All I had to do was stop off at the BMV, sign some paperwork, and hand over $4.50. I think it looks good.
9/14/2013 was International Drive Your Studebaker day. This year Maria and I motored down to an Italian place down towards Dublin. The car ran great unlike last year. Later the dog and I drove over to pick my daughter up at school. Beautiful day and a lot of fun with the car.
Delaware is putting together a really nice car show and fly-in at the airport. The only real problem was that the cars and the airplanes were too far apart. But I got to play in the B-25…
I have been setting the timing to factory settings but it seemed to idle badly and sometimes it backfires into the exhaust a little on deceleration. I decided to advance the timing a little and see if that helps. I bumped the timing up about 3-5 degrees. After adjusting the idle mixture the car seems to pull stronger and run better with no sign of abnormal combustion. I might try to push it up a few more degrees and see what happens.
Expensive but worth it.
Steering Wheel
Interior Plastic
A freeze plug popped out. So I got to fix it again.
I did some spring maintenance and installed new pedal seals. The details are here.
Or at least I hope it is. See the details here.
This site has been static HTML since I started it. At the time I wanted to do more HTML and the hosting I was using did not have any worthwhile content management. But dinking with the pages is not as much fun any more and WordPress is really easy to use. So I created this WordPress site and migrated the old content. Now people can comment and I can quickly add posts and pages.
Major projects on the car will be pages on the left-hand menu. Quick updates and random thoughts will be posts like this one. Enjoy!