Slow Train Revival

The '51 is coming back together
Finally started the putting stuff back on phase.
Put the Oil Filter canister back in with new hoses and fittings.
Now undoing the two lines at the block, the filter can & hoses comes out with just two short bolts. Years back I mounted it on an upright plate bolted to the frame with a brace in back.

My steel oil line gets tied to the same filter plate, you can see it heading over to the sender. Steel wooled it . . . have to paint it black.

How do you like those old long pedals and adj. control rods.

Put the generator back on yesterday and sanded rust out of all the pump and crank pulleys.Took the grille off and found a long crank that turns the engine over so I could get at the whole circumference. Painstaking job.

New replacement manifolds ( one I had marked "best spare) goes on tomorrow. Often with these old exhaust manifolds somebody didn't understand the heat valve and coil spring and brazed the flapper incorrectly to the shaft. I have one in my collection so poorly placed, no matter how much the coil spring expanded with heat, the counter weight wouldn't fall . . . except maybe by vibration on a hair pin turn.

Anyway . . . since y'all like machinery pics . . .

Sorry to bump myself up but i thought i should explain "Slow Train". It's the name of my Van.

It's funny but i used to get fast drivers screaming up behind me aggravated that I was going too slow to suit them. I'd think to myself that these old roads were built for my old low speed rear end.

then one day a guy came buy that needed something welded so I did it for him and he asked what he could do for me in trade. I asked him what he did and he said he was a professional sign painter. "OH, says I, I wanted to paint "Slow Train" on my back doors but they aren't finished yet."

He says, "No problem, I'll paint it on the glass."
Blew me away . . . he painted it backwards on the inside of the windows so the weather hasn't even worn it off.

Meanwhile, the effect was incredible.
When people came flying up the rear, they'd read the back windows and drop right back and slow down. It is what it is.

Slow Train Running -Dylan & The Dead


Tim *PloughNman* Daley(MI)

Well arguably maybe not the greatest but right up there in the top two of train songs and largely unrecognized. So with my truck . . .
more deserved recognition of that song.