Bill Crowell
Member
ObsoElitist: "We put Steam Oil in a number of early cars and trucks. Darn near have to push it down the funnel with a stick."
Ha, ha! I haven't tried to pour my LUB164 yet. It should be a lot thicker than steam oil!
Duner Wi: "I would like to see the inner workings of that transmission.Do you know where there is an online diagram? DB had 12 volts in 26 but went to 6 volts in 27. Wonder why they did that? Complexity of the start/gen system maybe?
The cool thing about antique cars is that they came with a really complete instruction book. A picture from the DB instruction book concerning the transmission is attached.
The original DB was a 12-volt system with a combined starter-generator made by Northeast Electric (RIP) that was quite expensive. After the Brothers died and Dillon, Read (bankers) bought the company, the bean counters went to a 6-volt system with separate starter and generator, just like everybody else, in order to save money.
Ha, ha! I haven't tried to pour my LUB164 yet. It should be a lot thicker than steam oil!
Duner Wi: "I would like to see the inner workings of that transmission.Do you know where there is an online diagram? DB had 12 volts in 26 but went to 6 volts in 27. Wonder why they did that? Complexity of the start/gen system maybe?
The cool thing about antique cars is that they came with a really complete instruction book. A picture from the DB instruction book concerning the transmission is attached.
The original DB was a 12-volt system with a combined starter-generator made by Northeast Electric (RIP) that was quite expensive. After the Brothers died and Dillon, Read (bankers) bought the company, the bean counters went to a 6-volt system with separate starter and generator, just like everybody else, in order to save money.
