Suedes Car Club
General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eyeball on June 11, 2010 7:53 pm
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Plans are to meet at the Moorhead rest area and depart from there. We were thinking Thursday 8am if that works for everyone, if not let me know and we can change it.
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Char and I will be leaving around noon..........so will see ya in St. Paul.
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Char and I will be leaving around noon..........so will see ya in St. Paul.
Or wherever we break down. :albino:
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Dont leave home wittout extra wheel bearings...haha, or alternator,or light switch or battery...............
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I actually taking a car with gears that can travel the interstate this year will be leaving ada at 9 so if i find any stragglers will wave, cant honk as horn dont work
got to finish some bondo and get it primed and waterproofed, could rain in the great state of water
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anyone interested in this?
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=483413&highlight=btt50
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No 50s for me I guess. Thanks to the white trash soap opera, I gotta go back to Jamestown and do a ton of work on the duplex they trashed.
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eyeball- are you guys going straight to registration on thursday? maybe i could meet up with you guys along 94 in St michael or rogers? i kind of dont want to hop on the interstate by myself, but if it comes to it, I won't sweat it. what time do you think you'll be getting to the 'burbs?
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I would think around noon or so depending on breakdowns. Shot me your numer if you like I can give you a call when I know what it is looking like.
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Kathie and I will be coming down Thursday, leaving in the morning, so we can pick up any piles of parts left in the road by the Swedes. 701 400 1539 if you need anything or just a rescue--or even if you just want me to scare the bad guys away.
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We'll be leaving from Dunvilla, MN around 7am Thurs. The '35 will be a trailer queen this time around. I know....bring on the trash talk! I figured since it doesn't have an interior, has only traveled a few blocks and with the 4:11 gears we should have left yesterday. I originally wasn't going to bring it, but my buddy talked me into it. See you all there.
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Thats great Jake!! Can't wait to see it in person!
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763.742.3767 I am sure I will be in the shop all morning on thursday, text is probably most reliable as I have horseshit service in my shop and my phone doesnt always ring. thanks, can't wait!
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Damn, everyone is sneaking out Thursday! See you all Saturday....
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I checked the forcast.........If they are right it should be a good weekend!!!
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The wife and I will be leaving home around noonish thursday. I'm taking the S-10 piggup, will be hauling a hemi home from Minn (Aaron), but should have extra hauling room if anybody scores sumething at the swap...880-8857 if needed....Weed
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Damn, everyone is sneaking out Thursday! See you all Saturday....
gotta beat the traffic at least one day this weekend... besides that I already got my Beer Drinkin pants on!
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We pulled in Wednesday night around 11pm. Be prepared for single lane traffic coming in. Must have been a lot of grant money for road work this year. We pulled the coupe down so we would also have room to haul goodies back to Fargo area or anywhere between here or there, unless I fill it up first. cell # is 701-709-0727.
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so did anyone else have any trouble on the way back we blew a belt at big lake on the way back. Got to fargo at 430 am and iwas at work by 7 and am still tired
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Not on the way back, on the way down blew a right rear tire bent up the 1/4 panel and tore the plastic flare. Sat in a rest area for about 1/2 hour to miss the tornados.
Met Stefan and his girlfriend, got to hang out with my fellow Suedes in the motel parking lot. I'm sure glad we were at the same motel.
Also met Deucekustoms, he was not having a good day.
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I had issues with the coupe on wednesday night I took Ashley to t ball and noticed that it was running like crap on the way there, starving for fuel, and on the way back home it quit running. I called Val and had her bring the truck out and tow me home. ... So I replaced the fuel filter which was a bit dirty and hoped that might be the problem but no luck. so then I took the carb top off thinking the float was sticking, I then found the carb was dry. Then I look at the fuel pump and noticed a pin was sticking out the side of it, this pin is what held the fuel pump arm on. so that was my problem. I removed the fuel pump and fished the pump arm out Luckily several years ago Larry Larson had given me a new fuel pump after he got rid of his pontiac engine so i installed it backed the car out of the shed and put it on the trailer to go to 50's. So then Friday at 50's the car was running like crap on the way to the fair grounds, It was running rough like it was an ignition problem... So while the engine was running rough and shaking one of the guys, cant remeber who, saw the weld broke on the boxing plate at the motor mount, Too much racing at the track I guess. So I parked the A for the weekend and trailered it back home.
The frame has been repaired now. The rough engine was the float set too high and it was leaking fuel, I must have bumped it when I re installed the carb top. o well its ready to go again...
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Got home last night around midnite. Got 20mpg on the way down in the wind and rain, and 22 on the way home loaded down with a chrysler hemi and ford nine inch rear. so, dont ever let anybody tell ya the old hemi's were hard on gas,haha
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Had a great time. No problems down or back. Sat around the campground Thurs. night and watched the storms go around us. Cops came around and told us if the sirens went off to go to the coliseum. They made the north campgrounders go to some building for an hour. All it did was sprinkle a little. All in all a great weekend.
I figured out I need to get the interior done or some mufflers....maybe both. And I've got to get some different gears. 1st is too slow and 2nd lugs around the fairgrounds. I maybe have a line on a Columbia 2 speed rear.
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I saw a light blue mid 50's pontiac 2 door post on the side of the interstate outside of Fergus Falls. Was trying to head southeast. Don't know who it was, but looked like our crowd.
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Made it all weekend without a hiccup, close call on 94 though by rodgers on the way out, got hot and Vapor locked but i got out of it, never did boil over.
1100 miles total average 14mpg. ran like a top all weekend.
Gonna work a little on the cooling system though.... thinking a new Radiator is in the works...
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Gonna work a little on the cooling system though.... thinking a new Radiator is in the works...
Shit Aaron, if you made it through that traffic jam your cooling system is working fine, that was as bad as it can get.:) The flathead ran up to 209 on one side and 190 on the other. Did anyone notice how long we crawled along in that shit?
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had to be about 45 minutes
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Darren Buchholz said it took him 1 1/2 hours to get from the fair grounds to the other side of Rogers that was sometime in the afternoon.
I went through around 10:30 AM I'm guessing about 1/2 hour.
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We heard they had switched the road work to the westbound side so went up Snelling, onto 694, first exit onto #10, and took #10 to Monticello and got back on 94. A few stop lights, but smooth sailing.
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I wish we had done that.
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Had a great time even though I only had one day to be there.
It was great getting to chat with you Tom, I learned about Model ARs and got to talk to Aaron and his father a bit.
Jake your Ford is beautiful, can't wait to see it all finished.
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l.
Also met Deucekustoms, he was not having a good day.
where do i start... since i was still finishing the car up at 2am thursday I never really had much time to really work the bugs out, so I guess 50's was the time to do it... Thursday on the way down my throttle linkage came undone going down 94, and my water pump went out. friday I changed the pump, got to 50's and my right front brake was locked up, i was running hot already before that, so forcing my way thru the fairgrounds to find a parking spot put me at about 280 degrees...my radiator sounded like my horn honking! after it cooled down i got the brakes adjusted and moved into the parking lot by the grandstand. saturday morning i pulled the RPV's off of my brake lines after finally figuring out that I didn't need them after all, as they were causing more harm than good anyways. leaking when they were cold and building pressure when they got hot. bled and re-adjusted my brakes, and pulled out my thermostat, and seemed to be going good, but got hot agian as soon as I got to the fairgrounds and before I parked there was coolant leaking into my cab and steaming up my windshield, damn heater core took a puke. once it cooled down i bypassed the heater core and I never broke 200 degrees the rest of the time, apparenty that solved my cooling issue. who knows. I made it home just fine, but I am sure glad I was staying at Titus and Jennies so at least I had a gargage, tools, and some help keeping my car alive this weekend. it was definitely still a fun time, and hell would it be 50's without car trouble??? thats half the fun, seeing how good your MacGuiver skills really are!
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oh and Tom... this was the first time I have seen your car in person, but IMO it looks 800 times better with the box!