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JohnHancock

JohnHancock

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My name is John and I'm a car guy. I am retired and living in Oklahoma. I have been building street rods and race cars for 50 years as a hobby. I am currently building a 1950 Ford coupe and a 1923 Ford roadster.
 
Thanks for the welcome. Here are a couple of the coupe. The avitar is a car I built in 1972 and drove from Atlanta Ga. to Memphis Tn. for the street rod nationals on my honeymoon.2f1q.jpg ci4j.jpg mg9z.jpg
 
Hey John, it's about time you made your way over here!!!

Should we tell Grumpy that we have already meet or just keep it a secret?
 
It what I think is a good flat head. The car was "running" when I got it, meaning it drove around the yard but was loading up real bad. I rebuilt the carb found a blown power valve, good compression in all cylinders but the wiring was awful so I ripped it all out and started putting in a new harness. I'll get back to it soon I hope. Wife recuperating from auto wreck 4 days after we moved to the lake house so I haven't moved my tools and "Wilma" to the new place yet.
 
Thank you Sir Grump. I'm really liking this site. One thought about your dual compressors. Do both motors work on the same pressure switch? Seems only one would start and the other switch would never see low enough air.
 
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what happens is that both compressors are set up to max out and stop at 130 psi on seperate pressure switches and both are set up to come on once the pressure hits 100 psi,thats the theory, in reality the control switches are not precise,
now if your only using a little air volume only one compressor generally kicks in, and yes its usually the same one kicking in first, if your using a good deal of flow volume, both kick inas the second compressor generally kicks in seconds after the first if the pressure drops below about 97 psi, and yes one tends to kick out early,but the net effect is that both compressors do run and while one probably does 70% of the work, the pair do work to stabilize and keep the tanks fully pressurized, and yes you can easily adjust the pressure switch settings to reverse the order the compressors kick in, which I have done every few months.
 
JohnHancock said:
My name is John and I'm a car guy. I am retired and living in Oklahoma. I have been building street rods and race cars for 50 years as a hobby. I am currently building a 1950 Ford coupe and a 1923 Ford roadster.
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Hi there. I'd like to see some pictures of the 1923 roadster build. I'm currently just starting as 1926 Ford Roadster build myself.
Thanks
John
 
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