Yesterday Was a False Start

Ha! I have to admit I had a little fun titling this post. I'm kinda braindead from a long day working in the sun, so a bullet list will have to suffice for what I got done today. Sorry, no pics, but nothing today merited a picture.

- My uncle stopped by and we both deduced that my starter has a dead short, and should be rebuilt, in the meantime I can borrow a working starter from my uncle
- Got the starter from my uncle. Bolted it in; finally got it working. Was so hot and tired I started working stupid. Couldn't really figure out why I couldn't easily get it installed and running right off the bat.
- For kicks, I tried my starter again. Stupid thing spun like crazy. So much for my earlier deduction. Good thing I'm not a doctor; the patient would be dead by now.
- Alternately bolted in my starter and my uncle's. Got both to spin with the battery charger/starter, but nothing with the 6 volt battery.
- Although I could get the starters to spin, once the Bendix engaged, I didn't have enough juice to turn the motor. It was still free, however, as I was able to slip a socket, extension, and breaker bar through the crank hole in the radiator shroud and crank it by hand.
- Gave up on the starter jazz until I can get a 12 volt battery with some oomph.
- Filled the crankcase with 30 wt. and fabbed up a copper line and installed the oil pressure gauge.
- Attached the water temperature sender and gauge.
- Installed the radiator hoses (woo hoo, but it's gotta get done) and filled the radiator up again. Still no leaks (yay!).
- Then, hours later, I picked up a (apparently quite late) short-cased generator to get rebuilt for 12 volt. Funny thing is the bracket that mounts it to the front of the intake. Looks like '49-'53 to me, but what do I know? Anyway, took that and laid out some possible intake/generator/carrier/fan combinations using 3 intakes, 2 generators, 2 carriers, and 3 fans.
- Ran out of brain power and called it a night at 11p.
- Monday I'll do some more mocking up and take maybe the generator and for sure my uncle's starter to the rebuilder. May take my starter, too. Gotta make sure the generator will work in the configuration I end up with before I invest in rebuilding it.

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