salans7 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Cool! A 102” whip. Was jealous of your SWR! That's the only reason for how low they are. Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Voltura Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 Cool! A 102” whip. Was jealous of your SWR! That's the only reason for how low they are. Lol. Got under it today, sanded and painted some more of the frame, knocked all the loose crap off the old exhaust pipes and "fixed" a hanger, and set my turn downs on it. Ordered my new carburetor and checked tire clearance as well which is good to go. I put a vent hose on the diff since it didn't have one. This "exhaust" will be completely changed eventually to stainless and maybe a set of SLP Loudmouth mufflers I have in storage. Right now it'll bolt up, but I just need to lop off the ends for brake hose and axle clearance which is why I just slid the turn downs on it for now. This is completely temporary until after the thing is together and runs/drives. You think it'll be loud enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Got under it today, sanded and painted some more of the frame, knocked all the loose crap off the old exhaust pipes and "fixed" a hanger, and set my turn downs on it. Ordered my new carburetor and checked tire clearance as well which is good to go. I put a vent hose on the diff since it didn't have one. This "exhaust" will be completely changed eventually to stainless and maybe a set of SLP Loudmouth mufflers I have in storage. Right now it'll bolt up, but I just need to lop off the ends for brake hose and axle clearance which is why I just slid the turn downs on it for now. This is completely temporary until after the thing is together and runs/drives. You think it'll be loud enough? LOL! I think it will be loud, and after a few minutes of driving I'm sure you'll agree with me. Anyway, it is looking good. I'm amazed that those tires clear - they look huge. Progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Cool! A 102” whip. Was jealous of your SWR! That's the only reason for how low they are. Lol. Back when CB radios were the "thing" I had a 102" whip on our 1955 Packard, it just looked right on that beast. Fun hooking a radio up though, 1955 Packards were 12V positive ground, in 1956 they changed to negative ground. The other interesting item, when the suspension leveled the electrical noise would drive you bats if you were using the CB. I still have two, on is a Pierce-Simpson Puma 23B tweaked to the legal max and 100% modulation, it's a crystal controlled model so it dead on frequency, I got accused numerous times of running a linear amp. The other is a Cobra I think, it was brought over by a neighbor who was leaving the area. It's a 40 channel with sideband. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salans7 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Back when CB radios were the "thing" I had a 102" whip on our 1955 Packard, it just looked right on that beast. Fun hooking a radio up though, 1955 Packards were 12V positive ground, in 1956 they changed to negative ground. The other interesting item, when the suspension leveled the electrical noise would drive you bats if you were using the CB. I still have two, on is a Pierce-Simpson Puma 23B tweaked to the legal max and 100% modulation, it's a crystal controlled model so it dead on frequency, I got accused numerous times of running a linear amp. The other is a Cobra I think, it was brought over by a neighbor who was leaving the area. It's a 40 channel with sideband. Cool story about the Packards! I'm running a Cobra 29 LX BT, which is much fancier than the old 1989 Cobra 25 LTD I was running previously. It is nice to have the extra features like the radio self checks and advanced SWR tuning. But there's a ton of other features I'll never use as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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