Happy New Year! There is a Nor'Easter dumping snow on all my outdoors right now and the high temperature for tomorrow is 0
oF. Indoors we will stay.
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| Frosty Frazer fearlessly faces falling flakes |
I bought an ultrasonic parts cleaner from
Harbor Freight and put it to good use right away with my distributor. Here are a couple of before pictures:
Sharp
eyed readers might notice that this is not the distributor that I took off. The original distributor was a Delco-Remy 1110224 0G27, but the white metal mount was cracked. Interestingly, for a Delco-Remy the 0G27 means it was made on July 27, 1950 (0=1950, G=July, 27 = 27, many thanks to the Kaiser Frazer Owners Club).
Anyway, I found this Auto-Lite IGS 4214 distributor on eBay for $20 with an unbroken mount. When I received it I noticed that the entire top section is mostly the same (except for rotation direction) as my older style Mopar Flat 6 distributors. I have plenty of rotors, caps and other pieces for the Auto-Lites, so instead of taking just the one piece I rebuilt the whole thing.
I happened to have an NOS vacuum advance that fit and I swapped out the points for a Pertonix kit. I like the Pertronix kits because they don't make you destroy the distributor to install them and they work well. Unlike other kits I have used this one does not use a ring of magnets on the cam, so I'm hoping fewer parts is better.
The Frazer is going to be 12 volt with an alternator. No pretense of a factory correct restoration here. Better is just better.
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| Distributor in place (and repaired manifolds bolted up, too!) |
Next into the ultrasonic tank would be my carburetor. The base model Kaisers and Frazers used a 1 barrel Carter WA-1. Mine was a little crusty.
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| Before. Nothing broken, but lots of rust and dirt |
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| Ready for some ultrasonic magic |
These are nicely made carburetors that were used on a lot of vehicles from the late 1930's into the early 1950's.
I took a guess and bought a rebuild kit on eBay for a '52-56 Hudson that looked like a decent match.
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| Reassembly in progress |
Turns out the piston for the accelerator was not the same, but the old one seems ok and everything else was a perfect fit.
Putting this together in my warm house with all my family around was extra fun.
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| Carter WA-1 ready for a few more years |
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| I just wanted to see how it looked. |
Rockauto sells brand new fuel pumps for the Frazer (I got the
Airtex 4318, but they have a Carter pump, too), so I bought and installed one of those. My car needs a fuel pump that not only pumps fuel, but also creates a vacuum source for the windshield wipers.
I also dropped the old fuel filter into the ultrasonic cleaner. The old ceramic filter and gasket were pretty well fossilized, so they are history.
It turns out you can get new paper elements and gaskets for these (Wix 33038 on order and hopefully correct -
update: 33038 is not correct and does not fit, but the gasket is correct and I'm going to reuse the old ceramic filter element). This will be much cooler than a modern fuel filter.
That's pretty much where it all stands. Next up will be braving the cold and going through the steering components and the driveshaft while everything is easy to get at. Not right now though.
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| Bundle up, find a friend and get comfortable - Winter is here |
