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I think the Model T Roadster pickup was available from the factory only 1925-1927.

It looks to be crank case ventilation, the tube goes over to a black hose without any clamps on it so it can't be any pressure there, it must go to a catch tank somewhere in the car. The engine setup is very similar on the 33 Willys and same type of tube is present... the hose is transparent in this case. And the Mr Gasket Gasser has this crank case vent tube and transparent hose where the fuel pump usually sits on a SOHC, on the Malco Gasser and 33 Willys this location is blocked off with a plate.

A GT 500 is not that hard to do, take the FE 428 engine and side stripes from the AMT 68 Shelby GT 500 and you are done.

Don't mention it, as you strive for accuracy...wich I also do when I build something like this...I thought that you wanted this part to be right too.

The pump drive also drives the magneto from an angle gear (the blue thing the magneto is attached to), the angle gear unit itself is driven from the cam drive and is bolted to the front of the timing chain cover, and the fuel pump is in front of it driven by the same unit from the same shaft. The setup kind of looks like this, not exactly the same as this is a more recent unit, but you might get the drift. Here is the setup he used on the 33 Willys wich is the same as on the Malco Gasser.

The magneto already is at the front on the left side on the timing chain cover driven of the fuel pump drive on the Malco Gasser.

Yeah you are right, the SOHC engine in the early version of the Malco Gasser Mustang doesn't seem to have a return line from the metering valve at the injector on top of the blower. But there has to be a bypass return line somewhere in the system as you tune these mechanical fuel systems with how much fuel you send back to the tank, otherwise the engine will drown as the fuel pump delivers more than the engine needs to run, so maybe he just used a bypass return only from the fuel pump on the early versions of the SOHC engines in his cars because the Malco 33 Willys Coupe and the early 427 SOHC powered Mr Gasket Gasser Mustang doesn't have a return from the metering valve either. At least on a "Fuel" car they have return lines from several places in the system, but they use larger pumps and a whole lot more fuel than a Gasser does.

I'll check them out. Here is a couple of pictures I found of the GMP model just now that can be helpful.

Well I save reference pictures on every model I plan to build myself and the "Ohio" George cars are among them. I have quite a few pictures of many subjects in my library by now and I like to do research as a part of this hobby, but I don't remember where I got every picture I just save them in folders on my hard drive when I find them and I often stumble upon them unexpectedly. So I try to help other modelers out if I can whenever I can.

Awsome as usual Clay.

It's a Ford 9 inch axle and it can be found in large and some medium Ford cars, Ford pickup trucks, street/hot rods, some hi perf street cars and race cars. This particular axle looks like the one in the AMT 39 Wagon Rod.

It even look smaller than an 8 inch rear end.

Very impressive, keep up the good work.

I'm glad if could be of any help to you.

I have gone through all my "Ohio" George car pictures on my hard drive but haven't found any good pictures that explains the fuel and cooling system in an easy way on the 67 Malco Gasser Mustang, but the car didn't have a regular radiator, it looks like a kind of combined fuel tank/ coolant overflow tank in front of the engine wich holds fuel and water, the water was circulated through the engine and connected to the tank with small diameter tubes and hoses wich goes in where the water pump normaly sits on the engine block, I don't think he used a water pump on the car, at least the engine didn't have one. Another thing I noticed is that this tank was changed and the version of the Malco Gasser that exist today has a different tank from the one used on the early version and he used the same setup on the 69 Mr Gasket Gasser Mustang. Here are some of the pictures of this area I have saved in my files over the years. First the early version of the tank/radiator wich is in the MPC kit. And the late version as it is today, now it's a combined fuel/water tank. The fuel/water tank on the Mr Gasket Gasser before the turbo version. I hope they will show what you need...or at least give you a hint.

That Cat is called 3412. It's possible to do a 3412 out of two 3408's, the 3408 have two cylinder heads and two rocker covers, one on each side covering four cylinders, the 3412 also has two cylinder heads, one per side but it has four rocker covers, two on each side for three cylinders each....so you can do it if you want to but you have to do some cutting and splicing.

If I speculate maybe Caterpillar didn't have enough yellow engines in stock to fill that large order when it came and sent a couple of white ones to be able to complete the order in time. Because if the engine was white it could have been supposed to go to the Peterbilt plant instead of the Freightliner plant as Peterbilt used white engines through 1984 and Caterpillar was the last engine manufacturer to deliver white engines to them. But there are exceptions to the rule as you can find engines with factory color in Peterbilts before that date and engines painted white after. Kenworth had white engines through 1975, but as with the Peterbilts you could see white engines after that date and manufacturer color before, Autocar also had white engines appearently through 1968-69 and manufacturer color after that.

Great guy with nice products. I got my last order from him a couple of weeks ago.

I have never seen if Freightliner had any special color on the engines delivered to them so I would go with Cummins Beige.

The 1967-82 "A" model was availabe with both the short 63 inch and the longer 74 inch hoods, "B" came in 1982-83 and the short hood on the "B" is 61 1/4 and the "B" has square headlights.

If you look closely on the pictures you see that the hood itself is the same length on both trucks, the cowl is extended on the blue truck and the back edge of the hood is straight. But Kenworth had two lengths for the early W900's. Short Hood 63 inch 1967-82 Extended Hood 74 inch 1970-82 So before 1970-ish they extended the cowl and the hoods were the same, after that they extended the hood and kept the standard cowl. Jim B said "I don't believe that it had a different model number like the W900L of today. This is similar to the W900/T900 the Revell of Germany makes; just a different year" The Revell Germany Kenworth Conventionals are W900 but it was done up and supposed to be an Australian truck once and they called them T900 as the Australian Kenworth Conventionals are T not W. But the Revell kit is not right for an Australian truck as the Australian Kenworth factory have their own series of trucks wich are different from the US trucks.

Yes I know that, but it would have been nice if Revell had done the FED's in 1:25th scale.

Yes they are quite nice, I have found one bought at a swap meet in L.A. All of them, the Revell slingshot dragsters looks more accurate than the MPC slingshots wich are more on the crude side detailwise. But of course it's easier to do details on a 1:16th model than a 1:25th. Revell did rear engine dragsters and funny cars in both 1:16 and 1:25 but the slingshots were only done in 1:16th scale.

This is not a car I would build but all your work and your attention to detail is impressive, keep the updates coming.