1948 Chevy First Start & Drive in 32 Years! 

Had one. Pulled the 216 and put in 261 and later transmission with an OD. Drove it 78,000 trouble free miles. Did convert the Knee action front shocks to tube type.

I'm 67 and that car was new about 5 years before I was born. You're working on and driving a piece of history. I also had a corsair, it was a 64 model.

Well done. Thanks for sharing your amazing mechanical skills through the excellent videos.

I see you’ve got about 6 ft of travel in the steering like my old Fleetmaster. Sure glad she drives so straight it doesn’t matter much. Congrats on a job very well done sir! Glad to be a part of it!

Thank you so much for posting this video! I have been interested in 1947-1948 Chevrolets since my youth and have waited 25 years for engine-bay views like those you offered. It was also nice to see it driving, as I strive to learn how to drive one myself.

What a great looking and sounding old motor! Great job!

I hate to see the series end. Great stuff!

A wax job would do wonders for that thing! Great job for your part in it. Sure makes me think of my 48 Chevy Fleetline. We had to move and my mom made me sell it, or I’d have it today.

Thanks so much for sharing all your videos on the 48 rehabilitation project! I just got a 48 Stylemaster coupe that hasn’t run for 40 years. I’m looking forward to seeing what I can do with it, and I’m sure I will be referring back to your videos many times! Thanks again!

I have enjoyed it and thanks so much for sharing. I have a 40 Chevrolet with a 235 and as you know all applies.

Great work and fantastic engine sound.

that oil pressure is just fine its a splash lube engine. my first car in 1962 was one of these from my grandfather. you got the good oil bath air cleaner. at 45mph gas was ,249 I could go 100 miles on a buck(25mpg). just don't overspeed the engine and it will run on almost forever. if you have a little play in the steering gear. there is a lockout and screw to take up the slack.

I like what I just watched. Greetings from the island of the Philippines. I just like saying that. Cheers brother!!! 🇵🇭🍻🇺🇲

Loved the video, thank you very much!!

What an enjoyable video!

Excellent thankyou!

Very Nice!

Great job loves it

Nice job! With gas being higher in octane today then the 40'-60's (as low as 65 v. 87) these 216's perform much better with 10-14 degrees of base timing.. The octane selector can add up to ten more but it's easier to keep the selector at zero and just add 5 - 8 more to the BB (5 BTDC) using an advance timing light. U | C is TDC

Old 216 tying every bundle !

Nice video my dude! I like that pressurizing the gas tank trick. Take care.

That is so neat. Good to see a '48 on its power. Maybe some day I can find one.

Congratulations on your excellent restoration. This brings back childhood memories of my Dad's 1947 2 door Fleet Master, that my maternal grandfather purchased new for parents in 1947, one year after my birth in 1946. My younger brother an I road many a miles standing up behind the front seats, holding onto the courtesy ropes behind the front seats. My folks keep it car until 1959 when they bought a slightly used 55 Chevy 2 door Belair. That cigarette ash tray mounted on the dash board was a mess, as ashes were always everywhere and sometimes lent to burns to the dashboard.

Es hermoso como funciona ese motor, yo tengo un chevrolet 1949 y lo estoy reparando pero las piezas son difíciles de conseguir, vivo en Cuba. Gracias por los videos, me ayudan mucho para arreglarlo.

I am excited with you. Can't wait to get my 54 belair started.

Such a rewarding hobby.. NEEEEEEXT!😉

GREAT stuff! It is hard to be sure listening over the internet but sounds like the tappets are still a little loose. ( comment made before second adjust) Sounds better after hot. better a little loose than too tight! Great car!

This was my first car @ 🚙 $4o..loved the hood vent into the cabin.. Mine did not have the windshield visor, or fog lights.. I live in Augusta

good proyect and music

If that old car only plays old songs you're a trouble LOL.

beautiful job buddy..

Just real old school.

had a 47 wreck it bought a 48 for parts got drafted they should be on a farm near Pedricktown NJ , good hunting...

Hi Jay you said the oil presure was a bit low do you think is due to a faulty gauge? Also I change the clutch and had the flywheel resurfaced and new ring gear.mostly using your video for reference I've yet to start it. Becuase I refit the flywheel the tdc mark is going to face a different direction from factory. Is there a way around this cheers.

14:34 what did you install and was the purpose of the liquid to be put in the black round reservoir

why no oil on the rockers ?

Have you tried using 2cycle oil in your fuel?

Are the points you are using the ones that go with the polarity reverse switch?

I have the same car and engine. I recently converted it to 12 volt and change the points out to be electric. When I was done, the car feels like it needs timing and my carb started to flood. Is this all a timing issue?

That car's engine compartment is immaculate.... if i dropped my tuna sandwich on the rocker arms and it fell down between the springs...i could pick it up and keep eating it.

1948👍🙂👏

I just saw a show that verified that the valve lash gets larger as the engine goes from cold to warmed up. I suggest that you check your values after it is warm.

Thank you for all your amazing videos. I’ve just subscribed. I have a 46 Chevy pickup with the 216, and I’m concerned that there’s very little lubrication to the rockers. But yours doesn’t seem to have much either. Is that normal? Bob

Did you keep the 4 door?

¿por que no sube el aceite?

Thi is a bock 250?

me gusta esta informacion, pues tengo un camioncito chevrolet de 1938, pero en algun momento le cambiaron el carburador y no es como el de este carro

ive noticed theres not much oil coming up to the top of head , my 216 does the same,, is that the way it is on these 216s ? what state are you from ?

Excellent video Jay! Congrats on the finished project! How timely this video is to me. I've been in a dilemma with my '36 chevy pickup and setting the valves. I thought I set them right but I really appreciate the instruction on setting the valves in two groups instead of trying to get each cylinder to its firing position then setting them. I always wondered what the specs would be cold, like you said the book gives hot settings, thanks. Great videos as always.

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*- My first vehicle was a 1949 Chevy Milk Truck; 216, Up Draft Carburetor, 4 speed stick, with a 1 ton diff.* *- {for example} **www.onallcylinders.com/2013/04/23/american-resto-mods-summit-racing-team-up-for-rutledge-woods-1949-chevy-step-van-project/* *- Built to haul a lot of full milk can weight on steep Northern N. H. country farm roads to the dairy, it had massive leaf springs and 18 inch split rims.* *- I had to jack it out of the soil, and remove all break cylinders and master cylinder, refurbish them.* *- Huge King Pins and tie rod joints were done for me later.* *- Cleaned the engine with kerosene, but never could get the radiator to not overheat so I used an antique thermometer cap to see when she was about to spew.* *- With lower geared differential, new tall lug tires, AND in deep snow, she would easily fly past 70.* *- 55 mph was tops on dry roads, as there was no adjustment left in the worm gear of the steering box.* *- In the snow the wheels stayed straight and there was no shimmy at all.* *- Eventually got a new old-stock steering box worm gear to remove the 5 inches of steering wheel slop.* *- I put a swing-up bed in the rear so it would work as back rest for university students I carried from Nova Scotia to Boston for Christmas AND carry my dirt bike; and put in a sink, cabinets, gas stove and ammonia refrigerator to keep my vodka frozen.* *- It carried two fifty gallon cider kegs back to my log cabin to make 10% apple wine using my biology professor's proprietary Champaign yest capable of 32 proof under highly controlled lab conditions.* *- The RCMP used to stop by occasionally after work in the middle of winter to cheer up and get warm.* *- I filled milk pitcher jugs for them from a tube coming down from the loft where the 50 gallon keg set.* *- They never could figure out how I "lifted" that keg full of cider up there.* *- The smells from my overhead antique brass kerosene lamp and wood stove kept them from noticing/commenting on the smells of my tobacco pipe.* *- They never said if they stole any of the pea soup or brownies with Vancouver shrooms laying around.*

Was their a 1948 olds that looked like the above.

Wow! Can you work on mine? Bought it in 2004 and it has been sitting since,.

I have a 47 that I'm working on, been sitting in the woods since 68 engine is stuck, so in gose a small block 327.

What did you poor into the air breather... I never seen that...please respond....phil

What visor is that?

I did notice the passenger side tire was not equal to the other side

Clutch adjustment

I want to put a 48 front clip on a 49 I lone those front fenders

💯😎👏👍48

Someone bought it?

no esta lubricando

u dont need to use new oil in oil bath air fitler

Wouldnt it been easier to do that when the engine was out of the car?

Anything wrong,no oil on the valvs spring on top of the engine,is dry !!!!

Old engines must be different. I would think I would be see oil on the rockers.

these Chev sixes are reallygood engines if they caref for these live forever if you do the servicing right by the Chev servicing rules thiswas all the Chevy dealer do all the time when these cars was new thiswas my views on these really good Chev sixes as im a Chevy six cylinder fan i reckon these was far better engines as the Chevs will never die as they are really good and tough engines as if you just keep the servicing up on them they live forever these Chev sixes areally good engines this was my point of views

To all of the people glorifying these old cars got a question for you. Dad had a 1948 Chevy like this in 1959 we went from Indianapolis to Champaign Illinois in it.Before we left Dad&I put a leaf spring on it.Somewhere in between Dad put a generator&voltage regulator on it,It was very warm,actually hot....w no air conditioner,I remember how noisy it was,The large backseat not very comfortable,Just curious outside of the aesthetics what is the thing you like about these old cars?,Lack of comfort?,Unreliability?,BTW I thought they were ugly then &now!. Please no johnny come lately that never ridden a few thousand miles in one of these clunkers.

Don't quit your day job

I want to put a 48 front clip on a 49 I lone those front fenders