How about your least favourite photo? I will start with when I snapped a conrod and it decided to see the outside of the engine block rather than its warm and cosy inside. That was the end of C584178. The good thing was I managed to get hold of a block very close to replace it C584153 which is still in that particular car today...Dave C.

So . .that brings me to the question:

How 'different' is the hardness, strength and durability of the 'regular' J-B Weld from the 4-minute 'J-B Kwik' material?

P.S. 'Mikey' bought that Canadian block at Hershey and says he's gonna 'patch it' - I jus' want to make sure I recommend what's best for him -

I LOVE 'Mikey' - He's so smart!!

David,
Calling that your least favourite picture is a matter of perspective. I found a block with almost identical damage in exactly the same place, and I thought I was blessed with good fortune. I had the God of all welders braze in a steel patch piece in the skirt and another in the cylinder wall. When I got it home I primed the patched area, chucked a handful of sawdust onto the wet primer and left it to dry. Result is a perfect spare if I ever explode B597 in the chocolate van.It is an early 13 block, with the lip at the back, and is still standard in the bore.
I guess my perspective would be different if I had done the damage!

Allan from down under

Here's one of my least favourite.




Regards
Colin

Since I stared the favourite picture thread, this one would never had made it. Bad memories all round. after the rollover of trailer with Tudor on board on the way to a National Rally 2005.

Three piece transmission drum.
Norm

Not prostrate from being run over. Just rodding you know.

Dan,

I'm about to head to the garage and do the same thing!.
Finish up that bearing adjustment.

Larry

I agree with you Allan. If I found a block in 1909-early 1913 range, with a chunk gone from the side, I'd try to fix it too. I certainly hope no one ever scraps a rare block like that. I have seen some really bad looking things like that fixed by a good welder.

My 2nd T, a '23 Touring in the buyers trailer headed north. I've since replaced it with (what else ?), another '23 Touring.

Taken soon after our friend, Tom Craft, passed away. His AACA senior winning '15 roadster inspired me to buy my touring, which I picked up while he was in the hospital. We never expected him to pass away from his illness. His marker can be seen in the background, and although difficult to make out, there's a picture of him and his T on the side facing the street.

I leave a wooden nickle from Hershey every year for him.

Craig

This caused the big noise

Frank - what is that ???

David,

I think it's the remains of a shattered drum.....

Not pretty.

Larry

The broken parts do make a good conversation piece when I have them on display, and the rebuild has given me a much more reliable powerplant.

Not a good day for my 26 T

That was a Model T bronze transmission bushing that howled like a banshee ! Our son Bill was driving it that day and had just put 48.6 horsepower to the rear wheels with it. Oh yes and its Model T crank shaft was also broken at the time. Split, but not in two pieces. Oh and we also had .016" front and back movement in the crank but that was o.k. because we had no magneto and were running one of those very fine and reliable distributors everyone loves. Needless to say, this picture was taken during the rebuilding exercises.

No Bill didn't break it, he was just there when it happened. We believe that it had already happened over time and manifested its self that day. The car used to have a horrid lope that made a statement about the cam shaft being radical. Guess what. the crank pins were wobbly and the cam could go all over the place about five degrees ahead at times and five retarded at times. Lots of fun to drive, but now it is more sedate.


end play on the T crank






Three new gears and correct pinning resolved the issue.

Oh my..shot all the way thru..

Here's a few that are hard to forget.

Mine seems pretty minor compared to some of these here. I've been pretty fortunate I guess. This happened when a semi passed me going the opposite direction with a cross wind.

Hal.....did that disk brake have everyt.......something to do with that failure?

The second one appears to have survived a rollover.......sort of.......

My 15 speedster leaving for France sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!!!

My 15 speedster leaving for France sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!!!

Brass era windshields are not designed for 70 mph.

Hal, could you let us know the circumstances of that wheel failure Looks like it has hit something solid while going sideways.

This picture represents one of my pet peeves. Someone who chops down and destroys a Model T body trying to create a hotrod and, somewhere along the line, loses interest and quits, after it is too late to salvage anything of value.

My plea is, if you're going to destroy a vintage body of a historic car, have the discipline to see it through and, at least, wind up with a decent creation that you and other rodders, can be proud of, instead of an eyesore that is an embarassment, that represents your propensity for quitting. Jim Patrick

PS. I came across this picture while checking out Model T items for sale on ebay and remembered this thread. It is currently for sale on ebay. Jim Patrick

Jim, a lot of guys consider that look finished. They are going for the down and dirty, just done enough to race look from back in the day. It's pretty popular now and I think much more popular than it ever was in the past.

Craig

Craig (A), The cause of Ken's roll over was never determined, at least it was not published. There's no doubt that the disc brakes will easily lock up the rear wheels. If that RF perch broke before the roll over, control would have been difficult.

Is there any way to check for cracks in a hidden location like that without removing the perch?

rdr
Reno for now

That photo shows aftermarket shocks which also serve as perches. In other words, that picture does not show stock Ford perches.

Would a stock Ford perch break like that (or break at all)?

Erik, Here are a few more pictures.

I know this is naught but trivial, but it really did bum me out, and it was my own bloody fault to boot!

Remember when I said there was a leak coming from the carb's drain cock? Not so, there was a very small hole in the bowl in that bend right betwixt the bowl nut and the drain cock. That's why it was leaking. I now feel like an even bigger idiot!

Thanks to Steve Boothroyd my car's back in running form again (if I don't screw it up again).

Erik,
I also wonder if the front axle would have folded like that if the wishbone had been under the axle instead of over it.

The aftermarket perches had to be a contributing factor.

???

Larry

Here is another "nightmare":

A twopiece valve decided to decapitate itself and the head went on the piston (aluminium which are undamaged) and then the hole in the head and a lot of water out the exhaustpipe.
And then this:

Like CharlieB and James, my picture is of one I let get away. Every time a sell a T, I start to doubt that I'm ever going to achieve my goal of owning every Model T in existence.

This was a beautiful and fun car, and I miss it.

Tom C,
I do know the feeling. Many of my friends like to "experience" a different car every several years. Other than my desire to be independently wealthy and have a sizable museum full of cars I want, I have a small list of types of antique cars that I want to work for and keep for the rest of my life. I have actually, at some point, had most of them. But family needs have always come up and forced me to not keep them.
This being a model T site, I shall limit the posting to a few of my favorite Ts. These are some of my favorite photos, as well as heart wrenching least favorites.

Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2

P.S. I see a couple good examples of why I occasionally say to check the valves and don't run the old two-piece valves.