What is a hogshead in a Model T?
No, not the head on a hog.
The hogshead is just a term given to the heavy casting which serves as the transmission cover. The foot pedals are fastened to it and it has an access panel for servicing the transmission bands.
The transmission cover. Consider the bell housing on a regular car, It looks quite similar to a bell housing, its the top half. It has the square inspection cover on top thru which you view and change the bands
Oh. Thank You.
Hog's head
Garrett,
In older times the term referred to a barrel. I've never thought about it until you asked this but I assume the name got attached to a "T" transmission cover because it looks sort of like half a barrel. Its an interesting question.
Steve
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The reason it's called a hog's head or hogshead is it resembles the head of a hog or pig:
I heard a quote years ago when we switched from the old imperial style of measurements to the metric system, and I smile at its tongue in cheek meaning all the time
I gets fifty rods to the hogs head and thats the ways I likes it
"A hogshead is a large cask of liquid (or, less often, of a food commodity). More specifically, it refers to a specified volume, measured in either Imperial units or U.S. customary units, primarily applied to alcoholic beverages such as wine, ale, or cider..." courtesy of Wikipedia
LOL Ed. A hogshead is what I have to take off the Fordor to stop the *&^%$%^&*(*&^&* LEAKS!
I HOPE it's not going to be pig.......
A pig......damn NO EDITING HERE.......
So a Hogshead when removed from a T and stripped becomes a hogs helmet??