Making do with what you have

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2012: Making do with what you have
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 03:06 pm:

You have to remove plugs to clean out the passages in your Holley NH. When you're done, you have to replace the plugs. Going through a pile of NH bodies I came across this example of creative passage plugging.


Hinge pin.


Wooden peg.

I would guess this carb was on a car that featured a lot of bent nails and baling wire.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 04:52 pm:

This reminds me of a story that fits the thread topic:

In the '60s when I was in the Navy I spent a year stationed at the Air Base in Naha, Okinawa. There was a young Lieutenant there at the time who had an early '50s Oldsmobile. One day he blew out a freeze plug. He took it to a local mechanic. The fellow got a wooden wine barrel plug off the shelf, whittled on it for a minute, then using a hammer whacked it into the hole with one good solid whack. Then, with the hammer still in one hand, held out the other hand and said, "Two dollar, please".

I left the island about 6 months later and the lieutenant was still driving with the wood plug.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hap Tucker on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 05:48 pm:

Henry,

Blackie or 1915 cut off was purchased in the 1950s by my Dad and it had a wooden plug. And it worked great as long as you kept the radiator filled with water (back then coolant was considered too expensive for the T). We would drain it during the winter and the next spring fill it back up. It would leak at first, but then the plug would swell a little and it would be good for the rest of the driving season. still has wooden plugs. You could tell it was an approved professional fix as the wooden plug had been painted black.

Respectfully submitted,

Hap l9l5 cut off


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob McDonald-Federal Way, Wa. on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 07:01 pm:

Henry and Hap

Thanks for posting that Info. There are many
lurking out there on this forum that love the old T's but don't have the resources to do what most talk about here and would be embarrassed to ask or admit this is what they've done. I call it farm restoration and they have just as much fun or maybe more driving around there town talking and showing there accomplishment. They may,in the future have a 100 point show car or join with the tours. These are the ones we need to assist because they are the future leader of this hobby.

Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Walt Berdan, Bellevue, WA on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 07:41 pm:

The wooden plug solution is one we would have called "field expedient" back when I was in the service. I've always respected folks who could find effective solutions with limited resources, time and money.

Sunday we had a 100 mile (turned out to be 130 mile) speedster rally/endurance run and one of the fellows found all his water running out the petcock about a mile into the run. The spring on the petcock had broken and it wouldn't stay closed. Being a timed event, he didn't have all day so thinking just a bit, he stole a zert fitting from a front kingpin (this is a speedster and we don't lose points for zerts instead of oil cups) and used it in place of the petcock. Filled the radiator and he was ready to go in short order. Now if Mike Conrad will just remember not to grease his radiator all will be good. :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Hal Davis-SE Georgia on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 08:51 pm:

When I was in the Army, it was "We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing."


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bob Brewer - NorCal on Monday, August 13, 2012 - 10:24 pm:

Hal

We had that little saying on the wall of a shop I used to work at, but it had an additional first line:

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful."


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