Model T Front Plate Installation, With Pictures

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kohnke Rebabbitting on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 07:52 pm:

Just got done.




Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Husted on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 08:10 pm:

You need a centering tool that Texas T sells to center the plate


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 08:48 pm:

Mike, I think that's what you see in the last two pictures, but I'm guessing it's one Herm made himself.

That new timing gear sure is a pretty thing.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ed in California on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 08:49 pm:

Mike, That is what is in the last 3 pictures.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ed in California on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 08:49 pm:

Almost beat your post again Steve! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jack Daron - Brownsburg IN on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 09:29 pm:

Very nice work Herm.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kerry van Ekeren (Australia) on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 10:03 pm:

Very nice Herm, I'm assuming you have checked the generator gear mesh before sealing and bolting?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kohnke Rebabbitting on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 11:08 pm:

I never have at this point Kerry, only when I put on the Generator, and I have never had to adjust.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Craig Anderson, central Wisconsin on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 11:08 pm:

I can't imagine how you can do anything about the generator mesh as long as the cam and crank gears are in proper mesh.
If the generator gear mesh is a bit tight you gasket the generator bracket to make it right.
As for the centering tool.......why BUY it when you can make it?....... :-)

Nice work Herm........you couldn't give me anything but a bronze camshaft gear.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kohnke Rebabbitting on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 11:32 pm:

Yup, me also Craig.

I made that centering tool when I was about 19. I took the pattern from a picture in the FORD Service.

Years later I found two, and the originals did not fit as good as mine, I was real disappointed about that, and I sold them.

Mine I made to a fist tap to seat it on the O.D. and the center was the last thing to cut, and I made it .002 thousandths to big a hole for the cam, so I took it out a little further, and put in a thin wall bronze bushing, and cut to a slip fit over the cam, No drag, and no movement.

That was a mistake that worked out, one of very few.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Hatch on Friday, July 19, 2013 - 03:04 pm:

Herm: You are getting better, the only A stuff I can see in these pictures is the KRW tool tray. :-) Well, may be the thing the gasket shellac bottle is sitting too! :-) Nice work. Dan


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Robison on Friday, July 19, 2013 - 04:16 pm:

Herm: Is the Cam Lock/retaining nut taller than the timer rotor stop/step on the Cam?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Kohnke Rebabbitting on Friday, July 19, 2013 - 10:25 pm:

Yes, about .030 thousandths, and it normal comes out that way when I use a Stipe cam, Dan's gear.

You could fix the nut height by shorting the nut, or thin the bronze gear in the center, but by doing that you would be making the seal area to low.

If that area needs adjustment, I have always used thin walled hardened washers for it to be even, or about .005 to .010 thousandths above.

This engine gets a Dist., so a gear will be going on.

I measure from the timer base to the center of the gear, and from the Dist. plate contact to the center of the gear, and make sure they center.


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