Model T tool question / information

Topics Last Day Last Week Tree View    Getting Started Formatting Troubleshooting Program Credits    New Messages Keyword Search Contact Moderators Edit Profile Administration
Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2014: Model T tool question / information
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert Poane on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 09:22 pm:

Model T tool question / information: I was reading the Vintage Ford March/April addition. On page 25 and 26 there are a set of Ford tools.

My question is, do all these tools say Ford on them? If I see tools at a garage sale or Hershey etc... will I know they are for a Ford? Just curious.

Some of these tools would come in handy when restoring these old parts, like the 1914 transmission band clamp or Stevens drive shaft sleeve puller, especially the spindle bushing surface grinder and reamer. (Just bought a $100 reamer!.) I always thought Ford tools were the one's you see at shows in the black roll up with tool pockets.

Thanks, Bob


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Brian Mettling on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 09:46 pm:

you'll learn to get an eye for them soon. I never realized how many there are ALL OVER at every swap meet, antique show or garage sale until I got my T last year. At a flea market last week I think I saw a ford wrench on every table. perhaps ebay is a good place to start seeing the tools and getting familiar.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 11:03 pm:


The same tool, made by the same manufacturer, is often found with and without the Ford trademark.

The #2335 wrench, a very common item, usually has the Ford mark, but I've seen a few without it.


Teens T, twenties T, TT, V-8.


Some have it, some don't.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - 11:16 pm:

You weren't very specific. It helps to know what year you wish to put them in. The early tools only had the Ford script on the #27 band wrench.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert Poane on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 07:30 am:

Larry, I wish to put them on brass era, but a model T is a model T when it comes to some things. I am going to keep an eye out for model t tools.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Robert Poane on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 08:49 am:

Larry, I wish to put them on brass era, but a model T is a model T when it comes to some things. I am going to keep an eye out for model t tools.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 08:58 am:

Brass era Model T's varied a lot. You have to do the research. I did an article several years ago which was published in the Vintage Ford. It is pretty much right on, but a lot of the tools I used still have the Ford script on them, and it has been pretty well established, that the early tools, except the band wrench had no Ford script.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Steve Jelf, Parkerfield KS on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 09:01 am:

Larry is on the right track there if you're aiming at authenticity. There were different tools at different times. Look at those #2335 wrenches. There's a big difference, and the tools for 1912 and earlier didn't include a #2335 at all.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Keith Gumbinger, Kenosha, WI on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 01:40 pm:

Larry, Could you please advise which issue of The Vintage Ford that your Tool article was in?

Thanks, Keith


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Seth from NC on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 02:18 pm:

Larry your profile picture is excellent. Lol


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Allan Richard Bennett on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 08:35 pm:

Steve, those adjustable wrenches look great. I would have passed on them if I had seen them at a swap meet, believing them to be later than T production. I have a number of them with the T part number forged across the head of the wrench. Is this a Canadian thing?

I recently found one of English manufacture with the T part number forged into the handle groove and the Ford logo stamped into the head.

Just for interest.

Allan from down under


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By James A. Golden on Thursday, June 12, 2014 - 08:44 pm:

I recently saw a tool with two different 3Z numbers cast in and on opposite sides.

One side had 3Z629 and the other side had 3Z675.

I don't know what it was for or why there were 2 numbers.

There do seem to be many tool variations.


Posting is currently disabled in this topic. Contact your discussion moderator for more information.
Topics Last Day Last Week Tree View    Getting Started Formatting Troubleshooting Program Credits    New Messages Keyword Search Contact Moderators Edit Profile Administration