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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Larry, Could you please advise which issue of The Vintage Ford that your Tool article was in?
Thanks, Keith
Larry your profile picture is excellent. Lol
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
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.