Model T Broken Bits

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Richard Skinner on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 12:40 pm:

I am a professional Ford Model T specialist in the UK and thought that I'd share some of the horrors that I find when stripping and restoring customer's cars.
Here we have a pair of rear axle bearing sleeves that where real easy to remove!
Rear Sleeves


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Allan Richard Bennett on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 07:03 pm:

Richard, are you really a real Englishman? Did you really mean to say "real easy to remove", or were you being really considerate of your readership and trying really hard to use the vernacular applicable?

This could be really interesting thread. I wish I could contribute some of my broken bits, but I am not able to post pictures without a lot of input from my sons, and it is really hard to tie them down long enough to do so.

Allan from down under.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 07:19 pm:

OK Richard, I'll be the first to ask. How the heck did that happen?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tyrone Thomas - Topeka KS on Friday, July 25, 2014 - 08:56 pm:

They are just worn through from age or carrying a way heavy load. How do the bearings look? Did the bearing eat into the axle tube?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Saturday, July 26, 2014 - 11:45 pm:

That problem is caused by not greasing the bearings. Here's what I found on S/N 904. There was no grease in the grease cups, and no grease on the bearings. The car was "restored" for display only.



Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Larry Smith on Sunday, July 27, 2014 - 11:53 am:

What is that strange looking piece of tubing? Not only that, the shackle is in backwards!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Royce in Georgetown TX on Sunday, July 27, 2014 - 01:35 pm:

Larry,

Just about everything on the car had something wrong with it when it arrived. All the shackles were installed wrong. No grease in any of the bearings. On and on.

What tubing?


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