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By David Kriegel on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 03:59 pm:I have a new 1924 2 dr reportedly restored in 1980 Body frame engine look good. I have a prior post on correcting engine drag on starting and non starting
What I need now is advice on the best manuals to buy for a good shade tree mechanic to adjust tighten luble and put this engine tranny back to like new condition
One of the best manuas I read was the VW manual for the complete idiot I need something like this with pictures showing all adjustment points for brakes, clutch etc and specs on adjustments and lube
i have 1919 and 1922 owners manual and the Ford complete restoration guide which are helpful but I need more step by step guides with pictures. Any suggestions, appreciated or if you have extra manuals to sell please let me know
By Harvey Decker on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 04:44 pm:Hello David
The Model T Ford 1909-1927 factory repair service manual would be a big help. Also, a blow-up of both a lube chart and a wiring diagram, I've found to be very helpful. These can be acquired from all the venders and off of e-bay.
Harvey ...
By David Kriegel on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 - 07:48 pm:Thanks Harvey I ordered one off Amazon tonight !
By DaGunny on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 06:32 pm:The absolute best available selection is the Digital Library I put together. Over 600 manuals digitized and printable and zoomable. Has both service manuals, service bulletins (U.S. and Canada). It's $99.
http://www.sportproducts.org/MT%20International/MTI%20DVD-CD.html
A bargain for all the info. All proceeds go to the MTFCI - nothing to me so I can broker it. 3 DVD's and tons of reading. Computer based only. Your local club should get one for members to use.
By James A. Golden on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 02:42 pm:Bruce McCalley was at Hershey (located at James "Gator" Gould's space, C4Q 38-39) and I bought his Model T Ford Comprehensive Encyclopedia CD, with a Model T Parts Catalog Bonus CD included for $50.00 total. These CDs have a total almost 4,000 pages of old Ford data.
Add them to the CD set that Gunny put together and you have about everything you might want to know about a Model T Ford and the earlier cars.
One CD can hold about as much data as a whole set of old encyclopedias and how that can be done is pure magic.
By James A. Golden on Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 06:13 pm:Bruce suggested that the CDs should be copied to a hard drive to speed up the access time. That took a little over 4 hours to copy the 9 files, due to the amount of data available.
A note of interest: I could have copied the files to a set of floppy disks and made a mini-disk encyclopedia set, but that effort would have required almost 500 disks. That does provide an idea and overview of the quanity of data that Bruce has collected and logged.
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