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Not a huge deal since it occurred pretty close to home when I had a lot of help. The fuel system is very clean (no rust in the tank, rebuilt NH carb etc.). It has been a couple of years but not that many miles since I had the carb out. The tank is full, which may be contributing to the issue (pressu...

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I went out tonight for dinner with the car club and my 22 conked out as I pulled into the parking lot. It has spark and compression so it is a fuel issue. Turns out my NH carb was pouring out gas out. I tapped it and the fuel stopped. Then I could start it and it would run fine but would conk out af...

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I like the one that runs off the fan hub. That would be a simple way to do it and using a rubber drive rather than the belt would be simple. I would need to do some calculations to get the ratio right. The mounting is pretty easy as well. The only difference is I am using the 1926 water outlet/fan h...

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I have a great old tachometer that reads in hundreds of RPMs that I am using on my speedster. A while back I saw a tachometer drive that ran off the fan belt in a picture of an English car, but I can’t find the picture and have never seen another. Have any of you made, used, or seen a belt driven ta...

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If it is still available, I will take it.

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Sent you a message

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Getting ready to paint my brake drums. I would think a high temp paint would be a benefit. Does anyone have a recommendation on a good paint to use?

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I have cleaned up the rear springs and need to paint them. I can’t find any graphite paint up here in Alaska and it would be expensive to ship some up as it is hazmat. What would be a good alternative choice of paint?

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ModelTRanch.com Has the cast brackets that clamp around the axle housing, you have to drill mounting bolt holes and of course add your own cross bar. A length of steel rod is all that is needed. 1046-500 Truss clamping brackets not drilled (set of 2) $66.00[ /b] Put a set on my '12 project open exp...

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As the title says, I am looking for a rear axle brace that will fit on a 26-27 rear end. Let me know if you have one and what you would like for it.

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I am looking for a couple of loose springs for the nine spring rear axle spring pack for a 1926. I need the spring with the holes for the clips and the one above that. One is missing and the other is bent in the set I have.

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I am looking to make a spare tire mount for a 48 spoke Dayton wire wheel. I would like to use a Dayton hubcap to hold the wheel on. Does anyone have a spare hubcap they are willing to part with? It does not matter if it’s left or right hand thread.

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Art,
Thanks for the photos. I sent you a reply to your PM. I will take it and will let you know if I need the eccentric. I might have one and need to check.

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Is there a difference in rear spring heights between years? I am putting the 26 speedster together and am sorting out ride height.

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It looks like the one without the bolt hole is in the best shape. Can you send me a picture of the inside?

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I am looking for a really good 26-27 water outlet/fan mount. I want to mount a fitting for a period Motometer water temp sensor in it. I have a couple of them, but they have a bit too much rust inside for what I need. If I can’t find a good original, I can use one of the brass repros.

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Which Dan and about what? First I heard about the straps being in the wrong place.

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I loosened the rear straps and punched another hole on the windshield straps. When it was in the right place I used a heat gun to gently warm up the back panel of the top. Sadly, we are short of sunny days up here this summer. Looks like it’s in about the right place now.

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Does it look like the top is in the right place in relation to the windshield?

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Hey Dan. It’s a 22 runabout. Here are a couple of shots of it. You can see the flaps on the top. Looking at it, it looks like it’s coming down enough in front. Maybe the rear straps are too tight.

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There are a couple flaps at the front of my top that look like they should attach somehow to the top of the windshield, but I don’t see how. When I drive with the top up, the wind lifts the top a bit and the wind blows over windshield.

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I have a set of Dayton wheels that I am going to use on my 26 speedster. The pins were really worn and there was some wear to the holes. To fix this I made new slightly larger pins and cut the holes to fit. To make sure I cut the holes in the right position, I made a jig that aligned to the center o...

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I drove it to dinner tonight and it ran great. I will do a more precise check on the timing tomorrow, and I still intend to rebuild the coil box, but it’s night and day from where it was. Thanks to everyone for the tips.

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I had a bit of an issue fitting the Anderson, so I fitted a cast iron one that used a roller. I need to check the timing, but it runs better than it did already.

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This is what I have now.

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I got into the car today. I have spark on all plugs. I pulled the plugs and they were fuzzy with soot. I cleaned the plugs and adjusted the carb. The packing nut was too loose and was allowing the needle to thread out and get richer. I pulled the timer and found it was quite worn. The roller was als...

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Thanks guys. I was adjusting the bands after a previous misguided attempt to adjust them by the book. In retrospect, I should have left them alone as it was doing fine. I have been trying to get back to a good adjustment ever since. A miss sounds promising. I had it backfire, which would be consiste...

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I just got my 22 out for the first time this year and I am having an odd problem. It’s running a bit rougher than normal but accelerated ok in low. But when I shift to high it lags and there seems to be a bit of a shudder. I adjusted the bands the other day to get just a touch more bight on the low ...

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Not sure what it is, but it’s not a Dayton for a Model T (I just rebuilt mine).

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I am looking for a good coil box lid for my 1922 . Let me know what you have and and want for it.

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I got the reamer from a company called XKUT, here is there information: Phone: 717-362-4181 Web: www.xkutusa.com Email: xkutusa@outlook.com It is a 1 1/2 inch per foot taper. They make two sizes of this but one is too small in dia. for the T hub and the other (a #6925 in their catalogue) a bit too l...

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I am an archaeologist be trade and was doing some testing on a 1920s homestead on Joint base Elenforf-Richardson up here in Alaska. One of my techs found the end of a steel rod poking straight up beside a buried log cabin wall. I took one look at the inch or two sticking out of the ground and said “...

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I have a set of Dayton 48 spoke pin drive wheels but the tapers in the rear hubs were bad. I want to use the wheels on my 26 speedster so I decided to make some new hubs. I have a Grizzly lathe and Precision Mathiews mill and enjoy making things. I found some inexpensive 4130 bar and plate that I ha...

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Good lord, no I didn’t know that! It never dawned on me that it would be anything but a water passage. A good idea wasted. No worries, I will come up with something else. Maybe make a custom top tube with a fitting for the sensor.

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The screws were what I had on hand for the photos. No way they go on the car.

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I got a really nice original Boyce Motometer water temp gauge to go in the dash on my speedster project. The sensor on these is different than modern water temp sensors in that they are not water tight. They had a special sensor mount that they went in. I wanted to make a mount to attach it to the i...

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I did talk with Kevin and he was very helpful. As I recall, this is not a rim he normally makes. I got caught up some other tasks and let this slip for a while, I should talk with him again.

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Sadly, there are very few nice sets of original rims for Dayton wire wheels. I have 5 original wheels and a set of hubs, but the nipples are stuck on the spokes, and some of the rims are in poor condition. I have rebuilt the front hubs and am making new rear ones. I want to put new rims and spokes o...

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Man you are not kidding! What a pain.

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These are new rims and spokes from Vintage Rims Australia for a set of 48 spoke Dayton wire wheels. The price is good, but I don’t know what the import Tariff issues are. There is a US-Australia import agreement but looking at the website gets confusing really fast.

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I am looking at getting a set of rims from Australia. Does anyone have experience doing this? What was the import / duty process like?

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I will take that. I will send you a pm.

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Let me get this straight. The fitting shown goes in a hole in the top hose and provides a place for the capillary “bulb” to go, correct? How does the fitting seal? How is it held in place? I just got one of this type of Boyce Motometer gauge and am looking at how to mount the sensor. I have a Rajo B...

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I started the dash a while back and it’s been a fun project for when I don’t have time or energy for working on big things. It has a Waltham 8 day car clock, a Stewart speedo, an American Bosh ignition, a vintage Victometer (Jos. W. jones) tach that reads to 3,500 RPM, an on/off ignition switch, an ...

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I am using a thin birch ply for strength overlaid with thin strips of mahogany. I have a pile of old mahogany that was used for wainscoting. It’s not the lightest way to build it, but it will be strong.

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I got my 22 from a friend in Nevada, but it was in storage in California. I took it to Tacoma and had it shipped to Alaska. It was not running at the time so I needed some help getting it on and off the trailers. A new battery, an oil change, and some new gas and I had it running enough to drive it ...

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I have the body frame done but it’s not skinned yet. It is going to use wider strips (3-4 inches wide). I had to work out some mechanical things before finishing the body, but I am getting back to it. Here are a couple of shots of the body frame.

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Thanks for posting the picture, I should have done that. It’s an old stage station on the route over San Marcos Pass. One of my ancestors worked at one of the other stations (Cold Spring Tavern) on that route during the stagecoach days.

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I got caught by a guy offering to sell me a hinge I posted a WTB for on this forum. He started acting hinky and asked me to send him a picture of the check. I looked up his address and it’s an apartment building in Brooklyn. I discovered that he has been scamming people on other forums. Fortunately,...

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Mattie’s tavern is still in Los Olivos. It’s part of a much fancier complex now in the California wine country. I like the way it looked back then better. I grew up in Santa Barbara and my uncle lived in Los Olivis when I was little.

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Yeah, they came out ok. I am waiting for slitting saw for the mill and the black oxide solution to finish them up. This has been a really long running project (I started it back in grad school 20 years or so ago and I am looking forward to getting it done. It’s going to be a mahogany skiff body car ...

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I am using model A style steering ends on my 26 speedster project, but needed to get some more clearance between the tie-rod and the radius rods. The most elegant way to do it was use an offset tie-rod end. I didn’t find what I wanted so I made them out of a bar of 4130. They use the standard model ...

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I sent you an email Ken.

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Thanks Mike

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Thanks Ken, send me a message with the price. If I can’t find a single, buying a pair might be the way to go.

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I have seen that done before.

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The seats are entirely custom and I will be doing the upholstery myself using traditional methods. In part this is because I live in Alaska so finding someone to do it would be tough. But, the other part is because I want to do it myself (as I have done with the rest of the car). I think there would...

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Leather would be nice, but, the T was an economy car, so the fake leather is more appropriate.

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Mark, it’s for a speedster so I can make the door fit the hinge. I am making a skiff body car with a body that looks like a wooden boat. I have been working on mechanicals, but am going to get back to working on the body.

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I am going to start work on the seats for my speedster. I want to use a period style synthetic leather, but I am not sure what would be the best choice for durability and authenticity. What have people used?

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I am looking for a door hinge to go on my speedster. Looking at T door hinges, I think the straight one piece hinge from the 25 roadster would work (see picture below) (feel free to let me know if I have identified the hinge year/model incorrectly). I would like one that works well, is not ratted ou...

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Thanks Craig,
I fit a new thrust bushing to take up some of the fore and aft slack and reamed the old bushings in the idler gear to fit the new (slightly larger dia.) idler shaft. I still need to make a new pilot bushing for between the input and output shaft. Going to work on that tomorrow.

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I have been working for years (decades actually) on my 26 speedster. I am using a heavily modified model A steering box as a substitute for one of the period available racing boxes. I made a new, longer, custom steering column, with custom controls and a new steering box mount. In the process, I cha...

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I am working on my Muncie 3 speed and making good progress. I got a brand new idler shaft from Dan Mceachern and a really nice input and output shaft and a bunch of small parts from Karl Von Neumann. The new input and output shafts a fractionally better than my old ones. The old idler shaft was worn...

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Let me know what you would like for the input and output shafts and the sliding gear.

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Eureka!! Now I understand about zeroing in on the back side! Took me a bit (and some explaining from Scott Conger) to think it through. I have cut tapers before, but this is the first time I have used a male taper to cut a female matching taper. It’s fun to learn something new, especially something ...

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I would like to see that.

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RecklessKelly wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 03, 2024 8:19 am
Cut the taper on a scrap piece of aluminum and blue it up. Press into the mating part and see if the witness matches.

That is a good plan.

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Yes, the axle will fit through the spindle. But, if I set the angle of the compound rest to the taper with the axle sticking through the spindle, the minor diameter of the taper will be furthest from the chuck. If I did it this way, I would have to chuck the hub with the flange held by the chuck and...

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Thanks, I am using 4130, not 4140. I got a good deal on it and it should do fine.

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Is that for setting a taper attachment? If it is, I don’t have one. I cut tapers with the compound rest.

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How would that help?

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Yep, but the reamer would make a better finish. Also, I would need to cut the axle off (it’s too long to go between centers) to fit it in the same way as the hub taper.

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I am making some new hubs for my Dayton wheels. I have been reading the old posts on the wire discussing the correct taper and there does not appear to be consensus. The original drawing I saw says the axles use a 1-1/2 inch per foot taper. This works out to a 7.15 included angle. I can cut the tape...

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Thanks Craig, that’s what I was thinking. I can order some bushing material and fit it properly. I am thinking of replacing the bushings in the idler gear as well while I have it all apart. They are a bit worn on the ends so the gear is rubbing on the case instead of the bronze. This one is in prett...

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I have the Muncie apart and am looking at replacing some bushings. There is a bronze pilot bushing in the input shaft that the end of the output shaft rides in. As it is now, the bronze pilot bushing is a slip fit in the input shaft. So, the outside of the bushing can turn in the hole in the input s...

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Thanks Craig. I am going with the open bearings. I know it will leak a bit since the Muncie has no seals, but, it’s the way they were and, you need to get oil past the input bearing to oil the pilot bearing in the input shaft.

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Well that’s interesting, I had no idea they were available. I will send you an email.

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I have worked on a lot of old cars and equipment, but this is the first prewar American thing that I have ever run across with metric dimensions (bearings and shafts). I am replacing some bushings and the idler shaft (the original is worn). I have not been able to find a hardened 22 mm shaft, so I a...

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I opened up the muncie auxiliary transmission that is going on my 26 speedster to clean everything out and check the bearings and bushings. When I went to measure the shafts they were .865, which is very odd and just under 22mm (.8661). Today I went to the bearing shop to replace the two main bearin...

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Allan,
That has been done on one of my original hubs, if making a new hub does not work, I will give that a try. I think with some pins and some stud and bearing mount. That would work fine.

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Very cool, but not what I am after.

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ModelTSpeedster wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 18, 2024 10:34 am
Try contacting Jack Putnam. I bought one of his newly machined Dayton pin drive rear hubs and it was perfect.

I don’t think they are still available. Jack offered me some raw castings, but I would still have to do the machining.

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Graig, the bore was monkeyed with in an attempt to “restore” it and is not save-able without welding and then I would have to do the machining anyway. I would rather start from scratch and have a hub I know is good.

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I have an original set of Dayton wheels and hubs but one of the rear hubs has a bad bore and keyway. I have looked for another, but so far no luck. I am getting ready to machine a new hub, which is work, but not really hard. The challenging part for me is broaching the keyway in the hub. I would nee...

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If push comes to shove, I could make bands. But, I understand the parts will be available once things get back to normal for the folks who make Rocky Mountain.

I am not sure those bands are for Rocky
Mountains. They have a bracket I don’t see on the ones I have.

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Sorry I did not make it clear. I am using custom brackets that support the Rocky Mountain brakes and drop the axle. So different brackets are not an issue for me. I just need the right bands.

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I have a new complete set of Rocky Mountain brakes for a small drum car, but I need a set for my 26 speedster. I checked with Chaffin’s, who normally carry the bands separately, and they are not available at the moment. I was planning to keep the parts for the small drum as spares for my 22 that has...

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Fall is here in Alaska, so the 22 is tucked in the garage and I am working on the 26 speedster. Among other things, I have been making the parts and doing the modifications to move the handbrake back and outside the body. This involves making new brackets and arms to connect the remote hand brake se...

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Thanks. Since I am posting pictures of modifications, here are some shots of the modified timing and throttle fixture I made for the custom steering column. I am using a modified Ross A steering box (which is similar to aftermarket boxes sold in period for racing) but did not want to use the A colum...

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I could not find the bolts I needed so I cut down long shank 3/4 inch cap screws to the correct overall length, turned them down to closely fit the axle and brackets, then cut threads on the ends. They came out well. I made the radius rods, which bolt to the side of the bracket and but up against th...

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Dan McEachern wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 30, 2024 1:45 pm
How much ground clearance do you have with the front crossmember and the Laurel brackets- its gonna be pretty low.

Yeah, it’s going to be low. Speed bumps won’t be my friend…

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Hi Morgan, Nice work, is the bolts on the radius rods going to allow for caster adjustment? Craig. I machined caster into the Laurel style brackets when I made them (7 degrees if I recall correctly). Here is a couple of pictures of them in the making. I machined them out of blocks of 1018. By the w...

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Thanks for the tips. The drag link is parallel to and close to inline with the radius rod. Both the radius rods and the drag link are pretty long, which should help with bump steer. I will index the A steering arms and lock them in mechanically and with lock tight to the spindles to keep them from t...

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I have abandoned the stock front end wishbone for my 26 speedster and gone with radius arms between the lowering brackets and the frame (see the attached photos for some shots of work in progress). I have a ball joint at the frame but the connection to the drop brackets is solid. This is consistent ...

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Karl,
I will keep that in mind.

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I am looking for a good parking brake arm (the one opposite the hand brake lever) for my 26. I have attached a couple of pictures of what I am after. The large hole is 3/4 inch dia. and it is held on by one pin. If you have one in good shape you would be willing to part with (particularly with holes...

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Thanks for the tips.

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I am getting close to the point where the rear axle is ready to go in so I am looking at other parts that need to be in place. I have a nice Muncie that I am using in this car. I have the proper connectors and the support, but I don’t have the hardware for mounting the support. The manual shows a co...

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Nice tools. The spiral reamer is definitely the way to do it. I ordered an 8 flute reamer, which should have less chance of snagging than a 4 scraper adjustable one. If that does not work, I will turn one from bar, fit it to the tube and shaft, then cut the grease groove. Time consuming, but cheaper...

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