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Yes, there was real fear of what Americans whose parents or grandparents came from Japan might do. In those days before "development" wiped them away there were a lot of issei and nisei farmers in the Palos Verdes Peninsula near where we lived. My mom dreamed that some of them had wired bombs to he...

I just spent an hour getting pictures ready to post, then my browser crashed and wiped out all my work. I quit. Maybe I'll finish the job tomorrow.

It still steams me to think of Manzanar and places like it. Was it racist? You bet. I went to school with kids who spent the war in those camps, and they're just as American as anybody else.

If you go the re-core route to "preserve the original appearance" you are going to have to get the core from Brassworks. [/size] I didn't ask where my core came from, so that may be true. Or maybe it's true for round tubes. My car being strictly for go and not for show, I went with flat tubes. So i...

The simple, brief answer is supply & demand. You didn't ask, but I'll opine anyway. For a brass era car, if the tank and attachments are fixable/usable I would get a recore. I did that because it preserves the original appearance and saves a few hundred dollars. I've also seen a few forum posts abo...

Getting a Model T at a young age is a blessing, and getting it in Clark County is even better. There are some great places to explore nearby, and some swell Model T roads. It may seem that the age when it will be legal for you to drive is a long way off, but it will be here before you know it. Ther...

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IMG_6901 copy.JPG Speaking of Twenty Mule Team, this is what I use to wash up before dinner. Rosemary DeCamp would be pleased. The views of Death Valley take me back to Thanksgiving weekend in 1953 when we visited Scotty's Castle. I was twelve and my little brother was seven. We saw Scotty in front...

I think he likes it.

So we're talking about one of these. I would start at TSC, Orscheln, Fleet & Farm, etc. Whatever your local farm supply is. Maybe Napa, O'Reilly, etc., but I doubt it. You may have to order online. Google glass bowl fuel filter.

Glass globe? Is that something on a Model T?

I spent most of the day on the new top socket. Being a clumsy oaf, I took it verrrrry slowww so as to not mess it up. I should have it assembled and ready to paint tomorrow.

I'm still using New Day timers because they work well enough to satisfy me and can be had cheap at swap meets. I don't believe they wear out any faster than other mechanical timers, and probably last longer than some. I believe Dean has used the E-timer on some of his trips and likes it.

Not too soon at all.

When it's freezing out I remember those summer after-dinner country drives and look forward to the return of friendly weather.

All the T work I got done today was cleaning up the hardware for the new top socket. Maybe I can get the thing assembled tomorrow.

THE ONE WHO DRIVES WHEN HE'S BEEN DRINKING DEPENDS ON YOU TO DO HIS THINKING BURMA SHAVE So say the signs as you approach Seligman from the east on old 66. One from the early fifties I remember near Wrightwood said TO KISS A FACE THAT'S LIKE A CACTUS TAKES MORE NERVE THAN IT DOES PRACTICE BURMA SHA...

I need this 5/16" rivet. Anybody know a source, or will I have to make it?

The problem with using the hand brake to slow the car is you are removing the engine to slow you down... [/size] Aren't you removing the engine braking every time you pull back the handle or step on the low for pedal for neutral when you stop? Sure, use engine braking as long as you can. But at the...

...I would think that one of our vintage tire companies would be importing them...

As these tires are a new product, it may be that US tire dealers don't know about them.

The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (1974-1982) featured many familiar voices from radio's Golden Age. Now, of course, you can listen to all 1399 episodes online. 905295_original.jpg I think it was 1981 when I was in New York and called the listed number with a question about the show. Expecting to hear ...

I gather we're talking about a linkage connecting the rear brakes to the foot brake pedal. I haven't tried it, but I do often use the hand brake lever to help lout the foot brake. I haven't detected any negative effects. I think it probably makes the foot brake lining last longer. I plan to install...

Then came lots and lots of filing.

In the end I got a joint I'm calling good enough. An application of primer should fill the pits.

Today I got back to work on my new top socket. IMG_4614 copy.JPG Using body solder is not one of my skills, at least not yet, so this took more time and solder than it should have. Recently I had the socket come loose from the base because I applied too much heat, so the first step was to reattach ...

There were a lot of TV shows that began on radio. Along with the ones Wayne mentioned, a few I recall are Our Miss Brooks , Smilin' Ed's Gang , Roy Rogers , Gene Autry , My Friend Irma , The Life of Riley , Sky King , Father Knows Best , The Challenge of the Yukon (Sergeant Preston), The Adventures...

The difference between the south rim and the north rim averages about 1200 feet. The highest point on the south rim, Grandview Point, is at 7400 feet. Imperial Point, on the north rim, is at 8800 feet. This is why the south rim vegetation is dominated by junipers and piñon pines, and the north rim ...

Rubber deteriorates with age. Yes, I know the fifty-year-old tires on your car are fine. Congratulations. Enjoy. After my experience with those NOS NZ Firestones I will always buy new tires, even if they're shoddy ones from Vietnam, or maybe these Blockleys. No more old rubber for me.

Another source to check: Jim Dix, Big Flats Rivet Co.

I prefer original for most things, but for this I'll go with John Regan's FP replacement every time.

"What are all those old Fords doing here?"

...think about your reasoning on the oil holes being on top.

I was thinking of the oiler holes, not the shackle oil holes. Yes, those should be on the bottom. I guess I'd better check that and reorient the oilers that need it.

I second Rich's comment. West is a wonderful photographer as well as a topnotch editor.

https://www.mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9752

I install the shackles with twist oilers whichever way puts the oil holes on top. Sometimes it's "correct" and sometimes it isn't.

What wonderful stuff! I love this.

When I hear Alabama Hills I think early TV, like The Lone Ranger.

I assume "beaded edge" must mean clincher. It looks like a clincher rim in the photos.

I think I understand most of what I see there, but what's the story on the copper tubes coming out of the firewall?

...can't get the main jet out...

Try the heat wrench. Turn the body red and let it cool.

Now, George...

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Modernizing with an improved car. That's new, isn't it?

I have a brass (nickel plated) rim I would like to repair for my '15.

Why? 1915 rims are supposed to be brass, not nickel. You can buy brand new ones.

It's great having somebody nearby to help out. I bet John will get you going PDQ.

For most parts blasting is fine. For many parts a power wire brush is also good. These will remove rust and old paint. There are also chemical rust removers like molasses and Evaporust, but they won't remove the old paint. A word of caution: don't blast a complete assembly (like a carburetor or a r...

The Ford puller is 4006, 1936X, 3Z-611, or 5Z-326 depending on when it was made.

One of my favorite national parks. I love that place. Fifty years ago Cortez looked like it would be a great place to live. Unfortunately it seems a lot of other people thought so too. Now it's too "developed" to suit me.

Shorty was a reluctant rider at first. Now whenever a T starts up she's ready to go.

No, not Hayesville. Hays is a different town (home of Bob Dole). Jerry is boss of the FB page Model T Ford Owners. I expect you can contact him there, or just enter Jerome Hoffman in FB search.

Found on F B this morning:

I just called Susie to be sure it's true. Yes!

The caption didn't indicate which direction the photographer was facing...

The shadows make it obvious that the view is looking east.

I would suggest that it be spun in a lathe to see if it runs true...

Good idea. I will check it out.

Uh-oh. I don't like that.

I think I'll get one of Dave Nolting's new drums. It won't be cheap, but it will be less worrisome than an old drum.

Today I continued the dismantlement. IMG_4600.JPG The old hub plate tool is still handy. IMG_4601 copy.JPG Sometimes you're lucky and things line up just right. IMG_4602 copy.JPG Fishing out the clutch disks was easy enough. IMG_4603.JPG The Ford clutch puller was adequate for the job this time. IM...

One of the former students at McPherson is Seamus, who now works at the Stahl collection and received last year's Yumori Award.

The photos make me want to get up and go, but that shot of the switchbacks is especially wonderful.

Got it.

"Give me something to stand on and a long enough lever, and I can move the earth."

I've done this before, but maybe I've slipped a cog. Seems like this thing doesn't want to budge. Am I forgetting something?

Very nice. I would reset the timing right away. It doesn't take long.

Dave, if that's a 120 you can still buy film for it. If it's one of the larger sizes (116, 122, 124), it's just a relic. When I was in high school I used all those sizes, but that was sixty years ago.

This is the correct type of shackle for 1926, but you should find better ones than this.

The time study in the service manual says it should take 38 minutes to pull the engine. Ha! IMG_4597 copy.JPG Anyway, I finally got it out today. The car has been waiting for me to get to it since it came home on a trailer last summer. IMG_4598.JPG I drained the oil (most of it) before I pulled the...

It's been almost fifty years since I went up Elephant Hill in my Jeep wagon, so my memory of it may not be reliable, but I think it would be OK in a T with a Ruckstell.

I would put some kind of fan on the outside end to suck the exhaust outside.

The Shadow Knows - all this ! [/size] The Shadow, mysterious figure who aids the forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town. Years ago in the Orient, Cranston learned a strange and mysterious secret — the hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so they cannot s...

I wonder if anybody has ever done Elephant Hill and the Silver Stair in a Model T.

This is not new, but I think it's still pretty current.

http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG99.html

A little more about Model T shopping: http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG98.html

Great stuff. I want to get back to Canyonlands in a Model T.

This may lot be the source of the problem, but you may as well eliminate the possibility.

http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG97.html

Yes, the pin holding the U-joint on the DS is farther back, behind the ball. As Wayne said, it has nothing to do with separating the U-joint from the transmission. That should just slide right out.

I heard it from the best possible source that the adjustable version is for people who feel that they should have something to adjust.

I listened to all the shows Dick mentioned, and more, of course. I was a devoted follower of Tom Mix , The Cisco Kid , Bobby Benson of the B—B , Roy Rogers , and The Lone Ranger . After the war the movie studios used to send cowboy actors out to make personal appearances, so when I was in first gra...

I believe you are working with reproduction top bows.

That wouldn't surprise me. I'm pretty sure this is a 1970's 1915.

Does your assembly have an inner sleeve as well as the seamed sleeve?

No, it's just base and tube, with nothing inside the tube.

The epoxy filler may be a good idea. I'll look into that. IMG_4594 copy.JPG Today's work on this project was attaching the new socket to the base. I slathered flux on the inside of the socket, and on the base stub that fits inside, lined up the two parts, dropped a coiled few inches of solder down ...

Mack, I would wrap the wood in three layers of duct tape and blast the metal. Evaporust probably wouldn't hurt the wood, but enough of it to dip a TT wheel would be ungodly expensive.

...they offered it to me for $40 including tax.

That is a great price. Evaporust is good stuff, but normally expensive.

I consider it a wonderful stroke of luck that I was born into a world that still had real radio. Today we can get a little taste of it through old recordings, but to really know it you had to be there. Don McNeill's Breakfast Club , heard locally on KECA, came to us over the Blue Network from Chica...

IMG_4577 copy.JPG As Allan suggested, I wire brushed the paint off the joint. It looked like the parts were put together with body solder, not welded or brazed. IMG_4593 copy.JPG So today I applied enough heat to melt out the solder and the parts came apart easily. Attaching the new socket to the b...

... I got some gas and went driving...

That's what they're for.

If you google MTFCA: AC brakes I think you will find previous posts describing how to set them up with a cable linkage.

If you don't find an email address for Larry Sidmore you could send him a letter with your questions and invite him to reply by email.

Very nice! It's great that the car starts so easily.
A couple of things I noticed:

1 Don't "spin" the crank when starting. http://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG101.html

2 Advance the timing (pull the lever down) after the car starts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbp6B4u6kPc

Richard Baughman makes the linkages for AC brakes.

Some of the following are dealers in new parts but have a lot of used parts not listed in their catalogues. You have to ask. Others sell only old stuff. Model T Haven, KS (620) 365-6709 modelthaven@nautilus.net Lang’s, MA (978) 297-1919 www.modeltford.com Bob’s, IL (815) 633-7244 ModelT2001@comcast...

Oh, boy. I need to get back there.

Somehow I missed this. I hate to see this loss to the Model T world, but I understand. I'm sorry there was nobody to carry it on.

About the time I got to school, the rocker panel heat duct was blowing warm air !! [/size] For a car made where it gets as cold as Germany, they sure have a miserable excuse for heat. Even if you install the J.C. Whitney blower, it takes a long drive to warm up before you get where you're going. :D

...grandparent's peach ranch in Modesto... [/size] Here we go again, with something reminding me of something else. It was sometime in the fifties. We were on the way to or from camping in the mountains on a hot August day and stopped in Sanger for ice cream. Peach ice cream! For years after, Mom a...

That looks like a combination shock absorber/perch. It seems to me I've heard of more than one failure with those.

When you get old everything reminds you of something else. This evening I was on the MTFCA forum and noticed that one of the regulars there lives in Modesto. Dad's boyhood pal, Dow Tout, lived in Modesto with his wife Marguerite and daughter Sue, who was about my age. I was three, or maybe four, wh...

Unless I missed it nobody else has done it, so I'll kick it off this month. IMG_4586 copy.JPG Today I got around to replacing my bad perch with the good one Phil Maurici gave me at OCF. Thanks Phil! IMG_4588 copy.JPG The old perch doesn't have enough threads left to hold a nut. IMG_4584 copy.JPG Th...

Those photos make me want to head out that way again.

I believe those are regular carriage bolts, available at any hardware store. You will have to grind and buff the modern markings off the heads and strip off the cad plating before you paint them.

As this is a Ruckstell rear axle, you want the MTFCA Ruckstell Axle book. The stock front and rear axle book doesn't apply.

...I don't know if I should get brass or bronze.

They're all bronze. I don't know why some of the catalogues call them brass. They do the same with bronze bushings.

An earlier relative of the G?

Sometimes you find them intact.

Usually you don't.

That happens with vertical photos on this site. I don't know why.

I always rotate a vertical shot 90º left or right (it doesn't matter which way) then turn it back right side up and save. That makes it show up correctly when I post it.

Yes, some of us camp in the south building.

You have very articulately described the reasons I am NOT on Facebook.

Guess where I found it.

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