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Scott, old buddy old pal remember I need some G bowls!!

Kurt Baltrusch

Thanks Ken. The instrument repair business is long gone, I still have some inventory and a few tools but I haven't worked on a fiddle for years. The carb business is much better and virtually no competition, the fiddle reapair schools turn out hundreds of new guys every year who want to do it becaus...

Yeah, I WISH I had a Myford.
John has a like new one he bought a few years ago, some of the attachments are still new in boxes.
I have a Jet 13 x 40, a couple little Chinese ones and four Unimats + a Sherline.

Before you know it you will be drooling over a Myford Super 7, thinking you could take the money out of your 401Z or whatever that is and find one some old Englishman bought and never used. Fully tooled, Hand scrap marks still on the ways........................ It is an addiction that creeps up.

You should talk to Val Soupiov in maybe Connecticut.

Steve beat me to it. You need a thick piece of wood or the sandpaper can cut right though the sides of the New Day and you end up with two pieces in your hand. Ask me how I know that.

You're a long ways from Montana but if you need some stuff come on by. I have half a dozen chassis better than that I would give you, piles of front and rear axles, wheels, stuff and miscellaneous. We are going this week to pick up some frames and T stuff to keep them from the scrapper and there is ...

Take the Gross Jet out.
Hold it firmly in your hand, pull your arm back all the way -- the one you have been cranking with -- and throw it as far as you can in to tall grass and weeds where no one will ever find it.
Replace with an original style float valve.
Problem solved.

Scott, I'm glad you're making those, Jack Daron made a zillion of them and sold them and gave them away. He is long gone and I don't know of anybody making them other than you. I can't see the handle end but I'm going to make a suggestion if you haven't already thought of it. Center drill the handle...

Remove the three screws that hold the cover on, remove it, look down in the bottom where the little pan is for the idle feed tube to sit in the fuel. The fuel level should be above the bottom of the idle feed tube. Look to see if the drain tube is sticking up above the bottom of the machined area ab...

It's an interesting little tractor. Nothing revolutionary, tho, just a little tractor. They couldn't compete with John Deere, Case, Allis, Etc.

I'd put you on my auction mailing list, that's for sure.
I'd send you home with a load.
Sig other doesn't understand it either. She says I have a needle in my arm n it's full of rust.

We could play "How many tractors you got, Dallas???" "How many tractors you got, Stan???" for awhile.

I'll start: Two Case S Utility, one Oliver 60 Row Crop,

Your turn!

OH Boy Howdy, do we have thread drift. I'm with you, Dallas, I've read, heard and done about 99% of the T topics but I like where the threads go, the topics they cover and the info on what people like me actually are doing with stuff. I especially like some of the foreign contributors showing what a...

It's not. I bought it about ten years ago as a parts tractor, sold it to a guy who " restored" it, found out that with a loader on it it's pretty hard to steer. I bought it back from him. I think it's Rubbermade paint of something -- wrong color and poor quality. Dennis Carpenter is the only one I k...

That's the fun way to do it.

I also like your Corvair in the background. 63?? 64?? I'm trying to round up the money to buy a 61 Lakewood wagon that I've been drooling over. She wants too much money for it but on the other hand, how many of those do you see?? Not many!!

The Ferguson TO-20 is the upper one, middle is the NAA with a Superior loader, bottom is the 8N. It's a gorgeous tractor. I bought it restored, I don't have time to work on them. Actually, I bought them all that way. I have about 20 tractors, an Earthmaster that is really cute, couple Farmall Cubs, ...

I've heard that before, it's interesting. I think Farm Collector magazine did a story on it years ago. When Ferguson and the Ford partnership ended in 1947-48, they imported Ferguson tractor parts from England, shipped them to Detroit; installed a Z-120 Continental Engine in them, painted them Fergu...

Couple -- maybe three years ago -- somebody was looking for a setup to change a Fordson tractor from timer and coils to a gear driven Magneto. I told them I had one, looked for it for hours, finally decided I had probably sold it. Well, today I was out looking for some 3/16 round head rivets for Joh...

Probably should have said 9N Ford. Ford made an agreement with Harry Ferguson in 1938 to manufacture tractors in corporating Ferguson's revolutionary three point attachment system with hydraulic lift. Their agreement lasted through 1947 when Ford died. Ford then built the 8N until 1953. The court ga...

The 9n - 1939 - 1947 was a new concept when it came out as it had a three point, the first tractor to have it. Plow depth was controlled by the three point settings and to plow a field smoothly the plow furrows had to be measured and the moldboard depth set to the same depth on both of the two botto...

Years ago I had a Z head, which I ran for awhile and sold with the car it was on. I liked it and thought it was quite an improvement but that was just observation, no tests. I also had a Waukasha Ricardo head I ran for awhile and sold probably on Tbay. I couldn't see that it did much, if anything, m...

I got a couple of them too.

Cool!! Me either. I've seen this new Centerdoor of John's -- he's about 75 miles from me and we do lots of T stuff together -- it is a very cool car. Amazingly solid. The guy that put it in the grain bin must have had a fondness for it because he took good care of it all those years. John has some v...

There is still great stuff out there like John's center door.
In Montana there are people who have things put away that no one will see unless they want them to and the day is over when the farmers would tell you to just haul it off and you could have it but there is still stuff out there.

Mine is original paint and will stay that way. There are fewer and fewer of them left. This one will get a little wooden box in the back where the trunk lid is gone and the panel is bent. 2019 11 27 thanksgiving ranch model t resized.jpg I think John should do the same with the Center Door. It is a ...

Now if you can just find a seat for it you'll have it running in a week, John!!

It's a cool car! Great Body!!

I also gave him the name and email of the president of the Rocky Mountain Model T Club which is headquartered less than 100 miles away, told him about the tours we have, told him about my 27 coupe, told him we'd be glad to have him as a member and that there are about 75 guys with Model T's belong t...

"I’ve been a newby in the past. Newby’s don’t have the connections to make the great buys. They don’t have friends to help them purchase a good deal. We should celebrate someone coming into the hobby rather than trashing them for paying more than we would. Just my thoughts. Keith I don't think I'm t...

Lloyd, I asked the lady when I got there and registered if the 15% applied to the floor sales and she said it did not, only to the icollector sales on the internet. So he paid $10,000 for it.

John, I have no idea. It is interesting that I was watching it on the icollector site while it was selling. Before they started calling live bids, it was at $1100, when they started the live bid they started at $5000 and the guy bid 6, internet 7, guy 8, internet 9, guy 10. Hard to tell. We don't do...

Seemed like a nice guy but said he had never driven one and didn't know anything about them. I would have thought he would have wanted me to walk out and maybe show him some things about it, tell him what kind of carburetor he needed and where to get one, explain the foot pedals. Etc. On the other h...

Donnie. Or not.

I asked him how many more T's he wanted for that kind of money.

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So the myth that the Model T market is soft was exploded at the auction I went to yesterday in western Montana. Somebody consigned this to a local auction. Carb missing, medium quality paint, radiator patched 100 times, no Ruckstell, cranked over and had compression, box made from a kit or a set of ...

It might be a few days but I'll get you some. The doors are at my storage out in the country.

I think I have one.
Stanhowemt@aol.com

Been here....
Because one good carb will outrun two NH's.

Ralph Ricks got me hooked on them.

About ten years ago I bought a bunch that were discovered in the original Ames speedster building in Louisville, Ky.

New old stock.

They are all happily powering speedsters now.

Not a lot of them around. I pretty much buy every one I can find.

George, most of those floats from ten years or so were being made in India and were some hard brass colored metal that would not hold solder. They leaked and didn't float very well to begin with. I don't know where they are coming from now and I haven't bought many since I don't fool with NHs but th...

I wrote a long post about this yesterday but it wouldn't post and then dumped it so...

Put a stromberg MB1 on it.
No fuel pump, no problems, period correct, all the carb you need. Buy a high volume manifold, either turn the flange or make an adapter, put it on and go have fun.

After about the first ten or so Ruckstells I rebuilt I made a similar setup. Handy, Dandy Deal!! I put a little winch on mine to lift them up to the holder bar. Mine is now laying on the iron pile at the ranch. I like yours a lot!

Thanks Ralph. They are great carbs. I spent a day awhile back making new seat adapters and rods, just sent a couple to Australia. The tray is already shrinking. I usually try to take the second week of May to go work on my hayfields and fix fence etc at my ranches. Didn't make it to eastern Montana ...

I wish I had Lewis's 1/2 wrench. He gave me a lot of things when he moved to Sacramento and I bought his Pasco wheels
He was a grand guy.

Sure you are. Get a good American made 1/2 wrench. I have a 9 inch one I've had for 50 years or more. Open end - box end. Tighten the bolts tight and then go around them with the "hammer," a good piece of strap iron about 3/8 x 2 x 12. Hit the edge of the wrench open end with the strap iron until th...

By the way, thanks for the lead washers in the mail. Beautiful work like always.

I plumb missed this the first goround Scott. Nice work. In roughly 1000 stromberg OFs, not counting a few NOS ones, I probably haven't seen 50 that the throttle shafts isn't worn and is reusable as is. The design of the economizer put pressure on the side of the shaft every time the throttle opens a...

I always replace the bolts, too. All of them. The ring gear bolts are only about fifty bucks. Be SURE to chase the threads in the ring gear with a good tap before you install the bolts. I also replace the center differential bolts with grade 8 just because I'm fussy about things. New castle nuts are...

Thanks. There is a lot of expertise out there. I tore my first Ruckstell down close to 45 years ago under the tutelage of Lewis Rector -- the chief restorer and mechanic for the Towe Ford Collection -- who had gone to work in a Ford garage as a mechanic when he was 12 years old in 1915. He showed me...

Take your soldering gun, hold it on the pack until the top one slides off. Repeat as needed.

Here is my take on it, take it for what it's worth. I've rebuilt or assembled new about 70 Ruckstells. I used to have a web site dedicated to them but I took it down because I was spending too much time on the phone. That said, here is my take. Replace the bronze thrust plate and the thrust washer. ...

The edit feature only works if there have been no replies.
This site has more rules than a first grade teacher has about using the restroom.

I just bought a new Woods 7 foot disk yesterday to break up some hayfields.
I talked to Ken at Hoven Equipment, he gave me a price and it's on a truck headed this way.
I didn't even check with anybody else.
I don't have time and I don't like buying new junk.
Woods=USA made,

It's also true that I have at last count 23 tractors ranging from a little garden tractor built in the 50's from Model A parts to a Ford 4000 diesel, a Swather, two engine power balers, 5 or 6 motorcycles, two farm trucks, 5 pickups and two cars. I go through a lot of batteries + we put a new batter...

Interesting. My deal is "buy the dealer." North 40 was the only place that had 7 of them in stock (actually they had 19 in great falls + more in Havre) They are the biggest farm stores in the state for a reason. They have inventory, fair prices and take care of problems locally and on the spot. Not ...

Yes, it's flux. He is about 200 miles from me. I've never met him but he came to an auction we had years ago that had blacksmith tools. That anvil looks like at least a 300 pounder. Trip hammers are worth a lot of money. We sold one for $8,000 several years back, even a small one will bring a couple...

I assume you know that Deka batteries are made in East Penn, Texas. Their corporate offices are in Cleburne.

Well, this is farm country Montana and the girl at Batteries Plus when I called them quoted me $110 + a core for a group 1 6 volt that two or 3 years ago when I bought a bunch of them for some equipment of mine as well as a bunch of old tractors, pickups and cars we had in an auction were 62 bucks. ...

I have a metal lathe made with a lot of Model T parts. It is very cool. I also have wall mounted drill press made from a T starter.

Thanks. I'm pretty tired of trying to get it to work. You can only edit if there have been no replies. If you have tried again to post it you can't remove it or edit it since that then becomes a reply. I give up on this, there are several places on Facebook and Craigslist that are simple and work to...

Just did it again. Spent ten minutes typing a response, hit post without thinking to make a copy, the MTFCA site is down or has permanently moved or what ever that message is. Condensed version. Not to argue with Marshall but if wire wheels and hubs are worth two grand I've got 4 or 5 sets. He's rig...

Well, I guess you get to read it three or four times, whatever showed up on here. Can't get it to post, can't get it to post, can't get it to post, then can't delete the double post because it has a reply to it. So! If you are interested, give me a call at 406-949-3448 or email me at stanhowemt@aol....

I've had this tank for close to 40 years, took it off an International Six Speed Special. I think originally it was a Conoco fuel delivery thank. Then it was used to haul fuel for a farmer that had machinery that burned gasoline, tractor fuel and kerosene. It has 3 compartments. They are about the s...

I've had this tank for close to 40 years, took it off an International Six Speed Special. I think originally it was a Conoco fuel delivery thank. Then it was used to haul fuel for a farmer that had machinery that burned gasoline, tractor fuel and kerosene. It has 3 compartments. They are about the s...

I've had this tank for close to 40 years, took it off an International Six Speed Special. It was used to haul fuel for a farmer that had machinery that burned gasoline, tractor fuel and kerosene. So it has 3 compartments. They are about the same size and are held together with a band that goes aroun...

I should also say that under that old upholstery there is a body that has virtually no wood except for the top. That is a real plus to me.

It wouldn't be worth that to me. But then, Montana is probably a different market than Texas. There are still a lot of cars that leave Montana because they are rust free for the most part. So the good is it appears to be all original. The bad is it is all original. Which means it has babbitt washers...

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Probably a little roll of solder because that much weight will break the radiator neck loose.

I assume you know it's a drip oiler.

Looks cool, I would put something that would fizz and make a decal that said, "Dr Fitt's Stay Cool for Fords" or something like that.

By the way, the early version of the Ford NH has a screw plug on the side the later version does not.

The big advantage of the NH was the ease of production and savings in material cost. The Kingston carbs were brass and had several machining steps that took at least some setup time and a machine operator who could run the machine. The NH was the first carb after the cast iron Holley G - which took ...

Tire changing tool for split rims.

Every damn time I try to post something and don't save a copy I get a screen that says "the site is down," it dumps my post and wastes my time!! I've about had it!!!!!!! It has now dumped it three times in a row!!! So this is what I wrote. Or close to it. Like all of this it depends on what you are ...

I have several originals -- or at least from the time when they would have been new or fairly new. I have not seen one of those that used oak. I'm not sure what these are but they look like Fir or Poplar to me. Oak was expensive even then. One had some nice commercially made irons, especially the ba...

The only Stromberg that will run well on a T engine, generally speaking, is the one that was made for it. Either the earlier Stromberg LF, or the far more popular Stromberg OF. They OF came out in late 22, by mid 26 they had sold well over 750,000 of them. If you want to see some T carbs you can tak...

I think it might be my browser. I've had trouble downloading some other things, too. My computer is Jurassic age.

I don't have time to watch anything any way.

I would mount that on my T even tho I probably would never put any mmo in it, but it would be fun just to hear the arguments for and against!

I dunno. I'm usually pretty good on this stuff, I have half a dozen web sites I set up and maintain but I got lost and ran out of patience on this deal.

I dunno. I'm usually pretty good on this stuff, I have half a dozen web sites I set up and maintain but I got lost and ran out of patience on this deal.

Anybody able to get the webinar thing to work?? I wasted way too much time trying to get signed up, signed in, have to join Zoom, whatever that is, typed my email address half a dozen times and clicked on link after link, they want everything from my name to whatever.

I'm off to the shop.

Wow!! You bought that about twenty minutes before we got to the swap meet! We talked to you and it looked like it went to a good home. It did!!

I should also say thanks to MTFCA for providing this site for sales, WTB, etc.

Ruckstell is sold. Thanks for all the interest.

Thanks, I'm working every day pretty much although I did take yesterday off for Easter. I'm so far behind I don't think I will ever get caught up and I'm not soliciting any new work for this year until I clear some of the backlog. I also only do T carbs up through Holley G's. I don't do NH's and etc...

That's an Aermore whistle. They are usually marked on the stamped end on the longest tube.

There are all sorts of people who deal in Model T parts, some long time, some fairly new. This fairly new one is also part of the list of suppliers, Bill Devine and his wife Shawna purchased Texas T Parts from Ben Hardeman several years ago and are now having the Sure Stop Brakes developed by Bill T...

Bought a couple Ruckstells awhile back to get one for my 27 coupe, also bought this one as long as we were making a 400+ mile trip to pick them up. It looks good, turns over pretty smoothly, it was stored outdoors for probably the last 30-40-50 years in dry eastern Montana with the u-joint down and ...

Here is a short version of what I wrote last night that the web site ate as "MTFCA is not available at this time." I also have a 27 coupe. Mine is original light green with black fenders brush painted in the long ago past. The interior is gone and eventually will be done in patchwork denim from old ...

Probably a fun project but I can't imagine there is much market for them. People who can't get them out usually twist them off trying or strip the slot in the top; I think some people who "rebuild" OFs don't even know there is an idle jet in there. Some screw right out, some take a hot wrench and a ...

There were TT's that had a Warford or Lincoln or Chicago, etc., just behind the engine, a Rocky Mountain ahead of the differential and a Ruckstell in the Differential. About the only way to get much load capacity out of those 20 horses up front. Slow, but all it had to be was faster than a six up of...

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I was sitting right up there in the Grandstand when you went by!! Cool!!

Gary Ludwig in Iowa bought several TT Ruckstells from me several years ago, he might have some parts.

Before you install the brush, file a slight chamfer on the leading edge. It will help a lot with wear. When you make the tool to sand with, make it about 1/8 th of an inch smaller than the timer diameter and when you are using it, move the timer around so you don't sand grooves in it. As far as sand...

Sent you an email, Jay.

Well, crap, I just spent five minutes typing this and it wouldn't post and it disappeared. I run New Day and my method is so simple I'm almost embarrassed to post it. Cut a circle out of 3/4 plywood that will just fit in the timer. Drill a hole as close to center and as straight as you can. Insert a...

Hometown parade, summer 1959, I'd had it about 5 years at that time.

121._Stan's_Model_T_in_a_parade,_1959

Late 1953 or early 54, working on Rod Cooper's T --

I'm actually working on a couple U & J carbs today. One of the recent changes I have made is that I am now making my own seats, I came up with a correct die for the threads and decided to quit remodeling the original seats and just make new ones. They flow the same amount of fuel as the originals p...

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