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#8 the boy appears to be barefoot but it looks like chains on the rear wheels and possibly mud on the side of the front tire

The last picture must have been a fairly early heavy snow with winds to drift it as there are lots of leaves on the trees and no snow in them.

Note the motorcycles on the jetty with the right hand tourer, the sidebars are on the left side of the bikes, definitely briven on the left side of the road unless you want to get rid of your girlfriend.

What is the difference between the Optima red top and a Gel cell battery.

Would Dielectric grease used in distributors work in a timer?

Cannot find my T electrical book. Have taken 2 starters apart the last couple of days and found differences as to how the field coil To brush terminal brushes were hooked up. On the first one , one field lead was hooked up to a insulated brush and the other lead was hooked up to the next brush holde...

5 Looks like quite a tree house in the background.

Found my bendix cover screw but that is minor. Removed the starter this evening and found problems. Both locks were in place on the bendix bolts but both bolts were loose. With the drive collar bolt loose it allowed for wear on the woodruff key and in time would have sheared the key and bolt tip. Th...

You know those special screws for the bendix cover, well I dropped one today. I was bent over the door frame and unscrewed the left side screw and went to get it and it fell and hit the creeper under the car and disappeared. Found the washer that was on it but not the screw. Had a good lite to use w...

Installed battery cut off switch, installed solenoid on starter circuit,and reworked starter cables and installed dual ground cables. Starter still turns slow so next starter comes off. With the floorboards out the bbendix will be a lot easier to get at. Next I will take it apart and check it over a...

#1 that looks like it was taken at Sylvan Lake about 7 miles north of Custer SD where I grew up. Looking over the water toward the opening is Sunday Gulch. The steps on the left were at the original Sylvan Lake Hotel which burned down many year ago. The walkway going around the edge goes back to a 4...

The 23 coupe I recently acquired had a cut off switch under the driver's seat that had failed from a load when the plastic base melted, it is also going to be a pain having to lift the seat or reach into the trunk to get to it to operate it . I have a good quality switch to replace it but was thinki...

It has been over 50 years since I have had my rdstr pickup running and I have driven a model t. I have worked on several for other people and given them parts but failed to work on mine and it need quite a bit of work. Well thanks to the MTFCA and the cars for sale I bought a 23 couple. Needs some p...

Question, is there any type of thrust surface inside a left housing? I would have to go to the attic to look at one. if there is a thrust surface, would it be better to press there than against the outer bolt flange?

I am not familiar with changing a t axle tube. Will this be a pressed fit that you will have to turn the tube down to get it to fit? If so here is a suggestion as I have changed many broken outer axle tunes on off road dump trucks.. If you have to turn the outer tube down to fit, turn it down so it ...

Scott, I will take them, Sent you an email

#12 now that is an original bull bumper he is sitting on.

The handle on a potato gas shut off valve is broken off and gone. Has anyone tried to attach some type of handle to one?
Also I can not remember what was suggested on how to remove the brass valve.

Are the wheels and tires 21 inch?

What is the inside diameter for upper and lower radiator hoses for a 26 ?
Was the I D the same for all years?

Looks like they had a good day grouse hunting. Looking at the shotguns, wondering if the pump was amodel 97 but it doesn't look right. The middle gun with the hammers is similar to my great grandad and still with someone in the family.

There is a pickup listed for sale and it says new U channel. Is that the piece that goes down either side of the frame from behind the bottom of the seatbacķ on a roadster to the rear of the body and connects to the floor under the turtle on a 26? If that is it, are they available or do you manufact...

I will try washing soda, I used sodium bicarbonate used to lower the pH in swimming pools and it eats at brass. One trick I used was to take a piece of plastic pipe and drill a lot of 1/4 to 3/8's holes in it. Then put your rebar inside it with the wire you are going to connect to the positive termi...

What is the difference between 15-16 headlight mounting posts and 17-23 posts. Iam trying to identify some I have or are they all the same and interchangeable?

Does a muratic acid and water solution for rust removal eat away at brass or bronze fittings or bushings?
I know that a sodium bicarbonate solutions and a battery charger eats away at brass fittings.

I have seen sets of triple gears sold in the past. Do people usually sell them by so much for the set of 3 or by each gear? I guess with the price of new made gears if you can find them, paying for individual gears is a good buy. Just wondering, I do Not need anymore. Thanks, my mind is always wonde...

The ladies in 3 could go a little better with some tires and a motor.

What is the best way to package and most economical way to ship a left ruckstel housing? I do not know if I will ever use it and have hauled it from SD to Oregon to Florida. My wife says I need to get rid of some of my excess parts and get parts I need. I do not know the value of one and cash value ...

4th picture, the car on the left and the third one in have sequential license numbers.

You are in Minn. Lookaround a flea market and find a hame with a brass know on the end and use that. If you are not familiar with the term, a hame was part of a harness used on horses.

2196 sweet cider , I wish I knew where it was at. Could be my wife's grandfather.

I know double spark shows up on a hcct. In terms I can understand, what causes it? How do you correct it and what happens if is not corrected? I do not have a hcct but I am slowly trying to design and put together in one box a unit with a train transformer, a coil holder to test capacitors and amper...

Please post it. My ring gear is bad in 2 places and when I get ready to run it again I can use all the help available to start it.

#4 Interesting to see a right hand drive with what looks like an Iowa license.

#6 that driver is very short and possibly a couple of soldiers

Is there any chance that when you replaced the timing gear that you got it a tooth off?

Do you have a roller type timer in your extra parts you may have acquired over time. If you do you might try it to see if the engine will start. If you want to try that, you do not need to remove the wires from your present timer but just use modern automotive wiring you possibly have. If you want y...

Looking at the hot shot charger pictured, I was wondering how it worked. As currant comes from the mag does it go thru a diode to keep power from the battery from flowing back thru and demagnetizing the magnets? Also it looks like it has an 1151 single element bulb. Does that help change the ac curr...

For a 14x24 tap, check with your local NAPA store. I purchased 2 or 3 of them from about 12 years ago. They ordered them and were there in about 2 days.

#6 one way to run a pump jack if you line it up so it doesn't throw the belt.

15__ just a quick glance and it looks like it is flying.

Looking at Tinkering Tips 2 I was reading about Ford timers on page 62. It says on making the gauge to set a Ford timer to have the holes 2 1/4 inches apart center to center. Looking at the picture included it shows 2 1/2 inches center to center. Interesting. That 1/4 inch could be a broken wrist or...

9 big puller and different blow torch on the floor.

14 VERY TALL HAT ON THE LADY

#1 picture looks like they sold buggies before the Model T came along. Appears to have a good supply of buggies by seeing the large wheels sticking out behind the Model T.

Yesterday I saw a hub cap that had the ridge around the top but was smooth without the logo on top. I assume it was an aftermarket cap. Any ideas?

For amn outer shell, go to a truck shop or a place that sells truck parts (Napa). A
Lot of truck exhaust stacks are 5 inch and you may be able to snag a good used section from a scrap pile. Also they have a thicker wall than a t muffler and have a good weld on the seam.

On removing the old seals if you are not saving them, I read here one time to use 2 gutter screw run thru the metal of the seal , spaced about 180 degrees apart, and use them as pullers.

The timer control lever is loose on the end of the rod. It moves back and forth a little so either the rivet is worn, the hole in the lever or the hole thru the rod. I am not sure of the diameter of the pin or the holes. If the hole in the rod is worn I was thinking about inlargeing it to a size a s...

I see a wrapper around the log and the reach on the trailer. You do not do that as it will not allow the reach to move fore and aft as you make a turn. Being a single log it should be secured to the bunks on the truck and trailer.

If indidual magneto coils test good but have bad wrappings, has anyone rewrapped 16 of them and made up a new magneto coils ring without rewinding them and putting new insulating material between the windings?

An old brief case makes a good toolbox also. I carry one in my modern car and keep standard and metric tools in it and have called on it many times for more than auto repairs.

Any idea what make of roadster in #9?

#7 Is the bucket lengthened or the frame shortened?

The earlier engine with the later coil box is more than likely sitting on a test stand torun it before installing back in a car

What is the difference in capacitors with the same rating? On the computer I put in .47 400V capacitors and came up with several capacitors with this rating and varied prices from .75 cents to $8. I am not an electronics person so plain language works best. I do remember being automotive college 60 ...

What is the difference in capacitors with the same rating?
On the computer I put in .47K 400V and came up with different capacitors with different prices and the same rating?
I am not an electronics person so plain language works best.

It is your car, be proud of it. You put your time, effort and money in it and it is up to you to enjoy it, all original or not. Sounds like you need to ask around some of your not so stuck up T friends and start your own friends and enjoy your T's and leave the trailer queen group to themselves.

Using a rubberstrip on the frame rails with a heavy durometer would work but clamp it in several places. There are other things that would work also. There is nylon artwork other things I can't remember the name of which are similar which would wort also. I don't know about Tennessee but in some sta...

Looking at the post on reworking the lugs on narrow drums, can a lug be made to fit the current size of the lugs and taking the disc's and cutting or grinding the notch wider and deeper in the disc. If you removed all the material from one side you would have a better chance of keeping things even a...

#11 reminds me of my dad saying that a man was headed home from a small Nebraska town and drove into a creek.
When the sheriff asked him what happened he admitted he had been drinking and as he came to the creek he saw 2 bridges and took the wrong one.

Have any tests been made to determine if there is a difference in HP running without magnets on the flywheel. You would have a reduction of weight on the flywheel which would also include a reduction in enertia. Most are using 12 volt and a distributor. Also doesn't a magneto and 4 coils give better...

In the Australian photo #1 that looks like an early motorcycle by three signpost.

It's great stuff picture, is that a jug of shine in his hand?

I have used Honda portable pumps that have a hand primer pump to prime the suction line to the pump. I notice this pump has a very large discharge hose to supply such a small nozzle.

I have the front half of what I believe is a speedster body. At the booth edge it has about a 3/4 inch lip toward the inside with holes spaced along it. To mount it to a plywood base would I build a framework for it and attach this lip to the bottom of the framework and then attatch that framework t...

Was the glass plate used in the coils used to insulate the condenser from the winding around the core or what?
Is it still used when coils are rebuilt?

DSCN3203.JPG DSCN3201.JPG DSCN3200.JPG DSCN3199.JPG This Zenith Carb is Patented Dec 29, 1908. I have never taken it apart but it sounds like it has a brass float in it. On the side is cast 04 and to the right of that i stamped F5988 and a 0 laying sideways. The throttle plat is not the normal tin ...

#3 appears to be a young boy driving which really was not unusual back then.

UPS started in Seattle as American Service in 1907

Where and what swapmeets will be coming up in the next few months, especially in the south east corner of the US

Could these be Model T parts?

Can anyone tell me what model car these window regulators came off of? They have laid around in boxes with other parts for 30 years or more and I have no Idea what they are from. I do not see any numbers on them.

I do not know how but over the last 50 years I have misplaced my ignition key # 65. I want to finish up some work on the motor and try to start it and an ignition key would make it a little easier.

Valve cover retainers
On the 26 motor did they use bolts or studs to hold the side cover on ?

I saw a ratchet and socket set years ago that I wish I had. It was one that the sockets slipped into the ratchet and were of a tubing wrench design. You lined up the opening and slipped it over a tube and could tighten down the flare nut. Slid it backwards and lined up the slot and took the wrench o...

That rectangular object in front of the axle is where he keeps his suitcase. With his wife's luggage in the T, there is no room left for his suitcase.

Is cowl board similar to the backing they put behind dressers and other furniture today that is a very heavy paperboard?

The running board mounts look to be 26_27 as they are wider and not cast and narrow.

Wondering what they are running with the one lunger?

The V was an accident of my big fingers. Thank you all for the replies. The nice thing about this fabulous group is the response you get wether it is an answer to a question or helping someone with a solution to a problem.
Thank you all..

I know they both were fed by oil thron up by the flywheel set up. My question is how did it get into the front of the motor.if oil went into a drilled bolt, how did it get inside. Isthere a hole sideways thru the block on the inside of the bolthole or is there a drain hole in one of the front pan bo...

Praying for Steve,s recovery. This may be premature and out of place but it was mentioned that Steve new of a 15 roadster project . Any chance that another member knows about it and that it could be obtained and members and friends could start putting it together for Steve using salvageable parts fr...

The 6th photo down has had more issues than top saddles. If you notice the panel in front of the right rear door , it , the splash aprons and hood do not have a shine like other body parts on the car. May have been wrecked or upset at some time and repaired with used body parts and a new top puton.

Are the headlight bulbs from LED Light in Arizona a focused bulb or do they rely on polished reflectors?

Early and later manifold studs, when was the change? Did they use a longer stud with the vaporizer manifolds or was there a change in the manifolds with the pre 15 motors or the 15-25 motors. I have 3 long and one short and want to put manifolds back on a 26 motor. I will start digging thru my assor...

I was cleaning up some studs today and wondering where these 2 types were used. Both are 3/8 x 24 threads per inch. The first one is 3 1/4 inches long and threaded 1/2 inch on one end and threaded 5/8 inch on the other. The second one is just short of 2 11/16 and threaded 5/8 inch on one end and 1/2...

Great picture! How often did you see a pedel car with a spare mounted on the rear?

Forgot the picture.

What type of Rotor is this? Timer linkage installation, does the linkage go into the timer from the front with the cotter key toward the block or come in from the back with the cotter key on the radiator side? I am making new linkage that goes under the radiator lower hose. The old linkage that was ...

Is this a cast brake drum or one of the new steel ones? If is one of the new steel ones could it be welded up with a wire feed and dressed back down? It might be a little time consuming but if you are just going to scrap it, it might be worth the try.

Meant to post this on the forum but I got it into parts. This is a hand held compression gauge with a rubber tip that you hold on the spark plug hole. The gauge is made by NEIHOFF and not sure about the rest of it. It has a hollow handle by the gauge and a T-bar closer to the tip to hold it down. Th...

Tried to take compression pressure with this NIEHOFF compression gauge. Got to 25 lbs on first stroke hand cranking it ( no starter) but my daughter could not hold it tight enough for the second or third stroke and it would blow by the rubber tip. This is DRY pressure. Has not been run in over 50 ye...

If you are just trying to get it going to see if it runs, add a 1-2 thousandths Shim under the tight side and try the same or a little more on the loose side and put a piece of plasti-gauge across the bearing surface and tighten it down and then pull it back off and check it. Play with it with shims...

Towed a touring and a roadster pickup on a single trailer from Western Idaho to Roseburg Oregon with no problem. Remove any loose parts such as hoods , seat cushions and floorboards or weight them down as they may be blown off the vehicles. I also towed my roadster pickup on my single axle trailer f...

Was the clutch shift keyed to the tail shaft throughout production or when was the keyway eliminated? Got a transmission recently that the person was destroying taking it apart. It was rusted and very stuck and the tail shaft was very rusted and not usable but had the keyway. Clutch shift had been t...

I am not sure how thick the wood is that is used on the coil boxes without going to the garage tonight. Could a person make a replacement from white plastic cutting boards used in the kitchen? The ones we use are 320 thousandths thick and they would not build up carbon tracks. If it would work and y...

No current pictures at this time but here are a couple as I ran it 50 + years ago.

Found a salesmans book today that my dad gave me years ago. It was put out by Oldsmobile in 1930. They would not list how features on their car compared with Ford by items or price. They have comparisons to lots of other 1930 automobiles. There are some pages typed in with makes, years and prices of...

I have never seen a straight axle hub for sale on the parts. I know they might be fairly scarce and worth a dollar or two more than a rear tapered hub. Just wondering.

Cannot get a photo at present of the whole pickup. The box is bant up a little and I only got the box shortly before I left SD 54 years ago. Have to see if I can find an old picture of it as a flatbed. It seemed to run OK with the A carb but I believe my lack of power was timer settings. Kicked back...

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