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I usually deal with 50 to 100 emails a day + phone calls and texts. 75+% are for free advice or wanting some piddly part. 20 % are people wanting to know where the hell their carburetor is!!!!! 5% turn into business. I'm doing everything I can. I was in the shop last night until 11:30. Trying to fin...

I spent my Sunday afternoon making some of the Zenith S4BF inlet lines. According to your Facebook page you are on vacation in South Carolina.. There are not enough hours in the day to chase every one of these little deals. The line is not quarter inch. It is 5/16. The fittings are 1/2 x 20 and 1/ 2...

I dunno. I don't know of anything but Dodge and Studebaker that used Stewart.

I'm probably wrong.

Sorry.

Looks like this Rayfield has found a new home. I have others not yet restored.

Update: Turns out the guy doesn't need a manifold and was looking for a matched set of Master "A" carbs to mount to a custom manifold. Well, ask and ye shall receive. Sold him a matched set of A's. So I have the Master manifold, correct for Master size "A" and a carb to go on it although not the one...

That is sad to hear. I talked to him a couple times when we were working on the Buffalo carb for the K. Interesting guy and a real craftsman. I saw that K radiator after he got it done.

Time goes on and the older I get the faster it is going.

My sympathies for the loss of your friend.

Stromberg MB-1

Zenith S4BF

Mayer

Rayfield UF

It is a Stewart, off an early Dodge.

Part of the problem here is that so many people are shopping on line that the carriers can't keep up with the volume and they can't hire people and train them before the rush so the whole thing turns in to a mess. My SO has been a mail carrier for 19 years in a rural town in Montana. 65 miles from B...

Local Radiator shop here just closed, hauled their inventory and tools in for scrap and have a sign in front of the building: For Lease or Sale. Probably be another Pizza place .............. no, they legalized Marijuana here for "Medical" use a couple years ago, there must be a dozen of them in tow...

Thanks Jethro. Makes you wonder why anybody would run a stock carb after you run a UF. They on my best five list, hard to find. I ran one on my 26 roadster for awhile and loved it. Here is the deal on this one. I sold it to a hill climb guy several years and two or three hundred carbs ago. He loved ...

Just wasted ten minutes typing, T Mobile doesn't have service enough to post it. Carb is sold pending payment. I have at least one more Master carb, if you are interested email me and I'll get back to you after my dentist appointment. Stanhowemt@aol.com No calls until the novocaine wears off. Somebo...

Bought several carbs lately. These are not rebuilt yet but pricing includes rebuild. Time line is probably mid February, I'm gaining on the pile every day but these are down the list. Good Christmas presents, tho. Show the page to the wife. I will have photos but I'm dead in the water tonight. Bed t...

It's for sale, it looked pretty good when I bought but you never know until you get them apart. Got another carb done about 9 spent an hour and a half taking this one apart. Stunk terrible, old gas, varnish, yuck. I probably smell just like it. Anyway this is most of the parts and pieces. 20201214_2...

These: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Norseman-29pc-CN-TECH-NITRIDE-CRYO-M7-Drill-Bit-Set-1-16-1-2-MADE-IN-USA-CT-29/162273916978?hash=item25c8477832:g:IbYAAOSwImRYIgYd $130 on ebay, might be cheaper someplace else. By the way, I disagree with the idea of drilling progressively larger holes. Drill a small...

This is the set I have. CN-TECH NITRIDE-CRYO---- https://www.ebay.com/itm/Norseman-29pc-CN-TECH-NITRIDE-CRYO-M7-Drill-Bit-Set-1-16-1-2-MADE-IN-USA-CT-29/162273916978?hash=item25c8477832:g:IbYAAOSwImRYIgYd $130 on ebay. I didn't buy mine there. Might be cheaper someplace else. I have no dog in this a...

That is just TOO COOL!!!

Absolutely the best drill bits I have ever owned or seen. Norseman, made in Minnesota. I have a dozen other sets and these will out drill them two to one. Hard steel, brass, whatever. Stay sharp. There is a tool company that comes to the Great Falls swap meet every year, they sell good tools. Also a...

Maybe Mike will reproduce the choke setup. This is the first Rayfield design I've seen. Several years ago we reproduced the choke setup for the U & J. I think we did 30 brass castings. I'm about out, I dunno if Mike has any left or not.

OK, to complete #5. I would have to pick the Mayer which is smooth operating, a little fussy to adjust but operates on the same principal as the Kingston 5 ball. Most of them are not very rebuildable because of the spring steel plates that hold the little balls in position. Either NOS or not rusty i...

I just sold it for you Hank. Mike will be getting ahold of you. Those are great carbs, They are one my top five list of great T Carbs. #1. All around best. Stromberg OF #2. Best for zoom. U & J 3. Best for quick acceleration, trouble free, excellent all around Zenith s4BF 4. Second only to Stromberg...

Keith Townsend in Gresham would be a great place to start. He knows the area and the market, has been a T guy for about 200 years, I think.

I've listed this a couple times before, finally took some better photos of the outside of the body, the other ones I had disappeared somehow. I will load them in two posts and have more if you want some via email. Anyway, nice complete touring body, doors are excellent, cowl is OK, back panel that i...

Hi Ron,
Stan Howe in Helena. I've heard your name a few times but haven't met you as far as I know.

If you get down this way, give me a shout. I have a lot of T stuff, some in town and some out in the country.

That pan jig will be a challenge.

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Early Flywheel engines used those on virtually every engine. The places that deal in parts for them have a variety of sizes and designs. Might try them.

Ryan, I am back in the shop today. I ran out of phone/internet service a few days ago and have been gone taking care of some other business. I finally got a new phone and the Internet working last night although I lost a bunch of messages, Texts and some photos in changing over from Verizon to T Mob...

I'll take that tire pump. Tim, I'll paypal you the money and send and email also. Stan Howe

Tom, I forwarded him all the info I found for him. Never heard anything back.

If I were you I'd go ahead nda list it for sale, not worry about who has first dibbies or anything. Thanks for the info.

Thanks, he is in Kalispell so not too far away. I have had a couple other messages, I'll forward them all to him and he can go from there. I probably have another guy interested in yours if he isn't.

Stan Howe

Stuart Little was his first Children's book. I think in about 1947. Charlotte's Web -- as I recall -- came out in 1952. We used to have a program on Public Radio called Listener's Bookstall. I recorded just a chapter or so of Charlotte's Web for them probably 20 years ago. Now I wish I had taken tim...

I burn it. Use it for fire starter. If there is anything left of it at all. If you put it in a parts cleaner with some water and a little soap in it the solids and junk pretty much settles out and it lasts and lasts and lasts and lasts.

Make 4 disks from plywood that are snug in the housings. Drill a 1/8 inch centered hole in each one. When you have the sleeves out, press the wooden disks in, bolt the housings together and look through the hole. If you can seen all the way through your housings are straight. If they aren't you need...

There is a lot of information out there, it's not that big a job once you get everything apart and cleaned up. One thing I do that will get you vilified by some and applauded by others is setting the ring and pinion clearance. There is no real way to get accurate readings with the bearing setup that...

Agitene. Five gallon can last time I bought some was about $90. Cleans very well, evaporates slowly but well enough to air dry parts. Very low flamability. Stoddard solvent. Available here from any oil distributor. Five gallon can about $50. Works well, not as good as Agitene but good for a parts wa...

His name was Elwyn Brooks White. Born July 11, 1899, Died Oct 1, 1985.
Graduated Cornell 1921. Worked at New Yorker magazine.
Wrote Farewell My Lovely as an essay in 1936, published as author Lee Stout White in the New Yorker. He later expanded it to a small book under his real name.

He also wrote Charlotte's Web, one of the best children's books of all time. Trumpet of the Swan followed but was never as popular as Charlotte. In a former life I taught grade school. I read Charlotte's Web to the kids at least 17 times, we all cried when Charlotte died. Not that this has anything ...

Just met a new T guy via a phone call a few minutes ago. 26 Coupe, rebuilding it, has a Prus engine, having the wheels done at Callimers, new top, etc., looking for a Ruckstell, preferably rebuilt but a builder if that's all he can find. Located in Kalispell, about 4 hours from me. Invited him to se...

About twenty years ago I bought a big box of gaskets at an auction in South Dakota that turned out to have about 25 new Victor head gaskets individually sealed in cellophane and on a Victor backing board. It took me a couple years to sell 20 of them on ebay for $25 each, I thought I'd really cut a f...

It also helps when you contact somebody about buying a specific carb and want the best of the best, restored with an adjustable jet, etc., that you expect it to be expensive. It also helps if you give them some idea of what your budget is, what you are looking for ---- Big Zoom, a little more power,...

Kevin is right

This is a great service to the hobby. The crap some of the vendors have been selling for years had the tips cut on a form cutter and a very small feed hole. Scott's are a great improvement. True they are several dollars more than the cheap ones but which would you rather have, one the works right or...

Put a tag on it. Take it to the post office and they will charge you $2.90 for a non machinable item. They will print a tag, put it in a sack, put the tag on the sack and insure it for whatever you want. I've done everything from fenders to tires to an engine block that way. The post office will mai...

Thank you. It is a great school and very well supported by the community. There are a lot of good schools everywhere and a lot of great kids. The media tends to focus on the bad ones. Rural Montana presents its own challenges with distance & economy, many schools have combined sports programs with o...

I got a pm from a forum member -- not snarky, just curious -- as to whether Ayden is a real cowboy or just dresses like it. He and his dad and younger brother all Team Rope, Ayden is ranked. They own a couple nice ranches. He is also a licensed pilot and flies his families 210 and Mooney as well as ...

I have two of these, only need one, this one is either NOS or close to it. Back in the days of bad gas, weak batteries and cold weather, this would have been a life saver if it did what it said it would. I've never tried it but I'm sure it would help. $150 including priority mail shipping in the US....

Here is a hard one to find, bought this awhile back and decided I want a set of Sure Stop Brakes for my Coupe worse than I need this. Took it apart and guess what. New Old Stock. Unfortunately, like most of the early pot metal, the piece that controls the governor part of it has swelled up and crack...

Well, I'm sorry I posted the same photo twice but it won't let me delete it because all I can get is a screen that says "Sorry, you can not delete a post that has been replied to."

So it goes.

I spent the weekend blizzard digging through shelves and boxes trying to straighten up my shop and find some things to sell to add to my "Sure Stop Brakes for my Coupe," account. Here is the first one. Nice example of the popular and unique Air Friction Carburetor. I bead blasted the outside and ran...

Emma

Sorry, I posted the wrong one of Ayden and Kylie. Here is the one I intended to post.

Well, it's pretty off topic I suppose but the kids in Twin Bridges and my sister's grandchildren seem to me to be a lot like we were growing up 60+++ years ago. Busy, capable, courteous and ambitious. The school in Twin Bridges has things that are unheard of in a lot of places. A dress code that inc...

Note that the one Scott makes is solid brass with a viton tip and is heavy enough to pull away from the seat if your gas is slightly sticky.
Nothing will work in old shellacky gas.

I could write a bunch about this but won't . What I will say is that the school my kids went to still has an active shop class and program. EVERY student beginning in 7th grade takes shop for two years or more. Learn to identify 150 tools, mechanic and woodworking, and use them. They learn to change...

Great save. Anybody can build a new one. Saving old is what I like.

Just take the bolts out of one side. Most of those trunk lids ended up as sleds in the 30's.
They make a great sled, were easy to get off, two boys could twist one out in thirty seconds!

Where is this?

Probably just like the poorly made and worthless needles and seats for NH carburetors made a few years ago that were form cut instead of ground.
Higher profit for the maker. No concern about what the quality was.

Interesting!! I've never seen but one or two Roof heads. Also interesting is the carb on the one Steve Meixner posted. That is either a U5 or U6 Zenith. Great carbs with a brass venturi. Hard to find that aren't all beat up and missing stuff. I am working on one for an overhead setup for some body i...

I never even thought that you would think that was directed at you, Terry.
Everybody knows who the world's greatest expert is, I assumed you did too.

Sorry if you took it that way.

Carb sold in less than an hour. Thanks!
Thanks to MTFCA for this site.

Silver solder is strong enough to hold Air Conditioning Compressor pressure on the high side for cooling, which cycles from high pressure to higher pressure for years without leaking or failing. Lead/Tin solder is strong enough to hold 99 % of the radiators in the world together under heated water c...

Probably somewhere between "Rare" and "Not too common." I just bought a couple of them yesterday, have probably 4 or 5 of them on the shelf. They came in various sizes and were popular with the racing crowd. They are better for racers than for everyday driving. They came out in the late teens and we...

So yesterday I had a young guy come that wanted to learn how to rebuild his NH. I knew he'd been coming for awhile so I had set aside this NH as a good one for rebuild. He also brought two along. I got this one awhile back attached to an ASKE pre-heater manifold, it looked in excellent condition exc...

THAT IS JUST COOL!!!!! I HAD FORGOTTEN THAT MIKE ROBISON IN SPOKANE HAD A 16 VALVE (if I ever knew)

David, I am not buying carbs much anymore. I bought a Master the other day because it had the correct original manifold for it. Hope to have it sold and paid for before Christmas, I am trying to round up money for a set of Sure Stop brakes for my coupe. I'm gaining on the pile, cranking them out day...

John is off hunting so I'll just tell you what little I know about it. That is an A head, the first of the Roof 16 valve heads. The intake manifold bolts to the side of the block, the exhaust to the side of the head. It was replaced by the B, then the BB, then the C. The C is worth several times wha...

John Steele has several of those 16 valve heads and reproduced the racing manifolds for them several years ago.

If you want his contact information email me at stanhowemt@aol.com and I will hook you up.

Also, you should sell me that Carburetor!!!!

Hey Tim, is the bowl good on the two screw?? A lot of them are cracked and nobody is making repros anymore.

I the bowl is good I'd buy them. Stanhowemt@aol.com

That's just so COOL!!!!!

I have a little jig that hooks over the side of the bowl to position the hole, drill it #29, thread it 8-32, make a grub screw to screw into it. Someday somebody will be going through all the special jigs and etc I made for these carbs and be saying, "What do you suppose this goofy looking thing is?...

My SO has been a small town/rural carrier for almost twenty years. She has to has constant evaluations by somebody from "evaluation" teams who ride in the back of the van and time how long it takes to move from one mailbox to the next. They are never there when it's thirty below with the wind out of...

They don't salt anything here. They do use some chloride spray.
Pretty much everybody here has 4x4 outfits or all wheel drive.
Subaru is the number one seller in Montana after Ford F150.
Learn to drive is the Mantra.

Closeup!!!

My yard Saturday morning. Sorry I didn't go wade through over a foot of new snow to take a pic of the coupe!

Been working all morning on getting some of these ready for assembly. Already had them bead blasted and passages drilled, just polished most of them, te-tapped all the threaded holes, resurfaced all the mating surfaces including where the seat screws into the bottom of the bowl which is almost alway...

I wouldn't have bought it if I didn't believe the seller.

On the other hand, I read people for a living. Knowing whether they are going to bid again or not by their eyes and their face.

Mostly, I believe what people tell me.

I have a couple manifold heaters, one will go in my Coupe. They throw a lot of heat compared to nothing.

I'll try to post a photo of two.

I would definitely want to do some testing before I dumped it in a brass carburetor . Plus a lot of the time I don't have time to fool with things. I need to get it done and move on to the next one. Time is money but some days a lot of time isn't much money. I do all this work on flat fee, if I can ...

It's pretty good here but there are a lot of background things going on we don't think about. One here is the number of Amazon shipments coming in to rural America. They are all treated as priority and there is so much volume that the carriers are swamped. Where they used to have mail for only a per...

Rebuild used to mean a set of rings and a valve grind. That's what I assume when somebody says "rebuilt."

I figure anything beyond that is a bonus.

Yeah, I probably could have fooled around for half a day trying to get the broken piece of the easy out removed and still would have had to get the idle jet out. The broken part of the easy out was the size of a toothpick. This is actually a fairly common problem. Often that is why it is on ebay or ...

It is early winter here. We are 15 miles from the Continental divide at 4000 feet, 175 miles from Canada. Tonight and the weekend are going to be a major storm, a foot of snow, wind, 5 above F by tomorrow morning. Full of propane, antifreeze checked in all the vehicles, going to go look for my winte...

This wasn't a tap, it was a broken Easy Out down in a hole. My experience with them is that by the time somebody breaks off an Easy Out they have already ruined the head or slot you need to screw it out with. The first one of these I did probably took me all afternoon, this is probably the tenth one...

I know I typed fell instead of feel but I had so much trouble posting this I am afraid to try to edit it.

Back to the shop, back to the shop, I just wasted nearly an hour posting this.

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Waste of time!!!!

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This has been sitting here for awhile, finally came up in the queue. Been doing OF's all week, making parts and trying to get some done and in the mail. Finally got back to the shop early last week after fall auction season and doing some needed work at the ranch, beat the snowstorm but not the cold...

Yeah, I pretty much like them in work clothes. My attitude is that anybody can restore them, it's hard to find an original. The paint has oxidized some from sitting outside for two years but it will clean up, I think, to where it looks like it would have in the 40's when it was just an old Ford, whi...

I have at least two . One is a commercial unit, the other is home made using timer rollers for the weights.

Very ingenious!

That is not to say I could find either one of them in this mess.

It had a new wood kit for the top partly installed but was missing some pieces. I will make new pieces and have looking for an old green army tarp to cover with. The interior will be worn blue jeans and it will get a Hoover Box where the trunk is. All original except the fenders were brush painted s...

Perry, I've heard there is a guy in Montana that's pretty good but is old and fat and lazy, hard to get him to do anything. I'll probably get one if those guys who wipes em off with an oily rag and calls em restored. =) The picture is from Friday night. We got a foot of snow Friday and Saturday. It ...

Listed this last spring, guy was all hot to buy it but never sent any money or showed up so it's for sale. It is sitting outside and I'd like to see it go to a good home before it spends another winter full of snow. I have more photos if you need them. I may have to take more of it from the side and...

2020 10 20 Model Coupe snow.jpg Hoping to get it inside and start working on the top and upholstery, do a little carb switch to something that runs better and build a Hoover Box for the back where the trunk used to be. Also going to install my manifold heater, new wiring and upgrade to LED bulbs. A...

Is there suddenly some huge shortage of rear end housings?? I guess I fail to see the problem with cutting off an inch of a housing in order to install safety hubs. I've probably got 40 or 50 sets of housings and a dozen complete rear ends if there is a shortage. But then I'm not the absolute expert...

James is right. The G is the best all around Ford supplied carburetor -- I don't care what the experts say. Big bowl for plenty of reserve going up a hill. Starts easily, runs great, idles fine and if you want really great idle it is easy to modify it to make an adjustable idle control. Ford didn't ...

Before you spend money on a Ruckstell or Warford, buy a good timer and a set of coils rebuilt by somebody who knows what he is doing. Then buy a new timer to power them. Buy or borrow a good accessory carburetor. Go drive the car. Be realistic about the power you have and the power you need. It is a...

Before you spend money on a Ruckstell or Warford, buy a good timer and a set of coils rebuilt by somebody who knows what he is doing. Then buy a new timer to power them. Buy or borrow a good a accessory carburetor. Go drive the car. Be realistic about the power you have and the power you need. It is...

I've had a couple with distributors on them. Seems like it takes too much away from it being a T if you don't have coils to beat on or cuss at on a tour. Can't hear them on my current 27 coupe but on the older ones I like to hear them singing going down the road, too. I also don't like Rocky Mountai...

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