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Thanks for those pics Ralph. That is quite the flywheel — gonna be tough to mount my magnets though...

Scott has got that right. The A wheels were never made to be mounted the way they are with the adapters I have seen, just plain wrong. There is a way that will work.
21 A wheels are around 25-35 around here.

My 26 Coupe has a set of them on it. Along with the tie rod springs and the spring perch tie downs. The shackles are also installed backwards. I jacked it up to check and everything is pretty loose, including the spokes!! It really does not drive all that bad. However, my next project is the rebuild the front axle.

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About 1953 or so a house burnt down in our town. There were parked in the yard a 24 Star and a 22 Dodge. The man who had lived there said a friend of mine and I could have them if we hauled them away. The titles to both cars were burnt with the house. Well, I liked the Dodge Roadster and my friend liked the Star, so we agreed that I would take the...

Performance Tire located on Cherry in Long Beach is a supporter of the Model Club. The Long Beach club has helped them out with their Thanksgiving charity event in recent years. I have purchased from them and also Lucas which is very close as well. The tubes from Lucas are the absolute best deal of the Year!! I've always used non Skids on the...

The ball type float valves are notorious for sticking. Do as Dan says, get one of Scott's valves.

The inventor of the digital camera is actually a friend of mine. Come in our Museum from time to time. I remind him it’s a fad on a regular basis. 😀

It's next Friday, so it hasn't happened. It's not the last one either. They have announced that it will continue.

:)
Enjoy this time best as you can.
And what Dom said. ^

Ron,

That would make a good display at the museum. Don't forget the rocks.

Thanks Jeff ...I was able to get the Deck lid off ..... Thanks again ... Joe

Neat! From a parade float standpoint, that Thomas is fantastic! Although personally,I would rather see the car! Under those conditions, I would say coming in second was not a loss.
Great stuff Rob! Thank you.

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Yes it did. It is better than I did with Photoshop.
Thanks

Ring is still shown in Lang’s online catalog. Give em a call.

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Sent you a PM

Try again.

To 1923 T
If you’ve never been to a swap meet and if you something that you need or like and the price is reasonable, you had better buy it then or fairly soon.
If you don’t it will be gone!
Lots of fun looking for T treasure. And remember that one mans trash is another mans treasure!
Good luck.

Leo, good picks showing the progression of Ford’s racers. Thank you for posting them.

Below the progression between the first, and second (of three) six cylinder racers is shown. The first shows Henry Ford at the wheel of the first Ford Six racer on the sand at Ormond Beach, FL , early 1905. Longtime Ford employee Alex Degener is also in the...

Yapp did not drill the steam holes which caused the head gaskets to blow, mostly to the outside but some times to the inside. Roy from Calgary bought one of the three I bought and hauled across the border. Like me, he ground and ground on it, painted it and put it on his speedster, first morning of the tour he blew the head gasket about 20 miles...

I don't recognize it. Bob, I would be interested in some photos of the parts you got. I'm always looking for parts, especially Stromberg and zenith.
One of the great finds at chickasha several years ago was a drawer case of nos Stromberg and zenith parts.
I just used a zenith needle and seat out of it for a zenith U5 a day or two ago.
Best tho....

looks like there could be a real roadster body under all that junk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!charley

The official name for the stability disc is Tool Holder Assembly and the current part number was TA-950. The old part number for this was TA-B1130A.
As you probably know its serves two purposes- 1) a stabilizer for the facing tool and 2) a tool extension for large bores that were past the range of a long toolbit. With the tool mic at zero and on...

If you want to see from the front do as Jim Davis suggested above and turn the cap around so it faces the front.(I do the same thing). It's not a sealed system.
David;
I never said it had a front or back which it does. The recess that holds the plates is to the front and the disk with the temp scale would of course face the driver. I did say the...

Bo-Zero that is a very handy article, thanks for posting it. Useful for more than just T magnets.

Sorry to hear that the swap meet is cancelled but I think that was a good choice, everything will be a year older next year and worth more.

Model A reflectors are very different; for one thing, they clip into the headlight bucket and are not spring loaded like the T ones. These are fairly uncomon, not being used very long. The upper bulb is actually a parking lamp bulb, but could be used (I suppose) as a Low beam bulb.

I sent Tony an note already Ron !

the gas does flow out the disconnected gas line at the carburetor so, probably dirt or stuck needle valve or dirt. Thanks to all of you for your input.
John

Great idea to secure the horse shoes to the inside of the pan, Bob. If the block is still secured to the pan, it would be a good idea to soak horse shoes in solvent as well as thoroughly clean the inside surface of the pan opening, all around, from underneath, with lacquer thinner to remove all oil and dirt. Apply Black sealant to one horse shoe...

Probably a fire box on the wall.

Keith: As you can see from your own pictures, your speedometer is missing the shaft. I would take the two best examples you have and ship them to Russ for repair. If you need to see a nice looking example, there is one on ebay for $400 that has been on it for weeks.

that has a newer date on it than mine.

The E-Timer is an Electronic Timer for the Model T housed in a high quality reproduction Ford timer case and is immune to timing cover misalignment. It uses the original coils and original wiring without any modifications to the car or wiring. The coil points are bypassed with tiny fuse jumpers so you don't have to bother with coil point...

Not sure what the 3 are but the next 5 are for cutting pockets for valve seat inserts. The piece in the bottom row, left is for setting the cutters on the pocket cutters. There is a lot more to the setup. Some of those pieces are worth a few bucks. You would need a lot more to make it work then what is there. I had a portable Ko-lee setup that was...

Its confirmed Thursday morning I will be leaving Pittsburgh with an empty trailer headed south of Miami.

Some really interesting photos. I liked the photo of the 2 American Underslungs. The railroad inspection car is a Royal Tourist.

Dan

A t will start and run at 30 below.
I do not.
I will have an exhaust heater in the coupe when I get a top on it.
Sounds like fun for about a day.

If the pandemic continues to worsen I think you've just seen the tip of the iceberg as far as cancellations. The last time something like this happened was 1918 and no one is around today who lived thru that. I was due to leave on a chartered cruise on Wednesday. The cruise was cancelled by the group who chartered the ship and the cruise company...

Thanks for trying, anyway. The thought is much appreciated. See you out there, if the social media hoaxers don't succeed in total disruption of the country and the New Black Death needlessly keeps everyone at home. :roll: :roll: :roll:

Amen to that. The stupidity of this thing is hurting my brain.

We'll be in attendance....ready to look at...

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Found an address for the Times Square Automobile Co. in an old add which did not Copy/paste but it was on the South-West corner of 56th street and Broadway, New York, New York, took a look with streetvieuw and there is nothing recognisable left there, all concrete highrises, bummerrr ;)
Was curious if there was something left but nope, nada,...

I am very happy to hear the good news about your problem,Russ.
You are in my thoughts !!
Pete Ratledge

Bob,
You can bet this journey will be the fastest that ol' baggage cart has ever traveled!
I have one very much like the one pictured that I'm replacing the wood in. Right now I'm trying to get the courage to make the mortise and tennon joints there are about 20 of them!
A bit of trivia for you.....at about 10 feet long its deck is about the same...

Cool, front wheel drive burnout. :lol:

Nice Job!!

Looks to be a pretty hot load to crumble apart while dumping. I bet the had to beat it into the form.

Bill Elliot shows an original short strap with serrated buckle from his '14 Ford along with new ones from Classtique in the link below:

I believe Classtique puts a snap on one end so you can run a nail or screw through it hen you fasten it to the bottom of the seat. It keeps the strap from opening up and splitting or breaking.

The ones I got for my T from ledlight.com are
6V-24V A/C or D/C if I recall....
They also have lots of other choices and are not that expensive.

Please recall that after Victor stopped producing reliable headgaskets, the problem wasn't the copper, it was the core. Steve Coniff did research on this subject, and found the black core they use for modern headgaskets needed to be used.

DSC03220 (Small).JPG Here's mine made from Poplar. So close they'd only fit this car. Your problem is no eng/trans in place. I'd definitely wait for it to be back in place. Anything else would be a crap shoot.

You have good eyes Rich, looks like there's a belt running over the 'flywheel'
Good thing they didn't have speedbumps in those days :lol:

If you are short on funds or cannot get it exchanged, it can be made to fit simply by machining off the lip on the spool. This is a one way fix though, and vandalised an original part. I'm sure it was done back in the days to get a fix done.

Allan from down under.

Larry,

Scott & Erik would probably know.

FJ

To tighten a grade 2 bolt after the slot has been ground down and the head smoothed to the size of the rivet, use a bolt that is 1” longer than necessary. Holding the threaded side above the nut with needle nose vice grips, thread on an all steel lock nut and run it up to the vice grips until you can grab the threaded end below the nut with needle...

More photos of the prototype on Royce's great website:

John, Interesting comment on the castor oil.
I have an original Faultless board track racer with a 16 valve Type C ROOF overhead.
When I asked what the previous owner had used for lubricating the valve system I was told the
Ford oil can on the firewall had always been filled with castor oil for this purpose.
There is a thin (and in places a not...

Thanks Don, I’d like to have them restored by then. I’d prefer something a little sooner, but I’ll be in touch if nothing sooner pops up.

Thank you all for your help. I now have more than one search option for accessing older, pre 2019 threads. Jim Patrick

We really need Holley NH Carbs and that is what we are mostly taking. We will give full core charge for complete carbs. The bodies need to be in good condition no cracks. We will also take Kingston L4 cores as well.

Also we are looking for coil box cores as well. Good windings and good condition wood. Bring them as well!

I will say that this is another of my favorite photos and very popular. It was posted:
buy me 6/7/19
by Herb 3/9/16
by Jay 3/4/15
There are so many great photos that we forget them. I remember this one because I thought of doing a painting of it. It reminds me much of the one Herb posted of a model S and Doctor Pagel who Rob discovered.
It...

I think it may be a 1929 Studebaker President. The radiator shell looks very much like the picture below, particularly the oval crank hole / cover and the panel in the lower part of the shell.

Dan

All of that beautiful work makes me think about needing a speedster to put it on.

Then I come back to Earth and remember the two other (non Model T) old cars in my stable that need attention first and the Vega Kammback that I want to build. So I'll just be happy to drool instead.

John E and/or other Model T'rs
Find a thread titled - Period image Tire art - dated 7 21 2010 at 5.06pm. Author was Benjamin L Clarke Sidney MT. It is of an electric motor of about 100hp, Could be a General Electric motor stator of about 1950 vintage. For memory you could see the coil leads sticking out ready to be connected after all the coils...

Pep,

I may need some time to sort this.

I believe my starter is 5/8” shaft. It has the square switch with the cable to the rear but it isn’t Abell. The flywheel is multi disk and not stepped. Gas tank date is 10/5, a Twin Cities build.

for the fun of it :

if you added material instead of milling, you would need a theoretical disc of metal 3.75 diameter by .130 thick to bring the compression ratio from 5.3 to 1, to 6.0 to 1.

Steve, I believe that it was electroplated, I missed some of the rust inside the clincher. The coating did not cover the rust, I'll be a little more careful next time, 20200309_110029.jpg 20200309_105906.jpg

Well that explains something I have wondered about.
Back in the T era there were crankshafts made with 1-3/8” crank pins. The advertising implied that they could be used with T rods, and now I understand that this is true!!
Further I have one of these cranks!!

SORRY!! Brain fart! Wrong section!

I am using mainly the axle gears, the spider, and the spider gears. The 3 legs of the spider need to be ground down shorter to fit in the Ruckstell carrier. New axles, a variety of new Ruckstell parts (thankyou Chaffins!), and reusing what I can from the old Ruckstells. Had to break down one rear assembly to get an early right half housing to...

Dean,

As many as you can - just take that car on your daily drives - if anything major is going to happen it probably will be within 100 miles or so of local stop and go trips don’t you think ?

FJ

Loved it...they should have this show two times a year...Thanks for the great time...

Oregon and Washington are on track to set the clocks and leave them be, just waiting on California then Fed approval. All three stated have to be on board before it can move ahead for approval.

Contact AACA Headquarters in Hershey and they can tell you approximately when this was produced. There were several versions of it made over the years.
Terry

It is mindbogling as to the wast knowledge of the men and women on this website. Every time someone asks about something rare someone seems to come up with the answer right away and most times even has one of those or knows where to get one. Love it. Frank

I am unable to attend so please mail me a piece of pizza...it will fit in an envelope!

Tony,
I guess in one way or the other you took the picture! :lol:

U P S UNITED PARCEL SMASHERS

I have never seen one before.
You could make your money back by renting it out!

Well,....I'm guessing that because TT trucks were used for all kinds of things that involved pumping fluids, like water (fire fighting equipment) or fuel (as in tank truck) I'm thinking that the most common need for such a power take-off would be to drive a pump.

Winton will return to Grosse Point track and set more records in November of 1901. Henry Ford is present as an official timer, but for an unknown reason doesn’t run “Sweepstakes.” In mid November, Ford issues the world speed record holder Henri Fournier this challenge:

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At the end of 1901, Winton and...

Hum,it has to be better than that gross valve I tried once. Once I got that #*#*$*# thing out of my carbureter,it is 1 of very few things I can honestly say I FLUNG it as far as I could into the neighbors woods so I would not find it again!
The other thing was a pair of chineseism vise grips I threw in our woods,later found when clearing for my...