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Hi Lucas,
Levers that will not stay in place can be cured with a lever brake. Easy to make, I use a hard wood, drill the steering shaft hole larger than the
shaft & the lever hole smaller than the rods. Drill the bolt holes & then cut in half with a band or hack saw. I like the wing nuts because you
don't need a wrench to make quick adjustments....

Model A bumpers have closed outer ends through which a bolt passes. T ones are open ended.

Allan from down under.

THANK YOU !

I have another question that I have not been able to find online or on this forum and it is regarding the top irons, not to be confused with the bows. The short irons that were in my 1918 Roadster connected the body at the tackstrip to the wood on the B pillar and did not connect to the seat frame area like others I have seen. Which irons are...

Here are typical Multi-Spark firing consistency results of 4 properly adjusted coils using a HCCT by an experienced HCCT user. 100 sparks are fired at the rate of 2000 RPM. The computer keeps track of the time each spark fires and plotted on graph for each coil. The firing distribution results may vary a fair amount each time the test is repeated...

Excellent Terry. With the folded seams on the inside of the two shells, they will fit pressed steel ends precisely. However the cast end mufflers will still require an external fold on the outside shell. I have one being made to fit at the moment. Those I have in stock for the pressed end mufflers I make are too small in diameter for the cast end...

Except for the steering gears at the top of the column, I think that I did at least something to every moving connection in the steering system. The one thing that I didn't expect was that the bottom support for the column and the column itself had a lot of slop. When I removed the column I found that the column had protected the bushings by...

The guy that originally reproduced the Rocky Mountain brakes name is Jack Sunderlin. I knew him well and have some of his stuff on one of my cars.
He did live in Downey on Farm St. He had little mechanical ability, but lots of resources to do things. Where he really messed up, was he assumed wrongly the Bennett equalizer, which used rods would...

The color was matched from the back of the dashboard and is (we think) Fawn Gray. You just might see this one at Old Car Festival this year.
Eric

As the owner of a '21 centerdoor I will attest to they are not an easy restoration or build. The 1915 centerdoor is a very unusual car, not recommended for a first restoration.

My general assessment of the scale of difficulty and cost of restorations. Actual results will vary greatly.
Easiest (cheapest):
Speedster - but could become the hardest...

I have had string-packed water pumps leak air in at higher engine speeds and not leak water out when stopped. That does a great job of simulating a boilover with a non-pressurized system, even when the engine never actually reaches 212. It's also a good way to crack a valve seat.