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Very nice truck, glad to see that you get it out!

I saw few Model Ts in Minneapolis in the years before WWII. My dad moved us to Minneap[olis 1946. When I bought my 1910 in 1946 and at the age of 14 drove it around the neighborhood, It attracted much attention. I bought a Center door in 1947 for $25 and drove it to school.. The only Model Ts I saw were ones put away in garages or offered for...

I don't know about the mag gears but hey, from a fellow Cedar Rapids model T er.

The first picture looks like they were waiting for a gusher to come in. I wonder if it did.

Hot sun, I'd guess. I can't tell where that location was, but it looks like there are some sort of spires or conical roof structures in the far distance and slightly to the right of the roadway. The 'Old Dallas County Courthouse has a number of similar structures around the rooftop. It was built in the 1890s. If those are part of it, the street is...

If the glass is too tight in the channel, making it hard to roll up, that can cause the glass to tilt or try to jam. the lifting mechanism, as pointed out above, does not push straight upward on the glass during most of its travel. The glass should roll up fairly smoothly and easily. A great many door glasses will try to tilt or bind if they are...

83! What a milestone.
It looks like a great group of cars. Something for everyone.
Rich

I have a couple availalbe - they're the screw in type.

I would NEVER redo a coil for what folks charge retail for the work...it is a gift to the hobby.

Lang's has a limited number of new copper head gaskets in stock with a bunch more expected soon !

Thanks George - hell of a turnout !

The reproduction bowel I bought was tested with water, however with gasoline would leak and I had to fit a shutoff valve between it and the tank.

Interesting to me is the seemingly different width of the street in the two pictures. The original looks much wider than the current image. Guess that's what a wide angle cellphone lens does.

only 9 days left to submit photos for the 2023 Model T Calendar. The Calendar link is also now on the website if you wanted to preorder a calendar. There will be a limited number printed. Thank you so far for all the great photos submitted!

Don't worry, I won't wash off any patina. :D The only patina is the F-111 Red primer showing in many spots. :D

An interesting photo to be sure. Of the fourteen or fifteen cars that can be seen? One of them is a very light color , nearly white! I wonder what the car is?

Awesome! Thanks for keeping the tradition going !

The lug nuts are from WW 2 jeeps. I have a couple of them and would be interested in buying the 5 from you if you are interested in selling them. $1.00 a piece.
Thanks.
John
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Tyler, I tried to send you a PM, but I don't know if I did it correctly. You can email me at bruce.ardith@gmail.com.

Bruce

Yes. A small bead of “The Right Stuff” (my preference) or “Ultra Black” black RTV, between the rubber seal and the lip of the steel window frame will not hurt. Don’t use so much that it squeezes out. If a little does squeeze out, you can gently remove it from the glass with a new, very sharp razor after it cures. They make a fast drying type and...

Well I got the scope I also made some adjustments. Take a look at my thread Getting Rattles Back on the Road.

Take a look You'll laugh you'll cry. You may call me a bone head. LOL

Here's a few photos of ours.

Rob, don’t forget to leave a 1/4 inch of window down so you won’t suffocate. I slept in my vw bug off the highway many years ago and the highway patrol knocked on my window at three in the morning. When I opened the window there was a sucking sound. A nother hour or two and I would have suffocated in my sleep. Just thinking.

This is the stuff.

Yes. At landfall, they recorded storm surges of up to 12 feet. That is enough to cover a Model T and the first floor of the average home. Jim Patrick

Snubbers were basically friction type shock absorbers. Many early ones were friction devices which acted to control, or snub, spring rebound. Later versions, like the Hartford units, were double acting. Hydraulic shocks (snubbers) are far superior to friction types. Springs alone do little to absorb and dissipate road shock, which allows the...

Interesting that the second to last picture, gassing up the center door from the passenger side. You would have to bring the hose across so much of the interior. Guess the pumps are on the curb side so you would have to? Cannot go against traffic......
Thank you so much for posting the pictures!!!
Rich

For Instructions on in car magneto recharge put this link in your favorites.

The weather was kind to us for the week but no place to hang around after all was done and dusted, well no dust really, just another 4 inches of rain on it's way :o

Thanks looks like I got a pile of nos front shackle links.

I don't know how close you may be to a school with a mechanical education shop but you may suggest they put the car together with a share of the sales price for the completed car when sold. Even a model T club may be an avenue to look into.
I would prefer to have a complete car from original with parts and numbers that match. If it were closer...

I'd stay away from used parts in this case. It would be very difficult to get a used ring & pinion set up and adjusted exactly as they were set up when last run, and any other adjustment is likely to result in excess noise and rapid wear. Mixing used gears often results in problems, and replacing just one gear out of a used set with a new one is...

Tractor, stationary engine maybe truck. The fuel mixture needle is not setup to be adjustable from the seat, so my guess is the first two.

The original bulbs were 9 volts, in series 18 volts resistance and the mag rarely reached that voltage at normal driving. Most bulbs today are 6 volts and pared will only attain a 12 volt resistance, still OK if you don't rev it too high. For an added safety a third 6 volt bulb can be wired in series into the circuit for a total of 18 volts...

Mel Miller spent some time in the movie industry he was in Hawaii 50 as Dano's double, whenever there was a fight scene or rolling in the mud that was Mel not Dano. He was also in a movie with Elliot Gould and Candice Bergen in GETTING STRAIGHT, he was a bartender and said about a dozen words in the movie. He lived in Albany Oregon until the end...

My apologies! I did not catch that small difference in brackets.

that bump at the bottom is a countersunk hole for (I recall), a #12 x 3/4 screw. The bump up is a rivet hold that the cowl rivets to...and the small holes around the square hole are also for flathead rivets to the cowl...with the square hole for a carriage bolt to the steel...

Oil Boom. Sleepy farm town becomes an ongoing riot overnight.

I always bend the other tab up a little bit, the bend it the rest of the way with a large pair of water pump pliers.

Other directions have noted the starter shaft can be bent by hitting that tab with a hammer to compete the bend.

I would be very tempted to carefully remove the original mounting brackets, fill rivet holes etc. Then take common model T post mounts, remove the rusty beyond salvage buckets, and reshape the posts to a nice goose neck to hold the drums lower and more forward. Position those under these drums rotated to hold straight up and down for the lenses...

My upholstery came from Carters Cut & Cover back in 1980. I don't have the instructions anymore, but they were worthless anyway.

Car belongs to. Brian Andrews. He did a nice job with it. Been on many tours with him driving this car.

One of the Telephone Operators was one of two that almost hit us on West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz two years ago. And to boot, the Driver of that car was the same person who screams in and out of our Mobile home park dropping off two kids at a baby sitters house daily.....and I have screamed at her as she drove by at 25 mph in a 5 MPH zone w kids...

Thank you all for the information

Lukas, thanks for Bud's email address. I'm always surprised at the great willingness to help here in the forum. This is a big help for me as a newbie in this Hibby, especially here in Switzerland.

I will take some time to write down all my brake questions and then contact Bud.

Many greetings from Switzerland

Thanks, I believe it was late 2016. We got our '21 Touring in September that year. I was working on finishing the restoration and had planned to drive it for the first time on July 18, 2017 but another driver crossed the center and hit me head-on that day (I was driving our 1956 Ford F100) when I was coming home from work. I was in two different...

Snyders seems to have LED's that I believe are for both head and tail lamps, as well as multiple voltages. Some aren't cheap. But take a look at them. I'm not ready to make the move just yet, I drive my brass cars mostly so obviously wouldn't work! And seldom drive st night even in the '25 Fordor.

Michael,... don’t do it. Too overbalanced. Here’s a few pics of a TT tool box on the T Party... doubles as a bench. Have other pics. They wouldn’t load. Bench seat hinges up and 2 slide out drawers both side.

Model T folks, whether you’re a MTFCA member or not - stop by the MTFCA booth at C4Q 37 - 39 area for a visit.
There’ll be 5 Club Directors there, a couple Model Ts, a chair to rest and some water.
The Director hosting the 2023 National Tour in Manhattan, Kansas ( Stu Tomlinson) will be there to tell you about the great time
He’s got planned for...

Grant,
My '27 Roadster has 1/4 carriage bolts with thin hex nuts.

In my hunble opinion, Surf city Gene got it right, in 60 some years of assembling engines, the use of first GE silicone, and then, and way better, Right Stuff has made habitual leakers, dry. David Sullivan, Bellingham WA

Driving your T with a slipping low speed will heat the drum up fairly quick and with Kevlar bands they will heat the drum up pretty quick with it slipping.

Something will give and it won’t be the Kevlar low speed band material. Transmission drums are around 300.00 and up,depending who you buy from plus the extra fun you’ll have pulling the...

Got it Thanks agian.

Hap and all - I actually have the full version - now copied to my PC - from the CD I was given personally by Bruce at Chickasha in 2010. I got him to sign my then new copy of the black book but did not think of asking him doing the same on the CD cover :-)

Copenhagen (and Denmark) came through the war relatively intact. Yes there where bombings,...

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Often when we least expect them. I often get a chuff from one car even after sitting for days and a free start 1 out of 16 times or so. The other 4 hardly ever. The engines don't always stop at the same place. Momentum, temperature and the phase of the moon have something to do with it.
Rich

I'd venture to say that Jack Johnson was twice the man that the newspaper writer was.

Dan, Oops!! I should have remembered the 9/26 post.

When using custom spark plug wires it's nice to have a colorful variety of plugs.
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The last Turkey Trot was in 1972, but...

Although the Turkey Trot no longer exists, Cuero still celebrates the turkey every year during the annual Turkeyfest. Turkeys are no longer herded through the streets, but the festival does feature a race between a turkey from Cuero and one from Worthington, Minnesota, Cuero’s competitor for Turkey...

For what it is worth (my thoughts),
I don't use the Upper bridge lock nut because after setting the trembler coil points and I service 5 coils in a batch ...(4 for the vehicle and 1 to go under the seat to help out another vehicle with a dud coil)...to all fire at the same TDC (or point of combustion) for equal ignition timing of the four...

Too busted up for me to mess with so a buddy up in Canada took it home to practice welding on !

After work tonight, I'll get them cleaned up and the tranny all back together. I'll have to wait for the kid to come by to help stuff it back in. I realize I
did not have needed to pull the engine, but it did make it easier to do some other maintenance and clean the 1/4 of dirty greasy/oil off everything. (if oily it cannot rust:)). I've had an...

Upper left corner of the top seems to read, Our stop light don't work. If yours does don't tell anybody. :?

As far as intended humor goes, what am I missing here???

Wager that those guys had many folks riding up along side shouting out to them Your stop light don't work! that it got their goat.

So the riddle......as an opposite comment....

Looks very good. Only very short people could ride there though :lol: It looks like a good place to carry your luggage when on a tour if only 2 people will be riding in the car. Very well done and very adept at that work. Maybe you should open a upholstery and top shop!
Norm

Introducing pads only under the mounts will not isolate vibrations as the solid path via the bolt head and nut remains.
And rubber in compression is virtually solid so if you put them above and below, it won't do much.
i certainly wouldn't bother.

The important thing is not to only just 'nip' the horizontal bolts that pass through the wood blocks.

Thanks, I already have a 17” wheel on it. At some point I would like a fat man, but that can wait.

Tom - Thank you for posting the vintage photos. They give us a look at the lives our parents and grandparents led. Please keep them coming! I always enjoy them.

Dan and Rich - Thanks for the information on the wheels. I bought mine before the internet was around and stored them in the garage attic. Had no idea what they were. I totally forgot...

When the discussion turns to the poverty of the Model T's stock brakes, and folks wax poetic over various added improvements, rarely does anyone mention how tiny is the contact area of two 3-1/2 tires on the road surface. In my experience, the stock service brake is fully capable of locking up the rear wheels. If it won't, the band is either out...

Never heard of a 40 tooth large tooth.
Wouldnt hurt to know if this is a rux rear end, the answer would be different.

A 12 tooth pinion wont fit in a stock rear end with a stock 40 T ring gear. The 12T pinion gear is a larger diameter.
You would need a ring gear from a 13/39 or a 13/40 & shim the ring gear up about .090

I agree it was a staged picture that took a good while to get everyone in place. Especially with getting the horse drawn wagons in place. A street scene is one thing but this took some work to get done.

I'd guess that '42 Buick felt like a magic carpet. Those things would move pretty good. I'd love to own a '41-'42 Buick Century coupe with the twin carburetors.

Expect the high winds and heavy rain tomorrow, if like Erma in 2017, we lost power for 3 days. :o

So the generator is ready, with 30 gal of gas, should be good. Run it only daylight hours to keep frig and freezer, well pump and septic lift working, along with the ceiling fans :D

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I have a pair of Adlakes in black, nice with burners. If anyone is interested, email me.

When I posted the picture of my style hub cap I considered it similar to the description in Bruce W. McCalley's book, 'Model T Ford'. I am including a photo of the paragraph from his book, page 126 and picture of the two hub caps he described. If I am infringing on a copy right by posting those pictures I will gladly take them down. Now if someone...

Does your car have a generator? I suggest that you replace both gears as a set. Timing gears depend on good cam bearings and main bearings to run correctly. Generator drive gear clearance can be adjusted, if necessary.

Running an alternator now.

to your bend question: yes you certainly can fix it

first you want to be sure it's bent and not out of round...that can be done when it's reading ..002 and then with your hand, pushing down on the crank right at that spot and seeing if it will go back to zero . If it does, it is bent. You will want to set up the indicator to anything over .010...

Looks like a good one. The fender iron brackets appear to be gone, but the box looks like it has a lot to offer. Usually the center brace is gone, because many of them have been removed for trailer use.

The encyclopedia shows the change to 17 inch outside diameter rim in December 1925. The 16 O.D started in Dec '20 and the 15 started July '19. These are the dates for Fordite rims only.

Just be aware that needle bearing hubs are a disaster waiting to happen if the fan shaft is soft, (and all the stock shafts are soft). If you can file the shaft, its too soft to run a needle bearing on. Just something to be aware of. Needle bearings are great if used properly and a disaster if installed where they don't belong.

A steering wheel wood rim would be painted black.
If you are asking about the steering wheel rim for you 1924, it would have been black Fordite.

If you are planning to stain and finish a steering wheel rim, pick your favorite stain and finish with a good exterior marine varnish.

: ^ )

-Keith