What Have You Done With Your T October 2024

[RVA23T]

Took the Grands to town for harvest festivities, followed by a car show in the afternoon, and ended the day at the winery with balloons!

[CudaMan]

I removed my summer air filter and installed the factory hot air pipe on my 1924.

[RVA23T]

I removed my summer air filter and installed the factory hot air pipe on my 1924.

A true Preper! Ready for the frosty fueled intake manifold days that are apon us!

[1925 Touring]

Been driving my T to work. Sometimes its around 45 in the mornings, brrrr. Heat pipes make a big differnce!

[NU2theT]

Donated blood today with my brother-in-law and took the Fordor, the current red cross building here on Forest ave was the old Northeat motors part of Ripley & Fletcher today that has been a Ford dealership in South Paris Maine since 1909.

[Retro54]

Got it all ready to attend the Friday show day of the AACA Fall Meet in Hershey, PA. Can't wait to see you all on the showfield!

[1925 Touring]

Driving my car while I can, before winter hits. Enjoying the great weather in Illinois. It's been 65 to 80 degrees for the past 3 weeks, more or less.

[Reno Speedster]

Fall is here in Alaska, so the 22 is tucked in the garage and I am working on the 26 speedster. Among other things, I have been making the parts and doing the modifications to move the handbrake back and outside the body. This involves making new brackets and arms to connect the remote hand brake setup to the modified original handbrake assembly. Not quite done yet, but it’s coming along.

[mbowen]

Driving my car while I can, before winter hits. Enjoying the great weather in Illinois. It's been 65 to 80 degrees for the past 3 weeks, more or less.
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Don’t let winter stop you!

[Jones in Aiken SC]

With the help of a couple friends I got the Rands windshield and support rods installed on my 12 Roadster. Front fenders are painted but not mounting them until I am happy with everything in the front end. I am so happy with getting that job done I will share several pictures!

[bdtutton]

The weather in Southwest Michigan is getting cooler, but it has been pleasant and dry so I have been driving my 1914 Touring to work as often as I can because I know it will start raining/snowing and be uncomfortably cool within about 6 weeks. I am sure my T would do well in the snow, but the other drivers around here scare me when things get slippery. This picture is from last November, but it is sitting in that exact spot right now waiting for the drive home.

[John Codman]

Sat on the left running board and sipped a Gin and Tonic. A great "work" day.

[Joe Reid]

Replaced thrust washers and dowels in rear end. Was tight and running hot. Turns easily now.

[ModelTMitch]

It looked like rain on the morning of the Old Bar Beach Festival this year, which seemed to keep people away. A lower number of classic cars on display this year, with Kombi's accounting for nearly half of the classic cars on display. However, the weather stayed fine all day, the cars present attracted plenty of attention. An increased number of market stalls meant there was plenty for everyone to see and do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK9Muo-eeNQ

My '24 at Old Bar Beach Festival

[ryanf1023]

I progressed on my Speedster body. Almost all went together perfect during my dry fit, although the driver’s side stringer didn’t mount nicely in the frame bracket. I had to use a lot of clamps, and the stringer is quite bowed and got even a small split where the notch is for the handbrake. It’s certainly not going to stay that way. I’ll figure out what to do prior to fastening the crossmembers to the stringers.

The goal is to have this car ready for the July 2025 tour in Stettler, my first MTFCA tour.

[John_Aldrich]

Putting the engine with new transmission back in my 1927 Touring.

[Sean Butler]

We took ol' Floyd out for a ride along Saratoga Passage on Whidbey Island, WA  to Coupeville and back for lunch.  Even got in 2 "relatively smooth" downshifts on the fly with the Warford - one to drop to a lower gear for descending a grade and one to help in ascending another - not always a smooth task .   The island is quite hilly.  The weather is getting chillier so this may be our last "distance trip" of the season.  Final clip is heading back to the homestead.

Video about 11 minutes:
https://youtu.be/yGq9SsHC7Lc?si=PTjqcSXGJ__sy2T9

[Craig Leach]

Ran the 37th Annual Model T Ford Club of San Diego Speedster Run with the Judson supercharger installed on my speedster. Mixed results but
finished!

Craig.

[tiredfarmer]

Today is Lizzie's, my 1926 Touring, birthday. Today 99 years ago she was being built, well at least her engine was. When she was built as a car nobody knows, it depends if she was built at the factory or one of the assembly plants. So I took her on a 10 mile run.

[Darin Hull]

Took the 13T to Ridz by the River car show with three other Ts from the Southern Peach T’s.

[George House]

Took the ‘19 centerdoor to the 47th annual Texas T Party along with 95 other Model Ts in Kerrville, TX all last week.
I wish I could attach videos.

[popeyet]

Drove the roadster about 80 enjoyable miles last weekend as the Fall was in full swing here in the Northwest...

[Rodger Erickson]

Installed Friction Shocks. These are made in Taiwan and sold under the Offenhauser name but they seem to work just fine for a Speedster. The linkages were fabricated mostly with parts from the McMaster Carr catalog.

[RecklessKelly]

How about all season air pipe? Previously posted photo.

[DanTreace]

Your air cleaner is in right place, up and out of the way of gas from carb too, and period correct

[RecklessKelly]

Not mine but I'm thinking about making one.

[Will_Vanderburg]

My son and I moved my 22 Centerdoor chassis into my workspace without a steering wheel, uphill.

My touring is currently stored in a friend’s garage.

[Norman Kling]

This week I cleaned it up and oiled it. I still don't know why the generator stopped working, but I can charge up the battery and it will start many times on battery before it goes dead. As soon as I get it started I switch to magneto and it runs fine on mag. So anyway, I drove it about 25 miles each way to an elementary school. We had 3 classes come out, one at a time and about 8 Model T's of different years and one electric car from the old days. The kids had studied the history of the cars in their classes. They came out and each class had about half an hour to ask questions and hear about how we had acquired our cars and the differences between the various years and models. Also got to honk the horns. We do this every year. Then Saturday I will take it to our local historical society museum for a couple hours of open house.
Norm

[Norman Kling]

This week I cleaned it up and oiled it. I still don't know why the generator stopped working, but I can charge up the battery and it will start many times on battery before it goes dead. As soon as I get it started I switch to magneto and it runs fine on mag. So anyway, I drove it about 25 miles each way to an elementary school. We had 3 classes come out, one at a time and about 8 Model T's of different years and one electric car from the old days. The kids had studied the history of the cars in their classes. They came out and each class had about half an hour to ask questions and hear about how we had acquired our cars and the differences between the various years and models. Also got to honk the horns. We do this every year. Then Saturday I will take it to our local historical society museum for a couple hours of open house.
Norm

[TWrenn]

Now that Clara's great time at the Civil War event yesterday is over its time to start to dismantle her firewall and stuff to get ready to pull and replace her engine this winter.

[Jones in Aiken SC]

Is Clara getting a complete heart transplant?

[TWrenn]

Yep she sure is. Fingers crossed Joe may get the new block into the machine shop this week and that the crank will come back from the other machine shop this week too!.
Got old engine ready to pull tomorrow.

[Chris Barker]

For 22 years I've been unimpressed by oily rollers, wobbly brushes and colliding flappers.
Inspired by the Duntley timer, I set about creating a timer with proper contacts, and one that isn't messed up by lack of concentricity.

I did acquire a Duntley, but its 0.027" smaller than the recess in the timing cover, and the variability between cylinder is large (~10 degrees?)

I built two new timers, both using readily available Lucas contact breaker points. One has them mounted around the periphery of the casing. This works, but there's still inter-cylinder variability.

The other gets rid of the concentricity issue altogether by carrying the points on the camshaft via a small bearing. Very tight to design and make, but it seems to work well so far. The front part of the Anderson casing fits on after the cam nut is tight.
The points are set up off the car and timing is within about 2 degrees.

[Bryce]

Not so much what I did with my T but with my T parts.
My well pump failed after 27 years so I had to pull up 400 feet of 1" PVC pipe to replace it.
The pipe is in 20 foot section and I could only pull 10 feet at a time, I found that a Model T connecting rod would clamp on to the pipe. So with 2 connecting rods I was able to pull 10 feet up clamp on with the other rod and move the first rod down and pull up the next 10

[Jerry VanOoteghem]

For 22 years I've been unimpressed by oily rollers, wobbly brushes and colliding flappers.
Inspired by the Duntley timer, I set about creating a timer with proper contacts, and one that isn't messed up by lack of concentricity.

I did acquire a Duntley, but its 0.027" smaller than the recess in the timing cover, and the variability between cylinder is large (~10 degrees?)

I built two new timers, both using readily available Lucas contact breaker points. One has them mounted around the periphery of the casing. This works, but there's still inter-cylinder variability.

The other gets rid of the concentricity issue altogether by carrying the points on the camshaft via a small bearing. Very tight to design and make, but it seems to work well so far. The front part of the Anderson casing fits on after the cam nut is tight.
The points are set up off the car and timing is within about 2 degrees.

Chris,

I would suggest running a dedicated ground lead to the timer body, and not depend upon the ball bearing to conduct to ground. Not that it won't, but it will be at the cost of bearing life. You're probably aware that years ago, folks tried using ball bearings in place if solid rollers on the stock Ford timers. Those ball bearings very quickly fell apart, due to minute arcing within the bearing that eroded away the balls & races.

[Gracie'sDad]

Took ol' Gracie out with a bunch of other obsolete Ford Junkies to Missouri's Fleming Park for a Fall Color tour.

[KBurket]

I put the Halloween eyes on then drove to the local beach.

[JRSpada4]

I was making slow, but steady progress on rewooding my 25 Touring, but that came to a sudden halt when I discovered the measurements on the sill top plates are way off. I’m still waiting on a response from Fordwood to see how (or if) they want to fix it.

[Tadpole]

Felt that cool breeze off the river.

[Chris Barker]

Jerry responded to my timer post:

I would suggest running a dedicated ground lead to the timer body, and not depend upon the ball bearing to conduct to ground. Not that it won't, but it will be at the cost of bearing life. You're probably aware that years ago, folks tried using ball bearings in place if solid rollers on the stock Ford timers. Those ball bearings very quickly fell apart, due to minute arcing within the bearing that eroded away the balls & races.

I do have a wire from my floating contact base to the timer casing. No current passes through the bearing.

[Jerry VanOoteghem]

Jerry responded to my timer post:

I would suggest running a dedicated ground lead to the timer body, and not depend upon the ball bearing to conduct to ground. Not that it won't, but it will be at the cost of bearing life. You're probably aware that years ago, folks tried using ball bearings in place if solid rollers on the stock Ford timers. Those ball bearings very quickly fell apart, due to minute arcing within the bearing that eroded away the balls & races.

I do have a wire from my floating contact base to the timer casing. No current passes through the bearing.

Yes, now that you mention it, I can see the wire. From there, the usual timer clamp should make a decent ground to the block. Nice work!

[Allan]

Another failing of the ball bearing races used as timer rollers was with the outer race on the bearings. When you think about it, ball bearing races are st held stationary in use, with the balls turning between them. When used in a timer the outer race wipes/rotates on the timer ring, causing undue wear on the outside of the assembly.

Allan from down under.

[NY John T]

Last day of October, I was able to put the engine together and run it for a short time. Problem was, the number 1 con rod spun the babbit bearing while on a tour in September. The inside of the block looked like someone threw sand (babbit material) all over. My friend Jim T. in Greenlawn N.Y. came to my rescue and poured new babbit for another con rod. This was my first time taking a head off and cleaning a T engine. Thanks Jim.
Engine runs smoothly. I have now to re torque the engine, and change the oil to get out any (sand) from the inside of the block.
John

[1925 Touring]

Drove my Model T to work on Halloween. Started to rain so I was able to bring it in for a while thankfully. Quite windy on the way home 20 to 30 miles an hour!

[Allan]

Jim, it's a bit late for this advice, but you started at the wrong end. The firewall is a fixed reference/starting point. If you work back from there from cowl to front doors, front seat sides to back doors, the rear tub will be where it lands, with nothing else to make fit. If you have to start again, this may help.

Allan from down under.

[mbowen]

I was scheduled to drive the bride and groom in a friend’s wedding on October 26, so my wife got busy on Amazon and got me properly outfitted. Being so close to the end of October, the bride’s theme was Halloween and requested the skeleton (which I moved to the shotgun position for the actual drive).

[varmint]

Replaced clutch (low gear) spring in transmission.

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