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Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by Been Here Before » Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:54 am

Reading the questions and comments , I was wondering about the members source of information for operation of the Model and repair:\?

1. Books.
2. Internet.
3. Forum.
4. Other.
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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by MichaelPawelek » Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:06 pm

For me books first and Internet if I am stumped?


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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by jiminbartow » Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:18 pm

Before the internet, books. Since 2000, all of the MTFCA forum experts have never failed me. Jim Patrick


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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by speedytinc » Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:22 pm

T1 manual.
M Fahnestock service bulletins.
Google old MTFCA with subject.
General internet can screw you up but good. Lots of inexperienced fools with an ignorant opinion.

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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by George House » Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:30 pm

I’ve been harvesting all my Model T advice, support and encouragement right here on the Forum since receiving my first T back in 1966....and that was 10 years before Algore invented the Internet !!
I don’t know why I turned out this way. My parents were decent people 🤪


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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by MichaelPawelek » Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:49 pm

Confess George! I’ve seen the original Model T stone tablets in your library…..😊

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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by JohnH » Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:58 pm

For mechanical repairs:
1. Model T Ford Service Manual,
2. Murray Fahenstock, "The Model T Ford Owner",
3. The Model Ford Service Bulletin Essentials,
4. MTFCA books.

For identifying cars & parts:
1. Bruce McCalley, "The Car That Changed the World".
2. Langs and Snyders sites.

For other general information:
1. Ford Instruction Book,
2. Page, "The Model T Ford Car".
3. The Vintage Ford.

And of course, this forum. Unless they're created by experienced Model T owners, I tend to keep clear of general internet searches because of the misinformation. For example, the various car sites and YouTube channels that consider the Model T difficult to drive, or claim they were only ever available in black.

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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by TRDxB2 » Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:00 pm

Most original books explain procedures to take it apart put it back together. Newer manual may have some specifications. Use the Internet to search the Forum (search words MTFCA). Youtube, https://modeltfordfix.com/, and almost all the books here http://www.cimorelli.com/mtdl/default.htm
then ASK THE FORUM
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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by A Whiteman » Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:24 pm

And our very own encyclopedia here on this web site: https://www.mtfca.com/encyclopedia/
Together with Martynn's drawings: app.php/gallery/album/5

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Re: Your source for information on the Model T?

Post by Steve Jelf » Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:42 pm

Books
Forum
Some internet. There are some sites with good information, and there are some sites with a mixture of good information and foolish superstition.

https://dauntlessgeezer.com/DG80.html
The inevitable often happens.
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