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He made a by pass switch you depressed on initial start up until oil pressure was achieved, if you loss oil pressure due to a broken belt, engine would kill and red oil light came on. Just ideas! All the Best, Hank Hank, For everyone's general interest... F. W. Murphy still makes their line of Swic...

The Ford advertisement shown on the original thread was interesting...interesting also were several ads, reprinted in the Draft Horse Journal when I was a subscriber in the '80s and '90s, from livestock magazines of the same time period. The draft horse registries were promoting horses as the farmer...

rickg wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2019 9:30 pm

How did they tow the cars back in the day ?, there are still some wreckers around.

Rick

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I have to laugh every time I see this photo!

Just for the record, a friend gave me a repop key and the straight groove is not centered and it no worky. Won’t even go in. :( It’s a diamond shaped key like pictured above. I may try a dremel and widen the groove. Ruxstel, sorry to hear that. Perhaps someone on the forum has one who would offer o...

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 05, 2019 12:35 am

A better look:


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I find the 'as found' pictures interesting; I appreciate seeing how these machines were adapted to do the job at hand with no budget...I imagine that tee handle brake actuator was actually adjusted so it could be operated by the driver's right foot using the heel of the boot...and the ingenuity: usi...

There was an authentic one located in the western US advertised here for sale a year or so ago; I don't recall if the photos were uploaded here or craigslist. Photos would be gone from both sites by now, but maybe someone downloaded them and can repost some? I remember an interesting feature that a ...

Hi Jack, Thank you for your information. It will be very helpful. What do you do with Canadian money,if you don't use it? I don't think that I will be crossing the border with 10K, HA-HA. Do you mean that I will have to pay duty on the case of beer that will be in my truck? Registration and insuran...

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:15 pm

Thank you Ed. 1st time I have seen it out of the shop all in one piece also.

Another nice workhorse brought out of retirement...beautiful job, Dallas!

Took the ole boy to the 2019 Florida Tow Show in Orlando. Was parked next to a 2018 Peterbilt/ Jerr-Dan 85 ton Rotator. (2 drive axles, 1 bogie, and 2 steer axles). We’ve come a long way in 100 years ! Very nice, Paul...I have a soft spot for old stuff that was built to work for a living! What bran...

Gentlemen, My wife Mary and I plan to attend the MTFCI tour in July up in Prince Edward Island. We have updated our passports. I will check with our insurance Company's for my truck and Model T to see what there policy is. I am a little confused on the money difference up there. I have heard that o...

Passport to get you back in to US ? Yes, that's what they want you to believe...although I had a conversation with US CBP about that before I submitted my passport for renewal last year. He told me that, in reality, they cannot deny a US citizen re-entry into the country; but without "proper" ID th...

I suspect that the ethanol from up north are Corn Squeezin's . Where by Florida is probably using 'gator/Python squeezin's :lol: I don't know about "up north", but the folks in Kentucky and Tennessee certainly know what to do with corn squeezin's, and its not to put them in gasoline! Back in the ea...

I knew that the US EPA had seasonal gasoline blends to control volatility, but this article says the US is also carved up into zones based on state and local clean air standards. The article is short on specifics but does have a map produced by Exxon/Mobil showing that, indeed, Florida and New Jerse...

Jack, your profile says you're in New Brunswick. My grandfather was born in North Darby NB in October 1880. His family moved to Charlottetown PEI soon after and that's where he grew up. He did attend Mount Allison, though. He was at Queens in Kingston when he met and married a Kingston girl whose r...

This thread reminds me of how long the generations are in my family...here's what my grandfather, born in 1884, grew up driving. My great grandfather (1836 - 1906) is driving in this photo, taken sometime after 1890 when my great grandfather built the house in the background as a wedding gift for hi...

I get free starts regularly with mine, always when the engine is cold, not warm...3 priming pulls and we're off! My dad always told me to approach a free start backwards: timing fully advanced, ignition on, and slowly retard the spark until it fires. Dad was born in '26, but my grandfather could nev...

This south Texas kid saw temps while in the Air Force at Grand Forks, ND in the -50's (with wind chill...actual temps in the -20's). That made me swear off the state and those kind of temps forever. And I never complained about the Texas heat after that again. A lot of construction jobs in the Yuko...

This video came up on my YouTube recommended list this morning...I'd never seen this before; its about 40 mins long but quite interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLgTlTCxitg

I've seen photos and plans posted on here before on building homemade governors from old generators; check here for starters:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/17 ... 1300190691

It was sunny here (just across the border from Houlton, Maine) today, but never got above -2F and with a 25 mph "breeze"...the snow is supposed to start here before sunrise tomorrow leaving 16 - 24" before the storm moves out Monday afternoon. The forecast says traveling will be "difficult to imposs...

Try this:
Click on your user name on the upper right of the screen, and go down this rabbit hole: User Control Panel/Board Preferences/Edit Global Settings; on the Global Settings page there should be a category called Hide My Online Status, click yes and follow the instruction