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Joe Bell

Call and talk to Bob Maconel at Gaslight I have seen one there maybe he would loan one?

Joe Bell

Bob at Gaslight in Urbana has one, was told it was an after market assec.

Joe Bell

There is none.

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Great work, you are close to home, by chance do you know Todd Goodings from Marion? the carousel guy.

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That is a hard item to find even in the states, no one ever wants to get rid of any, looked four years for one.

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Stan, I have one on the shelf and have never tried it out and always wondering how it would run ? Thanks for explaining about it.

Joe Bell

That should flow real well.

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I would say that carb is pre T?

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The intake looks like the one they use for the UJ carb?

Joe Bell

Thanks Tom for the great pictures, how did you ever get all of these?

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I have often thought of cutting the low speed shaft shorter, I do on the cast iron ones but the Aluminum covers I think that gives the shaft more support for wear? Am I just thinking to much?

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Doc Shanabrook gave some to Lang's old car parts a couple years ago, they may still have some ?

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DMC bronze are the best on the market, the aluminum ones are a little more noise, the fiber and nylon I do not like with the generator, what if a bearing goes out in the generator? it will take them gears right out. Just my thoughts on this, I am too old to remember the 69 Pontiac 400 with the nylon...

Joe Bell

All the ones I have seen are 1.000 same as the rear cam bearing hole.

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I have one just like that, just saw it yesterday looking for the 09 rollers.

Joe Bell

I am sure there is two of them. same area code as you 618-1025

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I have half a dozen of the brass ones, some have a bigger backing plate.

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I have had only one Model T engine show up clean, the rest are oily cruddy messes, the only time my hands are clean is when the wife talks me into a weeks vacation down south!

Joe Bell

Here's the pictures.

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I looked in the barn and found the new one.

Joe Bell

I think there is one in a box of timers and a few of the brass rollers are there also, you are close enough to come see if it is what you want?

Joe Bell

I have an original sheet metal one the clamps to the original exhaust manifold that you are welcome to borrow and duplicate since you are close to home.

Joe Bell

I bought a car windshield wiper that was long enough and made it work, you have to trim some off the back side.

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I think the yellow trim was cute back in the day, at least you could see the peddles at night! Looks like a good crew helping and learning maybe some day they will be the care taker of one?

Joe Bell

I was at Gaslight auto parts in Urbana Ohio last week and on the shelf where two sets of 15-16 front fenders with brackets these where new, Rootlieb's? Also on the shelf where two rear 23-25 rear Coupe and Roadster fenders NOS, Also two rear 23-5 sedan fenders but they where both just one side. I ha...

Joe Bell

If any one has cut as much wood as I have you can see in the picture that some of them are hickory from the color and grain, The crack can come from any piece of wood that is not sealed at an end. Years ago I took a hickory down just for the making of spokes, I did not paint the end while it was dry...

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Have you ever tried welding one on? I wired welded a couple of them and what ever they are made of broke right back off, I then brazed them on and that held but did not like that ideal of brass instead of steel!

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As Adam said the tabs break off and you have to open the inspection cover any ways, just hope the tab does not drop down in and then you go fishing!

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The one in the dealership has a new hood, maybe a reman from Rootlieb?

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Those are how I find my car out of 100 black Model T's!

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What is the diameter of the mirror? I have a couple sizes on the shelf.

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If I was rebuilding an older engine it would have the 1/4 field coil with a ring geared flywheel in it, no one will know and some day we are all going to get old and hand cranking an old car or hitting a starter switch is the choice you may take some day of driving which car, I have seen it happen m...

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The 13 has a field coil all by it self, it takes the small round double stack,the magnet plates are the long ones, Years ago Wally told me these where the ones that gave every one the broken wrist. I would run the double stack oval that is 14 year and have no problems, noe one but you would know wha...

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I have one ground and ready to go for 75., I have a little brother that lives in Kokomo ind. that comes home often to save shipping if you are not in a great big hurry?

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When an engine is running they make no difference but if you are showing off in a later car mag starting it the double stack will start easiest on mag, they will fit in with out notching anything, the 1/4 will mag start also but not as good.

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I looked for years for 25 rear coupe fenders, have bought four different sets, now that I have a good NOS set I see them every where.

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It has got thicker, means more goodies in it!

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Years ago I found a NOS block so I built it with out hardened seats, it has the Stainless steel valves that are hard and since then I have had to adjust my valves fro the hard valve pounding down into the block. Originally they had cast valves with a cast block to soft materials, now if you add a ha...

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I had better luck heating from the inside, metal is thinner.

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Some people do not hold the wrist pin in place when tightening the wrist pin bolt and you bend the rod causing a knock?

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I saw a set of brand new ones laying on the shelf at Gaslight antique auto parts the first of the week they have been there for a while?

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When ever you rewind old copper it will never come out the way it was before, I have done several and shortened them to fit, it is the right way?? I would rather know I have the same amount of turns on every coil and the same output on every coil to make a smoother flow of current. I quit rewinding ...

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I heard they can be drilled to make functional but he does not,for liability issues.

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I have seen so many of the early style that have been ground for balancing and it is no wonder they crack when 1/4 if the throw is ground off.

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Tim Morsher is repopping them. Norwalk Ohio

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Mike Lepsac in cedar Rapids Iowa was repopping them a couple years ago, non functional.

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When I got my car it had one on it, thought it was an interesting timer but did not want to wear it out from all the running I do, I have put it up some where but have not found it yet, will keep looking. It seemed to me as the one I have had a different name but looked the same with the breaker poi...

Joe Bell

The one part in the picture is the same as in Ed's picture. Let me know if that is what you are looking for.
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Joe Bell

Looks like a heck of an Auction, lots of buried treasures there, to bad it is so far away.

Joe Bell

Years ago I had made the special L bolt and tapered nuts for the front door post and top wood for a T, I may have a couple sets left. I made new wood for four fordors when we did that project years ago, it is just as easy to make a couple extra pieces of wood when the saw is set up for it!

Joe Bell

An older friend of mine that has now passed on had an 11 that when hot you could not crank it, it got to where even cold you had issues with it. It was a newer rebuild from some one else than me, I tore it down and two piston's had scores on them. The pistons name was Izumi and two of them was over ...

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Kirby, do you have a smart phone so the wife can send a picture? If so email it to me off line, thanks, I found a couple different styles.

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Yes and I will try to dig them out today and look again.

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I think I have two different ones one is larger than the other and has a face plate against it.

Joe Bell

Do you have a picture of what you want? I have a box of odds and ends timer and all kinds of cams, brushs, rollers.

Joe Bell

You can use the rods, mill the wrist pin side down to fit modern pistons, rebush the wrist hole to the modern piston size, if you want to sell the X rods they go for 300. a set. with the built in dippers.

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Those are the late 27 pistons they call the tin pistons, 7/8 wrist pins in them, most throw them away and use the earlier rods than the X rods.

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I was just at Richard place over Christmas and he doe have a really good collection of the odd stuff for the T's, I think it was the biggest collection of over heads I had ever seen in one place.

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I have tore several engines down that did not have them and the wrist pins where blued from not enough oil getting to them.

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Bud, That one caught my eye also? interesting!

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I have to say you guys make me feel good that I am not the only one on a flip phone, texting that is not gonna happen, I can count on both hands how many times I have had to do that, would rather talk to a human!

Joe Bell

I put Av gas in all my toys before I put them to sleep for the winter and my winter toys for summer, carbs are always clean when I put fresh gas in them.

Joe Bell

At least you pick the heavier one to weld the weights on to, I had an engine that came in with the Dunn's weight on it, had a bad vibration to it, sent it out for dynamic balancing, fired it back up and it still had it, removed the weights and rebalanced and it was gone???? I do not know if to much ...

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Some of the new drums are a tad longer than originals I have had to face the bearing surface off to get the dimension you need for the three washers on a rebuild. You might want to set them up on a flat table and measure what you have and what was on it in the beginning.

Joe Bell

Look like Jahn's pistons

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They where only on the intake, It surprised me since the guides where still tight? I thought it would reduce fuel on the intake or some wild ideal of making the fuel atomize better? Tim, the wife took the picture, you do not think I could post some thing like this the dumby I am on computers!!

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Tore an engine down and found this on the intake valves between the intake and block. The only thing I could figure out was that it was to keep the valve open longer. Probably a gimmick that didn't work.
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Joe Bell

Layden, are you looking for side mount mag drive unit?

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I would pull that chassis with out plugs in it around the yard, add oil into the cylinders and make sure oil is in the engine, you have nothing to loose by trying it, I would push it back wards first that tends to knock them loose first.

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The problem years ago with anything over .060 was head gasket issues, since then the pistons are now radiused on the out side edge to prevent pitons from hitting head gasket. But with all that being said I would rather not go over .060, the walls get thin and more chance of cracks from exhaust into ...

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Adam, one of them was in a customers engine, trying to decide to re install it if it is worth it and they know ahead of time about the crack issues that may or may not happen. The other was one I have had for some time and been a conversation piece, I have Skat's and a Dubatt's on the shelf and have...

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Jerry, Thanks, I have seen both styles, had a light one years ago and magged it, it was cracked inside the front journal, both of these are the heavy style. My real interest was did they help with the extra counter weights? I have welded on the counter weights on several A cranks and it sure makes a...

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Do any one run the Sure Mike cranks? Do they make a difference on pulling hills and vibration? I have a couple and been wondering if they are worth installing. Thanks Joe

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I was told years ago that there is a high head that has a thumb nail casting on the back, 20-21 era? That the bottom of the head was thicker and you could shave off 1/4 to get your higher compression? I was also told since you have to use a stock head on the Montana 500 this is the head they use? I ...

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I have two cam gears and one crank gear, will not be able to ship till after first of the year if of interest, send me an email off line or call 419-618-1o25.

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I will look, I think I have kept some in my cabinet.

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Jonah, these are for wires, I know the difference.

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Jonah, these are for wires, I know the difference.

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The only fuel that is regulated out there is Aviation fuel, years ago some one told me of using it, the other crap settles, if it is vented it does evaporate, I would rather have that than shellac in my tank come spring. Have used it for many years and come spring time lawn mowers fire right up and ...

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Jonah, I have two sets, never been used one set is all brass?? that set is tarnished but prongs have never been bent, the other set looks like steel that have been chromed.

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Those are the good ones, I sure wish the new brushes where made like those!

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Thanks Steve, nice pictures of a man doing what he enjoys most, helping others!

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Brent, I have a sent I got from Ole Bill Sieburg years ago, they are still in the crate paper, they are brass and then nickeled.

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I recently seen a Columbia bodied Fordor, it was more squared off and the doors shut like a Brewster bodied car, wish I had a picture, any one else ever heard of one?

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Mike, I had some one lazer out a new gear to repair a couple on a Fordor on a friends car, an easy fix.

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I have a bag of them that I picked up at an auction, never have used them, no oil groove and they where brittle when I beat on one. I know a few years back there where some that hit the market that where to soft and they wear out quick.

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Not uncommon to see an earlier crank installed in a later block, I have seen many of them, I like even better yet to see two heavy rods and two light ones in the same block, they did what they had to keep them running.

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With all this being said I have an EE that was welded back up and ground to STD. have no ideal who did it, looks great but being a machinist all my life makes me wonder how the metalurgy has changed in that crank from the heat, that is why it is still on the shelf. Had a customer furnish a built up ...

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An older friend of mine that has passed away a few years ago Bud Scudder told me some hairs on your body are .020 thick so if you turn a crank .040 under it is only a hair on each side. Now that being said I am not one for a .040 under crank but have seen a bunch of .030 unders with no issues. Not e...

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Phillip, If you are going to replace std. aluminum pistons where cast iron have ran they will rattle coming down a hill, the original cast iron have the oil ring on the bottom, that stops the piston rattle. The aluminum ones have all the rings on the top, unless you have a narrower that will stretch...

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Good luck on the regulator Mike Sleep looked for a year, I sent him my last ones for his Coupe.

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Bob, That babbitt does not look like it has ever ran a crank in it? NOS block?

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The time it takes to make patterns and machining,and foundry cost, most do not want to pay for what it would cost, been down this road.

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I would hate to say how many of them I have thrown away.

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I have seen 24-5 Canadian engines that where original engines and they where green in color???

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Told you Tim!

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Great collection of pictures Tom, Thanks

Joe Bell

Ford did not throw nothing out, if blocks where bored to big they waited and ran a bunch that way, I have found lifters smaller than stock, so I had to bore them out to except std. tappets, I found bores bored on an angle where something was under the deck when clamped down, decks of blocks off .015...

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I have seen them before, had heard Reeder got in trouble for casting with FORD name on them so he went to this style?

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Some may not know that the early driven plates had a different spring locking retainer, with that they take a shorter fourth main, I have came across this a couple times, just in case you are ordering one some one that way they send you the correct style.

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