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Mario, received your email message and address. I will get the dvds out to you next week.

Mario, no pm in my message box from you. Rick

Mario, which Canadian Province do you live in? Good chance I may be the closest person in the USA to you. (I'm 80 miles south of the Manitoba border) My mtfca dvds are at my cabin in Minnesota and I will be out there hunting this coming weekend. Email me with your address through this site and I wil...

I just looked briefly on line at a couple of vendors and rear seat sheet metal looks like its hard to find right now for your 23. FordWood (Cubels) looks like they have wood kits. I used Howells Sheet Metal recently on their T Bay store for some sheet metal panels on a 27 I am working on, maybe they...

I will echo the advice given to you; the Chaffin book, the video and this forum will be of great assistance. Build an inexpensive axle stand out of wood that you can mount to your bench, get your dial indicator and micrometers and dive in. I rebuilt four rear ends so I could get those babbit thrust ...

There is a 14 Fire truck on Hemmings online.

A quick story; earlier this summer I put my 26 Runabout up for sale. A 28 year old young man bought it. I spent a couple of hours with him teaching him how to drive it and maintain it. Then I delivered it to his home in another nearby town in my enclosed trailer. When I backed that Model T out of th...

From the Encyclopedia; Jno Brown 115 used on 13 and 14s as a taillight. The 115 on my 14 touring has the brass font and top, but I have seen some variations of that to include a black top and even a copper colored top.

Mike, is this the latest revision? 4th is the latest I think.

My 14 Touring has a Beaudette body number tag as described by Mr. Sheldon and similar to your body tag pictured. Interestingly my body tag is also a 4.14 date and my engine serial number is a build date of April 21, 1914. The kick panels on both my front and rear seats also have a "B" stamped in the...

Ron, put this ad in the classifieds-vehicles also. I think you will get more looks at this fun project.

Find a used/new crank and replace it. The car has been in your family for many years and you will be passing on to a family member. This has been an interesting post with lots of info, but its time to fix your car for the next owner.

Dave, Thank you for all of the great pictures of the cars you are helping John's family sell, and thank you for doing what your are doing to help them. What is the best way to connect with you? There have been several questions posted on this forum about the cars; what is the best way to connect wit...

And, is there a title for it?
Rick D.

Dave,
How much are you asking for the 14 Roadster?

Hope this will cheer some of you guys up. I had a 26 Runabout listed on this forum and a lot of people looked at it. I sold it last week to a 26 year old young man who is working in the family restaurant business. He lives about 80 miles from me. I delivered the car to him in my enclosed trailer and...

Mr. Bowker, This is a special car. It should be in a museum. I have watched your restoration progress through this site and have learned so much about the early Model T's from your work. I think most of us are students of the Model T and its history and each of these unique restorations add to our k...

Sold-thanks MTFCA.

New price $10,500. Free enclosed trailer transportation to Minneapolis if that helps anyone. Solid good running 26 Runabout.

Thanks Tim, I think you are right, i just googled a Berthoud, Colorado.

Colby, where is this car located, I cant find your location in your member profile. Thanks.

Thanks Erik! Appreciate the info.

Question for you license plate guys; I have a matching pair of 25 Minnesota plates with the letter B prefix like the Minn plates shown here. What does that B letter mean?
Thanks in advance, Rick.

Mr. Paul, I agree with Mr. Lee about the challenges right now to selling a car. At $14K your car is a great deal. I wish it was closer to me and I wish someone would buy it so I can stop looking at the picture of it. I just made a road trip from North Dakota to Iowa and back to pick up a car, things...

I had a 16' and now a 20' Pace American. 8.5 wide, 84 inches height. Look on line at their car hauler line of trailers. I have had good luck with them, a good value for the money.

Sorry forgot the price, $11,500.00

26 Runabout for sale. Early March production car. Older restoration with some small scratches. Engine, transmission and rear end all rebuilt. Solid great driving Model-T. Fiberglass speed accessory deck lid. Pics are attached (Ithink). Car is in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Enclosed trailer transport ...

Ashley, I emailed you a question through this site about the axle stand. Let me know if you receive it. Thanks.
Rick

I will take the horn. Email sent.

I will take the pinion nuts. Email sent.

I have had very good luck with Nu-Vinyl. Leaves the tires with a satin black finish and keeps them protected for quite awhile. Works great on your top as well. Its hard to find in stores in my area so I order case lots from Amazon.

Take your time. Get some experience; talk to owners of the cars, go to car shows, join some clubs. You live in Nevada and I am sure there are lots of Model T and Model A clubs around that you can make some contacts with and look at the cars and talk to the owners. When I was your age I dove in and b...

Ron, I'm sure that I am speaking for many of our club members and Model T collectors all over the country when I say that your work on our starters and generators will be dearly missed. Your articles in the Model T magazines and guidance on this forum have made us all smarter at what we do with our ...

Len, it sounds like you are looking for advice to give to your painter who is working on your Model T. I have used both acrylic lacquer and single stage urethanes. Lacquer is a multi coat process with in between sanding steps with a final careful buff. IMO it provides that old style look but it is a...

As an example of why its so hard sometimes to track the timing of parts changes on our Model Ts; I have a 25 Touring with an engine assembled on July 1, 1925, about three weeks before the start of the 26 production.(Bruces' book) The car is a no starter car, it has round ball front wheel bearings an...

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Dan, email sent.

Herm straightened and brazed up a pan for me last year. Before I shipped the pan to him I asked if I should crate it; Hell no he said, wrap it in plastic and put your address on it, those pans are tough! He had some great advice for me on my project as well and we talked at length on the phone. Very...

We are a sparsely populated rural state and we all think we should be able to park right at the front door. Me included.

Bruce, I have copies of the U&J installation, adjustment and starting instructions. The adjustment instruction says the screw at the bottom of the carb should be opened three-quarters of a turn. Instructions also recommend to "set the throttle one-third open, the dash control rod three quarters up a...

Mr. Kirtner,
Thank you for making these insulators and contributing to our great hobby! And congratulations! I sometimes wonder if parts will become harder to find so I appreciate what your are doing. All the best.

"I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection, which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being."
Charles Darwin

Jake, Another opinion regarding your inquiry; I have a 26 Runabout and a 27 PU and a few years ago owned a very original 27 Tudor. The 27 Tudor had matching frame and engine numbers and I found that to be a very special thing about that car. I value the historical research on our cars and there was ...

Nate, clarifying your question; is the $4K estimate for an engine rebuild, transmission rebuild and the magneto rebuilt?

One more piece of the puzzle; tying into James' info on dates I have a 1925 Touring with a July 1, 1925 engine date. No trans bosses on the engine and the coil box is on the firewall. Its kind of a unique car in that it came with no starter and the ball bearing front wheel set up. It has electric fr...

Bob, I will take a stab at it and defer to others far more experienced. I see a casting date of July 8, 1919 so it can't be a 1915 engine. But what about the fact it is a non-generator-starter block? In the CD encyclopedia the Ford Engineering drawing dates indicate that the cylinder block T 400C wa...

The plastic rebuild kit I used recently had 5/32 x 3/8" stainless steel rivets. I rebuilt a 25 coil box with the kit.

Certainly not the same type of quadrant you are working on; I used a small file and re-cut each worn down groove on the quadrant during a 25 Touring resto. Otherwise the advice given here about practicing the braze first is very good advice.

Could it be old fibers from previous felt axle seals that worked their way into the Hyatt?

There is a very good article in the May-June 2013 MTFCI magazine about a 1921 Autowa bodied Model T.

Bruce, sent an email regarding your carbs. Let me know if you receive it. Thanks.

I'm running NH carbs rebuilt by Corey Walker. Very pleased with his work. He has an ad in the parts section for his contact info.

I used a Cubel's Fordwood kit a few years ago on a 25 Touring resto. Good product and materials. Instructions were a little hard to follow. Be ready to hand fit the individual wood pieces as you go. It becomes apparent that each of our cars was hand built when you start re-wooding a T.

Bob,
There is a Rubes triple twist horn on e-bay. Item # 264564098218. I have no connection to the ad. Not sure if its correct for your car, but it looks like original patina and unrestored.

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Greg, regarding your question on the lack of a drivers door on the Model T; IMO it was mainly related to the infrastructure situation of the day. Almost all roads were either gravel or dirt and the sidewalks in business and residential areas were developed first, and started as wood platforms and th...

I have a Ruckstell on my 14 Touring. I have to keep things simple, so I am either in Ruckstell or not. No shifting stuff and all the back and forth. Ruckstell low for slow going, parades and getting the car into the trailer. Ruckstell high for hills and driving at a slower pace. I leave my car in Ru...

I like to use a mig welder for my body work. Stack tack welds around the panel to avoid distortion. Grind and fill. Take your time. I get it that you don't want to spend the money right now, but a decent mig welder will pay for itself in the years to come. I have been down the gas welder route for w...

I have been very satisfied with NuVinyl on my touring and runabout tops. Its kind of hard to find, ordered some recently through Amazon.

I'm looking at Gail Rodda's Volume 2 Parts ID Guide page 16, Pictures 3, 4, 5. Is this a head first used on a Thermo-syphon engine, 1909 to early 1910? There are no numbers above the Ford script and that is what is throwing me off. An early 12 would have numbers above the script.

Yep, its Minot, North Dakota. My wife and three generations of her family are from there. Great picture Herb, thank you! Rich, yes, lots of Montana jokes shared in Minot, 'cause its so easy.

What kind of shape is your coil box and switch in? Maybe some carbon tracking or some other kind of resistance holding back a decent spark?

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Jim, if its still archived Royce Peterson has an excellent primer on clutch adjustment on his site modeltfordfix from August 2017. I keep that article and the article Scott sent you on adjusting for a (sort of) free neutral in a binder in my shop so I don't start overthinking clutch adjustment.

Norman, if I understand your question correctly, its because the bend in the gas and timing levers below the steering gear case wont clear the shape of the bottom of the steering gear case; so they have to be taken out as Scott has outlined.

Robert,
Its in the ad, car located in Elm Grove, Wi.

I will take them. Email sent.

I will take it. Email sent.

Double please! Keeps all of us that live too far away connected to the fun. Thanks in advance!

Dan,
pm me with a cell number and I can text you pictures of my 25. Still working on how to do pics here. My restoration included a re-wood of the whole car so you will be looking at new wood around the bottom of the doors and new metal sill plate covers but happy to share.

I have been restoring a very original June of 25 Touring, almost done. Are you referring to the metal trim on top of the wood sill or the what looks like fabric trim placed on top of the wood at the bottom of the door frames? My 25 had the metal trim on the wood sills, it did not have the fabric mat...

I owned a 27 Tudor with matching engine and frame numbers and presently own a 27 PU and 26 Runabout with engine and frame numbers that do not match. For me the matching numbers on the Tudor provided an enjoyment of having a car that was historically correct and for the most part original. When I sol...

In addition to the rear axle on jack stands and a wrench to turn the u-joint I use a wooden crossmember with threaded rod and nuts bent into a "J" shape to hold the driveshaft tube at the right place as I lower in the engine/trans. The crossmember is placed across the frame; I would think you would ...

Count me in for learning more information about the Beaudette bodies and putting together information about them. My car is certainly not in the same league as you guys with the very early cars; but I have a 14 Touring with an April 21, 1914 engine 500xxx and attached to the wooden framework under t...

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On your question of advice as you proceed; first the chaffin book which you indicate you are getting. The other one that has really helped on rear end rebuilds is the Fun Projects pinion set up. Third, all kinds of ideas on this site for the rear end re-building fixture that places the axle vertical...

Kind of does sound like the thrust washers have come off their pins during reassembly if you just popped it open for a peek. Usually a slight smear of grease on the washers will keep them in place as you put things back together. I usually have my axles in a vertical mount for reassembly so it may b...

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Replaced all of the pedal shafts last summer in my hogshead restoration. What worked for me was to cut off the old shaft close to the pedal, center punch the pin on both sides as Dan describes then drilled into the pin from both sides until I hit the shaft. I used sequentially larger drill bits work...

Don,
-33 this morning in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Last nights wind chill was -60. Its going to warm up in a couple days above zero, looking forward to it.

George, sent you a pm.

I use a pneumatic die grinder with the fine grit triangular shaped stone. Level the piece in a vise, take your time and test fit often. Not as precise as some machine work I've seen but it gets the job done.

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I second the recommendation to use the FP pinion bearing set up. I'm assuming you have the rear end opened up to check the pinion depth and the lash of the pinion and ring gear when you install that rebuilt drive shaft. The FP set up sure makes life easier at that point. My two cents.

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