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50 Miles an hour on an icy lake with a big ol' 20HP fan blowing more icy cold wind over you?

What's not to love? Except maybe frostbite?

Easy test - start the car on bat, get out the trusty Volt-Ohm meter, set it to AC volts (at an idle you're only putting out a few volts), put one lead on the mag post, the other on the hogshead or other unpainted source of ground. Mag present = voltage shown on the meter, Mag absent = no movement on...

WOW! The top picture looks like a engine we found sitting in a barn years ago... as kids, we were "exploring" a barn (actually an old hop drying shed) and saw a motor which looked sloshed not unlike this one. Of course, we were kids, and it was someone else's barn, but I remember thinking someone po...

You can put me down for one (maybe 2). Looks extremely durable and stable. Nice design.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!!

Mix up some black enamel, thinner, and asphalt. Roofers, thermoplastic road, or whatever. Heavy on the thinner. Stir until the asphalt is liquid. Make sure it's thin like water. Put it in a large tank, dunk the engine in said mix, hang until dry, repeat. :? From what I understand, that's a fairly au...

I was out in the shop contemplating this the other day... I can't see how a gasoline engine will still be allowed into the 22nd century. Maybe with the rare exception, such as an official vehicle from NYC or LA or etc... but likely not in private ownership. So what was the answer, short of making a ...

Connecting rods; Recently I was working on the 2up 2down T engine project and realized that it was going to need “custom” connecting rods. Crower quoted me about $1,500.00 for a set of 4, which considered fair and reasonable. I hope this helps Thanks for the heads up and the lead!!! ;) Since I'll n...

I know you may not know, but any info you have would be appreciated. I know there's no way it's close to being a direct drop in, but anything I can find out helps. Still trying to figure out rods, etc... I could have them built, but man, that's 'spensive, unless it's the only answer. I'm figuring th...

When I was a kid, my dad's preferred parts cleaner was... yep, us kids! :lol: We used gasoline extensively - bearings, crankcases, deposits. Gasoline and a brush. Loosened that 50 year dried on grease loosened and outta there. And yeah, back then, it SMELLED like gasoline. Someone introduced me to t...

On the same subject (kind of), I always wondered how a T would fare during an EMP event...

Wow, THANK YOU!!! THis is what I was hoping to discover... BYW - the crank is one out of a Wills Saint Claire V8... MASSIVE journals on this thing... that happen to match the saddles on a T block. And since they stopped production in '27, it's an "era authentic" modification... (The heart of the goo...

Part of the problem with buying parts is sometimes you need to figure out what's missing. In the case of my '17 short block, it's the main bearing bolts. All 6 of them. Gone, finished, vamoosed. I have the main caps, I have the block, but no way to attach them together! What did Ford use in the way ...

That's coolant (as we all know). I have an issue with my repop rediator leaking from the radiator inlet (top hose) and am planning on pulling and (hopefully) repaiting it.... but I still think there's other forces afoot. I'm consulting my 100 year old Tarot deck, but all it seems to tell me is (a) I...

Forgive my ignorance, but who is we? Maybe a stretch, but by "we", I am assuming Ron has a wife and that he plans to bring her with him. At least we hope so! :lol: Ron is one of the few people in the hobby I would call a guru when it comes to the T electrical system. I have taken his comments and r...

There's still one of those in State Highway 36 east of I-5... While I always assume all is fine, it;s still a bit spookey watching someone come towards you in a middle lane that is also dotted for your passing lane...

This is getting sad... IF you want to run 90W in your pumpkin, that's your choice. If I run 275W in mine, that's my choice, I actually have worked with 600W Steam oil on drawbridge gearboxes, so I actually am familiar with what ford put in his differentials (and while thick as goo, is neither solid ...

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Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:17 am
I have also seen.031. Go figure that one. Dan

That one's easy - Bore the cylinder 1/32" OS and it gives you .0025" clearance between the cylinder wall and piston. For someone relying on "country smithy methods" where tools are in 32nds and 64ths, to fix a problemit makes surprisingly good sense.

That is a great chart... thanks for posting it! (I'd heard 600W was viscosity-wise 275, where it looks more like 150...) I know firsthand you can order (through jobbers) whatever lube you want (as long as they make it and is in 55 gallon drum batches) - we used to do that on the bridges, I'm just no...

The Jed Clampett of Coolant?

After consulting a Ouija floorboard, casting spokes on the floor, and reading spring leaves I have concluded your car is communicating to you that the spirit of the original owner prefers the new accomodations, likely so you can add a new stablemate?

Kevin, I think you need to change your last name to "Winfield"... You are bringing a legend back to life... and watching it happen in front of us is fascinating. Well done, sir!

I'm not sure what the bread truck is (Ward, maybe?) but that bowl of chili looks mighty tasty!!!

I agree - it was built to work. Depending on the price when it goes on the blocks, I might be interested... we have enough events here from spring through mid fall that it could become kind of a local landmark... It might even be expanded to incorporate other goodies - not sure about a cotton candy ...

Thank you, Jim!

Actual 600W oil has a viscosity rating of around 275. Not sure why it's "horrible stuff" as T differentials AND Ruckstells ran many thousands (some tens of thousands) of miles using it... how many multitudes of T rear ends died over the decades from using what was put in there from the factory and r...

That is one well thought out and pretty truck... and a fun moneymaker on top of it!

Another old car "great" joins those who have gone on before, and leaves the rest of us a little sadder. Worse that it's yet another Covid tradgedy.

RIP Glenn, you will be missed by many.

How much for the '19?

I don't know about all this hoopola over a car that doesn't have a forward and reverse pedal... how is one supposed to drive it? Use that think sticking out of the floor like a Chevrolet? Arrrghhh... the horrors! :lol: I will admit, tho, that new radiator design sure looks snazzy! Congrats on the ne...

Kevin, it sounds like you've been drafted, er, "volunteered", er, looked upon to perhaps bear the brunt, er, torch for this piece of remarkable history!

Congratuations or condolences are in order - let us know which!

I agree with John in Sydney, those are some beautiful tires. (Or tyres, if you prefer)... I heard the x3's are soon to be on the shelves... and I'm kind of excited!

Had to have some kind of water pump to feed it - I'm guessing that's where the cabin heater was fed from, and returned to that fitting on the top of the head. Otherwise you would get no water flow unless it was out on the ground. All the electricals make me wonder what this person was doing - I susp...

Oh no! What happened? I have a fun one as well - Rajo BB head, WIlls Crank, SR carb, hot cam, and block drilled for oil - that's on hold thanks to Covid (until the school opens back up I don't have access to the machine shop) so I know these projects can take an unexpected left turn... Someone is go...

$75 off for last years model was a great deal - about a couple months worth of paychecks. I just wish I could find a '12 touring for $225... and why the '13 was cheaper.

Ideally, you want to bag the head, evacuate the air out of it (with a vacuum) and seal it off. Then put that in a second bag, evacuate the air out of IT, and seal it. THEN you apply the yellow goo foam of death between the inside of the box and the outside of the head. It will hold the head secure a...

Naw, too crusty to be upset here... :lol: You are right - It's not the first time a politico out his (or her) own desire to wow people and garner votes kissing the flag did something detrimental to the services and our nation. Whoever lined up that publicity stunt probably thought "think of the vote...

Those bond drives accounted for keeping the public engaged in the war, and put money into the coffers to defeat the enemy. My mom went to one or two of those and they meant a LOT to the people at home to know they were doing domething for the boys over there. So yeah, call them "rah-rah boys", but t...

I've always put them in the block with the ring, then "wiggled" the manifolds into place... For me, this was easier than the other way (and I have to be careful as my winfield manifold is aluminum), but either way will work. Just depends on what you're used to.

The other solution is the one that T owners have used for over a century - back up the hill. Your reverse pedal is lower than your low pedal. Plus if for some reason you lose it, you are going forward, not backwards down a hill... which is at best scary, and at worst fatal. Especially we with "under...

That green kind of reminds me of the old AT&T green they painted their vans and trucks when I was a young'un.

Strange as it may sound, I actually like the semi-gloss finish Pyroxylin gave... Shiny but not glossy.

I was playing with this for a while as well - a pint can of rustoleum black, mix in a SMALL amount of brown (like a dribble), cut it with reducer, mixing them to make a thin coat of "fake" gilsonite for the early engines - since Gilsonite (eg Asphalt) has a brownish tinge, straight black wouldn't lo...

What Steve said. If I lived closer to THF, Betcha that's what I'd do. And then I'd post the formula so everyone had it.

I've always gone with the green on the Henry Ford Ford cutaway motor... the olive above is close, so I might go with that, but it would be cool to find a modern color code for the one on the cutaway. The other thing to remember is Pyroxylin paint (at least the surviving examples I've been fortunate ...

I want to know why the carry-along tool box with a lock has a windshield?

Ride alongs?

Actually I figured that board was a compression adjuster to run lower octane fuel... also protects the rare vintage spark plugs from the damaging effects of living in a combustion chamber.

If they reverse the direction of the Nevada City parade, then it would be uphill both ways...

Kind of like walking 5 miles to school in the winter!

Plus it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to find a pair of DU4's than either a dual dizzy or dual spark mag. Great idea! Having had to change a few timing belts because they failed to sheared "nubbins" on modern iron, I'm curious if adding a second ension idler below the first (left in the photo, right ...

Susanne, if you are asking about the wrong item I posted; Even with a pump and drilled crankshaft you would still need to lubricate the valves, pistons and wrist pins, so I assume the inspection plate is still used and the deep sump was for holding and cooling more oil. ? You got it. I've tried to ...

If you find anymore interesting stuff, let us know!

I'm trying to figure how the deeper sump will help. Follow along if you will... The deeper sump means there's more oil in the front half of the bottom of your egine. That's fine, more oil is good. But the issue is, if a T is designed to "scavenge" the oil out of the 4 (or 3) "slots" holding oil to l...

Ever seen a Tata? Kind of like a modernized Yugo. Anyway, imagine a Tata Nano with no choice of color or upholstery. Radio? You want a radio, buy a boom box. Be glad you have a heater - what a luxury! Built as cheap as possible as basic transportation... If you need a pickup, cut the body off behind...

Long term (like over a month), I'll shut off the gas and let it drain the float bowl. Short term, I'll push both levers up, and turn off the key, THEN turn off the gas. That way I have a float bowl full of gas ready to go.

Even worse, I will pull the car over slowly, letting each spark plug buzz merrily in it's respective cylinder for a few seconds each, THEN go through the whole starting regimen. Not sure why it helps (burns carbon off the plugs? warms up the cylinder?) but it makes a difference in cold weather.

There were others were working to get inexpensive cars out there that were easily repairable, durable, and reasonably priced. The Buick was another example of a car that could have easily taken the place of Ford's T... Maxwell? You betcha. Huppmobile? Um Hmmm... Franklin could have been a contender....

Ahh, the good old days of living better through chemistry... :shock: Remember when you'd get your clothes back from the dry cleaner and it had *that* smell? Yep, Carbon Tet. That's how they finally figured out it's carcienogenic - peole in dry cleaning plants were coming down with all kinds of tumor...

IIt was a "Run on" sentence about a tire I can't wait to run on... May just go ahead and order the 3 1/2's and tubes now, and get the 3's when they come out.

Need to check about flaps.

The problem I run into now is changing clincher tires (just like relining and reinstalling bands) is not the same fun adventure it was 45 years ago - I hate it. Arthritis in my hands makes fussing with the edges of the flap inside the tire carcass, then prying and beating the tire on the rim a real...

Some do, some don't. The original from my car has 12 7 15 on it, which matches both the serial on the motor (9978XX) and the casting date on the block. I have one on it now that has one with a 1913 date, I also have one that is just a month and date... I'm sure somewhere they made the change from on...

Now this is just sad... went to see the youtube of it... and got this love letter:

"Video unavailable
This video contains content from Disney, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."

They have an adjuster on call that goes to the scene of the accident, determines what (if anything) is salvagable, salvage what they can and scrap the rest to get the insurance payout for the load. Pretty much SOP fror that business... I knew one that worked for Amazon from dealing with a number of ...

Generally a "higher pitched" knock under deceleration is a rod knock, that or maybe a piston pin knock... Main knocks are deeper, you can not only hear them but feel them. Piston slap is a different sound (takka takka takka)...

I remember an "anti-theft" device I saw, in the form of a padlock to hold the gas and spark levers all the way down... Brilliant deterrant to someone who thought they could take home a "cut-rate" Ford...

Tom, all the awesome pix you have shared with us over have not only made all of us smile, but gotten some truly creative juices flowing... THAN YOU for shaaring your bounty with all of us!!!

Darn... someone just got the ultimate go-fast goodie for their car for a lick and a polish... I have a bare bones SR head, no valves, no top end (I need to figure out vaves and rockers for it) but looking at the intake and exhaust ports, Art Chevrolet knew what the heck he was doing to squeeze ponie...

It's a body number from an April 1914 body...

I wonder if some industrious person saw the last one and thought "Hey, maybe I could make a mobile crane service"...

I;m right handed, and crank (and spin, but only on mag) my T with my right...

Of course, the cast on my right arm makes typing difficult....

In the immediate problem, Kroil is your friend - it may take 2 or 3 applications over as many days, and be gentle, but it will work. Give it time. And be gentle. Let it work, tap it gentle to work it in... it will eventually loosen. Long term - while it's not "authentic" get a brass repop cap. they ...

Sadly, I'm beginning to doubt the Blockley 30x3's will happen. We've been waiting over a year, and we're still waiting. I wish they'd happen... but I'm starting to lose faith. I've run Non-Skids on the front of everything we've had.... they wear like crazy on asphalt or concrete (they're actually a ...

Owww!!! Sorry, that sux!

Good eye! there's another one behind the first one... it's also a relatively new one, with the more modern radiator & shell...

My first "Model T" book was the first one (with the black cover, although mine was green back then, not black...), I was probably 13 or 14 as well, and it captivated me. As I went through it I compared the paragraphs and pictures to one of the cars in front of me, and it all made perfect sense. The ...

It all depends on the vintage of your Riversides... I ran those on the back of my car until they started to seperate, those were darned fine tires, but eventually (like all rubber) they suffered the effects of age and became unusable. I'm hoping the Blockleys will be up to the task, but we're still ...

Not a coupe, but my touring, and that reverse pedal add on is probably one of the best things I've put on the car since side curtains in the winter! One of those things you don't realize how useful it is until you experience it...

I had to do a double take at the roadster on the 4th picture down - I finally magnified it enough to realize it was part of the top bows and the wall behind, and not a picture of ol' Schickelgruber on the side of the top ... a reference that would not have worked back then, but sure stands out today...

The ad is gone... guess some lucky person grabbed it... that would have been a FUN project!

I live a bit further north, at the eastern foot of Mt. Lassen (off highway 44, not 36), east of Shingletown... Almanor is about 80 miles from here, give or take... some beautiful countryside around the lake, there's a very cool old gas station (and rock shop) in Greenville that I like to frequent, p...

What's kind of amazing (to me, anyway) is the centerdoor that's on it's roof has all it's glass except one of the windshield panels (which you can see under the cowl), either that glass was a lot tougher than I've been led to believe, or the car was flexible enough to not bind and break the glass (a...

If the cracked one has no value, weld it up with a Nickle alloy rod, anneal, remagnetize and see if it will hold the magnetism. Might work, and be less challenging to a capable welder/machinist than making new? from scratch, particularly if both appearance and function are important. I agree. Even ...

In my experience, kerosene was designated "Pearl" (highest quality no longer produced) K-1 (jet fuel) and K-2. Below that are the various grades of fuel oil. :!: :!: :!: Thanks for the heads up! I use Pearl for my kerosene lamps down at the local fuel/oil jobbers... haven't bought any since the Cor...

Bad ground or a broken wire. It's not a mag headlight, but the cause would be the same. On a series mag-powered headlight circuit (like on the 15) that indicates the crossover feed wire is grounding out before it reaches the Left headlight...

All of the above. Wring, rinse, repeat!

Ditto that, I have a head that the script is blurry and not well defined (like the core got jostled, the sand wasn't moist enough, or who knows) but I'm sure that never stopped it from going on a car, as long as the part functioned and was within design parameters...

Wonder why the upside down "body tow"? Was it a rollover they recovered from its side (seeing the top damage and missing bitsa, its a guess), but that poor car has seen better days. Then again - it's a lot easier resto project than others I've seen...

Pretty cool... learn something new every day!

Darn, well, thanks anyway!!

I noticed the same thing Joe Bell did - every unmolested head I've seen has a number stamped on the mating surface, the ones that have the number missing also have telltale swirls or lines from where it was shaved. I will say this is not all inclusive, but so far it seems to hold true. You can alway...

It's a round ball in the base of the pump just below the hose that seats there, and is "trapped" by staking into it's "cage". The schrader valve wouldn't work as a check valve as you have the hose involved, as well as the schrader valve being held open by the nozzle, without the check valve you don'...

That would be one uncomfortable beast to ride. Looks like it's a VW trike - nothing inherantly unsafe in those - and there's enough weight on the front of it to keep it stable.

Some new car manufacturers are recommending fir cars with high performance engines 0w20 grade oil -image the low viscosity is to lube quickly in any temperature and no doubt it thickens quickly. It's also because thinner oil uses less fuel. My '11 Subaru uses 0W20 full synthetic, and is a "Partial ...

VERY cool... I had no idea that it could even be done... where can I find out more about this? I'm assuming that at 200 ponies he's done some other significant work to this motor, but again, I want to know what? All that power is pretty awesome, but if it's main effect is to grenade a T motor then i...

Frank, it's sounding like from your research (THANK YOU for that, BTW!) we should be steering more towards a motorcycle oil in our vehicles rather than an automotive oil? We have a lot of the same issues as does a motorcycle, with the wet sump gearbox and clutch (and of course bands and, like my old...

Hey Mark, kinda curious about your experience shipping a car to the EU... how did you ship it, what costs and paperwork were involved, etc.? We're contemplating going there on a semi-permanent basis (in our case, Italy :shock: ), and I'd rather take my car (that I know and love so well) rather than ...

I used mine as a part time daily driver in the late 80's... most reliable car I owned back then.

Sounds like he may be a little "crocked"... :lol: Depending on the state, you can go to the auction licensing board and file a complalint. We had a local auction house that would pull some shady as hell shenanigans from false advertising to switching lot items people bought to taking a pre-arranged ...

Playing catch up - All that extra horsepower on tap would be eaten up by all the extra gearboxes! :lol: Subaru 2.5L heads are 2 cylinders, left and right, like a VW motor. Interesting idea, but you think the pinto adapter plate would be complicated? Wooh! Running an OHC set up and having it look aut...

We recently discussed this, maybe here somewhere, Ford originally put the equivalent of 10W in his cars when they shipped... so 10W40 would probably be just fine. I run 30W only becaiue I've been doing that since dad owned the car (although when I got the car I switched it over to normal detergent o...

It's a commercial application plug, I've seen them in it and miss engines, put a set in an old motorcycle, and I can't see any reason why they wouldn't work in a T.

Wow, that sure is a pretty bitsa!!! Until I saw the second picture I was thinking a rocker switch or foot operated carb adjustment pedal or something...

We am not understanding, he seems like good and honest person to buying the your car or truck or wagon etc. :lol: :lol: :lol: I will send $125 of your thousands dollars, my agent, Barrister King Nkruma Smythe Esq, will to pick up and you give him balance, keep $3000 for you troubles... :? :| :shock:...

I really liked the woodwork on it, but there was no way I could get a trailer, transport it here, etc... especially in these Covidian Times... Someone has a beauty of a body for $4K, plus a truck chassis. Hope they do it right.

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