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The last post may solve your problem. Coils that are set and run good on battery might now double spark on magneto which produces an early weak spark and rough running. If nothing else solves the problem I would check them.

Like everyone said, the coils need replacing. On a 1915 you can use a single or double stack coils, double stack being what the 15 car was supplied with. The double stack coil plate is slightly smaller in diameter than the single coil plate. Since those coils have to come out, inspect the transmissi...

I found a small shop making 1 off brass parts for an antique car, but the parts were expensive! The shop can make the brass gas generators and Holly G brass carburetor bowls. I have access to these 4 gas generators Victor, Cocran, E & J, and John Brown and a steel Holly G bowl that he could use as t...

Nope, I still don't know how to adjust the points on Heinze coils. I would like to find a write up like Patterson and Boggess did for the KW coils if one exists.

I have 4 Heinz coils I just acquired. My guess is these are original coils. 3 spark nicely in a buzz box. The 4th one momentarily sparks then stops. The points were upside down so I turned them over with the same results. The points close at about a 20 degree angle, certainly not parallel as they sh...

Howard Caccia sold me my '15 Touring car 30+ years ago now. The fenders on it were all hand made by him. He was talented and helped me a lot during the early years of owning my T.

Thanks for the info. I just bought a '10, and I wondered if this engine was one with the upper center main without Babbit.

Does anyone know what engine number Ford started putting in the upper center main bearing?

Thanks for the reply. I should have added the car could be driven a lot. I had thought that the valve train would have needed lube about every 30 miles or so. Obviously I don't know much about open valve train engines as of yet.

My Wife and I are interested.

I will soon be bringing home a 1910 Touring car with an open valve gallery and have a few questions 1. How often (engine run time, or miles) do I need to oil the valve stems? 2. Would a tacky lube like a motorcycle chain oil be good to use? 3. Would it be best to use a high viscosity lube like a gea...

The one on the left is an original high F hub cap found on 15 cars. My home made one is on the right. It isn't a perfect copy.

Allan: I can't count! it's 13, not 12 ply. 3/4" plywood is about 0.690" thick which is too thick for the hood former so I ran the router around the edge. I don't like drilling from both sides as any misalignment puts in an off centered hole. Thus I just clamped a backing board to it and with Forstne...

First of all, this fits my car and coil box. I obtained a piece of 3/4" 12 ply Baltic Birch and laid it out in pencil. What I discovered in this process was that coil boxes and firewall mounting arms are slightly different. First I fitted the firewall mounting arms to the firewall base, cutting the ...

I've wanted to purchase the fun projects magneto output post for my 15 car, but alas they are no longer available. With that in mind, does anyone have the drawings of them so I could make one for my car.

My Stipe camshaft, standard 0.0250" lift, is about 2 year old. I have to rotate the engine to open each valve to be able to get to the lower adjustment flat on the tappets to be able to adjust them. I put a dial indicator on the top of the valve, rotate the engine to the valve is full open and then ...

I discovered the gentlemen who made the door latches for my year car and he kindly told me two different ways to make the spring. Also, if I couldn't make it he would make it for me if I sent him the latch. His description of how to source the right material and how to make it was more than sufficie...

Does anyone know what the correct spring dimensions are or a good pic of what one looks like for the front door of a 1915 Touring car?

I'm trying to find out what the correct tail light/license plate bracket is for a late 15 Touring car. I've been told they are 2 pieces but other than that I don't know what it might look like. If someone has a good picture, could you post them or send me an email. I've been looking far a while for ...

First off, it works. The kit comes in a PVC tube capped at both ends. I took the steering shaft, pushed in the short pin, put the gears on the pins and installed the center gear. Instantly the gears locked up! The drop in parts didn't fit. I inspected the gears, they had burs on the teeth. I took ev...

An update on head repairs: I priced a 3/4" NPT tap at $20, so tapping and installing bushings using Franks repair method will be inexpensive. Once again, thank you Frank for your response. I also checked on having the cracked head stitch repaired by a gentleman in MASS. The crack is a stress crack p...

That's a perfect fix for my head. One set of threads are gone. Another, the spark plug goes all the way in by fingers, so 2 are in need of repairing. I had thought of doing something similar, but wasn't convinced it would work. Obviously it's a good repair. Thank you for taking the time to post your...

Thanks for the responses. I erroneously assumed the cast date was month year and that confused the heck out of me. The helicoil idea is one I have thought of but the kit is several hundred bucks. However, I will keep that in mind now knowing I have a usable head that only needs surfacing. Lang's Mod...

Now that's an interesting thought.

What I discovered about roller timers is a bit of metal wear particles will get under the timer ring and occasionally would short out the lowest post. The problem wasn't continuous as the timer lower post would clear the short then short again creating occasional misfires. On day cranking my engine ...

I have a '15 car with a low head, Unfortunately it is cracked. Now I have 3 spare heads. One, a high head, one a low head with a spark plug hole that needs repairing. Now, here is the confusing part. The last head is good, magnafluxed with no cracks but needs surfacing. It is clearly dated 7-27, yet...

I just built a firewall for my 1915 Touting car. What I laid out was evenly spaced holes for the coil box insulators to go through. i laid the coil box on my marked up firewall, centering it. 2 holes lined up, the rest were off. I ended up measuring each coil box brass bolt spacing and remarked the ...

An 8 sided dash tag is 1915. 1914 dash tag was sort of "square" shaped. Later tags went on the license plates. The '15 tag shape was the easiest to make as it had straight sides. If you have a tool shop around, they can laser etch a dash tag but you need a good vector file. I had a poor quality vect...

In 1914 & 1915 CA issued a tag that attached to the dash as a car registration with the cars license plate number. In 1916 through 1919 the tag attached to the license plates. Each year the tags were a different shape. I bought a set of original 1915 license plates and printed on metal facsimiles, t...

After 20 years of use, my Kevlar bands are a light brown color.

I have a piece of Russian Birch Plywood (AKA Baltic Birch), 3/4 nominal thickness and 24"x30". It is actually 0.703" thick and it is consistent at several locations. The max thickness per Ford drawings was 0.697" as I discovered so mine is close as is. I doubt that I will sand it thinner as I would ...

Gosh, I guess I'm lucky. Both Holley G bowls fit and don't leak. However they are both steel and I have never seen a brass bowl that is usable so I brass plated one of them for my '15 car whenever the engine gets out of the closed machine shop

Good eye spotting the wrong fonts. I took a best guess at the fonts when I made the center plate. It took several printings on paper to get the background yellow correct. I found a 15 plate and saw the font differences and corrected them before printing them on steel. The fonts on the lower plate ar...

I switched to Kevlar bands and ever since then, no strings shorting out my mag post.

I talked at length with John Regan as he has a lot of good information to share! It turns out that the 15 firewall is a difficult item to correctly make. I certainly don't have the specialized tooling to cut in the correct radius to fit the metal former. Then I discovered that the holes I thought we...

Dash Tag.odg Dash Tag.odg Here is the plate for my car I made about a year ago. The top is the original, the middle is printed on paper then glued on steel testing to see if it would look correct. The 5 wasn't quite correct. The last one is ink on steel. These are not street legal, but they do look...

I just replaced the top on my 15 touring car. The information in the Model T Ford Owner is for a 1923 and later top. I determined the length of the wood bows using that drawing, but set the rear bow to align with the rear seat tack strip. From the Ford Owner book I determined the bow lengths. I'm no...

I have a 1915 Touring car and the firewall is cracked. I removed it and bought some Baltic Birch plywood to make a new one since I pulled my engine after 20 years of running and not surprising, It needs new bearings. I have three 1915 firewalls so it would seem easy to make a new one. Unfortunately ...

i have been using the black ring as per the previous post for years and not had a bit of trouble with my Holley G. I was unaware of the screws loosening and haven't had that problem yet. However, that makes me think to buy new brass screws from the bolt depot and replace the original screws.

Rocky Mountain brakes work great going forwards if they are dry. Backing up or wet, well go slow. I never park with the back downhill as it will occasionally creep. Also, a rear axle leak and the RM brakes will not work. After 10 or so years a band broke. Per RM brakes, it wasn't set up correctly. A...

Brent:
Thank you.

WTB, a few of these brass armature bases. Not the brass plated steel ones please. Mine are all broken at the bend. If you have some to sell please let me know

We went on this tour last year and it was a heck of a lot of fun. Steve did a great job of planning it and it looks like this years tour will be even better. If you can, go. Crossing the Golden Gate Bridge in a Model T! It doesn't get any better than that.

I've traded emails with Erik but he is 6 hours away, Katzorke is even further. Erik thought there was someone in S. CA who could do the straightening ergo the posting. However, I do thank those who took the time to respond as it is greatly appreciated. After 25 years of running my T a lot, I'm havin...

Does anyone know who/where near central CA someone to straighten an oil pan?

Does anyone know who/where near central CA someone to straighten an oil pan?

from a New Jersey web site: "Year of Manufacture (YOM) plates are permitted on the front only if, and only if the rear tag is the NJ Historic plate. You can apply for Historic (called QQ) vanity plates or just accept the random number versions. If you choose to use the Historic plates, NJ restricts ...

Licensing a car in CA with Year Of Manufacture plates required a trip to the DMV with a set of origina l license plates. The state requires original front and rear plate in good condition. Once the license was issued this became a legal set of plates for on road use. In 1915, the plates were porcela...

Colin:
I like that!

I do have the wrong rubes horn by the responses received. Thanks to all who responded, I appreciate the time you took to assist me. Now as to my steering column could have been changed, I have a picture, circa 1941, of my car in a field with gas headlights and 14 rear fenders on a late June 15 car, ...

Three questions: I have a mid June 15 touring car with magneto headlights. The steering column was never made to hold wires or a button for a magneto horn but it has the wooden block under the upholstery to mount a bulb horn. 1. Is a single twist Rubes horn correct for my ca? 2. I have a single twis...

A few posts up and this was stated: "which is not set up for original model T socket but vendor replacement sockets which have the wrong filament orientation resulting in the bulb being vertical instead of horizontal in the OEM socket. " What is totally confusing is I have a 15 car but two different...

I finally had a chance to run my car at night. There is a definite U shaped pattern on the road, but the 15 car, designed with single beam magneto lights hit the road about 6 feet in front of the car. It's perpetual low beams! It cast quite a bit of light down the road, but not so much as to blind o...

A pix of the previous LED I was using that gave the most down the road light of any I tested, about 5,000 LUX at 3 feet. They were rated at about 1800 Lumens but widely scattered the light using a Model T incandescent reflector. They quit making this LED configuration and it too has a color temperat...

I use clear plexiglass lenses in a 15 car and the pattern is from a clear lens. My car used magneto headlights and unless running full speed the lights are usually somewhere between no light to useless at night! Therefore, I have no idea what the light pattern would look like with regular bulbs. I h...

I was overhauling the engine of my 1915 Touring car and when the car was back together I sent friends a pix stating done. One of the guys came back and asked me if my car was a wide track to which I answered no, absolutely not. Obviously I didn't have a clue! Today, out of curiosity, I looked up wid...

I installed the replacement LED bulb and at 3" this is the light pattern from one headlight.

Today, Monday, I received a shipping notice from LEDlight.com that the replacement LED headlight bulb was already in the USPost. That's incredibly great service! The picture shown by LED lights is exactly what I received.

Today, Monday, I received a shipping notice from LEDlight.com that the replacement LED headlight buld was already in the USPost. That's incredibly great service!

Ops, my LED headlight failed. I sent an email to LEDlight.com today, a Sunday, and already they have responded stating they were sending another one.

For some reason I can't get the picture of the LED to insert. The problem with LED bulbs is as stated in the previous post and that was the same issue I ran into no matter what LED bulb I tried. I needed LED reflectors which no one makes to fit a Model T. I found LEDs similar in design to these, but...

I used diode 11N1192A rated at 100V 40A. I've been told a better diode would be a 1N1195 300V 18A. The magneto output voltage on an o-scope was about 90VAC tested many years later. Thus my diode is marginal but it has worked for many years. Off the magneto post I ran a wire to the diode. (it has to ...

Thanks for catching and correcting the web site name in my post.
The LED bulbs are rated from 5 to 30 volts. So no need to change over to a 12V m/c battery. I did this when all I could find were 12V LEDs for headlight, stop and tail lights.

My 15 car used magneto headlights. I converted them to 12VDC powered LEDs by putting a small M/C battery under the seat and wiring it to the light switch using a half wave rectifier off the magneto to keep my battery charged. I have tried many LEDs headlights with marginal success. The LEDs from LED...

The tour was a heck of a lot of fun. Up and down hills with lots of turns on back roads. Let's rename it "The Mountain Goat Tour". Within about 30 minutes town traffic was cleared each day and off we went. Even traveling over the Golden Gate Bridge (I was very apprehensive about my T on the bridge i...

I just signed up. Premium parking on the pier! That's amazing. Looking forward to a good time.....

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