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I've not heard of soybean based paint, but am not surprised! I hope the wiring is old enough to be petroleum based insulation, not the soybean based as it is now! I spent almost 14 hours repairing rodent chewed wiring at the rear of a 2015 Subaru Forrester. It had the right rear ABS sensor wiring cu...

Happy birthday to the touring! I hope it is a dry and comfortable day to celebrate!

Since I seem to have started it, I will have to take the "Pun"ishment!

A treemendous system, I wooden remove it! Don't think you're barking up the wrong tree leaving it there!

A "HOT" topic, with lots of responses!

Detergent oil when mixed with water and whipped, will form a whiteish foam, like you see inside your oil fill cap. Non-detergent will usually not form the foam like that.

I received my tap today, and it looks great! Thanks for the quick service, and for having them made! Bill

Garland, Triumph cars or bikes? I have two model T's and two sixties triumph sports cars! Like them all! Most of us are harmless! If you own either type, you must have tools! And patience!

For those who like looking at or even buying old campers, visit tincantourists.com for an interesting web site. The "T" camper is listed there as well, $33,000 is listed price.

Steve, is this the fresh engine you just had the crank changed in? To me, it sounds like the cam gear is a tooth off or two.
If I can, I will offer three rolls of charmin ultra strong, half a bottle of hand sanitizer, and $25 cash!

I wonder what was beside it and blew up, doing all the damage? Steam boiler? Doesn't look burned, just blown up!

I have two Triumphs, a 63 Tr3B, and a 67 Tr4A. I did a bare steel body off frame restoration on the 4A, 28 years ago. Only five bolts left in the body, and only the rear springs on the frame. I spent 18 months of evenings and weekends on it, and as far as I know, every bolt, nut and washer is factor...

Looking good! One question, is the exhaust valve on number three cylinder sticking open? In several of the photos there appears to be a large gap in the lifter to valve, and another photo or two the valve looks to be stuck open? May be just my eyes and the photo angle but thought I would ask!

Looks great, Dallas! Just remember to get the TT out once in a while so it doesn't get jealous! Like a wife, they get cranky!!

Bicycle and or home lighting type lamps.

Would the old fashion fiber type grease have done that to a bearing after a number of years use?

Last fall, while visiting the museum, I took advantage of the special life time membership offer, if you are 65 or over, it was $400.00! Now all I have to do is live another ten years to get my money's worth! Hope it's not a problem!

Don, I am in awe of your knowledge of T's and your woodworking skills! I have followed several of your builds! While I have been a mechanic for over 45 years, I have no wood working skills! If possible, in all your "spare" time, could you include some photos of your woodworking shop and tooling? I s...

On eBay. Hard to tell about the ridge, but it kind of looks like it in one photo. I can't enlarge the photo clearly enough on my iPad to tell. Take it apart, keep what you need and sell the rest, rent a storage unit for a while?

22 touring , rough but decent looking fenders, whole car on eBay 1350.00 Minnesota. Enough there to sell parts to help pay for it? Not mine and no interest. A 12'x6' single axle trailer will haul it.

Watch eBay for one close to you. There are two on there now, one working in Nevada, and one not, in California. Both probably a bit far to go get, although if you could get it on a pallet, Fastenal will ship pretty cheap!

Scott, glad to see you are finding time to play a bit! I never did find time for the depot hack or the coupe this year! I went back to work full time which sure cuts into the play time! I had the place logged this fall, and have been cutting and cleaning up a big ash top in the front yard. Then had ...

Contact eBay. You have rights thru them, and they can enforce them, including getting you your money back! Call them!

As the others have suggested, wait for a warm to hot spring day, and put the car out in the full sun. Put bungee cords from the front of the top to some good anchor point like the front fender edge, and from the top bows to like the windshield brackets or wherever you can get a mostly forward pull. ...

Tim, Very sorry for your loss! It's been a rough year for you! Maybe you will have decent weather to get the car or plane out to give you a new direction! We currently have 4 full size Collies, two brothers that are almost 14, and two brothers that just turned 3. The 14 year olds we got after my wif...

I stopped at my friends auto parts/starter,generator, alternator repair store this morning, just to say hi. He said he had something for me and pointed to two T starters, and a generator on the floor. He said a fellow brought them in and asked if they wanted them, otherwise they were going to scrap!...

Dave, my 25 coupes rear fenders have lots of dents from underneath due to chains breaking and hitting them! This was my grandpa's car that he bought in 1942, and drove until his death in 1958. Our family then moved from Indiana to upstate New York, where the T served as a second car for years! The c...

I agree with Scott the design is poor. Having had a pinion bearing grenade, shuck two teeth off the pinion gear, and leave me freewheeling down a hill towards a parking lot and waterfalls in a state park, you can bet I was pulling on those parking brakes/ emergency brakes for all they were worth! Th...

Also remember other items that have water in them, like latex paint. I suddenly remembered my pressure washer was in the garage, so had to go get it. Drinking water and diet pop will freeze too.

The back of the registration has a place to sign the vehicle over. Not notarized, just the signature of the seller and the date. It explains on the back that ny didn't issue titles for older cars. I had no problems with it here in Indiana. Not sure how you would replace a lost registration.

Looks like it took a .22 bullet!?!

1. Basic timing. If I remember you changed timers on the trip. Would that have changed the timing? Timer roller/brush on securely, not changing timing. 2. Coils- checked at OCF, running ok now, after it starts? 3. Fuel quality. Modern summer blend is made to not vaporize as well, so it won't evapora...

If you can find one for Wisconsin, in the 1890's, most states had League of American Wheelmen map books of roads and railroads for cyclists of the day. They show most small towns and crossroads that had names. Since the cars were most likely sent by rail, looking along the railroad for towns might s...

Thank you Hank! That is called integrity and has become a rare commodity in this day and age! It's folks like you that keep this hobby going!

It is huge although this year,I have heard, due to some construction they will not be using one of the parking lots, so the others may be crowded a bit more. Set up day is Tuesday and you can bring bicycles in to ride around and buy from those who are ready to sell. Wednesday is the opening day, and...

Matching set, not great condition as far as paint on eBay now, asking 125.00 Not mine and no interest!

Larry, quit being so picky! That's an unneeded snide remark that does no good! It's NOS to the factory that made it! The museum was thrilled to have it! I just figured more people would get to see it there than buried in the back of my garage!

Today I took my NOS tall radiator to the MTFCA museum as a semi permanent loan. It is in a wooden crate and appears to be an aftermarket unit. It is marked 23-27 round tube. They plan to put it in a "parts" room that is being furnished. Not sure what, if anything else they need, but if you have some...

Are the car ferries still running from Ludington MI to Wisconsin? Might be a way to avoid Chicago/Gary?

It sounds like too much toe-in, and maybe not enough caster. Camber will make it pull steady to the side with the most positive camber. Caster is like the forks of a bicycle, and is what tries to return the wheels to center, after a turn, and too little caster can cause wander. Toe in is set so that...

To help prevent new cracking after you weld it with the mig, you need to heat normalize the area. You do this by heating the new weld and the surrounding area to a dull red with a torch, and then let it cool gradually without doing any forced cooling. This takes the brittleness out, takes the temper...

Has anyone tried one of those spiderweb bungee nets? When I open trailer towed a T chassis and parts from Indiana to NY covered with a tarp, the straps and tarp tore up in a hundred miles to the point where I also had streamers following me. I stopped at a super Walmart and found one of those nets. ...

In 1959, my dad and mom and the four of us kids moved from Indiana to Utica NY. We flat towed my grandfathers 1925 coupe behind our 1958 Plymouth Fury the whole way, about 750 miles. The universal joint was disconnected, not sure if it was removed or not. I suspect it was removed. I was seven at the...

The harbor freight puller has been a pitman arm puller, before being modified. It is normally used to pull the steering pitman arm off the tapered splined shaft of a modern steering box. It looks like the opening between the jaws has been widened to fit over the slot in the hub.

[image][/image]I had time to get the 27 depot hack started for the first time since last fall. Charged the battery, cleaned the terminals, turned on the gas, fussed with remembering where the ignition switch made contact, and it started. Despite having brake lever forward since last fall, I had to j...

You need to see if your credit/debit card life just changed. When using my debit only card, which is direct from my checking account, and not protected by a credit card agreement, not a credit card, at my local Walmart, the card machine quit asking me to enter my PIN number. I asked why, and the Wal...

Dick Tracy wasn't that brave! Makes me cringe just looking at it! Heights don't bother me-I'm a pilot-but I have a real fear of falling!

25 Coupe, used in upstate NY, then hilly Virginia, broke low and reverse, cotton bands, never has had Kevlar.

Beautiful machine! The thing that I am always in awe of it the way these huge machines were designed! Thinking of the design teams that labored long and hard at the drafting table to draw the plans for every single part, no matter how big or small, that all had to fit together and work together for ...

Got the box of parts today! All as advertised! Thanks, Ed, for the fast service! I think I should have a lifetime supply now!

Headline on the newspaper story about the lunatic that raped a nurse, and escaped the nuthouse was "Nut screws and bolts!"

Just like a surgeon, and his tools and sponges, count the rags as you put them in, and make a note of the number! I, at least, can't trust my memory as much anymore-was that five or seven rags I stuffed in there!? Then count them as you remove them, to be sure you found them all!

In records from The Carriage Museum of America, from the 1898 American Carriage Directory, Amos E Wenger was a wagon maker in Sporting Hill, Pa. It looks like he saw the writing on the wall, and branched out into autos, thirteen years later!

Check is in the mail as of this morning 7/11/19! Thanks!

I'll get a check in the mail tomorrow! No sense paying fees to PayPal when I'm not in a rush for them! Thanks, Bill Dizer

Ed, I will take them if they are still available. Please let me know how to pay you. I can do PayPal if you want or send a check. Email is bjdizer at Hughes.net so you can let me know. Thanks, Bill Dizer

My concern with both copper and aluminum lines are that both will "work harden" and crack due to vibration after time. There is a newer brake line sold that is sold as nickle/copper that is the copper color, that does not harden, rust, or seem to react to anything and is very easy to form, resists k...

Part of the lean effect is shutter design and shutter speed, but the film exposure speed is also part of it. The slow speed of the film, meant that the subject moved a bit during the exposure. The cameras were a bit bulky to pan along with the moving subject and keep it in the frame and focused. Dep...

If you are going to be parking anything modern in that bay, the door really needs to be nine feet wide to clear mirrors! My late father had 8' doors and I hate to think how many mirrors I got for him. I had to be very careful getting my olds bravada in and out, and it's a smaller suv. Modern pickup ...

A friend of mine, here in Indiana has owned his T for years, and one day gets a letter from the state BMV that there was a recently issued title with the same vin as his T, and he was to stamp his T vin with one more number at the end, and they issued him a new title! He went to the local BMV, and w...

I looked on t-bay out of curiosity, and found several listed under "hat saver". Most were in the $20.00 range.

Did you find the wheels and rims you need? If not I have a pair of wheels in decent shape, nice black paint, with rims and a couple of "roller" tires. I think the bearing races are gone on one of them. I can send photos this weekend if you need them. I'm south west of Indianapolis about 60 miles. I ...

The Copake automobilia and antique bicycle auction is April 13, in Copake NY, southeast of Albany. Copakeauction.com should find them. Very high buyers premium and 8% sales tax on top of it. I have no interest in it, am not selling anything there. Catalog is online.

I re-registered my 27 depot hack as a regular car, not antique. I found that in Indiana you cannot do an online registration on antique plates, you have to take time and go to the BMV in person to buy the plates. You have to affirm the car is still an antique! It is only $20.00 more, and there are n...

If the speedometer is available for the wire wheels, can you let me know the price? Thanks, Bill

I have a deep v single axle with torsion type axles. It sways a lot, so I had to put a sway control on the hitch. I had put cheap tires with weak sidewalls that made it a lot worse. Stiffer tires helped a lot! Mine sticks up quite a bit above my SUV that I tow it with, and when the swirling wind beh...

.040 is less than 1/16" so that shouldn't make it that far off? Sounds like there is something else, like a bent pan?

No, that and all silicone products react to gasoline.

The front hubs are noted for cracking,and having the bearing race mounting area wallowed out so the race won't stay in. The rear seal area can be worn out too. Also check the lug holes in the wheels to see about wear from being run loose on the hubs. Lug nuts are kinda pricy, as are hubcaps.

As I understand it, they can't even if they wanted too. The old system was so outdated that there was no support for it. They kept it staggering along as far as they could but it is gone! A massive amount of work has gone into this new system, and while there were a few opening day glitches, they ha...

Check to see if your ethanol free gas has methanol instead! Some places do that, which can be worse than ethanol. Briggs&Stratton used to make an ethanol tester that was sold at small engine shops, to test your gas. Worth it!

Rob, in the wreck photo, there appears to be some form of shock absorbers clamped to the center of each axle tube, with a bar or rod going not to the frame but to the rear spring? I don't see them in any other photos that have been posted here. I am viewing this on an iPad so I can't enlarge them mu...

Isn't that the same company that made the famous "Snapper" riding lawn mowers?

From Capt Billy's Whizbang, 1924, What famous person do you think of when you put coal on the stove?? Philip the great!! (Fill up the grate), groan!

Snap On, and I would guess others, sell drill bits that will drill out broken drill bits and taps! They should handle your problem.

The Dodge Dakota Sport was a convertible pick up made in limited numbers. Made in the mid 1990's.

There appears to be a Lawson antique auto woodwork person still in business in NC, who is the son of the original builder. This person was still doing some work last year. On two different British car forums, there were notes of disappointed persons who had ordered and paid for wood frame parts, and...

Very impressive!!

It is amazing to think of the things that people have accomplished in the past, with equipment that to us, seems so primative that it is dangerous to stand near, let alone drive! To them, it was state of the art equipment, the best available to do the job at hand, a wonderful opportunity to set new ...

Presuming the slides area have some type of shield/deflector, when the pistons go below the port on the intake stroke, the air it pulls back in will be somewhat exhaust rich, not "fresh" air completely. This would make the system also a primitive Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system, similar to th...

Test! 1927 depot hack

I'm sure I show up as a "lurker" or guest, but I recently renewed my membership. For whatever reason, even though I check the remember me box, I have to sign in to make every comment, even though I never left the site. I have an iPad air2.

If closing those slides would pressurize the crankcase, what would that pressure be used for? Could it pressurize a fuel tank to force gas to the engine? In the piston pin/wrist pin, is there any way for air/oil to escape between the two top and the bottom ring, and out those ports? From the size of...

My 1925 Coupe has an Arvin exhaust heater in it. It has a cast iron section with fins, covered with a tin box, and at the bottom rear, a scoop that is adjustable to catch the air going by, and at the top front, a rectangular opening that fits to a grate in the floor boards. The heater fits in the ex...

If you check at your local auto parts store for a ford 2N or 9N diode replacement for the cut out, other than possible mounting differences that really don't matter, it will work fine. Now those tractors may or were positive ground rather than the model t negative ground. All you do is check that th...

Dallas, it got to forty here down state, can send a couple of buckets. Or can wait till Sunday when in fifties.

On the Falcon, the factory tranny was a C-3, and the C-4 doesn't fit without a few clearance modifications. Great looking cars! I helped a friend stuff a 96 Mustang 5.0 HO and 5 speed in a 64 falcon. Used all the factory computer wiring, high flow motorcraft converters and even a dealer add on A/C u...

In the past, when we put radial tires on older cars, especially Chrysler products, the camber stayed the same, but we added a good bit more caster, to stop wandering, and give more "feel" to the steering. It really helps! You need to keep caster even on both sides, or you will get a "pull" to the si...

If you can support the back of the screw area, take a large flat punch, and a big hammer, and hit each screw hard a time or two. You will have to repair the slot for the screw driver, but have seen this work many times. It also works on starter and generator field case screws. Those you hit really h...

Is there satellite service in the area? We live in a rural area, and use Hughesnet. Not perfect by any means, but usable except during heavy rain or snow. The new plan is supposed to be faster than ours. We buy the equipment not rent, much cheaper long term.

Is there satellite service in the area? We live in a rural area, and use Hughesnet. Not perfect by any means, but usable except during heavy rain or snow. The new plan is supposed to be faster than ours. We buy the equipment not rent, much cheaper long term.

Before automobiles there were decent road maps for many states put out by the League of American Wheelmen, aka the L.A.W! The LAW started the good roads movement, and fought in court for the right to ride bikes on public roads. The roads were marked as unimproved or dirt, improved or gravel, or pave...

Involve them in the planning so you find out what they like. Costumes seem popular, Tea parties, Ice Cream socials, shopping, Antique shops, food in general. Comfort in the car ( a relative term) can make a big difference, seat cushions in good shape, not too much wind etc. Rest and bathroom stops a...

West central Indiana is supposed to get 6-10" of all snow starting tonight about midnight lasting until Sunday morning. My garden tractor with cab and 48" snowblower is ready. Also 4 wheel drive small farm tractor with front end loader and grader blade if needed.

Is there a reason to reverse the direction of rotation? Otherwise grinding a cam so that the valve in the exhaust port opens as the piston is going down to suck gas and air in, then the valves close for compression stroke, and the power stroke, then the valve in the old intake port opens on the exha...

I grew up just north of Utica, NY, and was/am considering driving from Indiana to visit friends and go to the meet. I talked to a friend today and he said there is almost no snow in the area! It has been warm and rainy! Are there plans for this problem? Thanks, and am thinking snow! We may get 3-6" ...

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