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After you check the float also check your gas cap to make sure that the vent hole is still open. If the vent becomes blocked then a partial vacuum will form in the tank causing air to be sucked into the fuel from the carburetor end of the fuel line. If you started with a full tank all will be ok but...

I am pretty sure these are 21 inch straight side split rims.
The cross section shape would come closest to the balloon tire rims because the earlier 30 x 3.5 inch would have a cross section that curves toward the tire.

The car is a 1927 with the head lights mounted on the fender tie bar plus it has 1927 license plate. Those wheels are the 21 inch by 4:50 split rims , notice the straight side rim on the right front wheel.

As has been stated it was common practice to use the upper radiator mount thimble as a spacer, with 4 being needed. I guess you could grind the open end of the 1/2 inch thimble down the 1/16 of a inch to get to 7/16 of a inch if you so desired, but generally there is enough play in frame to steel fi...

I want to buy the dash bracelets, sending you a email through MTFCA with my contact info. Kevin in Madera 93636

Is this put together chassis going to be for a speedster ? If it is and it has a dropped axel then the king pin to king pin distance is probably not stock Model T and will give results like this. Does the car have the correct early tie rod with the toe in adjustment on the left and a fixed drag link...

Those cut off rods are for a late 1926-27 car and have the fixed collar. They would have to be welded to the old rods at exactly the correct length. I am sure that you could turn the collar off , weld threads up and rethread the entire length to use the two nuts like the stock 1925 rods using you st...

The stuff you call as yellow is generally more brown. It is porcelain from the insulator getting burned off by a lean condition in the cylinder. Run a little richer or get a colder spark plug.

One possible explanation is that the cutout in question is an after market replacement for a 1919 car that has had a steel firewall replacement installed for a rotted wood firewall around 1923.

Eric, from your close up picture of the front spring it shows the boss to the rear, as it should be, for both sides. Re-arching the spring would have required taking the spring apart. Make sure that upon reassembly and installation in cross member that you got the head of the spring center bolt to g...

You are so right , all that shattered plate glass in the butt if that top and windshield attachment fails as they lean on it.

Eric, I think what happened to your current valve cover is that it was trimmed to fit a spacer mounted to the head, the purpose of the spacer was to retain some engine oil spray at the rockers. If you can’t find the cover that you are looking for, you could make a new spacer for your existing cover.

Eric, Enjoy your new T overhead .

Note that the 1926-1927 Model T four door sedan also used this type firewall because it did not use a cowl gas tank.

Because you broke the drive shaft off at the pinion end with the slide hammer , I have a guess at what may have happened long ago at the U-joint end of the drive shaft. The original type front drive shaft bushing is Babbitt, if it was run long and hard with not enough grease it is possible that some...

Notice that it is a 1926-27 big drum rear axle. Assuming that the brake bands are still in place, I would say this bracket was made by a local blacksmith in order to operate the brakes off the foot brake via a looped cable like the original AC brakes. If the brake bands are in place it would mean th...

Matt , I don’t know which of your cars you are going camping in, but that type of auxiliary spring won’t work with a 1926-27 large drum rear axle. I at one time had a 1926 roadster pickup that had a 1925 small drum rear axle in it and a similar, but a little different , auxiliary springs. They worke...

It has been a while since I have bought new Rootlieb T fenders, but the 1916 and earlier front fenders use to come with the brackets mounted in fenders. It was the 1917 and later fenders that you had to salvage original brackets and mount your self. If the 1916 and earlier front fenders no longer ha...

Tommy, Tommy, Tommy,
This post was about this piticular 1915 Model T now in Canada , and the new import tax on the restoration work done on it , or its parts, in the USA , if the now complete car enters the USA.

In the sixth picture down, the 1926-27 Roadster, it looks like that round thing in the right side splash apron may be a after market oil level gauge of some sort, but I can’t tell for sure when I blow up the picture.

IMG_1184.png Excepting the prior Spanish & Mexican land grants, and Tribal Lands, most of Northern and Central California land surveying is based on this Initial Point location on Mt Diablo. Some recent file pictures from top of Mount Diablo at overlook tower. Note that this current tower was built...

I can’t be sure , but the 12th picture down, with the 1919-1923 Coupe, looks like it was taken from the observation tower at the top of Mount Diablo, looking toward Suisun Bay and Pittsburg area. On a clear day you can see all around the San Francisco east bay and into the valley. This is why this l...

You don’t say if you have a complete set of original style small drum Rockies, including the over size brake drums. If your set is complete with over size brake bands and drums your two simplest choices are to trade your brakes for the later 1926-27 style AC brakes, or you could change your Ruckstel...

Not necessarily all , or any $$ amount, of the car’s current value will be taxed importing items. It says that the body was restored by “The Craftsman”, in California, and I bet that many of the other parts used in restoration came from USA suppliers. If there are records of the car being once owned...

Craig, I would like to buy the early muffler ends. I have sent to you my contact information via your MTFCA club contact email.
Kevin in Madera Ca 93636

My first job out of college as a Civil Engineer was working on a survey crew for the A T & S F railroad. One of our jobs was to due accident investigation drawings of the wreckage for legal purposes. The one thing you learn from the survivors is that car drivers tend to vastly misjudge the speed of ...

Donnie,
I sent you a email about wanting to buy your carburetors.
Kevin M in Madera Ca 93636

There is always the time honored method, or dis-honored if you prefer, use a cold chisel. Hit the bolt head with the chisel in order to spin the bolt in a counter clockwise direction to loosen or remove it.

Make a stamping guide out of scrap angle iron or strap steel and drill mounting holes to mount guide using water inlet bolt holes. The following pictures of Ford assembly from around 1918-20 are taken from a Ford made movie on Model T assembly.

Walt, I sent you a text about the tire tool and my contact info. I would to buy the tire tool .
Kevin M in Madera Ca

Bob I am sorry to hear about the passing of your wife. My prayers to you and your family at this hard time.
Kevin M , Madera California

Terry, I am glad to hear that everything will work out for you regarding the engine number and Texas title. Here in California the CHP & DMV won’t accept engine number changes anymore, they now make you get an assigned California VIN. Just another reason , of many reasons , to move out of California...

If I understand you correctly , your garage is 24 ft deep and is standard 20 ft wide with a 16 ft garage door. I have a 20 ft wide by 38 ft garage with a 16 ft garage door. Parking on a slight angle I can get a 1951 Mercury and a 1967 Cougar in the front half of the garage. In order to get in on the...

That dreaded double post again.

Terry, As others have said, the brass plate over the original Ford number boss is a bad idea, it would be easy to spot by any offical checking the number. You don’t have to take the 1926-27 block that you are using back to the machine shop to remove the non Ford number. Get a good sharp mill file an...

Just a note here. It is common practice on MTFCA forum for members that know a lot about the current value range of some T part posted on Ebay , that is listed for a bargain price , to post a heads up here on MTFCA , if they are not interested. What isn’t common practice is to post a comment about a...

What I have done in the past on a 26 roadster pickup is to take a razor knife and cut out the non-embossed area out of the Ford type mat. Then I got some heavier industrial black rubber mat material designed for high traffic walkways and made an over size overlay, mounting the overlay lay piece with...

The angle of the picture makes it look like the man driving the car is on the right, but he isn’t. What looks like a steering gear on the right side is the fender iron.

The T in picture 4 is left hand drive and the dog is riding shotgun on the right side. If you look closely over the cylinder head between the right fender and headlight you can see the steering gear coming threw the firewall.

Your point about 1918 Canadian Model T cars having 30” x 3 1/2” non-demountable front wheels is correct, so the Canadian 1918 produced TT trucks would have used them also. Using the 30” x 3” non-demountable front wheels was a Ford USA Model T production choice to save money with the large production...

A interesting note for me regarding early TT trucks is that back in 1972 I went to a old walnut farm in Armona California USA to look at a TT for sale by a farmer who had bought the farm from the original farmer who had planted the walnut trees during World War One. The original farmer used the TT h...

The first production year of the Ford TT chassis was 1918 and those trucks had solid rubber rear wheels and 30” x 3” non-demountable front wheels. In your picture it looks like your truck may have the early type rear axel with the half round reinforcement bead on the worm housings used into early 19...

What type of tow vehicle are you using, if not a pickup ? I think that a standard two axel utility trailer will fit the 1926 roadster body ok. You don’t need a car trailer, I have hauled Model A closed car bodies in two axel utility trailers before.

Back in 1992 I brought back to Fresno Ca from Denver Co a 1926-27 T touring body in the back of a 1987 F150 short bed pickup. I had to leave the tail gate down because of the touring rear curved tub but it fit between the wheel wells ok. I would be concerned that the U-haul closed trailer would not ...

Take a cloth tape or a heavy string and make two measurements around the pulley’s like the fan belt would run. One measurement with the fan adjuster at low point and another measurement with fan adjuster at high point. You will a fan belt that is between those two lengths.

Lisa, Enjoy your1926 T Coupe, I have one made in February 1926, and enjoy mine. Your title with the 13 million number is well documented and as others have said, finding another number on it now just complicates things. You looked and found no other number, this car is not the car the grandson is lo...

Sorry for the double post but darn the system that was to much typing to take a chance on loosing it.

Basically the grandson knows nothing about what happened to the car after 1976 the last time he saw it at his uncle’s house. In 2020 the uncle still had the car when he passed away. The auction company selling off the uncle’s estate sold the car in 2020 with some type of legal paperwork giving the 1...

Basically the grandson knows nothing about what happened to the car after 1976 the last time he saw it at his uncle’s house. In 2020 the uncle still had the car when he passed away. The auction company selling off the uncle’s estate sold the car in 2020 with some type of legal paperwork giving the 1...

You are going to need a panhard bar or at least lock one spring shackle to keep the axle centered from side to side. For a dirt track car lock the right hand shackle if you go with a locked shackle.

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Steve, Posting some pictures of your engine would he helpful.

Steve, The early 1919 open cars continued using the non-starter type engine block and hogshead. By around late February 1919 the last of the non-starter type blocks were used in TT production. Is your block non-generator type or generator type ? By late February 1919 the open cars would be produced ...

When I first read this I missed the part that you had a fuel pressure regulator . You could try upping the fuel pressure in one or two 1/2 pound bumps in fuel pressure to see if it helps. Does the Winfield SR accelerator work ok, or does it misfire when you rev the engine some, a slight fuel pressur...

First thing is to due, is to get a reading on the spark plugs. A lean running engine will show blistering in the spark plug center electrode. Check for intake system leaks causing your lean condition. The Rajo BB doesn’t run so well at lower engine speeds because the intake passages are so big and t...

OK I think I know how your system is supposed to work, but with out any dimensions I can’t be sure. The red primered adaptor goes inside the cast iron drum with the flat side in contact with the drum fitting against the inner cast drum. Your 1926-27 wire wheel rear hub, sans stock pressed steel dru...

OK I think I know how your system is supposed to work, but with out any dimensions I can’t be sure. The red primered adaptor goes inside the cast iron drum with the flat side in contact with the drum fitting against the inner cast drum. Your 1926-27 wire wheel rear hub, sans stock pressed steel drum...

OK I think I know how your system is supposed to work, but with out any dimensions I can’t be sure. The red primered adaptor goes inside the cast iron drum with the flat side in contact with the drum fitting against the inner cast drum. Your 1926-27 wire wheel rear hub, sans stock pressed steel drum...

Those new pictures show cast iron brake drums that are quite different from the 1970’s Rocky Mt Brake cast iron drums that I had. Perhaps if you post a picture of the brake bands or brake shoes that came with the drums it would help to identify them.

Sorry for double post. How I dislike posting here I thought they fixed the double post problem but didn’t get the warning this time.

Back in the late 1970’s the reproduction Rocky Mt Brakes came with larger cast iron drums that also had the smaller 8 inch T drum cast in. These cast drums were drilled to use T wood wheel rear hubs that fit a counter bore in the cast drum. The brake bans for these brakes had a rear anchor and worke...

Paul, I would check the power wire and connection at the bottom bus bar if your problem continues. With the power lost happening after the fourth coil is installed it would point to a bad connection or wire at the bottom bus bar.

Note for Jay about the 1919-23 Coupe body. The rear deck area wood and sheet metal is part of the body and not removable like a Roadster. While people did make Utes out of these cars it requires cutting of the body to fit the mounting of a useable pickup bed .

Mark, I will buy the two remaining sets of pan supports that you have for sale. I also sent you a text. Kevin in Madera Ca.

His car was a mid 1911 as I remember.

This is sad news of Rich’s passing. I never met Rich but enjoyed his posts on MTFCA and his art work. RNP Rich.

Here in the Fresno California area there is a Horseless Carriage Club, a Model A Ford and Early V8 Ford Club, but no Model T Club. Over the years I tried several times to form a T club, but there was no interest. The club that worked in Fresno for post brass Model T’s was called, Roaring Twenties Ca...

The old contact information from a few years ago that I have is :

Bill Bohlen , Antique T Motor Sports LLC , 1610 N Cypress ,
La Habra , California, 90631 .

You could try to write Bill and send him a picture, to see if he has any of those brackets left in stock.

From your pictures of the two horns, I would say that they are both mag horns because of the motor housing shapes. The battery horn would have a longer motor housing. The two wire horn was for a wood firewall car and the one wire horn was for a metal firewall car that was sold new as a non-starter c...

Mark , I would like to buy the remaining pitman arm # 1 . Kevin M

Picture 1 , I am guessing it is a modified 1920’s T center door body with a modified T engine , either a 6 cylinder or 8 cylinder conversion . That was a lot of body work to go through with out going to more cylinders under that longer hood.

A note about the 30 “ X 3 1/2 “ tire size. Some time after the USA entered WW I in April 1917 the tire size 30” X 3 1/2 “ Oversize became the standard to bridge the 30” and 32” tire sizes with just one tire. This is why the inflated 30 “ X 3 1/2 “ tire ( oversize ) now measures around 31 1/2 inch’s ...

In the picture of the Ford TT camper it says , location is ,Treasure Island San Francisco 1940. That was where the San Francisco World’s Fair was that year, and there are pictures of his travels on the camper. Also the dog, coyote, turtle, and opossums are his traveling buddies. The dog is looking a...

I can’t help you with a current source of number stamps that match the stamps that Ford used during the Model T years. But back in the early 1970’s I was able find a new set of Model T matching stamps being sold in an original wood box . Found by accident , in an old hardware store that had been in ...

Harold, I was sorry to hear about the rustling rims, but it was nice to talk with you on the phone. Take care, Kevin

Sorry double post.

Harold, I will buy the four 21 inch split rims for $50 each from you. You can keep the old tires and tubes or cut them off, I only need the rims. I will need to know the shipping cost to Madera California zip 93636 . I will send you a email via MTFCA.
Kevin

You can contact me via email threw MTFCA
Kevin

Back in the 1970’s before there was Kevlar and maybe even wood bands there were , bonded bands , that used a lining material from drag line cable cranes , cable clutches . The kind I remember didn’t have an embedded metal but they were hard on the Model T drums and required filing an oil grove in th...

Steve, For Ignacio’s Model T , his car is a 1922 Touring with a 1925 engine.

Mark, I will buy the two early front fender irons. I sent you a text .
Kevin M in Madera Ca

Norm, Try Synders Model T and A parts, under part A-9031 gas tank neck extension for 28-29 Model A Fords. A little pricey but should work as you describe. Not threaded , fits inside 28-29 tank with a gasket to seal, 28-29 A tank treads are on outside of tank unlike 26-27 Model T tanks.

Mark,
If you have a OH push rod to lifter adapter set left , I would like to buy one set for my Rajo Model 30.
Kevin in Madera Ca 93636

Actually you have four bad coils, the four that you were driving on when you last drove the car, and noticed the poor acceleration. You don’t say if those coils have been rebuilt to your knowledge, but I would say that if you are lucky, the poor acceleration was a sign that the condensers were start...

If you are using a Ruckstell is the ball bearing seating correctly ?

I assume that you also checked the steel thrust washers for being flat and that they fit over the thrust plate pins correctly. Over time in hard service many a Model T rear axle housing has been bent or has worn where the steel thrust washer sits after the thrust plate pin failed. Check your axel ho...

Here in Crap-A-Fornia, that’s California for those not in the know, buying a car with a good California title isn’t all you need to know about the car. For example if the California title was issued six years ago to the person that you are buying the car from , but that person only registered the ca...

Your front hub must be cracked or badly worn, that cup should be a light press fit. I see that you are using 1928-29 Model A wire wheel adapters and those adapters are heavy. I would find better front hubs because those cups must be tight in the hub.

From your picture I can’t tell if the 1918 type spring perches are on correct side or not. But in the past with the later 1919 type front end I have had to put some weight on the front to compress the spring some to get the radius rod attached. Ford first used the 1919 type spring perches and radius...

When you installed the NOS ball on the old driveshaft tube how did you buck the new rivets ? It is possible that the new brass driveshaft bushing is not properly seated in the driveshaft tube because it is hitting the end of a bucked rivet. If you are fairly close you can face off the back of the U-...

Just a note for you on the Ford WW1 ambulance , the tail light was generally mounted up high on the left side of the back of the ambulance body. The reason for this was , in a convoy going over a hill the light of the leading ambulance could be seen better by the ambulance following behind. Of cours...

It is a Ford-O tail light used on late production non-electric start Model T cars and trucks starting in 1924 to end of production. The local & state governments complained to Ford that the rear license plate needed more light on it.

My 1916 wood body open express pick up has a stock round gas tank moved back a little less than one inch and all is ok. The car has a stock 1916 wood fire wall mounted in the stock location. Behind the stock fire wall is a 3/4 inch wood fire wall cut out for the steering gear and coil box mounting t...

Ryan , I see that you’re in Alberta, but for this I will assume that your speedster will be left hand drive. In dropping the steering on a right hand drive speedster one would have to deal with the manifolds and carburetor. On the left hand drive car the dropped steering gear basically pivots in an ...

Robert, If you are using the 1926 fender mount head lights , there is a work around to your problem if you want to run a head light tie bar. Bob, better known as Fatman, in Loves Park Illinois makes a repo head light bar with removable threaded ends that go under the head lights at the fender. This ...

Terry, Your Ford factory numbered August of 1927 block could very well have come in a new TT truck. Ford continued selling some new TT trucks into the fall harvest season in 1927, built from parts on hand at some branch assembly plants.

Yes , the notched mounting lugs are stock on the fixed lug Hayes 23 inch TT rims. The notched lugs are so that the rim with tire can be mounted on the wheel with out bending the valve stem, ( which was metal ), or with out removing the mounting bolts. Dan, the optional stock demountable TT rear whee...

Your overhead is not a Rajo. I believe it is a two port 8 valve Roof head , but I don’t know what model name Roof used for it. The valve rockers you show may or may not be Roof rockers, but if they are Roof it will be very hard to find replacements. You may have to replace all 8 rockers and make new...

Matt, I will buy the 1916 T headlights and am sending you a email through MAFCA. Thanks Kevin in Madera Ca

Mike, I would like to buy the touring tail light bracket, marked , 20 touring & sedan , in picture. I sent you a email threw MTFCA
Kevin

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