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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

First check and clean the battery to frame ground cable. If still no starter spin add a auxiliary ground cable from engine to frame. After that check the battery for an internal short or problem under load. You may need some new battery cables or a new battery.

I would guess that it works like the intensifier spark plugs sold back in the Model T era. The, “intensifying” , is just a small pre-gap of around 0.010 inch before the actual spark plug gap , which makes for a little stronger spark in the cylinder under compression. So inside of the small wood box ...

In that same Ford film showing engine assembly you can see that Ford bolted a guide to the water inlet to place the number stamp on , for proper number placement. Also in this film only the last three digits of the engine number are stamped at this time, the other numbers having been stamped prior, ...

The last picture is very interesting to me because San Francisco Floral Company is a very popular and busy florest still in business in downtown Fresno California currently at 5080 East Tulare Street.

The problem I was told by a many year Model A restorer friend is that the Model T starter engages the flywheel ring gear from behind the flywheel and the Model A starter engages the flywheel ring gear from the front of the flywheel. Both starters turn the same direction, Model T starter drive spring...

The starter drive for the early Abel type Model A Ford starter turns the opposite direction but has the same starter shaft diameter as a Model T Ford. You need to get a Model T starter drive .

In the third picture down , of a 1919-20 open Motel T , that is the first time I have seen that type of a very interesting steering stabilizer.

Of course Ford shipped more than ten engines at a time, that is not was not what I was saying. The other messed up stamped numbers are clearly , messed up , but this engine number is clearly readable, but by the time line, it makes it one number short, for as you show they are USA engines. While it ...

I am thinking that Ford shipped numbered engines in groups of ten. By leaving off the last number until final assembly of the car/ or chassis, then stamping the last number 0 through 9. Ford would not of cared what engine number went in which car but could use the last number stamping as a final qua...

OK Matt I will take all shipped to me in Madera Ca for the new price of $90.00 . For you payment check send me your full name and mailing address via my email from MTFCA member contact info . Kmatt2 ( Kevin M )

If I remember correctly, Chevy valve stem to the left (?)and Ford to the right (?) of the split as you look at the wheel. You can weld up and redrill the valve stem holes to switch from Chevy to Ford. That is why Chevy rims have the cut out lug , because the valve stem is close and to help with inst...

Susanne, See my post to you on other thread on this topic in General Discussion section.

Susanne, I don’t know anything about who was the rightful owner of the restored 1920 chassis that is in question. I do know Erik and think that his main point is that after 20 years it is time to move on from this because holding on to the anger isn’t good for you. I also have a story from the news ...

In reference to the Cummings Dodge / Ram recall. In Crap-a-fornia the California Air Resources Board and the California Department of Motor Vehicles is refusing to renew all recalled trucks that don’t have proof from Ram that the recalled update , ( down grades ) , has been done . The State requires...

Typical late 1917 to early 1919 front axel, square end spring, fabricated shackles, tie rod adjustment on drivers side ( Left side ) , drilled for drive in oiler above axel wishbone perches. It looks like spindles are the later style with the flats but can’t tell for sure from the picture.

I have a later 1924 - 27 TT with the 23inch Hayes split rims on the rear that are rusty, plus some other 23 inch Hayes split rims that are in good shape, all of these rims have the lug by the split like you show. That is so you can install the rim with inflated tire on the wheel with out forcing it ...

Maybe Steve’s dog , Shorty , can come to California to visit with Steve . I am sure both would enjoy seeing each other after being separated for so long .

You got the bore scope in there to get the picture, so try a long thin screw driver or something else, to scrape a little grease off the edge of the washer, maybe some solvent on a long shop towel would work. Then take another picture with the bore scope, you just need to see if it is yellow or stee...

Mark, I will buy the Tillotson carburetor, and I left you a phone message. I have a Tillotson on my T speedster on a Model A intake and could use a backup carburetor.
Kevin

Tim Foye & also Jerry , Regarding your post needing a SCAT Model T crankshaft, now . I just got off the phone to SCAT , they have crankshaft blanks on hand but will not be machining them until after the first of the year, hopefully in January 2024 , when they get the new shop set up here in USA. The...

I don’t know who reground the cam but am with Craig in thinking that it was done for a specific configuration. That cam nut is set up for a mag cross drive gear or maybe a distributor drive gear.

Kim, sending you a email regarding combo T horn & light switch that I would like to buy.
KM

Kim, sending my address in email about combo horn & light switch

John, If you are going to run a reground Model T cam you will need to use a late 1924-27 T cam , the cam with the long front lobe. The earlier T cams use a shorter front lobe and a longer front bearing to take up thrust , but require modified front thrust when regrinding because the long front beari...

Steve, I would like to buy your T steering fatman wheel adapter. I will send you a email through MTFCA.
Kevin M ( kmatt2 )

From what I can see in the pictures, the frame is from late 1913 to late 1918. If the frame has the holes in the frame side rail to mount the 1917 and later type firewall brackets then it is 1917-18 , if it only has holes in top of frame rail for the pre 1917 firewall brackets then it is late 1913-1...

Walt, I can’t help you with any extra rocker arms for a Rajo Model 30 commercial head, but a few years ago I was able to buy a rocker arm cover for a Model 30 head from Dan McEachern . The only difference in the commercial head cover is that the commercial head has a shelf for short head bolts on th...

As had been pointed out the frame is a later frame with the rear crossmember cut off. The two holes in each side of the crossmember rear face, are for the spare tire bracket mounting , available starting in 1919. The rear radius rods have the bigger fork of 1926 - 27. The rear wheels look to be Kels...

Remember that those production numbers are for Ford fiscal year production. So the 1914 style cars produced in late 1914 and in early 1915 are counted as 1915 production, except for the late 1915 cars which count as 1916’s.

Some points to remember when compering a car restored from an original 1914 T touring and a car restored from an original 1915 T touring. The 1914 style car started production in mid 1913 due to the poor service life of the 1913 style body. The new 1915 style open car bodies were late into productio...

Great to hear from you Steve, you will soon get a custom to that computer they have , and be typing long posts soon.

At a long ago MTFCA National Tour I asked a club founding member just why we have to vote for three, no more, no less, candidates and his answer was similar to Farmer J’s answer above. I said to him in practice wouldn’t all the other candidates , besides the one big winner, all vote for their selfs,...

Besides the options above there is the option of using the lever type brake lite switch as used on a 1949-50 Chevrolet. Mount it such that the forward motion of the brake pedal depresses the lever attached to the under side of the floor board or a homemade bracket. If you go with this switch you can...

Note to Dusty referencing your email to me. You are good to go with your speedster project, see my email reply to you.

Those were used in Ford TT trucks. Max Edmonds from Auburn Ca, ( RNP ) sold a nice brass copy of the shifter handle.

Maybe the windshield is for an earlier circa 1920-23 Canadian Ford from a different supplier than used in 1924-25 ? Another possibility is it is for a Canadian made C cab TT, the USA C cabs used a taller windshield that the cars, but the ones I have seen are different from that windshield.

Marie, I see from one of your pictures that the transmission has splashers and magnet spools in place of the magnets. Do you know if Dan in his rebuild used one of his transmission pin retainers to keep the pins from backing out ? If you are unsure, you can post a picture of the crankshaft side of t...

I am sure it could be made to cool ok in a car with some sort of baffle and maybe a water pump.

I thought the exhaust ports looked a lot like a Robert Roof head I saw a long time ago, but I wasn’t sure. Robert Roof also used the name Liberty , so that would be another name for the same thing. With the stock T water inlet location in the block and having the water outlet in the top of the head ...

I have a two speed Warford in my 1916 express and the case is smaller than the case in your picture.

I have a two speed Warford in my 1916 express and the case is smaller than the case in your picture.

See my note under post for straight tie rod bolt that is for sale.

Note to seller. Up to 1918 the tie rod ball was a fixed part of tie rod end on the passenger side of USA left hand driver cars. The pre 1919 tie rod adjustment was on the drivers side and had a lock bolt. In 1919 Ford changed the lock bolt to have the steering ball and moved the adjustment side to t...

If the 21/32 inch size is the correct size then try a 16 or 17 mm it is about half way between the two. If the 23/32 inch size is correct use 18 mm it is a tad small but close.

That long hood would go wonderfully with something like Rob’s original 300 CID Ford Special engine, to bad there is only one of those that survived. Wayne’s idea of a 6 cylinder T is good but a lot of work. The long hood just screams Model T Speedster and who better to build one with a long hood tha...

With the pipe fitting boss in the top of manifold and with that mounting on the side of manifold my guess is that it was for water injection. It was a common way for stretching gas mileage in the WW 1 era due to the poor quality of the gas.

First of all , because in a later post you say that it is a newly rebuilt motor , it may just need more running time to loosen up some. Run the motor in neutral for 15 minutes at a fast idle, with out radiator cap, adding water to radiator if motor gets hot. Next take the car for a short drive, try ...

Mike,
My prayers and best wishes to you in your health battle.
Kevin Matthiesen, Madera Ca.

That is good to know that the car has always been in dry storage, all that mold came about for some reason .

That tire size fits 1930-31 Chevrolet. Not all Chevrolet’s had wire wheels those years. Most likely they are off a 1930 Chevrolet with disk wheels, but with out the lugs it is hard to know, other cars used this size in those years.

I don’t know anything about this particular car because I live on the west coast. I would find out if the car had been in a flood, because that could cause all the wood framing to swell and then shrink when dry, which may cause some splitting of the wood. Fresh water may be ok but salt water could b...

I am betting the guy in the 1925 Coupe with the mark of the beast,
( 666 ), that guy’s next car was a Dodge or a Chevrolet. (6 th picture down ).
I guess it takes a car that rattles to catch a rattlesnake snake. ( 2nd picture down ).

Jason, The good news in this, is that when the axel broke at the rail road crossing, it was good news that you car cleared the rail road crossing when it stopped. You will have to take your Ruckstell completely apart to remove the broken axel. You should get two new axels and you may find other Ruck...

Just so Model T owners can know, what lift cam did you run with your test head engine ? Some Model T owners run a higher lift cam, and in looking at your pictures of the combustion chambers, it looks like some higher lift cams could have interference when the valves are all the way open . It would n...

Bob, I am sending you a email via MTFCA with my contact information. I would like to buy one of those 1929 Model A reprint books.
Kevin Matthiesen in Madera Ca 93636

I agree with Steve and others that the car is late 1917 or early 1918 and it has had some parts changed out by the 1922 year on the license plate. Unlike the city bus lines that replaced the street cars that could have the bus stop at the curb, the street car tracks generally were in the center of t...

Steve, You may have already done this, first check, off the car, the continuity of the mag post, the mag wire to mag switch, and the switch on the mag side. Also check mag ring button as was suggested, and the mag to battery charger, it could be a bad diode. If the fault is found here it will save t...

You are correct Jeff, the side panels, at least, are from the back half of a 1921-25 touring, you can see the hole for the top bracket in the picture if you look closer than I first did. Scott, yes two piece valve covers were cast into around March 1922. I am not so sure about 1923, but with 1923 be...

Sorry for the double post, I hate posting to this darn system with my I phone.

I will start with the good news, the engine block has the Ford scrip. Ford changed the block castings to drop the scrip during 1923 so the block with a 1922 engine number matches if you have a one piece valve cover, the two piece valve cover was last used in 1921. The next thing I see is that the tu...

That fan in your picture looks a lot like a fan that was on a 1954 flathead six Dodge pickup I once owned. If you plan to use it on your Model T, now would be the time to buy a modern fan pulley with the modern bearings, it will move your fan back some from your radiator, which I am sure you will ne...

A general note about standard, and / or , auxiliary transmissions . In some the counter shaft always turns and in others the counter shaft sometimes doesn’t turn, resulting in poor bearing lubrication because the counter shaft is not turning. The dog clutch type such as Moore or sliding gear type th...

If you can’t get your to short spokes replaced with the correct spokes and you are going to shim. Don’t shim at the hub, shim each spoke at the tenon end with spoke sims , if the tenons are long enough to allow shims. If they aren’t long enough, get new spokes from another supplier, in fact getting ...

You may be able to use safety hubs and Nash Metro hydraulic brakes. The Metro brake backing plate isn’t that thick and drums are small enough to clear your wire wheel spokes. A plus is if you wanted to go four wheel brakes the Metro brakes work well on the front of a T speedster.

As you change out each head bolt make sure that the new bolt isn’t longer than the old bolt. I am assuming that you checked the old bolts against bottoming in the block when you had the head off. Now that you are changing out those bolts one at a time, the new bolt if just a little longer could bott...

I assume that because the distance between the top of the car frame to the bottom of the fuel tank is about the same for the round and oval gas tanks, Ford decided it was not necessary to space the oval tank up to match the round tank’s gas cap location. There may have been a drawing of a bracket to...

Susanne, The other east bay plant that I know about for sure is the old Fageol Truck plant that Peterbilt Trucks bought in the 1930’s and made trucks there into the mid 1960’s when Peterbilt moved to Newark Ca. That old Peterbilt plant was on MacArthur Blvd at 106 Avenue and was also torn down aroun...

A side note to the Fisher Body Plant 3, is that in 1917 GM owned Fisher Body, and in 1917 GM build the new assembly plant at Foothill Blvd and 73rd Ave in Oakland Ca to build the new 490 Chevy. Fisher Body moved their west headquarters to that location in Oakland for Chevy and remained there until 1...

If you only need a stock Ford T and a stock Chevy 4 cy head gasket for each side of the adapter, then try , The Filling Station, in Lebanon OR. they sell vintage Chevrolet parts. Of course Lang’s has stock Model T Ford head gaskets. I don’t know enough about how the Jern adapter mounts on the T bloc...

I once had a 1987 Mazda pickup with a 2.0 L OHC engine. On restart of a warm engine, thermostat open, the radiator fill catch and 15 lb cap separated from the top tank, torn off by cylinder pressure on power stroke. When I pulled the head , the head gasket had failed, and there were no cracks in the...

Hydro lock happens on engine startup, after a shutoff engine leaking coolant, or as in the case of a modern race car, leaks fuel into the cylinder. The pressure in the cylinder on restarting the engine causes a bent rod or casting failure and worse damage. For this to happen in a running T engine, w...

In the 10th picture down from the top, with the girl standing on the running board of a well worn 1926-27 T Coupe in the early 1930’s, proves that kids had to talk on their cellphone’s all the time back then too, just like they do today.

When my daughter was a senior in high school in 2008 in Walnut Creek Ca. one of her friends , who had her Ca drivers license, but because she was only 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 85 lbs, by the letter of the Ca law at the time, when riding in a car she had to use a car booster seat and sit down...

The 1924 and 1925 T blocks are the same and there is no casting date on them, the 1923 T block is different as it has the Ford script on the side and a slightly different shape number pad. A 1925 number beginning with 12 million will be a little harder to find because the 1926 style engines started ...

The tenth picture down from the top, with the lady standing in front of the Model T looks like it was taken on the old ridge route between Los Angeles and Bakersfield California. Thanks for posting the many pictures over the years Tom, they let us see a glimpse of life back in the Model T days, when...

Make a turned down exhaust tip from exhaust pipe. Instead of using the nuts, calculate the amount of reduction you get from using the nuts, then slightly crush the outlet tip to get the same reduction in pipe size. Having the outlet turned down should help a little with the noise level by pointing t...

In the early years of Model T production Ford used a brass tag attached to the wood dash firewall with screws. On this tag it had a place that had a car number stamped on it. On the 1912 Model T engine there is an engine number stamped. Originally in 1909 these numbers were the same on a given car b...

I would think that after trying to drive a early 1915 T at night with the electric head lights that went from very dim, to overly bright, to burned out bulbs as the engine speeded up, some car owners went back to what worked, the gas lamps that they could still buy from Ford. By later in 1915 Ford a...

You have a nice car and it should run well with that Rajo. I once owned a speedster with a similar type Rajo and it would do 80 MPH. In your picture it looks like the SR carb is a little close to the generator terminal, I would add some insulation between the two locations. You asked for ideas on ot...

Steve, Your frame is an early 1926 frame with out the extra rear cross member flange, it will work fine. In the picture it looks like the rear spring is sitting too low in the cross member. Make sure that the spring center bolt head enters the square hole in the cross member in order to keep the rea...

It did it again, a double post. Good luck with your Model T Eli.

Eli, Your compression of 50 lbs in all four cylinders is good for a Model T. I checked the main Model T part suppliers and only Chaffin’s lists 0.010 OS cast iron piston rings. For your mismatched pistons I would buy a standard and a 0.010 OS ring set. I would do a light hone of the cylinders and th...

Eli, Did you do a compression test comparing the oily number 1 cylinder with the not oily cylinders 2, 3, 4, before you pulled the number 1 piston ? That would have given you a base line in order to proceed. I can see what looks like 005 on the piston top, but on my little phone it is hard to read, ...

Bob, Try checking a Fordson parts list. I don’t know for sure but it looks like what I have seen on a Fordson from the 1920’s.

For the round and oval gas tanks, if Ford had used a lining material, and they didn’t, that material would have been riveted to the tank straps. I have never seen any evidence of rivets or riveting holes in any gas tank straps.

Matt, Those pictures look like they were taken below Pine Flat Dam, on the Kings River, just off Belemont Avenue, or their abouts. Great pictures, it looks like you had a nice spring drive in your 1926 touring. Out in Madera Ca the hills are still green and colorful with flowers unlike the usual tur...

Your picture of the engine shows a short engine number boss consistent with a 1915 engine, I can’t read the engine number. If the car has a good title as a 1915, matching that engine number in the car on the title, you could keep the chassis and sell the body and then build a depot hack, or a speeds...

No, this a 1922 body of the type used by Ford between 1921-1923 . In 1921 Ford changed the back section of the touring body now using three sheet metal pieces instead of the five pieces used in 1915-1920 that you are describing. As I posted above it is a 1922 body because of the dropped top bracket....

Those front top mounts are generally original to the body because they mount to the body wood.

To add to what Wayne said, the body itself is a 1922. Note the front top bracket is some what dropped for the front seat two man top mount. On a 1921 body that mount is straight and on a 1923 body that mount isn’t there due to the 1923 cars having a one man top and a sloping windshield.

Why can’t they use the Tulare Ag Center for evacuation, it is much bigger and easier to get to, just off Hwy 99.

Happy April fools day to you also. Fat man steering, that’s a good one.

I didn’t really know Tony but met him several times at swap meets and at a long ago Model T tour. Tony did a lot for our hobby and will be missed. RIP Tony and enjoy talking Model T’s with Mr Ford upstairs.

Matthew, I have taken apart several Moore transmissions over the years to get useable parts. Your Moore has been modified to use a T engine to drive some sort of home made farm equipment, giving two belt speeds and a neutral with out using the T pedals. On the TT equipped Moore, the part that you ar...

Yes, it had been very slow all day for me in California .

Regarding the speedster with the aftermarket hood and radiator shell, the gold star speedster. Notice the car’s 1915-16 front fenders. That type of aftermarket radiator shell was made to fit a brass radiator but take a aftermarket hood to make the front of the car look more modern. The radiator fill...

Picture from Canada ? Notice the driver’s door hinges .

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