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Car has been sold to a museum in Duncan BC.

From what I understand the EFR website does not exist anymore, that's what prompted setting up the Early Ford Forum here.

Chris

High Compression Aluminum Head Model B Intake/Exhaust Manifolds 12 Volt Alternator Texas T Distributor Tillotson Carburetor Electric fuel pump with pressure regulator Water Pump Rack/Pinion Steering Ruckstell Two Speed 1926 Rear Axle Model A Mechanical Brakes rear 1927 Wire Wheels Starts and Runs gr...

More pics of the town car

I am posting this for Mrs Hunter and Blaze Taylor of BC Canada The car was built from plans and measurements received from the Model T Town Car Group. Unfortunately the man passed away before he could enjoy the car although it was trailered to a couple of car shows where it won awards for the car as...

Moved from the support forum

My thoughts are to please remove your membership numbers from your personal info. NOBODY viewing our postings needs to know that. I just updated mine. Please don't do this, this is what sets you into the MTFCA Member group. I have changed the setting to not display the membership numbers. Do not re...

We are continuing to work on the problem, trying different options.

It is not a problem with our host, it is a problem with unauthorized access mostly due to the current situation with AI bots et al.

It is also not a problem with being an authorized (or paying) user.

Chris

We set the Guests to not have access to any forums but this really didn't affect anything that's we you don't see the forums before you log in.

The reporting of guests is all these bots and what have you trying to get in.

Chris

Response is still not where it should be but at least it is useable.

We are continuing to work on the issues.

Chris

Yes we are working on the problem .... again.

We thought we had it beat but the bad guys keep dreaming up new ways of attacking.

Chris et al

We purged the classified listings a few months ago, space is money.

Chris

Here is another connection to Yellowstone for Rich.

https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/8 ... 1533140757

I can say that Richard & his wife Joy were good friends of Rose & I, we visited them whenever we had the chance. Here is an article about the restoration of the Yellowstone bus a 1923 White, Rich sent me the link a while back. https://www.smokstak.com/forum/threads/1923-white-bus.167170/ Enjoy Chris

Sale price was $43,000

Posted for when the link doesn't work.

Chris

We have addressed one of the issues, we're going to see how it goes for a little bit before we activate posting again.

Chris

Putting the forum in maintenance mode while we come up with a solution.

Chris

There are some major problems we are trying to sort through mostly related to SQL server & the phpbb software.

Interesting fact is the software does not actually crash just seems like it as it's so slow.

Chris

We have a meet & greet scheduled at the Ag Grounds.

A drop in affair in the afternoon with food & entertainment .... maybe even some ice cream!!

Chris

Sorry everybody, we had some major speed issues today and had to lock the board.

Hopefully it will be good for a bit now.

Chris

Type this into Google search box

Dave Ireland site:www.mtfca.com

and you will get this

https://www.google.com/search?q=Dave+Ir ... e&ie=UTF-8

If you have registered expect an email from our registrar Ross regarding our banking information. Due to increased banking procedures on money laundering and fraud our bank will not let us deposit cheques made out in the tour name. They have to be made out to our club name. FOOTHILLS MODEL T FORD CLUB

Your friendly Webmaster is the Tour Chairman for the tour, hope you can make it.

Chris

I'll do a little searching for you.

Most of it is caused by the bad guys trying to get in. Not sure what they are after or looking to gain, I guess its just the way it is now. We contact Liquidweb and they block the abusive IPs they find. They have pointed out other SQL & server processes we can look at. Jeff & I will be reviewing the...

We have on of these in our 26 Touring with a Ruckstell and a 4:1 rear axle ratio. It works really well. Our car is still 6 volt and the solenoid works just fine. You also have a switch that disconnects the overdrive if you go into reverse - apparently they don't like going backwards. This is from a ...

Interesting idea. I know Ford shipped 100,000 frames and engines separately to Argentina, but the articles I found never mentioned bodies. Makes sense a local coach work might have built them.

This was posted as a report by mistake.
Chris B

Here is an old thread started by Rick about a Glidden Tour he was involved in planning in Idaho.

So much of his good character show in his postings.

I will miss him.

Chris

https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/8 ... 1538053566

I received this from Joy this morning, sad news indeed. To all of Rich's Model T buddies, Rich passed last Friday, August 24, 2024. He loved his old cars and his interaction with all of you on the forum. May the legend of Kalimity Dick live on! Happy Touring! Joy Rose & I visited Rich & Joy several ...

Posting this on behalf of Rich's wife Joy.

Chris

To all of Rich's Model T buddies,

Rich passed last Friday, August 24, 2024. He loved his old cars and his interaction with all of you on the forum.

May the legend of Kalimity Dick live on!

Happy Touring! Joy

This is a new post of this very early chassis that has been seen on here before.

Brice has lowered the price to $35,000 US

Knowing both Stan & Dick I can wholeheartedly agree with these comments. Stan was an on-again off-again member of our club in Calgary over the years and we went to Montana on many tours. Dick & Anja were on a few tours with us when we started touring around 2006. Congratulations Bob Grincewich on ta...

Quote "Our first stop is Sullivan, MO for breakfast at Cracker Barrel"

It's all about the eating when Model Ts are involved.

We are part way there, in Las Vegas, head out Saturday am.

Chris & Rose

No R in Viton. Viton rubber is a type of Fluoroelastomer that has a highly unique molecular structure and composition. Manufactured from a combination of hexafluoropropylene (HFP) and vinylidene fluoride (VDF), resulting in material with exceptional chemical resistance, high-temperature stability, a...

Yes there is an index - at this point up to 2019.

https://www.mtfca.com/wp-content/upload ... _FINAL.pdf

The popup has been removed - bye bye eclipse!

Chris

Picture saved for the future.

Here is a good picture of the earlier style with the lip (in the 2013 forum) https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/344103.html?1362358903 Here are a couple of links to the later style, you can see how the driven plate fits into the wider brake drum. https://www.mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?...

Looks like we are on the way back to normal for Google searches. It will continue to index our site going forward. Interesting that other search engines were NOT affected- they work on the same principle using robots.txt Can those of you that had trouble try your searches & report back here on this ...

OK further inspection revealed that the 2 files found in Siteworx were not in the root directory so they should have had no effect.

Or put another way act like there was NO robots.txt file.

Chris

PS I deleted the 2 files just to be sure.

Yes we are aware of the problem. It has taken me a few days to look into this. I went to Google today and made a few changes and they said to check back tomorrow. Google reports that we have no Robots.txt file but the filemanager reports we have 2, in the same directory no less. Will report back tom...

Yes we are aware of the problem. It has taken me a few days to look into this. I went to Google today and made a few changes and they said to check back tomorrow. Google reports that we have no Robots.txt file but the filemanager reports we have 2, in the same directory no less. Will report back tom...

Rich, I think that is our 1909 Roadster in the background of your first picture.

I also see the Eckleys - Joy & Lloyde.

Posting these photos for Joe.

Rich Eagle wrote: ↑
Thu Dec 07, 2023 1:48 pm
It would make a great painting wouldn't it. I'll put it on the pile.

How many pictures are on that pile, that's what I would like to know!

Chris

Ignacio, try this is Google search

Ignacio carburetor site:www.mtfca.com

Virtually every post made on our forums is still on our website. Even some Bruce thought were missing I found some years ago. If you want to search the old forums your best best is still Google Example search 5 ball carburetor site:www.mtfca.com The search results of the old forums are very recogniz...

Part of our attempts to keep the spam bots & AI from creating bogus IDs and posting.

Chris & Jeff

Bump to top

I changed this topic to a sticky so we could all follow along a little easier.

Chris

Steve, I presume that is a modern tire changer.

How do you attach the different T tires to the base?

Front wheels with hubs, rear wheel with hubs, etc.

Steve's blog (to check if he doesn't post here)

https://dauntlessgeezer.com/blog923.html

Chris

Here are a few links on balancing from old forum posts. Lots of information in here (ignore the insults). Make sure you read the parts on bent rods. https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/331880/380272.html?1376421364 https://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/179374/243059.html?1319779403 https://www.mtf...

Anyone had any problems with the new supply? I tried to install one today and it will not screw on all the way, it's like when you mix a close metric thread to a SAE one. I tried it on 2 different spindles and also tried both bearings with the same result. Chris PS as mentioned above it is the left ...

We've been bombarded with bogus users and posts by AI bots so I thought this was one of them.

Funny.

Chris

Yes, I too have been on quite a bit the last little while and it seems ok.

Chris

Yes our provider blocked a few ip addresses & fixed a couple of other items.

Chris

We are working on it.

Lots of bots attacking the server.

Also we are getting a lot more spam postings on the forums, AI bots we believe.

Chris & Jeff

I am posting this for Bryan from the Petersen Museum, if anyone can help him please let him know. Chris MTFCA team, The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is seeking a single original example of a Fisk Red Top tire for an upcoming exhibition. We understand these were often used on Model Ts i...

I'll get them

There is a Custer Museum & House at Fort Riley.

The German flag was captured at the bridge at Ramagan the allies first crossing of the Rhine in WW2.

On the way to Fort Riley Kansas established in the 1850s.

From our car games day - old Manhattan train station

From Sunday night - Midwest Dream Car Collection

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑
Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:09 am
Where is that ford (not Ford)?

Somewhere near Wamego, the Paulsens were there.

Wamego the self declared center of the Oz universe!

Here are a few more.

I used to tell people that our job is pretty boring until something goes wrong, then everything is an emergency that needs to be fixed - NOW.

I am surprised how patient everybody was, I did not receive one email about the forum being down.

Just doing our part.

Chris & Jeff

Ebay link https://www.ebay.com/itm/195714387363?hash=item2d917c8da3:g:UhUAAOSwPw5kPYh7&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwD06W9jHDHBqcVNWLwKwa2RGNddJtmFH4PFO5df5oQ95U1rWieFsJJlXbwYvbOCmTv559R0I4Mmg%2BkRS4LlgQZoo2R7pBAVb9bLKEk7QR5zuDx4S1BsPIzk3ypbYoYKMrPiGQwDbyRX%2B%2BVSbm%2F27ylMhHT8Ojo4Fdz5W567Awms0FHFojP%2BaDp...

I had one that lasted over 15 years, I use them in most of our cars.

Did anyone notice David's MTFCA # is 31?

Tony's was 32.

Chris

We had a very special connection to Tony because of Rose's and his English background. I remember meeting up with him at a campground on tour and having a cup of tea by his camper. Also he would kid us about it being in the 70s always at Christmas so whenever we would see it was cold we would send h...

Yes we would be interested. Chris & Rose

Jeff & I think we have it back to normal but still have a few things to tweak.

Full report later.

Chris

Jeff & I are working on the problem with Liquidweb our host.

This morning when I first contacted them there were 159,000 connections to the server.

We have made a few changes and will continue to monitor.

Chris

Yes is very slow. It was also down for a few hours, started a service that had stopped and it is back up.

We will check into the slowness in the morning.

Chris

Not sure is this is an answer to your question.

This is the Chapters link: https://www.mtfca.com/chapters/

We would not setup a forum for each chapter, that would be too confusing.

Chris

Herb & Kim, from Brice's original post.

My engine number is 489. I don't have the body.

I bought the parts 1 month ago at the border of France and Switzerland. So I don't know if the car was French or Swiss.

The pictures show the frame with engine, trans & rear axle.

This was one of the first posts by Brice on #489

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/322425.html

I attempted to visit Brice when we were in Switzerland last year but it didn't work out.

Chris

Looks like a WordPress issue.

We'll check into it.

Chris

Bob, I have them in 2 of our cars, will take some pictures for you.

Chris

... passed.

Removed.

Chris

Yes got mine from Rock Auto.

That red felloe is a Kelsey loose lug wheel, which is what I have on our 23 Coupe.

Here is a link to a wheel discussion with a lot of info, maybe more than you want!

Chris

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18143

Back in stock, got mine today.

More pictures

Just read your post and my wife and I had a laugh.

You will get lots of help on here and I would encourage you to join the MTFCA.

Chris

P.S. I really liked the part that the neighborhood expects it to be running in a week.

Our Thursday run was to a very small place, Collie.

Our ride for Thursday, Charlie & Helen Sharpe.

There was some flooding in the area before we arrived, some water still remaining.

Dundullimal Homestead - https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/places ... homestead/

If you don't want to turn the gas on send your daughter!

Our Tuesday ride Alan & Jill Flude

Andrew Webb's speedster

Rajo BB head

Here are a few pictures, have some time before the Friday night dinner.

Our Monday run to Trangie

Moved from classified - parts forum

Not sure who the elite are, I'm just doing my bit to support the hobby, since 2010.

I was a board decision at the last meeting, Tim needs to talk to George Akin our president.

Chris

Mark is sending me the correct bolt, thanks for all your input.

Thanks for all the info guys, will have another look at it in the next few days.

Both bolt & nut were missing when I noticed the fan belt not working.

I found the bolt in the picture in my T bolt stash.

Chris

The bolt fell out of the eccentric and I would like to know the size.

I found this bolt 2.5 inches long that looks too be correct but it won't screw in.

We met Milt on our first national tour in Riverside in 2006. We had a major breakdown and some of the broken parts came home in a container Milt gave me which I still have.

He will be missed, our condolences to his family.

Chris & Rose

Run a weld bead on the bearing surface of the race and they will fall right out when it cools.

Steve's numbers are all good, I used them last year, although the 09075 (left) bearing is still out of stock.

https://www.rockauto.com/en/parts/timke ... aring,1672

https://www.rockauto.com/en/parts/timke ... aring,1672

Chris

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