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No. The color of the body is wrong for the year. Should be all black.

$ 75 to 8500. The Tops going to set you back quite a few quid. Especially if you can’t do it yourself. Some, like me, would use the incorrect color to chew the price down further. I’m going to give you some advice you probably don’t want to hear. First DO NOT buy the car sight unseen and second DO N...

let's see. This is on the Win 10 laptop....(this writing is edited on after posting the pic: seems drag & drop works on the PC.) Thanks Frank.
Second text edit; still no on the IPad. 3mb and the triangle.

Test. Giving it a shot.

No good. Says 3mb and the aforementioned triangle appears. Too big? Small?

I simply have not been able to do this with Win 10. Probably easy enough just not enough between the ears. I now have an IPad in addition to the pc. Would that perhaps be easier?

Well... There’s the “thing I learned today”. First for me.

You’ll get your best suggestions from them. And your ability.

I think I might pull the shoes lay a good heavy piece of steel across the outside of the plate and use a C clamp to finesse the bend out.

I don’t remember the topic subject so I can’t really search it but years back someone spoke of a rear wheel hydraulic drum set with a picture or two. Believe the drums & backing plates were from a foreign car. You would never notice them at all. If I were to do this job that’s the first system I’d t...

Is it worth it? I mean I’m assuming you have them in the rear and can lock the wheels with them. Think about going in reverse and tearing the radius rod ball joint out & folding the axle over.

Guess nobody remembers the old put a few pennies on the battery top to draw that corrosion away. Of course with the newer better sealed batts it isn't necessary. How about cutting "washers" out of an old Fedora soaking them in oil and putting them on the batt posts before installing the cables to al...

Lay you $5 they ain't listening Tim.

Like I said...........

What we have here is a marvel mystery oil type debate. “ I did it and it’s right” vs. “I won’t do it and it’s wrong”. Personally I’m against it because of the possibility of it peeling which is obvious in the pictures posted. Anyone remember the VW Beetle finned valve covers that we’re supposed to i...

As I understand your post you have a ‘24 which would have a tilted windshield. I’m figuring you can tell from the windshield bolt pattern on that car what your other car had. I honestly don’t know if the patterns were different but if the ‘24 pattern matches on both you know what you need.

Caveat emptor. ( I had to look up the spelling.) I’m in the camp that says if you can’t or won’t check on the going rates for something you will almost surely over pay. It’s totally up to the seller to name the price and the buyer to pass or take that piece of dead cow out of his back pocket and she...

Going to try again. Doesn't matter if the other wheel is off or on or if it's on a jack stand off the floor. Both bearings are installed on that side. Anyone that has ever taken off an outer axle bearing has seen the shaft move off center of the housing hole. It's way more apparent if both outer bea...

Hold on. Does that measurement really mean anything? Doesn’t the axle not sit centered in the housing without the outer bearing to keep it there? What am I missing?

Some years back in Califunny Toyoda or Honda ran an experimental fleet of hydrogen powered vehicles. Don’t recall the exact details as to wether they were rentals or what but they were regular style piston engines modified to run on hydrogen. They had a number of fuel stations set up too. They opera...

Whenever I see a post like this I always have to ask Do you experiment on your “Modern” the same way and why.

Loose U bolts.

A T never got stuck in a bad year it couldn’t drive out of. To paraphrase that old joke. Happy Holidays to all whatever you celebrate!!!

So adding mineral spirits will keep gas fresh for 12 months? You’ve got to be kidding. It’s telling you it’s snake oil !!! Know what? It’s your dough do what you want with it.

You have or had another other problem and stabil sure as heck didn’t fix it. So your story might not be over.

Actually it lasts forever. Because it doesn’t do a damn thing. Just ask the 6 or 8 small engine manufacturers that I’ve taken courses with over the years. Some will even void a warranty if it’s found in the tank. Want your engine (whatever it is) to start after a layover? Drain the tank and run it d...

As stated above the need for frequent oil changes in the T kind of makes any + in synthetic ineffective. Does it increase engine life? Not a bit of evidence for that. Could probably never be proved anyway. Also stated above was the fact that most all oils today are better that what was back when so ...

You might not want to do this as the box is assembled but when I did mine I had seen a post on the Forum that I used, Before bending the separator bar tabs I used 2 credit card type plastic bits as spacers bridging all the coils then bent the tabs over removing the spacers after of course. Nice tigh...

They can usually be driven in with a brass punch & a hammer. The trick is to use brass against the hardened race and continually moving the punch. Works fine if you take your time and keep moving.

I did my ‘27 Tudor years back. The block had the hole and so did the valve cover but the cover gasket didn’t.

Distributor T’s are rather common today. Certainly nothing odd. My thought on that is that there must have been a hell of a lot more of them way back when. Also to my mind this commonness makes the distributor T OK. You just have to know your system and carry the extra parts you might need. And both...

Both need to be watched over and both have their own idiosyncrasies. They both work and work well especially if you know your stuff. That said there are (apparently) a heck of a lot of T’s that have been switched over for whatever reason. Many in the years gone by. I will say that the coil and the c...

I can’t see about 30 seconds doing any harm.

I’m thinking engine temperature.

What Rusty said plus: insist on taking a compression test. If you’re denied walk. Do this no matter how recent you’re told it was rebuilt. We’re not all nice guys. (Experience talk in’ here).Jack up the rear and yank the rear wheels in & out with the E brake off. Excessive play usually indicates thr...

I much prefer comp testing a low comp engine like the T when it’s cold. It gives a truer situation concerning starting the T when cold. Testing hot will give a false reading regarding cold starting. A modern with a comp of say 150 lbs. or better is relatively in affected by a 5 or 10 lb. drop. On a ...

I’m with Harry. No way that’s a carrier. Even as a jumper it’s a damn poor design as some poor schnook would use it as a carrier sooner or later.

Sue beat me to it. Back up the hill. Cheapest and one of the best solutions.

Slight addendum to what Russ said: use a rag to run around the inside of the tire to check for a nail or whatever. You don’t need a cut and a flat too.

Is it me or did those costumes from years gone by just look darn strange. Home Made.

To my mind the dry/wet compression test is the way to go. Choke off & throttle fully open. First dry then redo with a few squirts of oil in each cyl. before testing it. Write the #'s down. If your compression is low and the valves are bad the comp won't go up when oil is applied. It will go up if th...

As I see it you have 2 great suggestions here. 1; bend a spare crank and 2; re-drill a spare dog. Leave the crank itself alone.

By all means enjoy yourself in your experiment but I have to agree with Les and Big2bird. The results as far as performance will be minimal maybe even unnoticeable however visually it would be interesting. Good Luck!

A salvage yard in Iola Kansas that specializes in T parts.

Sorry but I don't think introducing chemicals is going to have the desired result.

If I were going to install a set of whites I think I’d slip the slightly inflated tubes into a garbage bag. Put it in the tire. Cut off the excess tuck it up nice & neat and install on the rim. Keep the tube off the tire.

My last T, a '23 Touring, had a water pump on it. The former owner basically drove it in local parades and he said it stopped overheating after it was recommended to him. Dicey radiator? maybe but I didn't fix what wasn't broken and it stayed.

Check out Sloan & Charles Kettering from Memorial Sloan Kettering fame.

Sounds a bit like you're trying to talk us and yourself into reusing it. At least do that follow up wet magnaflux test & make your decision based on that.

Would like to know what you're using now. A lot of these distributors seem to be Bosch "hybrids" if you will. If that's what you've got the chances of modifying it to accept the parts that would give you a self contained auto advance distributor are probably pretty good. Old VW distrubutor for insta...

The people who put up with it’s quirks.

For cryn’ out loud guy’s he’s saying each coil buzzes in turn as he cranks the motor over. Why are some of you telling him to pull more stuff apart? Didn’t he say he wasn’t highly versed mechanically? If that’s what happening his no start doesn’t involve the ignition system at all. Please don’t seco...

Please Keep It Simple. No need to start tearing things apart. Use what I posted. Remove nothing. Check/eliminate a lot of stuff without "wrenching".

If 1 coil is buzzing there's power going to the coil box so that's #1. Turn the key on to bat. The wiring harness from the timer goes to terminals on the coil box. Ground each one one at a time. If the coils are OK & the box internal wiring is OK each coil should buzz as you ground it's terminal. If...

Sorry I can't offer much beyond I don't think it's the gasket. As long as you're not re-using the same one over & over that is. I also believe that on a properly installed / torqued head a 15 second run showing liquid out the bolt holes also indicates ( to me ) that it's not the gasket. How does the...

I truly believe that this will happen in the future. I have no doubts about it at all. The only place I can break (or even meet) the posted speed limit is in the development I live in. 25 MPH. It is also the only place I will take anyone for a ride as the roads are usually totally devoid of traffic ...

What was that business a few years back concerning the type of tube used in the whites causing them to turn? Seemed pretty conclusive.

What I’ve always heard and done is to install the head torque it run it to operating temperature then let it cool overnight and retorque. Period. Retorquing when hot will allow the metal to shrink when cold leading to guess what.

Part #'s ? Or who has them?

Just came into a nice set of coils from a local flea market yesterday. Going to get them into shape but it's been a while since I've done any and I need to know what's the latest on the condensers being sold & any problems with new point sets.

It's resto-mods these days. Face it. An antique body with all the trimmings. Pretty persuasive don't you think? I don't feel that the T lends itself to this kind of thing and will remain in the horseless carriage area of collector vehicles simply because it is what it is.

I vish I vas as schmart 20 years ago as I dink I yam today.

I too thought about this when I first came across it in a parts catalog years ago. Like many here the extra “bits” turned me off.

The big box stores sell an extremely effective wood boring insect spray. You can buy the mix type or right out of the bottle kind. No smell or stains. I’ve used it for years and highly recommend it.

You've got a real problem there Tyler. Riding the kid around out of a safety seat might be illegal. That's #1. #2 is can you even properly anchor a safety seat in a T? #3 is even if you could anchor it would that be safe in itself as the car has no truly safe means of operating it especially in toda...

What I'd suggest to you is first off is "run what you brung". That is get to know the car for what it is and what modifications (if any) have been done to it. Sounds like it has a 6 vt. system in it now. If that's so it's a perfectly relyable set up. All you have to do is learn how it works and ask ...

That's awfully damn quick for points to burn up. I think all 3 things mentioned above might be in play: No resistor + condenser and coil aren't a set and they need to be.

Is it running OK? Not overheating or any thing like that? Then leave it the heck alone. You're spending $ for no reason at all and you might be looking to spend a lot more if the pump is keeping a tired radiator at bay. I've had 2 T's with pumps and kept them both for exactly the reason stated above...

Nope. Not signing up for that again.

I'll tell you this: I sure as heck want to know more about this. I dumped FB quite a while ago so that avenue is out for me but I'm very interested as I consider having to send a block out for babbeting as a major expense and takes engine rebuilding out of my garage & my hands.

Bmetti has it right. A scam e-mail was opened and the cat's out of the bag. That's one. Two is that amount of $ in there. Luckily for me I was warned about these e-mails and it's very much like the phone scam thats from "the IRS". very convincing if you're not on to it.

Wet/dry compression test will reveal all. With 0 guessing.

Here's a "quickie" that might do the trick as a temp fix. Clean the hogshead area around the shaft really good. A carb cleaner type spray works great for this. Apply a thin film of oil to the shaft. Don't get any on the hogs head. Use a good grade silicone and apply it to the hogshead & the shaft. I...

Lets keep in mind you brought up l**r and rube no one else.

Thank You Mr. Whiteman for a very conscise posting about the snake oil referred to as sea foam. This stuff is garbage. The only thing it cleans out is that piece of dead cow in your rear pocket But folks will defend spending their hard earned $ simply because they spent it. Not one single solitary i...

Do this carefully: Have someone with you. Preferrably someone with a bit of car knowledge. Take the floor boards out drive it and listen. You just might nail it that way.

Apparently the only real way to know is pulling it apart. You can jack up the rear and check on the in/out play of the wheel and perhaps getting a look at the rear end fluid but re-read line one.

Many of you might recall the Model Garage series featuring Gus Wilson as the lead mechanic. I've read many many of the stories. The series started way back when ( 20's ?) as How To or DIY articles for Popular Mechanic readers with Gus appearing much later. Don't ask me to pin it down but there was a...

I think I've seen a T pic posted on here some years back that had AC. Have no idea what the post was about or how to find it but it's been done,

Takes a big man to admit the water is getting a bit deep. I believe Steve that you've made the right decision. Good Luck.

Wow. 80 thou. over. Could that be part of the problem?

Geez it gets deeper and deeper.

The compression would not have gone up with the addition of oil to the cylinders if the rings were good. It's not rocket science. It's n.g. rings. The valve seating is nothing to scream about either BUT re-read line one of this post.

Compression test. Conpression test. Wet & dry. Read Jelf's "Ignorance" post. Once more ; Compression test.

So the majority of you have finally settled on rings? Good O. It's the correct answer.

I'm with Scot. Get rid of it properly. No telling what it actually is.

I was thinkng coffee grinds but that would cause too many questions to be asked. MMO sounds about right. Finally something it's good for.

I don't know how far you want to go with this and I don't think it was the main topic of the post some years back on the Forum but some one set up a hydraulic shoe system on a T. Home made if I recall. It used a foreign car drum system with the drum being about the same size as a T rear drum. It was...

The original emergency brake set up has, as you know, a stationary pivot point and a cam at the other. Unless the shoes are well worn in and properly adjusted you really don't get a hell of a lot of drum/shoe contact. Even then it isn't much because the pivot end is really kind of stationary so the ...

I'd like to know, (perhaps I missed it), what caused the ring replacement in the first place and how did you arrive at the idea it needed them?

And that my friends is what solid diagnosing is all about. Don't jump in and tear it up. Ask questions. Congratulation on a job well done.

This post is like a gyro. 100% Greek to me but I want one.

Lakehurst Naval Air Station is a few miles from my home. Hindenburg crash site. You cannot believe the volume of those hangars. Insane. On occasion a cloud or mist forms inside near the roof.

Honestly can't see than much water in there in a month.

Adam is correct. Let it lay for months and that's the result.

Say wasn't there a photo of Ford assembly line workers using just such a tool? Was it perhaps a film? I know I saw it somewhere on the Forum.

I've read plenty on HF and truthfully the nicest thing I can say is I'm glad I never worked for him. Aside from family he basically died alone. No one hung around from the old days and some left 2 skid marks at the factory front door as their cheeks hit the pavement on the way out. The actions invol...

Bundles of shingles?

The gear can be installed 180 deg. out. Actually it's the cam shaft that's 180 deg. out. The gear can be installed 2 ways. No "locator". This results in the companion cylinders swapping places. Lets say if correctly installed #1 is on compression and #4 is on exhaust. With the gear on a cam that's 1...

I used the Model A style rear lamps. Mounted on the rear spare tire carrier completely removable. These lamps come with 2 sockets per lamp. Believe I converted one socket to dual filament giving me stop/turn /tail capabilities. Kind of "old timey" looking turn signal switch pretty sure came from Lan...

Read the wet/dry comp test results; Rings. It's rings. It's the only thing he didn't check through the hard starting situation. It's very simple guys. Very very simple. Compression that low in and engine with compression that should average say 55 Lbs = hard starting. It's why I always check T compr...

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