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We missed the Canadian T guys. It was amazing. Well over 300 people. No end of money. We had internet bidding, rehearsals, bought equipment, etc, had to run line of sight wifi signal 1/4 of a mile, receivers, etc. Had great signal. As usual there were a few complaints about internet bidding and it t...

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Two rusty model a truck cabs beat up and banged, missing one door each. Choice. $1400. Took em both.

20 wood cab truck, running. $6000 27??? Speedster with rajo, project but mostly complete. $5750 Highlites - 40 Chevy cabover, 21,000 - 29 A roadster, original project 6,000; Model A coupe with pickup box 6,000; 58 Deville 15,750; Montana Power gas sign 16 x 32 inches $14,000; several cans in the 1,0...

My coupe seems to be lighter than those shown but 90 years of Montana weather may have made a lot of difference. I took a couple photos of the door jams last night but the don't show the color all that well.

There is green in the trunk but also what looks like maybe blue primer??????

Thank you, I don't have time to take photos right now, I took some when I first got it but I'm too buried in work right now , here is one we took the day we brought it home.

Whatever program this is won't access the pictures on my phone, guess it's for another day.

Question for Jim. What were the green colors available on the coupes in 1927. My coupe is all original except the fenders were painted with a brush many years ago. I haven't had much luck finding information and a paint chart that looks like an original. If I google it I get about 200 photos of vari...

I came name you two or three businesses that have told me recently that they are pulling the plug. I need some parts laser cut. Can't find anyone who will do them and don't have time to look for somebody else. Last guy died. I have no source for parts that haven't been made since the 20's. 100 years...

That's kind of what I thought, too. But whatever you list on the advertising somebody will tell you you don't know what you're talking about so we just listed it as a wooden cab Model TT. Who knows what engine it had? I sure don't. It is close to 100 years old and was bought to go to work on the far...

This is the 1919 Canadian truck.

I'll probably get in trouble for posting a truck that is for sale at the auction. I only have a couple photos of it, this is the engine that is with it but we don't know if it came with it or is one that Leonard found and put with it. The had a huge farm in Canada. Both this truck and the green one ...

Thanks, I spent about 15 minutes looking for that list and even google didn't find it. It is the engine out of the wood cab truck we have coming up.

This is a Made in Canada engine. Who can tell me a date based on the serial number and also tell me what the 1229 on the side means. Obviously pre-starter but an exact date??? Ribbed pedals.

There would be a lot of people thinking L4's were good carburetors if I hadn't put some time and effort into Stromberg OF's, Zenith S4BF's and a few others. Nobody else I know of invested any time or money into it. Ever hear of a Mayer carb before I started buying them?? U and J's were ten bucks at ...

I'll try to get you one in the mail tomorrow. You can just unscrew the broken off piece out with an easy out or screwdriver, you can also solder the two pieces back together or send it back to me in pieces and I'll do it. They don't need to be very tight to work. I wish I could figure an easy way to...

100 year old parts. I've had a couple others do that, usually rock solid but old brass, never know. I'll send you one. I have probably 100 Stromberg carbs i've stripped for parts, those and the idle needles are gone on probably 1/4th of the ones i find, the high speed needle is gone from probably at...

It just says off and on .

DO NOT put pipe dope on them. Those are called grub screws. They tighten again the edge of the hole. Allen head screws have nothing to tighten against and need a washer. If you really think you need something on them a little swipe through Ivory soap is the best thing you can use.

Dan..................... There is also a Model TT truck, another TT to rebuild and quite a few fenders, radiators, several engines [i]and a big drum ruckstell still under the wagon it's been under for who knows how long.[/i]

There is also a Model TT truck, another TT to rebuild and quite a few fenders, radiators, several engines and a big drum ruckstell still under the wagon it's been under for who knows how long.

Shelby is on I-15 about 35 miles from the Canadian border, south of Lethbridge, Alberta. The auction is on highway 343 which turns off the Interstate at Kevin/Oilmont 15 miles north of Shelby and runs east and south until it meets highway two 25 miles east of Shelby. The auction is a little over 235...

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I will get you some photos as soon as I can get a few free minutes. I can't post anything on here even tho it is Model T because somebody will bitch that I am promoting my auction business. People promoting auctions elsewhere doesn't seem to bother them but............. I'll see if I can send some t...

Its bed time. I've been up since 6 AM, drove 500 miles, took a couple hundred pictures, answered about 50 emails and a dozen phone calls, talked about every thing from Model As to internet bidding protocol, Edsel, Chevy cabovers, Saddles, carburetors, the fundraiser benefit auction I'm doing next we...

and they always have time to tell me I don't know what I'm talking about but never time to say, "I stand corrected."

I did. There are only so many hours in the day.

Did ya ever notice how the experts never respond when you prove them wrong???

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If I had it to do over again I would be a lot smarter this time around. I would do what my brothers did. Figure out what kind of business people actually make money in, build one and retire when I was young enough to enjoy the time. When I go teach at auction school I tell the new people, Take 100 b...

The reality is that there are fewer and fewer people in the restoration/manufacturing/supplier business in any of the old car hobby areas. Young people are not interested in working that hard for the money they can make, it is harder and harder to find a place to have a shop that doesn't have five t...

Everybody should jump in the antique car parts supply and restoration business. It is an incredibly easy way to make a huge fortune, provide no end of free tech support - which is always fun - maintain up to date web sites, provide instant service 24/7/365 including Holidays and Sundays, and never e...

"Under the hood, the 364 cubic-inch V8 was replaced by the larger 401 cubic-inch V8 used in Invictas and Electra 225s. LeSabres came standard with a two-barrel high-compression (10.25 to 1) version rated at 280 horsepower with a low-compression regular fuel version of that same engine rated at 265 h...

1963 Buick engine photo.

Might be the wrong air cleaner, the car is 58 years old, but this is what the air cleaner says.

I may have transcribed it wrong from the thousand or so photos I took in three different 500 mile trips to do the list plus trying to wade through the pages of notes the daughter in law has from the deceased, the notes I made, a hundred or so emails, three photo sticks and probably 15 data cds back ...

There is only one photo here, you have to go to the web site to see the rest of the photos. It has been on and off the last few days but has about 1000 views last I checked so it should be working.

Ah, thanks but I don't want to step on somebody's toes. I don't have time to argue with people who have nothing better to do and to tell the truth don't have time to post much here. Pretty much every thing we have is on the web site and in a couple weeks will all be linked with the Internet auction ...

I missed this earlier. Thanks, we are buried in the auction but still over six weeks out so it is coming together. Craig and his daughter are building the web page, they know a lot about web sites but not so much about cars. I will be adding some description and notes as well as changing a few of th...

You don't go to nearly enough auctions if you had to go buy a cold chisel. Glad it worked. The drill press down pressure is the trick. I should have said if you have the old seat out you can easily grind it to fit the tapered slots, chuck up the tool in your drill press, down pressure and a wrench a...

Easy carb tool. First of all, get a fine file and just file a slot in the seat. Then be sure to slightly counter sink the inner lip so the needle doesn't hang up. Now, go through your box of cold chisels. Find an old one made from real genuine American USA steel. A hex upper handle works best. Grind...

I forgot. Savanna's 1948 CJ2A has American made Kelly Springfield.
All he had in stock in the size we needed.

I've had a couple sets of Chinese made tires. That's "had." Maybe they are better now but I run either American made Mastercraft or Yokohama Japanese . I have Mastercraft on my backhoe trailer, my travel trailers, my flatbed trailers and seven cars and pickups. No problems. I have Yokahoma on my F25...

I stayed home and worked! I knew if I went I would buy crap I don't need with money I don't have to bring home and try to find a place where I could find it if I needed it. I have a huge auction coming up and by the time we get done setting it up I will have seen all the rusty parts I need to for aw...

I quit worrying about the internal parts after about the first dozen or so I bought to rebuild. This is probably 20 years ago. The main parts will be in there. Unless you are drop dead lucky, some will need to be replaced. My advice to anybody rebuilding a Ruckstell is this: REPLACE THE BRONZE PLATE...

This is probably hard to do but what would you guess the buyer attendance was?? A couple times when I've been there it was mostly the other vendors looking for deals from the other vendors and not a lot of people coming in the gate to buy. Other times it was pretty busy.

I've bought, sold, rebuilt, etc over 75 Ruckstells. The way I see it, the housing and shift lock are worth 4-500 bucks. Everything good is a bonus. If you have to have new perfect parts, buy a new one. If you are comfortable with some wear, rebuild an old one, put a new bronze thrust plate and beari...

The ring for the ball wouldn't fit over the tube and slide up??

From the pictures posted it looks like the buying crowd was pretty thin. Hard to tell tho.
I hope the vendors did well enough to make it worth their while to go back again and Erslands did OK.

Saturday morning, 10:30 am, the place will be a ghost town by mid afternoon if it's like it used to be.

Perry, I took about 100 photos, I will upload them to my facebook page and the website but if I upload anything here somebody will complain that I am pimping my auction service by showing items for sale. Sorry.

This is on a big hit and miss engine on a really cool cable tool water well drilling rig we have coming up in May. Built on a huge wagon frame of some kind, obviously built by the local blacksmith or farmer from parts salvaged from a steam tractor, it is ingenious in construction and probably drille...

Reckon this one can be rebuilt??

Couple people I know decided to stay home . Its nice here but south and east the roads are terrible. Everything is shut down from Central Nebraska to Utah, Cheyenne, Casper have 3-5 feet of snow.

What do you want for that mag drive?? I'm not going to Chickasha but I could have a friend pick it up. stanhowemt@aol.com

No.

1. It is not for a Model T

2. It is not for sale

3. It is on its way to a customer in Florida who has been patiently waiting.

4. I don't have time to answer questions about it.

5. Thanks for asking.

They are in the mail, Mike, you should have them by the weekend. I'm finishing up another very interesting one today and hope to get it in the mail before another Doctor appointment at 2. Probably not going to happen. Anyway, it's a New Old Stock Kingston 5 Ball for a 1911 Velie. Only NOS 5 ball I'v...

It was put together as a mail carrier car in Lindsay, Montana in the early 40's and used during World War II. We sold it at an auction in Havre, Montana about 12-14 years ago to a collector in Bozeman; he bought it partly to keep somebody from tearing it apart to use the Sport Coupe body. It had bee...

I don't have time. Somebody would complain.Years ago I tried doing that. There was little interest and somebody who was always more than willing to tell me I didn't know what I was talking about. I spent two months putting up with a guy who refused to accept my statement it is pressure differential,...

Just let it go Mike.
I'm too busy for pissing matches, babysitting and crybabies.

Their deal.

I'll talk to you about it somewhere else. Somebody will bitch that I'm promoting my carburetor business if I respond here.

I deleted all of it I could.

I DELETED MY PREVIOUS RESPONSES TO THIS AND AM UNABLE TO DELETE THE ORIGINAL. HOWEVER, LET ME BE CLEAR. I AM NOT SOLICITING BUSINESS. I HAVE ACCEPTED VIRTUALLY NO, NO, NO REPAIR WORK SINCE MARCH 1ST, 2020. I AM SELLING OFF SOME INVENTORY BUT AM NOT, NOT, NOT TAKING IN MORE REPAIR. I AM NOT. NOT, NOT...

I could but if I did somebody would complain that I am using the forum to promote my business like they did about my post of the matching MB1s.

And then they complain about the old guys not passing their knowledge down.

I've forgotten the deal exactly but I think we did a different one then you gave me another one. I have one on a shelf with your name on it. I think it's a Zenith U5 or U6.

Matching or nearly matching set of Stromberg MB-1's, sold as original equipment on several overhead conversions in the mid to late 20's as they will bolt right to the head on several different models. Easy to adjust, trouble free and -- probably more important then than now -- easy to start. Some of...

Sounds like fun, I drove Oilfield tankers and over the road for a few years so I probably could handle the Motorhome.

Unfortunately, it looks like I will be home working on carburetors hoping to get yelled at less by getting some done.

Don't worry Les, I don't have any money and like you, have projects to last until I'm at least 90!!!.

I saw these blocks and 5 main cranks by Crower when Les stopped by with them a few years ago. They are incredible. I think the first one went in Karin's speedster. I dunno about the rest. I'd like one but the piggy bank is pretty thin this year.

Send Les money. US Funds.

Bobs has gone to wholesale manufacturing of parts only and Fun Projects was sold to Birdhaven T Parts --------- at least that's my understanding.

It is philosophical. If I want something modern, electronic and trouble free with power steering, heated seats and air conditioning I drive one of my Cadillacs, one of my Ford pickups or one of my other rigs like my 86 F150 with 82,000 miles on it. If I want something kind of modern, not too electro...

Back to timers. I always liked the Turner Timer, too. Aluminum case with a contact piece that can be turned over after it wears on one side, wires encased in a flexible metal tube, contact wiper similar to New Day. Somewhere in all the boxes and piles of stuff I think I still have a new old stock on...

This isn't about timers, just an observation that a lot of us old guys like the same things. Model T's, old tractors, Jeeps, old airplanes, old motorcycles, etc. Here is from Old Aviator above. 1917 Touring 1946 Aeronca Champ 1952 Willys M38a1 Jeep 1953 Ford Jubilee Tractor Mine looks kind of the sa...

Original and somewhat readily available. Original New Day. I've tried others and have had the best luck with New Day. Just bought two NOS ones to go with a couple others I have somewhere. I have a bunch of "better idea" ones I'd like to try if I ever get time. I think overall if you have good coils ...

That is absolutely GORGEOUS!!! I saw it at Mike's and thought it was going to be a big project but a worthy one! Glad you took it on an finished it.

MB-1s are fairly popular on Speedsters. Ralph Ricks swore by them on his Great Race car. They were stock carbs on Cleveland and several others. Simple carb with no economizer but with an accelerating well/venturi. I sell a couple a year if I have them to speedster guys. I have two on the bench right...

I have a five gallon bucket half full of Ruckstell bearings I've pulled out during rebuilds. I routinely replace the bearing and the bronze plate with very few exceptions. I've done over 70 Ruckstells over the years but have too much other stuff going on to fool with them other than the ones I'm try...

SKF does not manufacture a ZZ bearing. What you are referencing may be a 2Z. 6212-2Z Deep groove ball bearings d= 60mm D= 110mm B= 22mm C= 55.3kN C0= 36kN It is not an angular thrust bearing according to the SKF site. It is a radial thrust bearing, not suitable for angular thrust applications as in ...

7212 is the size, Becby is the 40 degree angular thrust designation necessary for the Ruckstell application .

You want a baler with shiny paint or one that is tying bales when your hay is down and it's about to rain? Both is nice but given a choice I'll take the one that is tying 5 or 6 bales a minute without a problem over the one with shiny paint that won't tie. That's my take on the brakes. A set is goin...

Free advice, take it for what you are paying for it. Ruckstell rebuild. Replace the ball bearing and the bronze plate. Those two pieces are critical to the alignment of the ring and pinion. Virtually every one of the bronze plates is dished inward -- some slightly and some a bunch and do not hold th...

Are you planning on running those carbs or are they just there for mock up?

I would have liked to be there. I figured they would have a good crowd. I knew a couple people who were going. Guns bring buyers. Cold??? Sit in the pickup and stay warm until they get to what you are waiting for. Hope the other people that want your stuff leave. Oil Field/Cowboy deal --- "Hired out...

Just thought I'd mention that I got my Jan-Feb issue in the mail today.

Put it in the carrier and use a flap disk on an angle grinder 15 minute job tops.
Having it in the carrier keeps it from overheating and gives the arms the correct length.

Thanks for the referral but I am not currently taking in any repair work. Too backed up already.
Customers worldwide and they a wants theirs done..... so do I.

Sha nouuk'" is a Blackfeet Indian word meaning "snow eater."
It is a warm wind that blows down the east side of the Rockies from the Gulf of Alaska and can raise the temperature 50 degrees in a few hours.
It is always followed by bitter cold and snow.

I would guess the concrete foundation was added much later. Note that it had electricity at one time but probably from a wind charger as there appears to be no high line power anywhere near.

Homestead in Montana. Probably about 1912 or 14. That's when this was opened to settlement. I came across this while looking for more photos of the road down to the river. 60 miles northwest to Big Sandy, the closest town on the north side or 75 to Chinook to the north east. Too many mountains in be...

Nothing. If the owner wants to do something it's up to them.

Thanks, I'm just trying to make a living. Never saved any money when I was young, invested it in piles of Model T Parts, Cars, Women, Whiskey, Big Steaks, Truck Stop Cheeseburgers, raising some other men's children, got old and had to find a way to survive. I like the work but I found out years ago ...

Paul, I seldom post anything like this because every time I do I get a couple phone calls or emails about if I have time to do so and so's carb and put pictures of it all over the forum why the hell have they not got their carburetor back yet, etc., etc. Or they post on the thread, "When are you goi...

I couldn't find one of it before I pressure washed the mud off so maybe this is the first one I took. I dunno. It's hundreds of carburetors ago and I am more forgetful all the time.

Chris, yes, this the last thing they need to get it running after a 6 or 7 year restoration of the tractor.

My "Grampa Ludwig" who was actually my Aunt Grace's father was a clock and watch repairman. I had his tools and bench until my cousin retired and I gave it all to him. We both did a little clock work when we were kids on some cheap worn out clocks. I didn't pursue it but Larry did and was restoring ...

Somewhere I might have a photo of what it looked like when I took it out of the box three years ago. It took me that long to find a correct inlet for the Kerosene side.

If I ever find it, I'll post it. But now it's

BACK TO THE SHOP!!!!

Note that this is a Kingston ten ball, most of them did not have a tag on this saying Kingston so I did not add one to this. It weighs about 12 pounds complete.

Been working on this for several days. Laid in the mud in Minnesota for probably 50 years or more. It is for a mid teens Avery tractor. Dual fuel. Kerosene or tractor fuel on one side, gasoline on the other for starting. Been beat on with every pipe wrench, rock, pliers, hammer, etc., The balls were...

They are more common than you might think. Pretty much every company had cutaways for their salesmen and repair training. There are quite a few of those Kingston L carbs still around and in use, the flapper and the cork are usually in bad condition. Some guy somewhere was making flappers out of bras...

I have yet to see a Jr Rodeo team with shirts that say "Sponsored by Amazon," or one of the big box stores. I don't have a store front business anymore but I can tell you that the same people who will drive 100 miles to shop at a big box store or Walmart or on the Internet know where you are when th...

I think Rob Heyen has photos of his Model K. It is a big six cylinder with a two speed transmission. Fine car. That is the wrong carburetor. It should have a funky looking Holley with a spring tower on top for the air valve. Bob Richmon in Virginia has a fine either R or S. He is not on here but is ...

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