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Interesting spare tire rack made from a touring rear mt. I had a T in Hawaii that had an identical rig.

Steve, I use the band clamp sold by Langs and it works fine. After lots of use it began to spring out a little and I just bent it back it. I would recommend getting one.

We get bills delivered that are already past due......... Christmas cards last week.....tracking info useless once a parcel gets to a major distribution center. Local postmaster did admit to a backlog and says as long as people order dogfood from the Walmart to be delivered by the postman, things ar...

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Just saw this on tbay, what in the world is it and how does it work. Must be magic if it will fix a slipping clutch that has no adjustment left..............

Harold, its not just the compression but equally important is the combustion chamber. Z heads have a combustion chamber that is much like the one Ford settled on for the Model A to increase its performace.

It would be of great help to you if you obtained a basic library of Model T reference books such as a copy of the Service Bulletins, The factory repair manual, parts book and possibly a copy of Bruce McCally's model T book. You can never have enough reference material. All the vendors carry these pu...

Mine start well in cold weather also. Those that have been on tour with me know my cars run well.

When you replace the plate, coat both sides with high temp red silicone where the mating surfaces are.

There is nothing wrong with a vap setup. I have been running them on my Ts for years and that means national and local tours. Replace the plate and make sure all connections are tight. I use hight temp silicone gasket cement on mine when they are opened up. I have passed more than my share of Ts on ...

I have RMs on my two T's and have had very little problems with them. If you always keep you foot on the low pedal and use it when going backwards, its not hard to stop. I use low when approaching a stop and speed is down. Using it and RMs will stop a T fairly well.

I believe this series of pics has more open cars with the tops up than any pics I have seen.

My small plastic toolbox carried on the running board behind a expandable luggage rack has : set of 1/2 drive sockets 7/16-15/16, a rachet and pull handle, one 6" ext, combination wrench set 7/16-15/16, large creasent wrench, large ball pein hammer, small screwdriver and a long shank medium screwdri...

I have found that lubricating them does wonders.

I have had lots of great times in T's, every tour over the years has been special and it all started in 1959 when I got my first T and my dad taught me to drive it in the cow pasture herding cows. I can still hear him nudging me and shouting push the spark up on hills.

I put zerk fittings on the DS and UJ then cut a hole in the floorboard and made a tin cover with a screw that swings over the hole.

I have a infamous driveway! I can tell you that without a ruckstel it is hard to get up it however a lot depends on how sound you engine is and what the band situation. I was having problems with my 26 in low gear and a friend suggested bending the pedal back to make up for years of strain. I have k...

I have a two grate heater on my 26 touring and a one grate on my 27 cpe. Both work from heat coming from the exhaust pipe and have a fresh air intake funnel behind the radiator. The touring has a piece of flex pipe surrounding the exh pipe with a alum. split housing at the head of it and the rear th...

Around here in the mid 50s I remember a 26 cpe driven regular from Powell to Knoxville and back hauling slop for the fellows pigs, had boards bolted to the front and back fenders. Another fellow drove a 23 or so one ton as his only vehicle, wrecked it once when the steering would up, I went out with...

If it does not have Ford script it is a spurous part.

Z head, alum pistons and not the HC pistons, 280 cam. The Z head is better than the HC pistons because it provides a better combustion area. Alum pistons decrease the spinning weight and IMHO are better made than the old cast iron pistons with those big rings. You also could read up on increasing th...

So, the bottom line to all this is that there is no off the shelf LEd bulb that will fit a T with 6v system?

Post on the early v8 forum. Installation and parts booklets are available from most of the early v8 vendors. Sounds like and interesting setup. I am running them in my ev8s.

Jonah, looks like you already have local T friends, Dick can introduce you to more locally and maybe get you over to Elizabethton to see the Terry shop. There are lots of model T folks around you and even more down here in the Knoxville area. One of the most important things you can do is build a li...

Mine is an American Bosch like the one shown in that literature above on the second page.

I an presently running a Bosch clip on with cent. advance. It works quite well and gives the engine a real "rap" on acceleration. I also have a front plate original Bosch set up which appears to have some sort of built in cent. advance as well as a connection for the spark lever.

ebay is the best place to look for used parts but you must know what they are worth to begin with. You would be better off buying a new Ruckstel or a rebuilt one from Stan Howe. RMB's show up from time to time when someone converts to disc brakes. Used top bows are going to generally be in really po...

Red Boiling Springs has a good flea coming up, It is a
AACA meet. Look up Red Boiling Springs events. Its down towards Cookeville. Opps, http://www.midtennaaca.org/shows.php

canceled this year. What T parts are you looking for? There are several of us in ET, MT and WT that tour together.

Thanks to all. I picked up some w wetter and will use it till I put antifreze back in.

Need a recommendation for a good cooling system rust inhibitor. One of my Ts has turned its cooling water red.

I know you will not want to hear this but IMHO a bearing there is the fastest way to break a crank. I have removed those from my T's and gone with rebabited original fourth mains after breaking two cranks.

Source and cost please.

Thank You!

Could someone please send me the instructions for a Tru Fire ignition. I have a good one I took off one of my cars several years ago and have forgotten how to re install the electronic parts that go in a timer for the TF.

I am with Chris, I have pulled my 27 cpe many miles on an open trailer facing forward and interstate speeds with no problems. I can imagine what would happen if one pulled a cpe with bad wood, visor and what else would come loose. I also strap the hood on my Ts when hauling.

Thanks Dan

What is the recommended torque for magneto magnet bolts?

I would like to put a one way diode in the circuit from my mag to the switch. Has anyone done this and if so, what model and brand is recommended. My mag got shorted and killed and as of yet I have not found the cause, have checked the switch and wiring.

How do I make the forum print larger and bold. Some of the treads have such small print they are hard to read. I tried the computer size thing which worked on other sites and print but not this forum

Problems with vac are usually related to the tube and nut above the plate. I use a liberal amount of red heat resistant silicone sealer around all junctions and have not had a problem in years of renning. I would also recommend using the original type glands with high temp sealer on them.

Wally was a fine fellow and credit to the hobby. I met him back in the 80s and have bought several rewinds from him. He will be missed for sure.

it takes a threaded T rod to relieve the spring pressure. I would suggest you order a copy of the original Hassler instructions from one of the T parts vendors. Once you see how to do it, you can make the necessary tool.

Both depend on how old you are.......... The T engine and transmission are fun to pull and rebuild...........

Wonder where they are, I have a lot of "stuff" to be fixed...............

I found a work around. Just change the number of items on the page once and switch back to your original setting.

Anyone else have a problem with tbay today going from one page to the next page of Model T items. I get to the bottom of the page, 50 items and there are no pages to go to next.

I'm with Steve and Scott, THROW that evil fiber timing gear out soonest. It will shred sooner than later.

Dan, What is that wrench that is to the right of the sparkplug wrench? I have a early 29 and want to complete the tool kit.

I have two cars with vap's on them and have been running them for years. Both cars are vets of a bunch of national tours and our mountain tours every year. I have no problem with them starting and seldom ever change the setting on them. I will say that I pay careful attention to sealing of everythin...

I have one of those but its a SBCO Crank brand. Been wondering what it fits.

27 pages of their imports this morning. Thats too much.

I had the same problem and had a hard time finding a replacement, finally got one off ebay. I am tempted to re rivit the old one and weld it.

Congrats George!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This system has already been designed and used by Terry Horlick. I have in in my T's. The hogs head is drilled at the point of most oil sling, a 1/2" tube goes from there to the front of the pan and feeds the dams. Its a great system and Henry has made a real piece of art with his fabrication.

Bud, how does it crank with the plugs out? With one back wheel up? There must be some reason for the "bind" that makes it hard to crank. When a healthy engine is on compression, its the very last of the crank turn that does the trick.

The gooseneck items are Ford v8 35/6 ford bolts that hold the wishbone to the axle, some of the brake linkage and the shock. The piece with threads and a pulley hub appears to be an adulterated model t crankshaft pulley or something like it. Those hand cranks, least one looks like a Wisconson v4 eng...

We have a local shop that takes a pic of the plate, you paint the background color and they make and apply a decal from the photo they took. Beautiful work on all including letters and the border of TN plates for $35.oo

Marietta GA? and where there?

My recollection is that 35/6 radius rods fasten closer to the bell than 33/4. I just looked at a 34 I have and believe what you have is a 33/4 rear end

33/4 Ford car

There is no gasoline vapor pumped in, fresh air comes in thru the part that screws in to the head.

Same here, I have two cars with the 280 and adj. lifters.

The ball is a clutch throw out arm ball from GM cars at least as early as 33.

Thanks to all. Somewhere I had read to keep it lower than the fill plug but guess that must have meant for the earlier housing.

Where should the oil level be in a car Ruckstell, the book says add 1qt for car and one inch below the plug on a truck so when checking a car, how for below the plug should the oil level be?

I would suggest that you obtain repair, service and owners manual literature prior to doing anything with this unit. All are available from any of the peddlers.

I painted mine gray with red wheels , official color was machinery gray with bright red wheels sr 253552 thru 365191 for 1920 thru 23 yrs.

Bob, I ran the shaft along my growler and presto, no more magnetism.

Thanks!!!!!

Just salvaged a driveshaft from an old rusty torque tube, had to heat the u joint and flail it a bunch to get it off. When I cleaned the shaft up, found that it had been magnetized. Anyone run into this before, guess at one time one of those junk yard magnets must have picked it up.

Need recommendation for a good 6v charger that puts out more than 6amps. make, model vendor and price. Seems like all I can find are 2-6amp automatic chargers.

That looks like a symbol of an early road camping org. that was posted about sometime last year.

Bil lRobinson Caught me in this one if it posts.

also, no firearms allowed.

More pictures I think

Great tour, great country and great people!

If anyone has a extra new set of points for the original Bosch I would be interested in buying them.

Somewhere I have a copy of the original Bosch instructions and parts list that I cannot seem to find right now. I can tell you that I have both the "clip on" which you have and the "front plate" version. Caps, rotors and the point plate with cond. are the same on both. Both of my dist. have a centri...

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End result: I bought a set of grade 8 bolts from RK which are 1/2" longer than the repop bolts. Checked depth of each hole, installed new bolts one at at time removing the repop, torqued to 45lb then to 50. Satisfactory job done.

Hello Bill, Where do you get the Keen inserts. I have a flathead va that needs some.

For the record: Block was just cleaned in the machine shop. Head was Z. Had had this engine down many times over the years with the same combination. None of bolts tightened with torque wrench failed. Bolt that failed was rear one on a 27 and was against the firewall where a torque wrench would not ...

Went to torque @50lb the headbolts on my 26 today and the rear center bolt pulled out. Had used a torque wrench on all the others and used a ford sparkplug wrench on this one cause it was under the dash. I compared that bolt with an original and the repop was about 1/8" shorter. I was lucky and had ...

The points are around and show up from time to time but are very pricy. The solution is to remove the present points and cond., have someone that is good as a machinist to drill and tap holes in the old plate for a set of 70s Ply points and cond. They are cheap and plentiful. Also, you can always dr...

Even if this is what appears to be a right hand drive Starter, rotation is the other way so it would appear your pick up is backwards?

If there is a threaded hole on the back side, then make a U shaped bracket that you can screw to the back of the speedometer body. You pic looks like there might be such a threaded hole.

I too have reservations to arrive on Sat.

Opps, meant 8th!

I am looking forward to being there on the 9th with George Akin.

Looks like it may have been made into a trailer at one time.

Very little Fordson parts are same as T, I am aware of only the coils, and timer fitting a T. The Fordson engine was larger than a T and had a transmission with three fwd and one reverse and no brakes until the much later models.

Sorry to hear about Willie, I thought the world of him and always enjoyed seeing him on national tours.

I see the Bernie Long estate sale is this weekend. Who will buy the Fordson trk?

Problem with most of these installations is that the vendors provide instructions to have some of the parts inside the hogshead. In my opinion the best way to do them is to first find where the oil slings heaviest and center the outside piece over that area, then drill the hogshead for oil and the f...

Thanks Dan, I see I even saw the original postings on this. I had forgotten but sure makes sense for two and one to pull up for the battery.

Could someone please post pictures and measurements of a set of 36 touring rear floorboards. Are they two piece, each one half of the width? How are they fastened down. I have always thought they ran side to side and recently read a reference about them being two piece if that is correct.

There is an old N Georgia saying, "a fool and his money are easily parted".

Most wheels I have seen for sale are not tried for trueness. They wobble and will have to be straightened. Just ask any flebay seller if he has check his wheels on a hub to see if they run true.

I would hope someone from one of the two national clubs would contact the owner to do a photo and historical article. This is truly a important piece of history.

I have jack stands under all four corners, grease the frame on both sides, slide the engine back to where it touches the ujoint, get under there and separate the two and rotate the ujoint to match the trans rear and slide the engine against the ujoint while holding up the TTube. When the two are ali...

Its a saw set tool. Bends the teeth after sharpening.

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