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I have a few NOS early caps.

The car is a Thomas Flyer. They were made like that into the late teens. I had issues with that car for the reasons you all had with it. I thought that it was too old. The car coordinator, who is an artist, unlike me, thought it looked dramatic. Most people other that aficionados seem to like it, so...

I always leave the brackets off of 26-7 cars. They are not needed and tend to cause the firewall to crack, in time. Ford left them off toward the end of production. I know this to be a fact as I have seen (owned) bodies that were not drilled for the brackets.

"It looked like a small amount of snow to have to be pushed but it looked good." Yes, we weren't really stuck. We were just acting. "You're not that guy that fell down in the snow once the T started moving, are you ?" No, that was a stunt man. We must have done that scene 10 times with different cam...

Well, I had my movie debut today in episode seven of the Paramount+ show "1923". I was the guy in the fur coat pushing the T out of the snow. My sister was the driver of the T. I also had a scene just driving a T up the road. On was on screen for about 1/2 of a second.

Starting in July of 2006 over the course of 42 days, I drove my 1927 coupe from Spokane Valley, WA to Portland, OR. Then from Portland, OR to Portland ME. About 10,000 miles. No support vehicle, no major breakdowns.

Pat, we had mostly T's and Dodges. We also had Hupmobiles, Buicks, Hudsons, Chevrolets and even a Pierce Arrow. I saw the first episode today. I am not in it. However, my sister, my brother and my wife all are. It is amazing to me how good this looks. Also amazing to me is the change in my perspecti...

The cars come from various places. I supplied a number of them. There are movie car rental places that supplied some. They were mostly crap. The locals supplied some.

The street scenes were shot in Butte, MT. They had it dressed up as Bozeman. That is, all of the signs said "Bozeman", whenever a town was mentioned. For instance, the court house said "Bozeman Court House".

I don't have access to it either, so I will likely watch it at my sister's house. I will buy the DVD's when they come out. I believe that it will be on Paramount+.

On 12-18-22, first episode of 1923 will air. There are lots of old cars, including many Model T's. I was hired by Paramount as an "old car consultant". I even have a couple of bit parts, so I might be seen, if I don't wind up on the cutting room floor.

Tim Wrenn has said a number of times that he had a problem with a new Newday timer. He has repeatedly posted pictures that I presume are from this timer. Here is the picture that Tim Wrenn has repeatedly posted. I would like to point out that this in NOT a brush from the timers made by Tip Top Timers.

The third day was brutal. Because of a short second day, we had a rather long third day. Seventy plus miles from Glendive to Miles City and then back after gassing up. The wind was blowing at 50 MPH. Mostly a head wind going down and a tail wind coming back. I averaged around 40 mph into the wind. O...

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I think I can cover everyone, but I am pretty much out now.

Thanks MTFCA

I have a number of copper head gaskets available. I am selling them for $45.00 ea., while they last.

Call me on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, daytime at 509-535-7789.

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If you set the coils to 1.9 ms at 12V, why didn't the graphs for time to fire converge at 12V? How many times did you run this test? In other words, is this an average of several tests on each coil, or one shot on each coil? An interesting test, but I'm not sure what it shows.

Thank-you George, Jim, Harry. I am only selling the new parts business. I presume that I will keep the yard/repair business open in some capacity for a while. We will likely keep entertaining Harvey and the boys on Tuesday nights for the foreseeable future.

Thank-you, Scott.

Model T and Model A Ford (and more) parts business for sale. The time has come after 45 years for me to switch gears. Essentially, all I want is the wholesale value of the new parts inventory. No blue sky costs for good will or any thing like that. It may even be a good business move for an establis...

I have a few. Call on Tuesday or Wednesday. 509-535-7789

As the manufacturer of the "newest" New Day timer, I would like to point out, as I did in September when Tim Wrenn posted the exact same picture of a New Day brush, that that kind of brush has never been supplied with a Tip Top Timer New Day timer. Although Tim did not say that the brush came from a...

Thanks for the responses. I was really hoping to see the original Ford blueprint of this item. I have accumulated a number of Ford blueprints over the years, but I don't have this.

Does anyone have a copy of the Ford blueprint for the generator support that they could post?

Thank-you

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When I went on my 48 state tour, I drove up Wolf Creek pass way up on the Great Divide. I low-pedaled many miles toward the top. At one point there was a sign that said "Summit 8 miles", so I drove at least eight miles in low pedal. I was going about 8 mph, so I held that pedal down for over an hour...

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For the record, the brush pictured in Tim Wrenn's post is NOT a brush supplied with the Tip Top Timer New Day that is now in production.

"Anyone out there have any answers???" I don't have any answers, but i will offer a few observations: There are two ways to align the magnets onto the flywheel in regard to polarity. With one way the N poles are more or less in line with the dowel pins, the other, the S poles are so. In regard to th...

Something about you seems off.

"Have you tried reducing the image size by holding the Ctrl key down and tapping the '-' (minus) sign key to make the displayed page smaller? To get back to normal use Ctrl and '+' (plus) sign to make things bigger." Tried that. No change. I have found a work-around. I set up a second (virtual) moni...

"Have you tried moving the computer screen to the right ?"

Everything in Spokane is already as far to the right as possible.

"You can always click on the box in the top right corner for a temporary fix."

Nope. Puffs it up full screen, but is still cut off on RH side.

I do not have the ECCCCCT with me right now. May I call you tomorrow?

"Have you used it successfully on Windows XP before and this is a new problem? Or did you load it in XP and this is what it always does?" I can't say for sure. I have only ever used it on this computer, and not very often. It may have worked right at one time, but I rather think it has always been l...

XP SP3

Won't let me post without 10 characters.

Does anyone know how to make the ECCT software full on the screen. The right hand side is cut off, and the mouse will not expand it. I have tried different screen resolutions and that doesn't help.

Microfarad, not picofarad.

David asked: "What I would like to know is how the part at the bottom stops at the right spot?" The "banjo" fitting will mount in any position. It is clamped between two washers by the banjo bolt. Indeed, some people have mounted the dipstick on the starter side, as there were obstacles on the non-s...

"Wonder where one could get that size banjo fitting and Banjo bolt ?"

You can get one of each in an Advantage dipstick kit. I paid a machine shop a whole gang of money to tool up and make these for me.

Advantage dip stick: $65.00 plus shipping.

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The dipstick pictured above is not an Advantage dipstick. Larry asks "What's wrong with the Henry method?" At the risk of looking like an advertisement, I will attempt to answer the question. The answer is: nothing, and plenty, depending on what you are trying to do. If you don't drive your car too ...

Advantage Dipstick

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Super popular and the best dipstick out there, yet none of the vendors but me carry them.

Stan, Mike Robison does have a 16 valve Roof, but this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3D-nEnSlY&t=7s is not of his. That is a Roof that I put together for Gil at the Miracle of America museum in Polson, MT. It came to me as a bucket of parts with stuff missing. I don't remember exactly what...

Two intake ports.

The "Supreme" head is just a stock head that I made say "Supreme".

I'm replacing the Supreme head with this:

My gow job.

Always good to have a cool head. I've got one to replace the former one on my gow job.

Chris, they are legal for the 500, as of right now. I have an extra set that I just peeled off of my car.

Presto! Change-o! Off with the diskies, on with the wires. The disks performed flawlessly, but I think they look funny on a stock car. I think that they look great on speedsters, however.

1 Tom Carnegie Spokane, WA 04:27:57 53.97 2 Jillian Robison Valleyford, WA 00:04:29 53.71 3 Bill Mullins Spokane, WA 04:32:09 53.13 4 Tony Cerovski Helena, MT 04:34:42 52.64 5 Dan Brown La Porte City, IA 04:35:36 52.47 6 Erica Cerovski Belgrade, MT 04:36:29 52.3 7 Garrett Green Orange, CA 04:37:10 5...

I don't have inside knowledge, but my understanding is that it (the MTFCA tour) is still on. If what I've heard is correct, the hotel plans to be open and has made accommodations to the club that make the situation workable, at least at this time.

As the layman explains it to the medical doctor.

Thank-you for all of the responses!

Anyone have an EE crank for sale?

Just to try to clear up what I think might be a misunderstanding of what I was wondering: I was not wondering about different voltages, I was wondering about different frequencies. The "shape" of the magneto waveform (or other triggering voltage waveform) has a large bearing on when the coil ramps u...

There is a feeling that I cannot quite shake when testing coils using the time-to-fire method. I have been setting up my coils this way (using an oscilloscope) for going on twenty years. The reason I started doing this was to get better timing when running at faster speeds for the Montana 500. I hav...

In my experience, a bent manifold can be made to have all four holes in alignment, but the spacing between the holes is usually off. Generally the center two holes will be spaced out too far, perhaps by as much as 1/16", which is really just as bad as having the holes out of line up and down.

It seems like my wife is always telling me what to do and not to do. When she told me to quit acting like a flamingo, I had to put my foot down.

I think just putting one on the intake might be a mistake. I'm sure that there would be some performance improvement, but I think there would be more with one on both the intake and exhaust. There is two aspects of the multi-lift: One is higher lift, the other is faster lift. There is a point of dim...

He gave me a Model A lug nut once.

I'd like to go, but they always pitch it the same week as the Montana 500. Too bad, as I know there are others who would like to attend both.

"I've never understood the need for speed"

It's how you win the Montana 500.

Isn't a good running T better than a crappy running T?

Does everyone understand that a T that will go 50 mph will also go 35?

" MT 500 cars are often ran 500 miles a year and thoroughly gone through for the next year." Really? My latest Montana 500 T was built in 2010. It has about 35000 miles on it. I may pull the head every four years or so and regrind the valves, but I don't thoroughly go through my T every year. I do d...

The figures that Stan quoted above are very accurate. Should we examine national tours where people drive their cars at slow speeds? I know of several accidents on national tours including multiple instances where death was the result. I've been on speedster runs where people were injured and even k...

I've got another, if anyone needs one.

Our local club has a tradition of taking our T's out on the first of January every year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVoa49jrJps&t=0s One year it was very cold - close to zero, perhaps below and the wind was blowing. Still a dozen or so T's showed up and toured. I drive my T year 'round. I find ...

Sold! Thanx MTFCA

New, stock, undrilled crank. $1600.00 plus shipping. p.m. if interested.

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