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Hi,
what is the expected voltage on a 6V model T equipped with the Fun Projects Voltage Regulator (VR) and engine running at some rpms well above idle?

I would change the bands in the transmission to kevlar before driving much more than just up and down the driveway.

Note that my engine have the "Ford" and "Made in USA" on the boss with the number. That mean that the engine is ment for export which indicates it have come to Denmark back then either from Detroit or Manchester eventually. Eksportmærker.jpg It's easy to see the "Ford" logo, but not the "Made in USA...

The engine in my 1922 Fordor (danish build body) is #15,068,275. It is supposed to originte from either a replacement engine or an industrial engine used for my car at some point.

When I bought my pick-up this followed it:

I think it is something you mount on the tie rod (but where will the ends be? At the axle?) to limit wobble and shimmy.

God påske!

Steve Jelf wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 19, 2023 2:35 pm

I thought they only made 5.

I read that there were six, and one went to Europe. But I read it on the internet.

One at the WW HQ
one at the European HQ in Dagenham near London
four at the Greenfield Village.

I asume we Europeans may join in if just we can get our car to Vienna in due time? Could be quite a tour.

Yes, cut your own.

The front seats sits differently in the closed cars as in the open cars.

Warren, what a beautiful T! I just sit here and look forward to get my 14 out on the roads again! Good that we got that Henry quote myth killed - but he was wrong about Canada making Model T's for the UK. Since 1911 Ford had the first assembly work outside North America in Manchester, England. Actua...

Norm, it's not a Phd thesis, and there are limits of how much details you can have in just 22 minuttes.

Don't you guys have a lot to fix in the garage or workshop?

Oh, I forgot to mention that I weight the 3 triple gears and eventually take a tiny bit off in a lathe on the two that are heavier than the lightest. I believe J&M machine do the same if I understood them right.

Well, a flywheel is a wheel like any other whell I presume :-) so I have twice with great succes balanced a model T flywheel with magnets and all on a regular wheel balancing rig: 2020-08-05 13.15.27_Small.jpg The cone on the axle ensured that the flywheel was centered but I had to measure for a lit...

Interesting thread since I am also considering to build a "drivers engine" to my 'Roadster Pick-up - and also considering buying it via Langs. Bob - I think the reason you did not get a reply from SCAT could very well be that you where not directly a customer of theirs. You where customer at Langs a...

Now when it's a Speedster, I wonder how you change gear to high. Personally I try to do it slow and gentle, rest a little while while in neutral allowing the engine revs to settle down before releasing the pedal in high. I have however seen people just releasing the pedal quick and leaving it to the...

I could be tempted, in particular if I can meet as many from this forum as I met back in 2010....

-Chickasha 2010 Model T Pizza Party

I know we won't meet the gentleman to the left, but might meet the gentleman to the right

Big Flats Rivet Company has closed due to the owners health issues: http://www.bigflatsrivet.com/

Hm - I better write to Langs and ask for just the brass tube. I bought the kit and was not aware of the issue with copper at the time of ordering. Returning it for swap will be to expensive and I can use the copper tupe for other applications.
Thanks for the heads up.

If you are not living in the US, Stutzman is hardly the solution due to cost of shipping.

When running on magneto, the position of the timer is not important for the precision of the ignition point as that is set by the position of the coils in the coilring. The timer just selects which 1 of the 16 ignition points are used to ignite the cylinder ready for that. So the play in the linkage...

Doublepost - the active thread is this: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32837

Not exactly the same pattern, but I have experience a locked transmission with only high, no clutch and no low (did not try reverse) and that turned out the be a broken tooth that have blocked the triplegear. It was a rebuild of the gearbox :-/

jab35 wrote: ↑
Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:33 am
The thin stud nuts are relatively simple to reproduce by facing off and contouring regular 1/2-20 grade 5 nuts in the lathe.......

If you have one or have a good friend that have one. Not everyone have that privilege and then it might be tricky...

Incidentally, the timer rod goes a short distance to the right (it is a RHD) and I don't think is the culprit. The timer position is the same as it was for the Tiger and roller it replaced, about 20 degrees after TDC. That does not say it is firing at the same spot. The internals are different. You...

Anderson timers fires at different places as the roler timers.

You still ough us to tell that you checked and eventual adjusted (by bending the rod) the timing.

#3 fromleft front row is a certain mr. Steve Jelf.

For readers from EU we have one here in Denmark doing just that: Ole Frandsen, e-mail: fordtservice@gmail.com

Hap and all - I actually have the "full version" - now copied to my PC - from the CD I was given personally by Bruce at Chickasha in 2010. I got him to sign my then new copy of the "black book" but did not think of asking him doing the same on the CD cover :-) Copenhagen (and Denmark) came through t...

jab35 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:20 pm
" Picture from 1918."

I saw some of those guys at the ocf last week, they haven't aged much in the past 104 yrs!!

Corrected

Lesson: Never make forum posts after midnight....

You may "risk" to stumple into people like this:

(I, the rightmost individual, will not be there though). Picture from 2018 (corrected from 1918

).

Hi, anybody maintains the encyclopedia on the website? I miss the date from which serial numbers was stamped in the chassis. I believe it was sometime in 1925, but I'm not sure. And of cource a note on "Chassis" that serial number - same as enginenumber - was stamped on left rail under the floor at ...

Dave,

you just put another landmark on my (hopefully to be realised) Model T roadtrip - the S/S Badger. As a steamfreak I MUST try that out.

The best we can do here is S/S Skjelskør and you have a ride on that when you come here next time.

"have a state-issued handicapped placard" - I wonder how they deal with handicapped from abroad - Canada og even Europe. Or maybe they don't

I believe both Steve Jelf and David Hjortnæs will be present, Steve in his 15 Roadster and David in his Touring.

DHort wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:50 pm
No one can pronounce my name.

Spell it correctly as a start, David Hjortnæs!

I believe I can pronounce it.

David and Steve - have a safe trip both ways and an enjoyful time at the OCF.
We'll be following you!
(That's not a threat

)

Just for the fun, I searched The royal Librarys scans of old newspaper to see if by any chance someone back in the time imported and marketed Haynes automobiles.
Unfortunately no hits.

The only thing left is the timer. Contacts in it may be loose. If it’s a roller timer, the spring on the roller could be broken. If it’s a brush then it may be worn out. That’s the only other thing I can think of. Brad Well, I havent swapped that I must admit as it ran well when it ran last 4 years...

I finally got my little red roadster pick-up assembled and put the engine back in the car. A T friend of mine that have known the car from the past have told me that it is cursed and often fails when the stakes are high and it's function needed. I was supposed to participate the comming weekend in "...

Some years ago in the old forums we discussed the stamping of "Made in USA" on the sides of the boss where the engine number was stamped. It was a guy from Sweden that asked. This was something that was stamped on the engines that where to be used at the assemble plants abroad like Copenhagen. Anoth...

Back in august 1918, a couple of teeth broke of the center solar wheel in thetransmission, effectively blocking it in what appeared to be (like9 high gear. Now almost 4 years later, I finally got the engine and transmissuon back in the car with a repaired transmission, ballanced flywheel and rebuild...

Been Here Before wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 21, 2022 1:14 pm
FYI: I posted the following April 2013 on the Forum:

Interesting event. Could be fun to set up a European version

No model Ts, but 3 Model As. Oldest vehicles is a couple or 3 1916's.

I have a question to the german participants: I can see a mixture of open and closed cars: What would you recommend for a trip like that? Open or closed cars?
How does the open cars deal with luggage etc when parked for lunch or others?

Thisone worked for me: http://www.headgasket.com/

If you (or others reading this) are situated in the EU, I'll be happy to rebuild your coils

Cheaper shipping and no customs troubles.

When I explain to spectators that look on the simple engine I use to say that this was the worlds automotive peak. Since Model T it has gone downhill! You could drive across a continent, maintain it along the route with a few tools and eveything added since only added to complexity which eventually ...

Thank you, Wayne! I have a faint dream of getting the opportunity for a couple of weeks stay at the Benson Ford archives studying what they have about Copenhagen up until WWII (I also have a 1937 Ford Junior de Luxe Cabrio-Limousine - actually an 1937 Ford Eifel but sold as Ford Junior de Luxe in Sc...

Since last post I have come a little further regarding the firewall mystery: In the danish 1930 Model T Spare part catalog, you actually find a low steel firewall as a sparepart: scan0002.jpg scan0001.jpg "Forbrædt" is the danish word used for the firewall, "Staal" means steel and you can se on the ...

Do not forget that the secondary (high tension circuit) get it's ground via the same terminal of the coil and hence via the timer as well.

Final score:

Source: Facebook page "Montana 500"

I must say that it is a little disappointing that they do not publish this in the forum as well.

We used to have good coverage of therace here.

Hi, John Regan sold his company, Fun Projects, to Birdhaven, and since then it seems that many of the nice products have disappeared from the market. That's a true pitty as they where very much appriciated. Does anybody know what Birdhavens plans are? I assume John have also passed the agreements wi...

I just found an old thread on the old forums about a possible 2024 O-2-O trip - 115 years anniversary.
As I MAY be considering such trip in 2024, I might as well join such trip - so....
Any reality in such an endavour?

Congratulation Steve!
And I learned something today - what BFH stands for! In the students workshop club at the technical university we called it "applying a Dirac's delta function"!

Bernhard, I will be following your endavour with great interest since a T-buddy and I are seriously considering a similar tour - probably in 2024. I wonder - have you send over your cars from Germany? And will you then take them home as well afterwards? Our plans are to buy one in advance in the US ...

So the question becomes, WHY did the tire lift off the rim? The seal in the rearaxle in that side is not good, so oil leaks out and the inner side of the tire is quite messy in oil. Too little air pressure and the beads may slip free of the rim and the rest is history. I have examined the tire and ...

So the question becomes, WHY did the tire lift off the rim? The seal in the rearaxle in that side is not good, so oil leaks out and the inner side of the tire is quite messy in oil. Too little air pressure and the beads may slip free of the rim and the rest is history. I have examined the tire and ...

Dave,
it was actually pretty undramatic.

I finally got my blown tube out in the daylight to take some pictures and meassure the thicknes of the rubber. An exploded Blockley tube - uncertain of reason, but it either was squeezed by the tireflaps OR I drove with to little tirepressure so the tire went of and the tube went off when in contact...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPjnpo4jJPo

"Both alcohols is mildly corrosive..." - and we gladly drink this in 45% proof

Cars have from the early days been a taxation object in Europe. The taxation is based on the engine size somehow and a formula then calculated "taxation horse power" which is not the same as "brake horse power". It MAY have been close to each other in the early years, but later far from. For example...

Before anybody cuts their Blokley tubes, I experienced one explode the other day and I can confirm that they are thick! 2 mm I think (0,08"). I'll take a picture and measure with a micrometer. Oh, why it exploded? Not sure, but I suspect it was squizzed by the tire. 2 years and maybe 1000 miles and ...

Nice short video. If you do have an infrared motion camera it could be nice to see a final scene with the engine running and the IR showing the various temperatures. And then I will claim, that the Model A is a waterpump assisted termosyphon system. The pump helps cirkulate the water in the enginehe...

Here is how a well known elderly gentleman starts his '15 T - slooooowww!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCWnmPrxKo0

If it is functional I would encourage you to line the bottom tank with Red Kote (fuel tank sealer) and let it dry until it doesn’t have an odor. That is probably a good advise, but as everytime we Europeans gets an advice to use "something" the challenge MAY be to find it over here OR buy it in the...

Drkbp wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:36 am
Very nice Victor style generator and looks great!

Thanks - it's a brand new reproduction.

Drkbp wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 28, 2022 9:36 am
Do you know if it is functional?

I expect it to be. I havent tried it yet. It came with an instruction sheet.

Installed a brand new acetylene generator.

Final position. Now to the tube hole and there have been good advice above and in another thread.

Well I do have a dream of getting to the Benson Ford archives, but that is merely to research what happend in Copenhagen up to WWII. Thank you for the info - I have no idea if the running boards are the right ones, but the rest of the car is to the best of my ability and knowledge pretty original wi...

Is it possible to 3-D print glass ??? That would be wonderful !! No, not to my knowledge, but it is all about supporting a thin layer of silver and that could be of either side of the mirror. It may originally be behind the glass, but in a 3D printed solution it could as well be on the front side. ...

Where should the hole in the running board be made (position9?

If I have the latest title for a Model T of US origin, is there then any way I can trace back previous owners?

Useful information here - I am wondering if I could 3D print new mirrors. For 100+$ a piece, there are room for innovation

I believe the old HCCT and Strobospark do as good a job as ECCT if you have 4 coils made by the same vendor on the same batch - as was the case back then. It is not today. You have 4 coils of unknown origin and age produced within a timespan of decades. Their dwell when all adjusted to the same ampe...

Oh yes, I think it is this:

I am about to install my new (!) gas generator on the running board of my 1914 Touring. There are no holes in the running board so there have never been a generator after its restauration some maybe 20 years ago. So I need a meassure from the front edge of the running board to the body of the genera...

I was there 2010 and it was up to 24C (75F) on saturday and sunday morning all Oklahoma was covered in snow.

About being there thursday - here is a truck with a trailer that just pulled in and look how the "vultures" circled the potential pray....

MichaelPawelek wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:41 pm

oups! i think I have to check this before my engine goes back in the car!! Thanks for reminding!!

Thanks all!

At some point, a book was produced, that described all the principles behind the assmeble line production and production in general of Ford cars.
I just can't remember the title, so can someone help me out?

Thanks a lot!

Steel firewalls for 1917 - 1923 was not something where people adapted a 1923 - 1925 steel firewall - it was a regular Ford sparepart! It COULD have been added later as the wooden firewalls broke down, but it's there in my original danish Ford Sparepart catalog of 1931 just 8 years after 1923. NO me...

When installing an Anderson you will need to reset the timing.

Mike,
don't you shortcut the ground and all your isolation transformers anyway? The battery still have the negative terminal connected to ground.

Blockley tires on the rearwheel of my 1914 Touring:

Why does the part list shows 3634-H for 1917 - 1923. Note also the * for the bracket years. My officielly 1922 but maybe 1920 Model T wich originally was a Touring but at some time in it's life got a danish build four door body, have a low steel firewall and that have made me wonder. Either it have...

Welcome to the hobby!

The ultimative source for differences of the various years are "The Encyclopedia".

Welcome to the hobby!

The ultimative source for differences of the various years are "The Encyclopedia".

Winter is just over in a month and så far virtually no snow around here. This is a little unusual and february are still to be completed.....
(and I dare not say thw GW words)

Jem wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:36 am
I'm assuming this is the Don Hess car (of disputed provenance) that I saw in Scotland a few years ago.

Well oh well - disputed or not - it sure looks like an early car to me when I check the Encyclopedia.

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It is not a regulator, but just a cut-out, that disconnects the generator from the battery when the charging reach 0 ampere. It is switched on, when the voltage from the generator surpass 6,3 Volts and once it connects, the charging amps will keep it connected. It look like a modern version, which a...

Oh, I wish I could be back - was there in 2010 and met a lot of the folks from this Forum in real life.

Back around 1980 +/- I converted a Volvo 66 to run dual fuel gasoline/LPG. It was just an adapter you mounted under the carburator where the gas went in (as I recal it). What I DO recall is, that there where no hot water attachment.
(Ihave it lying around still so I can take pictures if you like).

Cool! Thanks a lot, Ron!

Seems some of the last pictures shows that loose spokes wasalso a problem back then

A friend of mine have an old 1910 Maxwell brass car with the historic licenceplate A 77. One day he got a letter that A 77 was cought by a Automatic Traffic Control camera speeding. I think it was 80 km/h (50 mph) in a 50 km/h (35 mph) zone. Fortunately when you get the mail, a nice photo was accomp...

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