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I know that feeling and that smile all too well! Nothing like it!

Jeff

Interesting. I'd love to see the rules on that! Lots of ideas come to mind to get it done in even less time.

Jeff

I randomly came across this video and it brought a smile while having my coffee:

https://youtu.be/Dxpzc97V5I4

Jeff

One of these might be a 26/27

Shane, I'm coming into this thread late in the game but holy cow. You really jumped in head first, very impressive. Totally cool that you and Robert hooked up and you got one of his monster motors. I've spent many days up with Erik and Robert at the Rumble Seat Garage and their knowledge and generou...

I knew those pieces looked familiar to me!metal-002.jpg Wow? Ok, I'm not alone here. Clyde, Up to the point that one of the triple gear teeth actually broke, amazingly the car drove pretty well, and nobody could tell me what the rattle can noise was when going downhill (failing triple gear bushings...

Told Ya!!!! LOL! Back to washing dishes for you. Hank Hank, No kidding! Let this be a lesson on really cleaning those nether regions for all of us. And Steve, now that I'm a model T owner I'm a cheapo. So, After I welded the surface cracks I took a file and resurfaced that drum. It's good as new. I...

When the last failure happened it was epic. The triple gear bushings were so far gone that the gears were tilting into the reverse drum. That eventually ground the lip on that drum to 36 thou which turns out to be the magic snapping point for the whole lip, which then ended up in the bottom of the p...

Andyclary wrote: ↑
Fri Nov 08, 2019 6:41 pm
Awesome thread drift
Andy

Now that is funny! Actually epic thread drift in some ways!

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I’m trying to determine what round bits 0.036” diameter could be..... That is about the diameter of the wire I use for locking nuts but the picture seems to show something solid rather than being flexible like wire. I can’t think of any pin used in the motor that is 0.036” diameter. I guess it coul...

You're going to have to define "magnetic". 1.) Meaning they are attracted by a magnet. OR 2.) They are attracted to any ferrous (iron) material meaning they are a magnet or part of a magnet. Not good to find these things in a fresh rebuild. Makes you think there were bad part installed. Good Luck, ...

I've put a couple hundred miles on the new T motor so I changed the oil today and found these 3 little bits in the drain plug. They are all 0.036" thick, and magnetic, so it's not Babbitt. Any ideas? Other than that, it looked great.

All of Martyns technical drawings are in our forum gallery. A treasure trove of info! Just click the camera icon that says "Gallery" on the upper right of any page on the forum, or click here:

app.php/gallery/album/5

Jevv

#5 ^ :lol: What good is old wine besides enjoying and remembering the taste. If it's still even good to drink! You drink the wine, it's gone 12 hours later. You use the car, and it's still in the garage tomorrow. Not a great example. I think it's a great analogy... but 12 hours...I want to drink wi...

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:26 pm
Not quite that old Jeff. Just my mind!

Amen!

Dallas Landers wrote: ↑
Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:15 pm
I grew up in the loud stereo days Jeff. Problem was my 53 chev was 6 volt. I installed a AM-FM cassete player. I could listen to the radio on FM but tape deck didnt work so good.

What about your 8-track player?

I wonder, if you bought, say, 1908 Model T serial #25 that was essentially original construction or restored to original specs, engine, drivetrain, etc., who here would pull the engine out and replace it so as to have an engine with a starter, alternator, turnsignals and add disk brakes to make it ...

Fascinating read. I built and restored a 1969 that won the BugOlympics as a "best of show" car in 1982 at Sears Point raceway in Sonoma. Pearl White with BBS rims. I was a senior in high school. I sold the car when I went to Chico state the next yr for $5,000. A tidy sum for a '69 beetle, but the ca...

Now if do not like “improvements” such as lights, clean burning ignition systems, reliability, and the likes, make sure all those young drivers know hand signals, impair their cars from a cell phone and pay attention. Amen. I was driving the T not long ago and went to make a right turn. I was in th...

Take a look here
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Jeff

What year/ car?

Jeff

This is the part I need. Of the many of Speedo cables I've seen and disassembled from cars and motorcycles from the 60's thru the 70's, I've never seen one with a plastic end like mine has. Someone somewhere at some point in time thought this up and clearly it was not a good solution. This type of p...

"might be BETTER hardware" - D.S.T. change sucks ! I saw that on their site. It's the whole cable. I only need one end. I might need to spin up my "new" South Bend lathe and see what I can come up with to replicate that plastic piece. I think there's enough room inside the cable for a small Allen h...

One of the ends of the drive cable (Speedo side) is perfect and formed from the spring cable itself. The other end has a plastic ferrule that is attached to the spring cable and it has been deformed, twisted and has a groove that allows it to spin and is at the end of its useful life. To fix it I cu...

He's been banned and deleted

Someone is really good with autocad!! Impressive.

Jeff

Mother nature won here in 2017, there were thousands of determined firefighters, air tankers, helicopters and law enforcement that would not allow her to win this week. And no fire related deaths. Andy Boy, you captured it! Amazing how hard they worked to keep it in check. 4500 firefighters at the ...

Jeff has been able to keep up with his duties here, which is good as we won't have to dock his pay this month! Looks like you have a good place to hang out and nice of the guy to loan you power & wifi. Chris phew. I was wondering how I'd pay rent... We're finally back home after 4 days. I took the ...

Andyclary wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 28, 2019 7:56 pm
Wait to come back Jeff. The winds died down, which is a great help for the fire fighters. The flip side is that the smoke just lingers and it's pretty thick right now.
Andy

Oh, don't worry... I'm perfectly happy right here.

Jeff

Thanks to everyone who has reached out with calls, emails and txt messages, it's a trying time for sure. We evacuated yesterday at 4am once we found out our house was surrounded on 3 sides by mandatory evacuations.. . 6C82A017-9263-4C7A-884E-8C8D8C998CE0.jpeg . The circle is my house. Fire is 10 mil...

Joe I know Dan's work, though have never used his needle bearing triple gears. That said, ask HIM which pins to use on the flywheel. You don't want used pins if worn undersize or worn eliptical (and they all are), and you don't want new pins of unknown or inferior metalurgy. The gears will be fine,...

I just got an update from Erik and Robert. They got a couple good runs in today beating a certain Dan McEachern on one run, and then had fuel pump problems. Still, fun was had by all.

AdminJeff

Well.... power just went out at 5pm and mandatory evacuations are in effect 10 miles to the north of us in Windsor and Healdsburg all the way to the coast. My motorhome is loaded, guns loaded, it's gassed up, and one of my most prized possessions, my T is loaded in the trailer . If we are evacuated ...

It's been 2 months since my epic triple gear meltdown failure, but I took George for a drive yesterday with the new motor & trans. Holy cow were there a lot of steps to figure out between then and now. At this point, I've ridden in a fair number of T's and can say my transmission is as quiet and smo...

Wayne, I also have several and am in Santa Rosa.

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7862&p=58359#p58359

I have several. $100 each, come get them, No way I'm lifting them or shipping them! I'm in Santa Rosa, CA, soon to be without power.

Jeff

Admin Jeff did a fabulous job wiring the car. You can tell he is used to working with high end cars. Very meticulous. The car had a quarter mile test drive today and went into the trailer for the races. Robert came back kind of pale so I think it is running well. We are southbound at this time on I...

Erik Barrett wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 21, 2019 12:20 pm
Got it running last night. Sounds very potent. Won’t idle, need to work on the Winfield D model carb. We hope to race it on Saturday at RPM nationals in Santa Margarita.

I got the txt from Robert late last nite! AWESOME. glad all my wiring worked!
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Update from last nite from Robert and Erik:
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Hey there Admin Jeff! If you can't remember the "standard codes", you are not alone. Oh, I remember all right... the resistor color code was also easy for a budding young college electrical engineering student to remember "Bad boys rape our young girls, but Violet gives willingly" Or "Bad Boze Rots...

This is such fun stuff going back thru time with these old racers. I discovered that my car, previously owned by George Romain in So Cal did the hill climb in 1969 and I just randomly came across this pic of him and my car #60 driving up the hill.

I’m super proud to be a small part of the team that’s putting Robert Weitzel’s new race car together. With any luck he and Erik Barrett will make the Santa Margarita races next weekend. I’m not going to give background on the car as Robert has the full scoop, but I wired the whole thing from scratch...

I’m sure I have one in my shed. I’m in Santa tosa ca.

I got this email today from someone who needs help identifying the year of the model T in the picture. It looks a lot like my ‘21 but you guys are the experts. Hello, I'm writing from belgium. English is not my mother talk, please except the mistakes i make. I try to put a date on this picture you'l...

I was on a tour earlier this year with Jeff, and I must admit it's good to see someone as fired up as this guy. We need more of them in this hobby. Passion rules! I've never been as into a hobby like this as much as I am with these cars. Im glad I got the Porsche's and go-fast racing out of my syst...

Your motor blows up, it's a total loss including a cracked block (probably been there a long time) and you don't know what to do. So, getting creative, you contact "that random guy who gave you his number in the parking lot when he saw your T" and buy all 5 of his dads model T cars that are all take...

Sold!

I've deactivated his account a while ago.

AdminJeff

andrefordt wrote: ↑
Mon Oct 14, 2019 7:15 am
How do you do to write between the photos? I tried but I always get the text first and the photos are always posted under the text.
Andre
Belgium

Like This. First position your cursor so it goes where you want it to go...then click "Place Inline"

AdminJeff

I Just crawled into bed after another Marathon weekend at the Rumble Seat garage with Erik (and dad) Barrett and Robert Weitzel. Exhausted, stiff and sore, but happy as a clam. I had no idea just how much complexity there is to fabricating Babbitt bearings. The videos online make it look waaay to ea...

I did think of something else; DO NOT BOGART SOMEONE ELSE'S AD. Start your own. Bogart (slang verb) To keep something all for oneself, thus depriving anyone else of having any. A slang term derived from the last name of famous actor Humphrey Bogart because he often kept a cigarette in the corner of...

Thorlick wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 13, 2019 10:07 pm
all are PDF files

That's your problem. A pdf file is not a photo - it is a document. Portable Document Format - pdf. Great for instructions manuals, no good for pics. Use jpg, gif, or png for all picture formats.

AdminJeff

Since you got a whole new box of powder, there other places on the block to check. Call me if interested, I'm not into a lot of typing on my tablet. Others may chime in. Andy My check was cursory only. The machine shop you recommended did a full mag on the block this time before they bored it today...

Your first pic didn't work. You might want to redo it.

jeff- those cracks in the brake drum can't go anywhere- use it. Dan Thanks Dan. I'm getting that same info from asking around. I'll find the best one and use it. Major bummer today... I got the block back from the machine shop and it was cracked in several spots. Luckily I have 2 more. What a pain....

I carefully checked each of the other drum's webbing as well as the drums themselves and all is good. So interesting how things you can't see with the naked eye come screaming forward with the right tools. Talk about an education!

Jeff

Mark, all great points.

Jeff

I found a real mag testing unit in all my parts a couple weeks ago and had fun with it today after I got some yellow mag powder in the mail. The flywheel I was going to use had a crack from one of the pins all the way to the center. I have three others that are ok. . 6DB17CC3-D1DD-4383-86BA-1C4EB84E...

All great points. I think everyone can benefit from this thread. It's why I opened it up to comments.

AdminJefv

They haven't made it to the classifieds yet. I waned to figure out what I had first. First pass info gathering from those in the know says $600 or so for the housing and bits. I have one person interested, but the Problem is shipping.... im in Santa Rosa. This is big, bulky and heavy and that presen...

I disassembled 3 '27 motors, found good trans parts and 3 EE cranks. I Discovered Zepp Purple (all you can get in Socialist Ca) actually does a decent job of getting 90+ year old grease and grime loose from old engine blocks and internal parts. It's also good at bleaching bare hands. :oops: Thanks t...

We set up this forum in Jan and 1000's of items have been sold. That's good. Speaking from personal experience both selling and watching numerous transactions unfold, there are things that work, and others that don't work as well. Here are some pointers to get the most out of placing an ad: - keep y...

I do not get those boxes, No pencil icon. I get only 2 boxes. What do I need to do? Ok, I'm vexed, very vexed. This one is ahead scratcher. I'm going to have to ask the phpbb gods who wrote this board what's going on...it may take a few days. I. The meantime, if there are edits to a post you need t...

I mailed it out yesterday.

Stan has another one for sale, I'd suggest you don't delay and get ahold of him via email or PM.

Jeff

Just hit the ! Button and report it. I ban the user, and then delete them along with all their posts in one fell swoop.

And yes, don't post in the thread.

Jeff

85 today, shorts and T-shirt.... this is one of the ONLY thing I'm going to miss after I leave this god-aweful State and retire somewhere tolerable.... I also promise if I pick your state to retire to, I won't act like I'm from the Socialist Republic of California.

Click on the pencil icon!

Sorry Eab...I honestly didn't see your earlier post. I will say that this carb has been listed since Sept 9th, almost a full month.

TIP: always send the user an email (or a PM) if you want something.

AdminJeff

Ok Bruce, sold.

Sorry Michael!! You should have closed the deal on the phone!

PayPal jeff (at) provinowines.com use friends and family pls so I don't get hit w/ fees. then send me an email w/ your address.

Jeff

Yes, sort of. This is what I have.

the complete one I have is a large drum.

Ron,
I sent you an email.

StanHowe wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 04, 2019 10:13 am
Did you get my message?

no. I just sent you an email.

Sold to Grady pending payment!

Ok. Sold to Brian. Just sent you an email

Sold to David!

Sold pending payment

Original, excellent condition.

$30 shipped anywhere in the USA.

Steering gear ball arm, (pitman arm). Excellent condition, no pitting.

$25 shipped to you.

Yes it is.

Mike Robinson wrote: ↑
Thu Oct 03, 2019 3:44 pm
Hi, Is this still available and what is the mounting stud measurement between studs? Mike Robinson 209-404-7911

It is. Not sure what you're after? It comes with the manifold and fits on a stock T head...

Jeff

Came off my '21. Excellent condition. Cleaned and ready to install.

$150 plus the ride to you.

Jeff

Late model Steering bracket rebushed, reamed, new felt. Ready to install

$35 shipped anywhere.

As pictured. Aluminum. Never installed, brand new.

$25 shipped to anywhere in the USA.

I think I have several. Send me a pic?

Jeff

I've banned him and deactivated his account.

Sold to Terry Miller!

Jeff

Sent you an email.

Jeff

Brand new, never been used or installed. More info on this interesting thread https://www.mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=6977&view=unread#unread $175 OBO plus the ride. Jeff . 261787BC-A8D8-4A43-8903-4C1019F88BE5.jpeg AB06E3F8-EB37-41D4-9725-4C58568513E5.jpeg These are ads and example installation.

Very interesting. Thanks for the info!

Jeff

Stripped and primered, ready for paint.

$150 plus the ride to you

RajoRacer wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 24, 2019 11:42 am
Dallas is correct on both counts !

How do overload springs work???

They look like suspension parts and are new but I don't recognize them.

And body supports of some kind?
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Jeff

I know what the issue is. It's where you tap your finger. The subject and posters profile links are above one another. If you aren't precise, you'll hit the profile link instead of the post.ive fat fingered it many times on my iPad...

Jeff

Wow Wayne. You are a treasure trove of info!!

Jeff

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