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Was the package marked hazardous? Didn't see any stickers on the box it was shipped in. It is the fumes given off in the small, un-ventilated area where I was going to be working. Zinc Ammonium Chloride and Tin

Thanks Frank.

John

There is more to a valve job than just stem clearance and good valve face contact. Valve seat width can make a big difference in how well a valve seals, and in turn how well an engine runs. Specifically, how well an engine starts. Check that the valve face contact width is 3/32”, and is comfortably located on the face of the valve with about...

John

yes, there is a fiber washer which fits between the underside of the strainer top and the top of the carb. The slot to remove it is usually really beat up, as you're correct, it comes off a lot if you bought dirty fuel or had a crummy fuel tank. This carb is a very good performing carb but has very small holes in the jets and will perform...

Many thanks to Dan and all. My curiosity has been settled. :) :)

Dobro1956 What brand of tractor conversion do you have?

A solar panel that supplied 7.0 to 7.2 volts at no load (full sun) would be very unlikely to ever overcharge a 6 volt lead-acid battery. Indicated voltage would drop to near the indicated battery voltage when the panel connected to a discharged battery, and indicated voltage would slowly rise to near the no-load voltage of the panel as the battery...

The Crystal Gasoline tanker is a unique combination. It appears to have an ordinary roadster body mounted onto a TT, and that body has an accessory California top. The photo suggests it is a new truck.

Allan from down under.

Thank you. Jerry's solution will work.

It certainly is a rebadged Laurel. Thank you everyone for your answers.

Thanks had a nice visit with him this afternoon.

I have restored 11 HCCTs and repaired a few more for people.

The HCCT on Page 9 in the book was my 1st restore and 11th restore/repair with a bad meter.

Bob Cascia did the meter restore and Ron Patterson provided information or parts on the others.

They are both available for help, some parts, and more information.

I am very grateful to both...

My first trip to Pate swap meet it was one row of parts next to the museum. Last time I went you could walk thru as fast as possible, never stopping and couldn’t have seen it all. Great event. Sad when it departed.

A Montana 500 Guru introduced me to the EZ lap diamond hone (fine) for refurbishing dirty/worn coil point contacts. This hone is readily available, inexpensive (<$10) and think it works very well.

Tim, it helps if you don't know you can't. :lol:
Having the luxury of time to try is good too.
Rich

Bill and I were friends, a few years ago we were E-mailing jokes back and forth on a regular bases. I restored some parts for his early vintage autos and in trade I received 3 of his crankshafts. One is in our 14, one is in my son Derek's 25 and the last one Andy Loso was in the process of putting in my nephew's 26 when Andy sadly passed away. His...

Glass setting tape comes in different thicknesses, some is rubber (using that term loosely) and some may look like fabric/rubber. Depending on the thickness of glass and channel it is installed in, you need to buy the thickness that will not crowd your glass and will still hold it in place.

Ha! What an adventure ! As I remember, the ladies pushed your touring too. ....,No ones going to look up to the inside of your rear frame crossmember. Just ensure you have a long enough rear spring leaf bolt and put a shorty on top of your spring stack. Don’t forget the rubber or leather pad on top.

For the factory fit, trim that lower hose, the repro hose sets come with that lower hose cut about 3 long or more.
Factory size is 2 3/4 length , so that the control rod runs under the metal pipe, and away from the hose. Even with an outside oiler on the front plate bolt, the timer rod clears fine.

Have found the Lang's offered specific year...

I suspected as much!

That is why I suspected it was safe to post the information.

Another family member might still own the home.

I know several cases where the man went to heaven and his wife still kept the phone account and paying the bill.

Then too, an only child often keeps the home.

Make sure the headbolt threads and bolt head shoulders are clean and dry. Do not use oil, particularly with an aluminum heads. I like 40 to 45 ft-lb with aluminum. The bolt tension greatly increases with heat.

Art Mirtes

Authorities are dispatching expert cadres of certified jellybean counselors to reach out to underserved and at-risk jellybeans everywhere.

No interest? Let me know if you are. Thanks Dan

David, you beat me to it!

Thanks Steve for taking the time posting the photos. Just wished it was closer.
Nice pictures of the fantastic model Chris.

Found a thread by a guy from Perth, West Oz, who built one, try to contact him, he might be able to help

Neat postcards! Could it also be confused with Norwegian/American?
Part of my hodge-podge blood is Pennsylvania Dutch=German I found. The writer supports that in the iamexpat article.
Very interesting. :)

I’ll be using the old bows as they are still good. The new ones are too big in both directions to go into the metal corner pockets. However the same supplier shipped the curved corner pieces and they fit perfect! Go figured!! Now to get everything riveted into place in the pockets. Bet that’s gonna take a while.

Look like Dutch wooden shoes.

Yup. Look at the front axle on the Sedan. The European style, with a slightly different shape.

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The advertisement for the great race shown in the latest classic car magazine gives the location of each lunch stop and of each overnight stop. I am particularly interested in the Medina lunch event, the Perrysburg stop, and the route between. These happen on Tuesday, June 21.

I hope to see some of you there either as a competitor or an...

Yes I also see this as a low radiator TT going by the front fenders with no lip under the headlights and no radiator apron. 22 and back maybe?

Duey_C: If you like, we can take this off-line as it's getting more and more off topic. I'd appreciate receiving full title and author, date, etc of the Big Yellow Book reference you mentioned. I'm jab35(at)cornell(dot)edu if you want to discuss.

You are remembering correctly from what I've been finding online. Owens became a partner with Hooven...

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I too really enjoy receiving these photos and so does my 92 Year old Father. He was the one that got me into this hobby
and secured me an apprenticeship with the local Ford Dealer.
We are amazed at the number of photos you find and post so frequently! 🙏 thank you!

I save all images of the 1909 /10 Model T’s and these years alone have taken up...

i was under the impression that Pratt & Whitney developed the standard gauge system.

A similar story. In 1918 Pratt &Whitney purchased the rights to produce Hoke blocks from Major William Hoke, of the US Army, who perfected a means of manufacturing precision gauge blocks. Hoke blocks differ in that they are square, with a hole in the center....

Google Starter Button Switch .
A large number of booted switches will come up.
Most under $10.

The unincorporated town of Sharon Center is located in Sharon Township (Johnson County IA) at the intersection of Sharon Center Road and 500th St. (County Highways F62 and W62, 9.3 miles (15.0 km) southwest of Iowa City.) It consists of about a dozen houses and several small businesses.
Sharon Township has an area of approximately 36 square miles...

Sent you a email

Your trailer isn’t always in your yard. A friend’s truck, trailer and T were stolen at a national tour in Albuquerque. It was really just luck that he eventually got them all back. Luck and thieves that aren’t very smart. A tracker would have helped a lot.

Andy

A wonderful service with reflections from his brothers & a recorded view by RV of early life on the family farm with his siblings with the farm trucks. Randall Anderson, may you Rest in Peace & Prayers to the Maureen & the Family. George Hand

I mainly contacted him about floor boards. He’s been making some up. I’ve noticed that there’s been quite a few guys from the old forum that never made it over to the new forum. Miss reading some of those posts as well.

Having brought back a '23 runabout back from the brink of scrap, I can state with total certainty, that adding the complication of adding in a door to a driver's side panel would have added intolerable time and effort to the complication of the not-so-simple creation of the wood structure and the restoration of the sheet-metal. Canadien or not, I...

KD is going but I think his trailer is full.

EB usually goes with a group of guys in his
motorhome from Auburn, CA and pulls a
large enclosed trailer.

FJ

We get the show over here too, but what puts me off is the guy talks and talks and talks, if i wanted that i can shut the TV and listen to my wife :lol: :lol:

About the remark about the screwhead not being cast in the negative : the small plate is screwed on the wood 'plug' or 'core' (officially called the 'pattern' ) and not on the sand mold, so will end up in the finished casting just the way it looks on the plug, chewed up slot and all.

Dale.
Great to hear. Dan that is a possibility and I would not run moly rings in a bore that is not new. It's getting to where we have to work with what we can get rather than what we wan't. And a set of moly rings for a V8 will have 8 cast iron compression rings as a last resort. I'm finding some parts hard to find for my 1980's vehicles. Some...

Looking forward to my first time to attend!

Too cool! 30 years ago I was pulling a lowboy over it heading for Stibnite. Guessing that picture was taken in June from what I remember.

Thanks! I guess I can see what happens through the inspection door and if it doesn't work out just pull the hogshead.

I found the attached to be of great value. It came from a Model A site but the earliest AA appears to have used the same as the TT arrangement.

You're lucky you discovered this... before it's too late.
My failure happened on a trip to Napa.

The sound in the trans is like a rattle can paint spray, especially on deceleration. The wobbling gears will end up grinding off the lip of the reverse drum. Ask me how I know....

Do yourself a huge favor and replace them now before major...

Having received some rough pieces from another Centerdoor that is long gone, I’m readjusting my sill thickness to 1 1/4 inches instead of 1 5/16th inches.

I’ll probably cut new wood to the larger size and creep up to the smaller size. I’m not sure how much of a difference 1/16th inch makes over all. I do know the floorboards are 5/8ths inch...

Thanks for showing us those rare ducks.

Ed, Thanks for the photo and the link. The original rod Stan shows and explains in the link let's me know how it works. Now I think I will replace it with something else for the speedster. I have a good U&J it needs to be with. Thanks again

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On the second 1912 picture right hand drive most likely Canadian built you will see a brass clip on the brass horn hose,at the lower curve of the door . Just one of the Canadian differences

I'm thinking that small hole is R. A-must vent through the end of the choke shaft? I stuck my bore-scope in there and if that is a vent it is plugged solid as well. I was able to get the outlet tube out today after letting it sit over night in the cold barn, didn't fight me too much (froze to death?) anyway I won that battle. Those vents were...

Mr Johnson who had a shop down the street from my parents furniture factory (during the 1940's) had a 25T pickup he had bought new. I rode in it once and he said he would sell it to me some day. A number of years later I went to see him and it was not there! I asked him about it, and he said that during the great depression, he had gone bankrupt...

My Tool is a pretty hefty & solid tool.
It weighs a decent 7.1 Lbs !

I used TopFlite fuel resistant model airplane paint from a local hobby shop. It is the only thing I have found that has survived the toxic Minnesota gas formula. My Model A carb has lasted 8 years, still solid. The Rustoleum on the engine pan underneath turned to goop long ago.

Thank you James - it was Art !

C125EDE8-006F-4805-8E21-72B43F213833.jpeg I have a early 26 Tudor #12987459 comes in as Dec 1925 it has a frame number. Both fenders are identical. It has the light bar. it appears to look like your drivers side. Raised at the top and a depression on the bottom.

I'm certainly not an expert here but couldn't keep from throwing in my 2 cents. Most everyone that has chimed in is correct, but don't let anyone scare you too much. Once you get started just stay focused and you'll be fine. I use mine at least once a year in our 1906 Locomobile, on our drive to San Francisco, leaving at 3:15 AM or so each year on...

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Some more pictures to ponder.

Frank,
that'd be one cool conversation piece.

Kathy

The Western Auto door pocket accessory would be a nice item to repro. I'd like to have a left and right one.

See you there, George. I was surprised by your initial post, glad to see you've come to your senses. :D

Crystalization. It's real.

In this chaotic, fast paced, ever changing world, there remains a constant. Great old patina Ts are still out there, sitting in garages and barns, waiting to remind us, that some things never change.

Well it's close to that here but not quite! Gonna go plow the driveway shortly.

Just talked to Bill in Port Clinton and he got 2 inches. I’m about 25 miles from him in Martin and not 1 snowflake here. :D

I’m just west of Akron, see my pictures above.
12-18” and 3’ drifts in places. Have not seen an overnight snow like this is quite a while....

I made a special hammer to form the dimple into the die. Basically a bunch of scrap steel welded together in the shape of a hammer, with a piece of 1/2” rod for a striking surface. With this hammer, a #2 welding torch tip, and a few vice grips holding the die in the right place, the dimples are a piece of cake!

Know were one is for sale
needs put to gather all there extra parts
tom 714-4123200
$8,000.00

I borrowed this photo from the World Wide Interweb!

Those clogs can't be fun operating 'T' pedals!

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Looks to me that the cup/bowl shape locks over the lower same shape area, place lid latch so they can line up this way and position is set.
Also looking at the parts picture above the lid latch is longer for the reason above.

Would something like this work. Also read the description if these carefully, some don't include a frame

Thank you Don ,will take that advise, Best regards Colin

I think I have some originals you can borrow

Mark,

I sent you a private message

mold number for casting

My good friends Will & Jill live about 120 miles
due east in Melbourne.

They have nice Touring T 👍

PM me if you want their number.

FJ

You may have seen these.

When in doubt, I look it up. The encyclopedia description doesn't go into great detail, but tells the basics.

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I cheated and got a top with an incorrect roll-up rear for my 1915. I'm glad I did.
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It's nice having the shade with air circulation in hot weather.

I will probably...

Well I have decided on making my own panel. I will have to get a good 4x3 or 4x4 piece of 18 gauge steel to do this, there is a place in town I will check with this week. I still have to figure out where to take it to have the ribs put in and what to do with the hump.

If I were a first-time observer of the diagram and chart below it, without the benefit of the discussion that preceded it all, I would have the following questions:
1. In the Venn diagram the intersection of the three screw head types is labeled 'slotted', the diagram title Early Ford Screw Heads but including the Model T era and US Made Fords...

My cars you do not have to adjust the mixture when at idle or cruising speed. Are the balls seating properly? I would try stuffing a rag or taping around the out side where the intake of the balls are to see if it will idle.

Michael, thank you for posting that link. A fitting tribute for a very helpful gentleman!
Terry, please don't demonize the bad people that choose not to as opposed to the good people that do get them.
I very much like your post and didn't consider it a rant at all except for one line written. I still respect your opinion tho.
And I'm pleased as...

Yes, the truck was posted on the for sale list a while back. The 13 was bought by someone in California. In a way, I am glad. I would have had to scramble to find storage for two more Ts. Though, a touring car would have been nice to fit the whole family. The Speedster project takes up a lot of room in the shop right now…