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Definitely REO..

I hadn't thought of doing that, but I agree with the others that it sounds like a good idea. I'll be doing it in the future. Thanks for bringing it up.

Thanks for the word, Steve! Never thought about that.

I'll never have another narrow trailer with wheels on the outside BUT That trailer with high top is certainly a deal at that price and SO much better for your T trailering in wind and bad weather. My thought is the wide trailers offer so much more inside and the width is the same except for the mirrors going down the freeway. On tours I most...

This would be for a fabric weather seal/anti squeak cushion for the hood. On the outside.

Here is what Mike's is offering today. I am guessing yours was an after market accessory.
Both numbers:B 8275-B and 18 825 (Connection, cylinder water inlet) (4cyl) Pass, Comm are listed as 28-34. I believe they are the same for all years and all Ford offered.
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The Lloyd Flanders company still makes wicker products in Menominee. I doubt they’ve made anything else as neat as the wicker T.

#3 above can be augmented by a very slight schmeer of high-temp silicone sealant on the engine side of the copper gasket. I would guess somewhere near 10+% of all old T motors could benefit from this, though probably less than 1% actually get treated with it. Poor running seems to be almost a bragging point for some folks, feeling like they are...

Thanks for all of the responses. Lots of good information and good pictures.
Dennis

Seems okay here Dave. Could just be the entire internet is bogged down what with everyone staying home,
using the computer as an escape.

Glen, your glass shop can mount it in the same stuff they use on modern cars. Sikaflex makes a range of products for the purpose. The advantage over the brass bedding strip is the glass is sealed in the channel, water cannot get in and rust is ruled out. I would suggest black will be the best, as most of the frames are black in the first place.

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Both of my '13s have Rand's windshields. They have a stud that goes through to the end with a cotter pin hole for a castle nut, which enables the owner to adjust the tension on the spring. The nuts are brass plated steel. I like to use a brass cotter pin for these.

We’re the owners of the wicker-covered Model T roadster, which we call The Basket Case. It has it’s own Facebook page; if you search for @TBasketCase you will find it. There’s lots of pictures, videos, and the rest of the story there. She’s moving from the Midwest to Arizona, where we hope to attend many car shows in the West, because she’s not...

Powder coating is not the answer. Powder coat is a form of paint. When water gets into the rim/tyre assembly, it will still cause rust as the paint breaks down under constant moisture contact. It may take a little longer, but they will still rust. Galvanising is the best answer, but ask yourself, How come very few original Galvanised rims show up?...

You may not need to, either. An awful lot of very early cars never saw the service necessary to wear out a transmission.

Neil, there is just no end to the benefits to aligning the front end correctly! :lol:

Put videos in the mail today.

Link to a 1907 Aerocar

Interesting car with gas headlamps, but also '14 style cowl lamps. Then there are what certainly appear to be '17 and later Ford fenders.

Wow that poor car in the B&W photo looks like it's on its last legs!!
But the color one looks more like a '14 body? Another overlap vehicle Jeff? My '25/26 Fordor is one of
those overlap cars. Pretty neat. Hope ur doing well over there!

Here is the back seat of my 1919 touring...

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Seat springs from Snyder's.

I hope these images from snapshots from the early 1990's help!

: ^ )

Nothing good can come from this, you know ....

First, you'll plug up a bunch of space in the shop. Then you'll waste a whole bunch of
time and spend a lot of money. And all the while, you'll have this burning sensation to
go drive it about an waste more time !!! And it never goes away !

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The TT shifter is held on with 4 bolts, the car shifter is held on with 3.

There are more differences including size but that's the basic way to tell.

Cool thanks, you learn something every day.

Thanks guys. The info or here is great. Dan

It's handy that Kevin's shop is less than 10 miles from Snyder's Antique Auto Parts.

I ran into the problem too. Bought some of these things from McMaster Carr but can't remember the part number. I think they we called press nuts or something like that. I ground out the stripped one and welded in the new one.

Great T photos but the 3-wheeled Morgans got my attention!
Thanks
Rich

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Phil
I appreciate your very sincere efforts to make amends, including your personal phone calls to David and myself. Thank you very much. Let’s move on.
Richard

Just my own opinion, but I don’t think the “purest” of Model T purists can hold a candle to guys who put mirrors under their show cars ! :lol:

That very early 1909-1910 hub cap wrench was purchased outside and perhaps the mfg. did some finish to it, seems no early records on that detail.

Practice for a tool of this nature, for supply to automotive market would be some finish IMO, and certainly no finish and left to rust.

Best guess would be black finish.

if you go by the later early...

Andre

Great rebuild work, you made good from a pretty nasty smash. Nice looking T now.

As for the front end, your photos shows the correct '19 and later spindle arms, for the under axle wishbone set up.

But your spindle connecting rod or tie rod is indeed the '18 and earlier, and will be too long to get any adjustment when using the '19 and...

I would pull the hand brake back and take a look at the little levers on the brake backing plates that the rods attach to. With the brake fully engaged, the little levers should be vertical or maybe a little leaning towards the rear of the car. If they are leaning towards the front of the car, that's an indication that your brake shoes, drum, or...

Jay finds not only the best stuff but the boxes they came in.
Thanks
Rich

This is a great look at these.
Just some other discussions for reference:

In the pharmacy we always sprayed the counter tops and the counting trays with 70% alcohol. Do not use the 91% alcohol. The 70% alcohol with penetrate the cell walls of the virus better than the 91%.

If mixing aloe vera with the alcohol, use the 91% so your solution becomes about 70%.

Same parts.

In hope of perking up the spirit of forum readers, I am dredging up a tour report which I posted a few years ago. At that time a couple of folks liked it and perhaps you will, now, as well.

Buck up, Lads and Lassies. We'll get through this!

The link:

Anyone else?

Philip don't get in a hurry, kinda milk it. Time is on your side now.., for awhile. Trying to find humor in these times.

All the Best,

Hank

Just as Joe posted.

From Bruce's C-D Encyclopedia:

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When will the moderator delete this thread with these dirty topless models!?!

A prior discussion on the topic.

Ok Dan. I stand corrected! 😀 That design is older than I imagined.

I scoured local welding shops for a tank embossed with the name, had the offset valve and, did not have a gauge in the bottom.

It was painted a variety of colors. I simply stripped it with paint stripper, smoothed it out, painted it silver and, got a repro decal from Restoration Supply. It looks great and works great.

Hope that helps.

Leo, I’d have to check, but I believe John Dodge was on the board from the 1903 start. Gray died and his son came on the board in the summer of 1906, near the same time Malcomson sold his shares, mostly to Henry Ford and I believe a few went to Couzens. I believe Bennet and one or two other investors sold at the same time as Malcomson.

Malcomson...

Thank you Phil for the update.

Tim Williams

Well, Japanning is essentially a baked on asphalt and lampblack coating, the same as used to make tintype plates. No problem .. I make tintypes for my day job. 😀

Well said. Many folks refused to be confused by the facts! They would rather be dead right then admit their wrong. Dom Is that a 5 MPH bumper ?

I'm with David D. and Dan T. on the use of bubble wrap. I had some exhaust collector parts (not a T) Jet-Hot coated a couple of years ago. Jet-Hot is sorta like powder coating only for very high temperature operation. When I picked the parts up the pieces each one beautifully wrapped in bubble wrap.

The lady at the counter asked me if I was going...

I too like New Day timers or I meant to say I like ORIGINAL New Day Timers. I find decent used ones and resurface them but also work on the brushes a bit. If you have a postage scale (even better if you have a digital one that measures ounces and parts of ounces) you can then place your brush against the scale and press the rubbing block down into...

I may pull the hub again and check the key. It did slip once and I pulled it. Felt like it seated good the last time. I am also using your hubs Dan. They are fitting up fine and nothing binding

Transferring mail bags in Philadelphia, PA, to an airplane bound for New York, May 1918.

Sorry for the drift, here is a pic of a BASCO key, and a non model t switch. jb
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I ran bulb #1009 for 30 years, many times driving across the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge, dark going both ways. Plenty of light above 20 MPH. I tried a couple of other bulbs before I found the 1009s and they would burn out at speed the 1009s never burnt out in 30 years of occasional use.

Ed aka #4

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and offers. I’ve been playing with my rear perch & nut pieces this morning. What I did was lightly file the tops of the treads on the perch and nuts to remove any burrs and slightly reduce the height of the threads. Then, using some valve grinding compound, little by little screw on the nut constantly using a...

Hi. Took some pictures of my 26 roadster. Seems the sides are parallel sideways and up-down. 200mm X 440mm.

As always, I just use good old lacquer thinner. Once I used Strip-Eeeze, it worked pretty good too, but I just like
lacquer thinner. Overall it's probly cheaper too. Lots of good advice here just the same. To each his own.

Just remember, to your great grandkids, the teens just ended last year, and this is the start of the roaring 20's... :lol:

I appreciate the comments from folks knowledgeable about coils. I'm planning to use the coils in my 1913 touring. I currently have 4 screw brass tops in it with an original coil box. I will likely replace the capacitors and replace the points with new ones in order to save the old points.

Thanks everyone!

The paint or powder coat is thick and will do all kinds of funny things when you first tighten the lugs. Trim the paint off the countersink and all is good. Off the wheel, not the lug nuts.

Cookeville TN Tour- how many saw this radiator cap? Look closely at this radiator cap. ZOOM in...The dog with it's leg hiked is not potty trained. The man in the picture is a good friend, so I blurred his face in the photo. All I can say is It's a good thing that he had his glasses on!

His T shirt took most of the hit.

Nothing is more expensive than a cheap fix.

Bob
I view the addition of a high quality ½ ID 6201 ball bearing and armature shaft spacer to the starter as not an operational performance enhancement, rather it is a long-term reliability enhancement. Let me explain
The Babbitt bushing Ford used in the starter brushcap was a cheap easy solution, unfortunately they made no provision for long term...

Great footage of the Benz Victoria !
The biggest problem with hand signals is that these days drivers do NOT understand their meaning, biggest problem is with the left turn and slowing down signals, these days sticking your arm out is generally understood as the signal to allow a tailgater to pass, which is a big problem when slowing down to make...

Teachers by nature are always putting the interests of others first - Miss Erin is on Hiatus
because of COVD-19.

Miss Erin spent time over the past few days chasing down medical equipment to help out the staff at the VA Medical Center in New Orleans ... 🦸‍♀️

She was risking her health to help her friend
that works there & the medical staff...

When assembling my 1917 shooting brake, I used the same closed retainer on the firewall and the radiator shell. Silly move. The radiator shell end must be open. Original black era hoods have a bend about 1.5 out from the centre hinge. This allows the centre hinge to sit low in the keeper on the shell.This bend has to be made in the reproduction...

Yes; got it; thanks to all!!

Scott,

My TT is an '18 based on some evidence including a 1917-'18 patent plate, a '15-'16 steering column, short running boards, rear end clamshell beads, short rear chassis cross member, etc. However, it has a '23 engine. I registered it in about 2002, after it being off the books since 1941 (license plated was still on it). The CA DMV had a...

How did you know???!!!! :D

It looks like a bendix key wedged in the crease of a creeper head cushion.

The mechnic next to the colum is chucking the bird!

Meanwhile, here in America:

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Looks like Joliet Jake to me !!!!!

He’s on a mission from Henry.... :lol:

Looks like it is on the east coast somewhere?

Years ago I bought a motor home that had set for ten years, I should of known better to try to start it with that fuel, I got it to run and it smelled like varnish after I shut it down went to restart it and heard one heck of a noise. It had cooled long enough that all the valves had stuck and bent all the pushrods. The cylinder heads looked like...

I have been using some gasket material from the McMaster gasket assortment set that is about the same thickness as the original Asbestos gaskets were. They apparently don't sell it separately but it is vegetable fiber who it is impervious to alcohols.

I cut them on a gasket cutter and save the center cuts for making other small gaskets.

You...

Thanks Chris and Henry.
Much appreciated

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New Brighton to New London run also gonna be on Wear Funny Hat Day?

Dallas, Give me a call, I may be able to help you on this.

Keith cell # 262-909-three - one-six-seven

As I recall, I install the flat floorboard first, then the under-pedal board, and finally the over-pedal board. My '27 is a touring car, but both Snyder's and Lang's list the same floorboards for open cars. I have had no real problems installing the board with the deflector, but there is only one position that will work. I kind of roll it around...

Ahh, I see Dan! Thank you. I just assumed they should actually hang through the clamp itself like my 1930 Model A, guess not.

While Rustolium does not stay shinny that is what I used. Has held up just fine for over 15 years. Wire bushed the frame, used Rustolium rusty metal primer and black over that.

If they've shrunk, they might be old Lester Tires made in the good old USA (Pennsylvania) ! We have them on our '14 Touring & I have a set of extra fronts when the time comes.

I like that idea!

I just remembered That I had an extra pair because a pair also came with the new support rods I ordered. They are yours for the shipping cost to the land down under. Art

Keith has a brand new in the box 6v horn. We closed the deal. Very reasonable man. THANKS

This Forum is a really terrific resource. I have acquired some hard to find parts and received some great advice.

Thanks ALL, and let’s keep this wonderful hobby alive.

Bill

Yep same here in the Ozarks Steve Never trust March and April here. Weather rumors say there might be a blizzard in upper Midwest next week. Ain’t over till its over.

Remember not to tighten things up right away. Let the goop 'sit and set' a bit before final tightening.

Why? because you will squeeze it out if you go to full tightening right away and then have no benefit. But don't forget to go back and tighten properly before final assembly!

Remember not to put it on too thick, that just leaves a lot of lumps...

Yes i brass plated any hardware that was brass plated originally. I agree that the top padding has not aged well. Easy to fix. We had it down plenty of times on tours.

She has eyes !

‘Toupee’- that’s funny... you’ve received good advice John. Let me add my belief in the best accessory a Model T can have: outside oil line. I get plenty of flow from the mag terminal oil line to the front main bearing. You may have another design

Still a mystery but I’m gonna quit worrying about it. Thanks for the attachments Scott. I see in the last one contributed by Peter Kable 2 years ago the steering ball is on the usual side - unlike the one I have.... back to the stash...