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I am beginning to bring home a 1927 Tudor. Some years ago I helped the owner with a lot of his restoration but he was unable to finish it. I am not new to the “T” as in the 70’s I worked with my father restoring a 1927 Coupe and then more recently worked with him on a ‘15 runabout which I still own. (We did several others over the years ‘29 A, ‘33 model 40, ‘40 pickup, ‘47 coupe, ‘53 LIncoln)
I am a bit worried about the assembly where I didn’t help such as the differential as I worry about the gear lash and i found a bag with differential gear lock pins unused.
From what I can tell so far, the previous owner basically bought a car from Mac’s. There are bags and bags of parts unopened. This includes parts that would never have worn out. I tend to prefer Henry’s parts over repo parts.

I am new to the Muncie though, so I am sure to need help.

But the car all in all is restored and ready for assembly.

Now if I only had room. I have now completely mothballed my ‘51 Mercury restoration And, with great reluctance, I must step away from my 1910 IHC J-30. (I apologize for using words like IHC on this site)

Thanks for the add. I seem to have lost my old registration so I started all over.

Looks like a fun assembly project David. Thanks for sharing your good fortune. The only comments of substance I can provide: make sure you get a statement of differential installation. If none; open it up and follow instructions in the MTFCA front and rear end pamphlet. And, the Muncie tranny is a great piece of equipment but accidentally getting it in neutral while underway and you have no service brakes...very dangerous!

There are new Rocky Mountain brakes I had previously installed for him several years ago. But I am with you on the rear axle. years ago i snapped my pinion gear on my ‘15 going down a hill when I applied the brake to stop for a major stoplight (i don’t have AC brakes on it) Luckily the traffic was limited at that moment and i was able to make a wide right turn and avoid an accident. It was an hour later that i wondered why I didn’t put on the emergency brake, but things happen quickly. The pinion shot through my differential housing. It ends up that the pinion was flawed , but i suspect it was not in far enough and thus only caught a portion of the ring gear.

Since then I take the rear axle very seriously.

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Uh huh George! (BTT)
Neat project David! Man, that's going to be beautiful right off the bat and you KNOW this car. Pretty neat and thank you for sharing with us.
I'll be one to say: IHC automobiles? Cool! Sometimes I hide words like Old Tractor, saying OT, right here on the board.
It'll be fun to see your progress and hope you keep us in the loop.