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 "Bornholm Rundt" ("Around Bornholm") - one of the best vintage car event in Denmark with over 180 vehicles. Now I will go without Model T and drive with friends as co-driver.
It turns out that the engine only goes on #3 and #4 and occasionally on #2 and only at idle or high idle. if I open the throttle it stalls after some coughing even if you open it up slowly.
Here is a video that shows how it sounds (muffler is broke too ): https://youtu.be/v9EQNdi6jyw
You can hear that #2 chimes in occasionally on the video while it only goes on #3 and #4.
I have switched virtually everything:
- Coils (all refurbished)
- Plugs
- Plug wires
- Carburator
- Manifold gaskets - both "asbestos" and copper rings
We have checked by wieving down the plug holes that the valves operates in #1 and #2 and the way the starter sounds also indicates fairly good compression on all 4 cylinders.
I'm out of ideas......