Yahoo! It’s purring like a (very loud) cat

[Bobbbenner]

A week or so I posted that I was looking for a mentor on Long Island. I’ve been lucky to have met and worked with Tom Pilz and troubleshooted a bunch of problems with my TT. I am happy to say that yesterday we got it to run around the farms parking area in all it’s glory! Over hours of work we figured out that #3 coil box was not putting out a spark, (we eventually took the whole assembly apart finding tar on the lower contact). That led to the timer that Tom replaced with a spare of his own allowing the number one spark plug to spark. All the while checking on the bands for the pedals and adjusting them (they are wooden and fairly new), taking out some slop in the pedals and adjusting them. Cleaned out old gas and cleaned up the pumpkin, filled with new gas, then reconnected to the carburetor. I was relieved when the compression test was fine (40,38,38,32). After ruining the starting button (it simply expired), we simply crossed the wires and after some fussing with settings, voila a smooth running engine! Took it out under Tom’s tutelage and found out that it might have a 5-1 rear? Moves along pretty quickly in high/high configuration. I guess I’ll be adding Rocky Mountain brakes. Any how, thanks again to Tom for his help and wisdom. And for this board for putting us in contact.

[Ruxstel24]

Great news !!
You found a friend too !

[L.I. Tom]

Bob I must say it's been a great pleasure to meet you and your family and help you work on your truck I'm glad we got it to run and that you took your first ride. There's nothing like seeing that smile on your face going around the parking lot on your farm for the first time in that truck. There is still a long way to go to get it to where you want it but it's a good start and little by little you'll get it there.I look forward to helping out when and where I can. I must give a big shout-out and thank you do everyone on this forum over the last 10 years or so that I've been lurking here for all the knowledge and information that I have gathered from you. That knowledge and information has allowed me to restore two cars of my own a 1921 roadster and a 1923 roadster pickup that I drive pretty regularly and also to be able to help out a fellow new model tt owner to get his truck running. Keep all the great information and stories coming it is appreciated more than you all know.

[tmodeldriver]

Howdy, Bob. I'm glad that you and Tom were able to get your TT running. They are a special breed of beast.

If you want to know the ratio of your rear axle here's how you do it. Remove the spark plugs. Set the Ford transmission in high. Set the auxillary transmission (if any) in direct. Set the Ruckstell rear axle (if any) in high. Jack up one rear wheel, just one. Turn the starting crank until the jacked-up wheel makes exactly two turns. The number of turns on the crank is your ratio. On the TT it will be 7 1/4 turns or 5 1/6 turns . Good luck with your project. Bob