Recent content by crazycasey

Hello, It’s been a while. 3 years in fact. The roadster project has been mostly stalled out. While the reception for my project was overwhelmingly positive here on the Ford Barn, the few detractors definitely took the wind out of my sails a bit, and I haven’t updated this thread as diligently...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. So, I ran it with the leads disconnected for maybe 15 minutes at a fast idle, about 1,200 rpm, and it ran great the whole time. So I reconnected the leads, and it did fire up again (with a little more effort than with the leads disconnected)...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Riding motorcycles since my early 20’s, the petcock becomes the first thing you check. :)

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Stumped you guys too, huh?

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. https://youtube.com/shorts/DBd3BIKYlP0?si=ajRanez47m-C_p-p

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Guys. My head hurts. I had this A running flawlessly yesterday, and I go out to fire it up today (VERY COLD DAY), and it fires off, runs a bit, and then dies, like somebody cut the ignition. I try to fire it up again, and it’s just dead. So, I...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Under the box is black epoxy… I did pull the rear band on the generator, and it IS a 3 brush unit. It was adjusted almost all the way down, and I readjusted it almost all the way up, so that I’ve got 5 Amps now instead of the 12 or so I had...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Thanks Bob! I just figured this out a few hours ago. I’ve got this A drivable now, but I think the rotor phasing is still a little bit off. It’s hard to know if the points are in the wrong place on this “modern” plate, or if there’s just so...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. I figured I’d share these pictures to illustrate what I mean when I say that the points plate contacts the distributor body before I can get very much advance via the lever. If anybody has any thoughts, I’m all ears. The only thing I can come up...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. I had read that in another post. The battery and every wire in the system are all brand new. The generator has cleanly terminated 10ga (way overkill) all the way up to the ammeter and back out to the solenoid, which has brand new 2ga down to...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Thanks Bruce, I pretty much agree. I’d like to make it work with what’s there, but perhaps that’s a too-tall order. So much of the Model A stuff I’ve purchased in the past (mainly body panels and things like latches, etc) has left so much to be...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Thank you Steve. I actually watched that right after I saw Joe’s post. It comes up when you Google “Model A Third Brush Adjustment” or something along those lines anyway. You made that make sense. I have a question for you though. For those of...

Re: Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Joe, Thank you! So, it’s not necessarily “wrong” that there wasn’t an external voltage regulator installed on this thing previously? But adjusting the third brush to give, what, 7.2 volts, would be the standard operating procedure? I should...

Need Help with a Model A that’s Overcharging. Don’t mind my previous post. My Model A seems to have started charging suddenly after I jumped the cutout terminals and motored the generator. BUT…now it’s overcharging. This A didn’t have any sort of external voltage regulator previously, and I...

So far you are one of two people who have made comments to this end. I don’t want to seem tone-deaf, but YouTube tracks the “click-through” rate, which leads me to believe that there are more folks here who appreciate my updates than not. I mean, if I’m wrong, please tell me. I certainly don’t...