Recent content by Dale Miller

A quick check is with an ohm meter across the primary terminals a 6V coil should measure approx. 1.5 ohms and a 12v coil will be approx. 3.0 ohms.

The L means load - that is the wire to the lite bulb. The X is the wire from the voltage source. The P is the wire to the panel lite, if you do not use a indicator lite just leave it unwired. Hope this helps!

My 29 Tudor has developed a bad shimmy when I apply the brakes! I thought it was might be the front brakes but after working on them it still does it. About 2 years ago I installed Teds floater kit and cast iron drums but had no problems till recently. I am looking for suggestions as to what...

I had the same problem with a radiator that I bought at a swap meet. My fix was to use a brass kitchen sink down tube ( the type that has a flang on the top end ) and cut it short so that it was about 1 inch above the core when inserted into the rad. neck. Use a rad cap gasket under the flange...

My 29 Tudor had not been started and driven for about a year due to a heart problem that I had, but I am well along on the mend, so when the local club had a picnic at a park about 50 mile away I decided to drive it. I put fresh gas in it and it started up on the first try. So off the wife and...

I used them on my speedster. They were a freeby from a friend that took them off of a sedan that he was restoring and I thought I would try them and to my suprise they work very well.

Replacing the Hi-Tension wire with a modern car type fixed the noise in my radio/CD.

Rusty was a faster typist than me Dale

The wire is used to hold the cowl lacing on- it is fastened on each side by looping it through the small hole at each end of cowl lacing holder and the lacing is under the wire then in the center there is a hook that is over the wire and adjusted to pull it tight. Maybe someone can post a pic...

One thing that no one mentioned is that if the batt. is completly dead with an alt. you can not get the car to start by pushing it!! An alt. requires some voltage to it before it will start outputing so if no output there is no voltage to ingition and no spark = no start!!

Most modern coils are oil filled and that oil will often leak out if it is mounted the way the A coil is. I had the same experience till someone told me to mount it with the hi-volt wire from the top. It may require a longer wire to the dist. but it cured my problem.

Sounds as though its been modified the way we used to do in the 50s to make the car set lower. We would use a torch and heat the main spring leaf just inward from the shackle and let the car weight cause it to form that v shape . The car would then set a couple inches lower.

This shows a dare devil show at the 1940 worlds fair!! In the last scene we hope it is not a model A that he lands on. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=25959

Change all bulbs to 12v, the dist condenser is ok and does not to be changed, use a resistor in series with coil to lower volts so coil is can be used as is, also a resistor in series with horn. The gen can be used but set the output for 8 amp max, I needed more amps so went with an altenator...

Depending on the state you are in it is often better to have the state DMV issue you a new Title. This is what I did in TX with no problem. It is for the correct year and the only difference is that it is a bonded title.