Recent content by jack wingard

I agree best tool to have. I bought mine before delivery of my first Model A. I'm still amazed that some Model A owners still use these old fan blades that are known to self destruct.

Machine tapers can be grouped into self-holding and self-releasing classes. With self-holding tapers, the male and female wedge together and bind to each other to the extent that the forces of drilling can be resisted without a drawbar, and the tool will stay in the spindle when idle. It is...

Maybe the men already have Model A, but not a woman.

My 29 sport coupe has fabric

We used to bet the younger unknowing boys that they couldn't hit the wire while pissing. Why not it was done to me!

Everyone that fixed the carb leak now needs to fix their leaky gas shut off leak also. That is if the carb leaked with the valve in the off position.

This post is almost 10 years old. Call Don at Snyders, he'll know

I've used the cheap feeler gauge sets from HF as shim stock

I built the same that JayJay posted the link for. Works great.

I would imagine the rebuild kits have the seals you need. If the wing shaft is worn, new seals most likely won't solve your problem.

pretty sure all the info given in the link is all you need to order bolts. 7/16" - 14, the 14 indicates, 14 threads per inch 1" block depth should work, the pic shows washers. just don't bottom the bolts out

Not all trees are straight, lol

both will work. You will most likely need to buy the spark plug adapter from a vendors. Usually the ones that come with tester are to small for a Model A head spark plug hole

[ I checked the link, the price is $29.00 not to bad

Was the flywheel cut? If so the pressure plate mount surface needs to be cut also. The red book gives the correct measurement height between the two surfaces.