Recent content by Lee29coupe

I replaced oil pan gasket and bottom rope seal. I’ve had a leaky steering box, it’s a coupe so I just top steering oil off before I drive it. Steering shaft is a pain to remove on a coupe so i added it to the to do list. At first I thought it it it was the oil pan gasket but on closer inspection...

Looking for a 1929 dash panel for standard coupe, is at top of gas’s tank, under windshield. I need one to drill holes in for switches, holes ok just not bent or dented. Lee

Re: Bypass oil No matter what you do, if the oil being pumped up the oil shaft past the spring that holds the pump, spacer and distributor spacer in the cam valley increases oil pressure that is higher than the tension of the spring let’s the oil out into the valve chamber. That bypasses the...

My problem with dropping it down is that I used cork gasket on both sides covered with non Hardening permatex, kind of lazy and would like to take the easy way out if I can. Plugging up anyway I can is my first choice. Thousands years of experience on this site so I’m sure there is someone who...

I just replaced my oil pan gaskets and have a moderate leak where the back of where the oil pan wraps around the rear main oil seal/oil pan surface. I an pretty sure that it is a small gap where the rear main flange gasket and oil pan meet at the corner of the two. Anything I can use to stop it...

I,m a retired Air Force and A&P certified aircraft mech. Aircraft use crimps on wires. Solder will vibrate by stiffing wire by wicking up the wire. On any wire connect use heat shrink to minimize and/or Liquid tape to reduce wire end stress, they sell at Walmart in the auto elect. section. Makes...

1929,Y-block, you are both with right with the filters mounted vertically, like when you use the Ford factory 45 degree mount found on a lot of older Ford V8s. Look how 1929’s is mounted. The oil will not seep out going up. The ones I am referring to are the horizontal mounted to the Cam cover...

FAA states the aircraft wiring should be crimped at two places on thermal. Solder makes wire brittle but we are just dealing with Model A wiring, I use crimped wiring only because I’m too lazy to soldier.

Y-BlockHead, the systems most filter conversions use is mounted on the side of aluminum cam cover, filter mounts sideways. That’s why it will allow flap in filter to seep oil out. Also something to think about is the copper tube that goes into oil passage from pump to filter has an inside...

If you change oil you drain suspended material. Synthetic oil doesn’t produce sludge like old organic oil, I learned this with working on old 40s,50s and 60s Harley Davidsons. They run hot and are really bad on oil, I had a 1948 that had a ton of sludge in under cam cover, started using Mobile...

One last thought. Study the oil pump,cam drive, oil pump spring and notice at the top of the oil system,the cover can be raised from oil pressure underneath it and dumps oil right into valve chamber thus bypassing the oil filter system, old Henry had it all covered. Just keep car lubed and...

Dump the filter kit, use high quality synthetic oil and change it every six months or 300 to 500 miles, which ever comes first. Good synthetic like Caster, Mobil One etc will remove all sludge after a couple of oil changes. The Model A has a super low pressure oil system that doesn’t push oil...

Remove old float through filler hole with whatever can grab it, pull it all out. Get something that floats and put it on float arm anyway you can like copper wire, tie straps, aircraft safety wire, anything that can stand gas. Put two gallons in tank and use pliers or something like that to bend...

Please brain storm on this. Doesn’t the top of the oil pump assembly have a built in pressure relief by way of the spring that holds the oil pump/distributor assembly together by spring pressure. I recall that if oil pressure exceeds the spring pressure it will compress the spring a small amount...

I’m retired Air Force, 24 years on aircraft flight line. Our Technical Orders required us to move aircraft every 72 hours,(three days) to rotate tires on a Hanger Queen, (aircraft not flying for 30 days) This is to prevent permanent distortion of tire carcass, prevent wheel bearings from...