Recent content by Michael Cooper

I run water with workshop cutting oil as I think thats what was used back then! Cutting oil draws heat away from tools etc., oil lubricates water pump, also probably a slight anti freeze and smells great. I add just enough to color water as I would suspect to much would slow water through the...

A point to remember is that the towed vehicle does the braking for both vehicles or a small amount of hand brake could be used Did once did see a lady towing a well used Fergy 28 tractor at about 60mph on a rope, the gentelman on the tractor looked as "white as a sheet" and frozen to the...

I purchased side curtain fasteners from Snyders A-37105-X, these have fold down tabs like lift-the-dots. No tools reqired other than a pointed knife. (easy to fit) Also if they fail it will be easyer to replace. I also replaced some body sockets with the US made ones A-37101-USA (worth the extra...

I add a capfull or two of cutting oil to the water(yes it turns the water white), anti rust, waterpump friendly, bearing friendly, paint friendly, leak prof, is a coolent, has that enginering shop smell, ie- has very little risk. Unfortunatly it may not be the best anti freeze but will be better...

It would be a good move to wrap red tape on the +ve cable, possably at starter and battery to aviod an error and of course saftey My 'A' has the earth identified

Remove the dipstick before filling the motor with oil.;) I am well aware that seasoned "A" drivers will know this but to a newby with a flat head engine this may useful :D This allows the air to escape and not blow a bubble of oil out of the filler pipe and all over the motor and water pipe...

When I restored the 28pickup I left the motor to till a later date. To get the carby to run sort of right we treaded a thin wire into the compenator jet and and apart from oftern stalling when braking she run well apart from a "Arabs thirst for oil" New motor, time to reset the jets to correct...

Follwing the document www.durableperformance.net the recommended flow for the idle jet was 44-48 ml/mn (I was a lot Less) I can remember coming up 1 metric drill size and a bit of filling with the drill-bit to get the 44ml/mn flow. "Henry" idles sweetly now on a new motor.(with the old motor it...

When braking, the carby drops into idle, the fault then comes from the secondary well, so stalling has to come only from problems in this area. In my case the idle jet was way to small! Its going to take some time to drain this well as the idle jet is so small so float hight or slosh would have...

A home machanic showed me an old can of radiator oil and said that this was used in the "A" days as it also was perfect for the tye of water pump that the "A"s used. After a bit of dicussion we came to the conclution that milliling/cutting oil would be prity much the same. What does cutting...

I agree with Fred, electrical, shuts of like a switch! a faulty coil will do that when hot, cool down and run sweet again, in the days of old a wet rag was used to cool down the coil to you get home

Tom I think my gen is a late 30-31, with the 3rd brush pushed right down when running at night, I have bright tail lights as we live rural, no street lighting or much traffic. Only having one 5watt tail light dos't give conferdace with cars gaining on you at speeds oftern above 100kph (60mph) We...

I'm going to change my original 20-20 ammeter for a cheep chinese 30amp because this is about what the gen puts out at full power. This is needed to run haligen tail lights (x2) and normal headlights. When the lights are not going during the day the poor needle disapairs on the charge side and...