Recent content by MikeMort

Just finished filing off the surface on my original water pump housing in order to install the repro aluminium fan. I put a spring washer under the nut - is this OK?

My 1930 Tudor has brass fittings on the front spring perches.

Have spent the past few days lying on my back as I wanted to see if I could find the reason for that knocking sound in my engine bottom half that is by now loud enough to be commented by wife, daughter and the family dog. However, having torn the car half apart already in order to get to the...

Spent the sunny afternoon today lying underneath my 1930 Tudor, listening to a fast knocking sound coming from my oil pan. Sounds is as if you put a nut into a metal can and shake it, or like a defective ball bearing would (except there is not supposed to be any ball bearings in there, of...

Removing undercoating is one dirty job. Heat the undercoating with some sort of flame, as you do so it softens and can be scraped of with some sort of scraper or a dull chisel. You may want to do this outside in open air due to the smell.

Hi, Body is off the frame on the 1930 Tudor that I am restoring, and I notice that the door in passenger side is not closing as it should. The top of the door above the window makes nice contact with the body,but at the bottom there is a gap of about an inch. Door is not sagging as the door...

Hi, I will be spending some time trying to repair the rusty parts on the body of the 1930 Tudor that I am restoring. Welding gear etc. has been brought home for the job. Now, One of the problems I am facing is the lower cowl parts. Now, I have invested in some replacement panels which have the...

Hi, I just took a look at the spare engine that is sitting in the corner of my garage and which has not been running for the past fourty years or more, and discovered a nice set of spark plugs, of the type that can be taken apart. Before long I found myself busy cleaning them up and started...

Could anybody direct me to a good picture or drawing of the correct spring for my car ? (1930 Tudor). Top spring bar on my spring is just short enough to fit between the two U-bolts, is this correct? thanks

yes, I drew the u-bolts down into the top of the frame. Bolt centered nicely in hole, head of bolt up through hole. I had completely forgotten about the different types of rear spring, which might be the core of the problem (I do not remember now if it had cotter pins when I took it apart. I am...

Hi, Spent the day struggling to install my newly assembled rear spring on my freshly panted frame. installed the lower spring leaf to the axles, and then proceeded to assemble the spring layer by layer, time consuming yes but it had to be done this way as I do not own a spring spreader...

Talking about radiators, I would like to ask if there is any good advice that I need to know about filling a radiator. I just pour water\coolant innto it until it is about an inch from the top of the overflow tube, but will the engine have to be running when I fill the radiator? thanks

Hi, my 1930 Tudor has the original, non-adjustable tappets. This seems to me to be a somewhat bizarre design as I would think that valves will have to be adjustable. I was told by somebody to file the ends of each valve in order to achieve the correct clearance between valve and tappet, is this...

This may be too far out for any expienced Model A owner, but here it comes: would it be possible that the end of a conrod can actually hit the splash pan? Thanks all of you for your help,

I dismantled the engine down to its smallest bits, until I held the cranckshaft in my hands, gave it new piston rings and valves. Of course I took great care to arrange shims on rods and main bearings in the order that I found them. Runs good, I have done about one thousand miles and almost no...