Recent content by Old car Joe

Hey everybody just want to give a shout out to Charlie Schwendler for all his help with my dizzy issues I had a Mallory electronic dizzy on a new build 8ba ran great on the dyno brought it home dropped it in the rpu and it never ran right again Burt up the pickup in dizzy on first one replaced...

Thanks for that

That’s kinda what I was thinking Thanks

Thanks i pulled the head because I thought some valves were sticking I found 2 and freed them up and hand cranked motor over a few days to make sure they stayed free. Good fuel flow from tank I thought maybe the needle valve may need adjusting to slow fuel flow to intake it ran for a minute or...

No only the head to unstick a couple of valves

Hey everyone need some starting help got the 27s head back on got the firing order straightened out now she turns good she will start and run if i pull plugs and put gas in each cylinder then dies when gas is gone does not seem to be drafting from the carb also after she cranked and ran a bunch...

Guess it will be a long wait Thanks

hey guys looking for a head gasket for the 27 4 banger all the places i have tried have them on backorder any help would be great thanks in advance

Sorry didn’t see last post on fb will try that Thanks

Yes I read the replies on fb was looking for other opinions. Would like to return it to stock at some point but want to get it running to see if their are any other problems before sinking a ton of money into it

Replaced with a dizzy

Hey everyone first thanks for the add second I am new to the ford model t I have a 27 I saved form being junked has not run since early 80s I pulled the head a freed all the valves My question is when number 1 cylinder is at tdc should the rotor point to the number one cyl like a small block...