Recent content by Roger K

The low band will wear really fast if you have a cotton or wood band and the low speed adjustment is so loose it won't lock the drum. If you have kevlar the risk the drum will heat up until it cracks increases even more when slipping the band, but if you're lucky tightening the band is enough...

In fact the Vedette was originally designed in Detroit as a new US Ford for '48 or '49, but as the economy turned out to be much better than feared after WW2, demand for a larger car was anticipated & the smaller Ford design was given to Ford France. A new larger sized Ford was drewn for the US...

Canadian production went to the slant windshield one man tops for the 1920 model year, so it could be a '20 but not '19. There was a problem with fitting the generator on the RHD cars, so a few canadian cars in '19 and perhaps '20 (?) got a belt drive generator fitted on the LH side. Soon a new...

If you have access to a friends closed trailer, that's the best option - but if you ever have to use an open, don't try to tarp the car. You may tie it as tight as you can, the tarp will still flap until the paint is ruined. Use plastic shrink wrap instead - will save your top in high speeds...

They had been producing 1926 T's & TT's for several months when they started to punch the engine # in the frame mid december 1925, so if you have an early '26 maybe it didn't have any from start (if you like your car to match the title w/o the original engine available - number punches aren't...

Here's his travel report at another forum - should be able to view without being signed in: http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/257047/306760.html?1345526908

There's one thing not mentioned yet that commonly creates problem in the area - there should be a gasket between the fourth main and hogshead/pan but not between the fourth main and the ball cap. An extra gasket would add play and increase leaks. If the ball on the drive shaft is very worn...

I wonder why Ford would stop sending supplies to Argentina in 1939 since the US wasn't involved in WW2 until december 1941? US car production was stopped in early 1942, then perhaps they had a reason to end shipping to Argentina. Oil supplies may have been low to Argentina during the war? If...

I need the coupler parts for a Jumbo Giant auxillary trans for the Model T. It's a milled disc looking like a high tension magneto drive part but larger plus a part fitting in the T trans output shaft looking like it can be made from a half U-joint? If noone has any extra for sale, I'm...

Did you change your email connected to this forum? I'm interested & sent a PM about the top irons. Any pictures?

Hi, I bought this part at Ebay labeled as a Model T magneto drive and didn't look close enough on the pictures - now it's plain to see it wouldn't fit the "T" timing cover, and when I got it I found it didn't fit the T block :( Pictures of the part attached. Now someone suggested it might be...

Hi, I need a '28/'29 Model A hood. It may have surface rust and can be in parts, but not too badly dented, thanks :) Roger Karlsson Olofstrom, Sweden

There is a difference there between T's = the earlier ones where that spec may apply, and the later ones with baloon tires, approx. '25-'27, where the caster is reduced. The difference lies in the spindles. You'll have to modify the spindles or the axle to change that, but don't.. More...

The model T, when it came in late 1908 was the first car that had a removeable head (!) Nobody knew where deck height should be, so 'ol Henry let the pistons go .375 above the deck plane, so the edge of the original wide piston rings goes all the way up - thus no ring ridge on T engines -...

Do you have the front seat back panel?