Recent content by rustyfords

Gotta go to work and make the money needed to feed this damn Model T addiction :cool:

Going to see it on Saturday

It should work. There's two kinds, one is for oil-based paints, one isn't. You want the one for oil-based paints. I use a clean shop rag and rub in a small amount, and then immediately wipe it all of....dry. This gives you a dull shine with no wetness or oily residue.....and the stuff doesn't...

I just had The Coil Doctor rebuild a set of coils and set them using the ECCT. My car most likely won't be put back together and running for a few weeks. But when it is, I'll report on how it runs. And, for what it's worth, I'll be running a new Anderson Timer, Plugs, Plug Wires and...

A photo of John Mays' 14 cut-off Touring (that I referenced in the second post on this thread)....and my '54 Ford Mainline.

Thanks Jeff....more to come!

This weekend's project is to clean up, paint and make any needed repairs to the hogshead. It's absolutely filthy and has some worn out notches. I have the replacements on hand as well as an external oiling kit from Texas T Parts.

Miss Daisy came with only the upper windshield glass...and it was an original piece of plate glass. While that's kind of neat that a piece of plate glass has survived this long, it's a big no-no for a car that'll actually be driven. My great-grandfather died while driving a Model A. He had a...

The head that came with this car had a hairline crack in the water outlet area (in the first photo below it's roughly where the old wrench is laying). When the radiator was filled up, water would very slowly weep through the crack. I think in the future at some point, I may want to run a...

The bands were in pretty bad shape. One of them had come loose and was catching on the drum...making the engine hard to turn in places. Once they were removed, the engine turned freely. Here's a short video of the transmission spinning with the hogshead and bands removed...

Pulled the hogshead and found the following: - Lone Star Beer box (circa 1940's) used as the hogshead gasket. - cotton work shirt used as the gasket at the front of the hogshead - actual cotton from the field jammed into the transmission mounts. All farm items...maintaining the car with...

Thanks for the compliments...I'm having a blast with this simple little car. I quickly shut down the engine after it ran briefly to conduct my "Stage 1" assessment as I describe above. Miss Daisy was leaking oil out of every conceivable surface around the hogshead so I figured the gasket was...

Like I mentioned above....I think the paint on this car is original. Based on the license plate and registration, the car was put in the barn in 1969, and the paint is pretty worn...so if this is a repaint, it would've had to have been done many years before 1969 and the car would've...

The goal for this car is to keep the farm look about it. There's no fake patina here. From the fender brace, to the worn (but most likely original) paint, this is genuine Texas farm life on display and other than cleaning it up, adding missing pieces and installing an interior and glass, this...

Next I wanted to see if it would run...if only for a few seconds. I pulled the carburetor off and rebuilt it, messed with the timer a little bit, jacked up one of the rear wheels and viola! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGc5bVJTqJo&t=1s After it fired up, I quickly shut it down and started...