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I inherited a 30 5 window coup from my father before he passed and drove it for 5 or 6 months with no problem...Then one day on the way home I hit a small pothole and the car shook like a dog s#####ng razor blades...Dad (Was a depression era kid ) and put drywall screws in the windshield hinge...

Re: Where’s Paul Shinn? As an additional point to this response, if the original video Paul posted was factual then why was it taken down? If I made a claim, I would stand behind that claim... The folks at Burtz have been a lot more paitent than I would have waiting 6 plus weeks to get the...

Re: Where’s Paul Shinn? Seriously? You trashed Burtz engines in a video and now want this out of any public forum

Thanks for posting this, I printed off the 9 photos and put them in my 3 ring binder with my Model A stuff Steve

My father gave me his 1930 Model A 5 window coup before he passed from bone cancer...We were all at my parents house and I needed to get out of the house for a bit...I went out to the garage and my granddaughter was with me... Payton was 8 years old and said "Beepa, that car is old, how old is...

Nice craftsmanship and thanks for the idea...Mine has plywood flooring and I have an Incra Router table that would make the sliding dovetail jount a pretty easy task...

I was 17 and right out of high school and started as an apprentice electrician in the family business...Got bored with that after a few years and followed my father in the commercial H.V.A.C. and refrigeration side of the business...I worked with dad from 1974 to the day he retired in 1992...I...

Bob, I thank you for posting this link...I saved it for future reference and learned a lot from your link...My father gave me his 1930 5 window before he passed and I have been working through issues getting ready to pass the car on to my granddaughter...I had some foaming issues at the radiator...

I will be 66 this month and 3 years ago October 13th I was in a head on Harley vs. tractor trailer truck accident...Smashed both wrists, tore a lot of tendons in my right hand and had an open book fractured pelvis, so I feel your pain trying to work in akward positions...Gotta do what works best...

I did work from the underside of the car, it was a lot easier to see the rod, spring spider and clip for me...This was just after rebuilding the 2 tooth steering box and before I installed the engine pans...

I had to squeeze the clip together a bit to get it to stay in place on the rod groove...I used electrial tape to hold the rod lever to one of the webs on the steering wheel and did the assembly under the car with no help or a spring compression tool..

https://www.mafca.com/downloads/Seminars/2018%20Reno%20Electrical%20System%20Alex%20Janke.pdf

Someone posted a great link, the first page was Model A Ford Wiring, Keeping the Current Flowing...I printed it off and realized the first dozen or so pages were the only ones that printed, ran out of ink and have about 50 blank pages...I looked through the first 20 pages here on the Model A...

Mine had 28 miles on the odometer when I got the car from my father 5 years ago...I snapped off a new speedometer cable in less than 300 feet, 5 years ago...Last summer I removed the speedometer, connected about a foot of the inner cable to a low speed drill...The speedometer was bound up...I...

Exactly, ask anyone who has been through a divorce!