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I will have to take out the front window, as the frame is rusted. I am a little insecure how to.... ( I tried "search" but didnt find) Opening front window to the max, shows 6 screws in the top ... they might hold the hinge, but once i unscrew they loosen (some hidden nuts ?), but wont come...

Engine of my 29 is in the car for about 50`000 mls and as far as i remember the clutch is about same age. Last weekend i had a clutch failure while driving and managed to drive home 30mls without use of clutch (without any Stop) Investigation clarified, that one of the springs left its...

Hi all. We love to travel with our "A" Last year we went to Slowenia, two year ago we went to Italy (Rom) (all german-blog with tons of pics (www.motor-talk.de/blogs/christoph2605) This year we couldnt manage to go distance. As so we decided to do a test on "camping" and bought a QEK-Junior...

Engine Tear-down and Babbitt-prob. I lately opened the engine, which was in my car when I first bought it . Engine still was running, but I took it off the car (years ago) as it was slow, tired and powerless . Engine was stored in my garage ever since and now I managed to tear...

I thought this might be a Model T, but i am not too sure... Would you help please? Thank you

Sorry did a search, but couldnt find... even i think i read something ... years ago.... Once i switch on ignition, the amp-meter goes minus So far, so normal. Bad is, that it detects way more negative Amps , than it used to ... Once i start the engine, everything seems to be ok. What might...

Good evening. Threat on the u-bolts to hold rear-spring are gone. To put in new u-bolts, do i have to lift the body? Or any trick, how to get the u-bolt off the member? Thank you in advance.

If this is way to much "off topic", please delete ! On the other hand side you might like such adventures... It is, that 77year old Heidi Hetzer is going arround this planet on her 1930 Hudson (called Hudo) She tries to follow the tracks of Clärenore Stinnes who did similar in 1927 actual...

14 bolts hold the Head on the engine. How deep are the 14 holes in the block (and how deep is the 7/16-14 thread)? Additional : Did you ever drill any deeper?? Thank you very much Best regards Christoph The head is still on the engine, but i know that a heli-coil (bolt8, which holds...

Good Morning. My A sadly had some bubbeling water (once hot) as well as little smoke out of bubbeling Water (not to be seen in the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47P5tPXwS84 As so, i took out the head to do a new gasket. 4 days of hard work (even lifting whole car with the engine...

I have 2 modern type distributors. One does great and one is eating condensers. Just put in a new condenser into the "bad" distributor and found, that it does much more fire, than the "good" distributor. Tried 5 different condensers and all stays same. More "fire" on the points of the...

Got myself a new Front Leaf Spring and it says "Show Quality" Its assembled and with center spring bolt and bronze shackle bushings. So far, so good. But - This is raw steel. :eek: Now how should i treat it prior to mounting it into the car? Demount the center spring bolt again and paint...

12 month ago, i installed a new-type-distributor (with some grease) into my new engine . Due to some reason, i took it out in between (10 Month ago) and it looked good back than. I put (3 times) oil into the oil-fitting since than. Friday i heard some strange noises while driving and back...

Lately, i am trying to do some pre-season-adjustments... As i cant resist to have a look for the valves and the lifters, i try to take off the side-cover. Never did that on this engine... I am pretty sure that i will have to screw off this nut and im pretty sure that this has to be leak-free...

A friend wants to buy a Fourdoor 155. He is in fear that there is lots of wood in this car which might be rotten. 1. Is there a pic showing the amount of body-wood? Mike v. Florida did post a pic of a 160. http://www.fordwood.com/images/fordor31slant160new.jpg Is there such a pic for the 155...

Beautiful Bertha called and we followed. http://bertha-benz-fahrt.de (Friday 9th till Sunday 11th of August) Vehicles where invited up till 1930 Our 1929 Tudor Sedan appeared to be one of the new cars around. (Actually they didnt send cars away to be built prior to 1940) On Friday...

Celebrating the woman at the wheel ? I will for for sure :rolleyes: Beautiful Bertha went to grandma in August 1888. Actually she took the vehicle of her husband Carl while he took a nap. :eek: Would not have been a good idea to ask him…. Science back than knew, that the brain of a...

Een neus voor mooie pl“A“tjes . A-Ford-Club-Nederland (http://www.a-ford.nl) choosed the pic of our Tudor in front of sunset in Frankfurt for the Cover of their freshest official jounal which is : “A-Ford-Journaal”, “Een neus voor mooie plaatjes” means “A nose for pretty...

Well its that time of year again and we had to be back for "Boxberg-Klassik". Still having troubles in April, the new U-joint and new driveshaftbearing are doing well. Engine runs strong so we started on friday towards Bad-Mergentheim. 160km easy cruising. Nice come-together on Friday evening...

As you all know, i did some smaller adjustments :cool: till yesterday evening....