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Hi, I started my rebuild of my '57 chassis with DOT5 silicone brake fluid. Had a devil of a time getting all the connections to stop weeping, but finally did. Then, discovered the wheel-cylinders have very slight weeps, some DOT5 in the boots while sitting the past couple years (working on OTHER...

hi guys, Have any of you with Tom Wesenberg EVRs had problems with the charge "cycling" from nothing to full charge and back again? If so, were you able to solve the problem? I had posted earlier about problems with my generator cycling, (is 'all or nothing', no charge for several miles...

hi, I restored my 30 coupe several years ago, completely new wiring, etc. No issues until a recent drive and blew a fuse when turning the headlight switch on. Was counseled likely culprit was the headlight connection at the shell, so I disconnected them and no short (flicking headlight switch...

hi, I have a Tom Wesenberg (oh how I miss my friend!) EVR on my generator, and have put up with the "all or nothing" charging while using it with a diode-type cutout. Finally learned that his EVR needs the original style cutout to work properly, OR a wire needs to be cut on the EVR. I'm...

hi, just installed a new shut-off valve on dad's 29 roadster. Have always used Permatex high-tack on these, and never had one leak (or similar threads). Was disappointed a week later to come up to farm and wipe my fingers over the new valve and have slight weep, just enough to leave trace of...

hi guys, I'm running a stock generator, except with Tom's EVR, and also an Optima battery. I had noticed my horn didn't have any 'oomph" unless I was running, and then only when the EVR decided to 'charge', but thought it was just my horn ground (which WAS extremely high, and has now been...

hi, my stock generator (rebuilt armature and coils) has an EVR which seems to work a little differently with my Optima battery. It is typically 'all or nothing' charging, no or low charge until the EVR senses the voltage is below the cutoff point, then pumps out 20 amps (per repro dash gauge, I...

hi, looking for a good shape radiator for my Dad's '29 roadster. He had a little fender-bender last week, pushed the license plate bolts into the radiator and punctured the tubes, and there are enough bad closed tubes on the inside where a fan damaged it, that I'd like to find a better one for...

hi, Marco showed me a way to replace my aftermarket "boots" for gear-shift and E-brake lever by simply cutting holes in a piece of black rubber matting and fitting around the base of the two levers, as a seal. I went to Menards and Carquest and they looked at me like I was crazy, told me to go...

I have a 6V Optima in my 30 coupe, purchased in December, so "brand new". This week, I added the little switch-plate to my Disconnect Switch with the "OFF/ON" verbage. Simple task, right? Remove the switch-lever, put on the plate, replace the lever... until the switch body drops down out of the...

who makes/sells the best-quality points for the original Model-A setup? I have seen a lot of comments about 'poor quality' and 'get a good quality set of points!", but I don't know what the difference is, how you tell a 'good' set from a 'bad' set, or where to get them. I have a set from...

I have had a Bratton's "B" distributor cam on my 'A, and just purchased a new Snyder's cam to rebuild a spare distributor, so I measured the run-out on them with my dial indicator while it was convenient with the lower-body in the vise. Just for fun, I measured an old original cam I had in the...

how do you test a condenser to see if it is any good? I have a few laying around that I have no idea if they are any good or not. Had a heater manifold on the car years ago, and we were (or so I recall) blowing condensers out, or so we thought. So had several on hand, but not sure which are...

I have an original pop-out switch and cable, and it is impossible to remove the distributor without also removing the cable's hold-down clamp on the engine head stud. If I remove that head-nut to get the distributor off, do I also need to drain (at least partially) the coolant system? Will...

freshly rebuilt ******, all Ford gears, best I could find out of several transmissions (Rev/1st and Reverse idler are NOS even..), excellent shafts, new bearings, etc... When I decelerate, like letting off the gas coming down a hill, I get a brief 'rattle' like the gears are free-wheeling...

I'm 6'6" and my '30 coupe is still a tight fit, even though I cut off an inch from my package tray to compensate for the roll-down rear window I installed. The biggest issue is my right knee interfering with the gear-shift, which makes it tricky to do a quick change from accelerator to brake if...

OK, at the risk of sounding really ignorant, I'll ask this anyway; why is it so important that the timing be so absolutely perfect on a Model-A? I understand the importance OF the timing, but with a Model-A, you are constantly adjusting the spark lever anyway, and I seldom run it fully advanced...

When I was a kid on the farm, Dad had several Model-A engines laying around while he was restoring his '29 roadster. All of them, (as I recall) as well as my '30 coupe engine, had the larger diameter (maybe 2inch?) oil filler tubes. In fact, I didn't know I had the "wrong one" until I...

after recently pulling my engine and having the crank rebuilt (counterweights) and everything re-balanced, etc... I am extremely sensitive to vibration in my car these days. (just got the engine back in and running last weekend; definite improvement, thank goodness!). One thing I noticed this...

Ryan, I sat out on the initial 'congratulations' and hoop-la when you rescued the site a few months ago. I might have been born in Minnesota but I went to engineering school in Missouri, so "show me!" :) I am now convinced; you've done a great job with the face-lift and modernizing of the...