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If you follow my line of thinking, you'd think that dashes cut to fit a CD player look wrong. Noticed you guys seem open minded to mods yet look factory kind of deal so... I've never had a factory radio, i guess you can fill the space they went with an original looking radio face? Or just a...

I know lots of you (including myself) like the simplicity of the original system. So i'd design something that was about 5 minutes work to swap back to how the model A should be. While tinkering with electronic ignition i found i can make a very simple system for the model A with...

If you've ever seen those "high voltage generators" on ebay that people make light tube and shocking prank doorknobs with and wondered "Can I use those for model T ignition?" Yes, you can. At first i tried having the coils ground through the normal roller timer. Then i tried this method. If...

I am told the cast front hub-with-drum with ribs on the edge is from 1934-1935. If this is true, are these available anywhere? If not, do 1940 hubs bolt onto original spindles without any modifications or special bearings? Bearings seem hard enough to get out here as it is. All the places i...

So I heard you think i'm dumb or something.... Oh ok. Freshest scrap metal & broken 1990s TV parts the region had to offer. Electronic ignition might be pointless but seems like a fun hobby. It fits in the same place as the original timer. And i can plug a laptop into it to give it a...

Do you think after market gauges distract from the simplicity of the model T? Do you think modern gauges on old cars look out of place? Maybe this voice module is for you. It works on 5 - 12 volts so a 6 volt model T is perfect for it, aside from having to build a voltage spike catcher...

So.... for the 28-29 radiator, or for 30-31's for that matter. Are there any cores from more modern radiators that can be interchanged with a tank swap?

Having read through the previous threads from the last 4 years on those alloy radiators from china i see they often don't fit well, and the filler is in the wrong place. The car I was intending to fit it to doesn't really warrant a Bergs or brassworks one, and the hose fittings would need to be...

A half inch too long and tiny bores.

So i heard some of you don't believe me when I say that an axle doesn't have to be picture perfect in order to function perfectly. Watch. So some rods with sliding cones seem like a good idea for checking the straightness of the holes in the axle, right? Those holes are the ones that...

Hmm.. So old people complain that nobody wants original cars, yet they hoard all the parts to stop people restoring them. So i end up having to go to stupid lengths to mend stuff you guys would laugh at. Here, have a laugh at this. Had to put valve grinding paste in it to bed it in because it...

Early '28

Vinyl wrap does work. But that well, but if you don't habitually drive at night, this measure should suffice for another year or so of driving. (Clicking the picture should bring up the video)

So i see cars for sale online and in real life, in worse shape than mine (My car still has paint! and my panels are made from metal, not bondo) and they want twice what some skinflinty mc'scrooge would ever offer me? And their engines sound like a cement mixer. At least mine runs properly &...

Contrary to popular opinion in the internet, coils can be made to function well enough to function at home with tools you might have, or borrow from neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcyDmgFppGI Link to a video of a human being actually mending old coils and showing how a collection of...

What gives? http://www.snydersantiqueauto.com/point-block This was integral on a points plate i had. New ones appear to be fitted later. Oh.. and the new ones appear to have the points in a different orientation, so the rotor will be a some degrees different.

Stripped the nuts thread while torquing the hubs on. What size is the nut and threads? Will model A ones fit? I have a feeling they are different sizes.

So i notice many people within the USA buy T parts at one of several large swapmeets. Outside the USA parts can be scarce so i will post some pictures of how people do things. Feel free to post pictures of parts you have made for your own cars and include descriptions if the method of...

In the era of the model T there were cars with replaceable babbitt bearing inserts, much like the replaceable bearing shells used today. What would prevent a model T block being lightly machined (just enough boring to clean up the bearing area?) and make replaceable bearing inserts of babbitt a...

While reading on the subject of pouring babbitt bearings i noticed that there was no reference to the ballcap, the '4th main'. While it was told of the importance of peining the hot metal into the block, there was no explanation of how it was done, at least not a visual one. So how would a 4th...