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The rear Hoodaille shocks on my town sedan are leaking from the needle valve. The string packing is not much help. Some Fordbarn threads suggested using Teflon for packing the valve but the only Teflon packing I can find is 3/32 dia., and much too thick. Any suggestions to make the Teflon work...

Driving my 30 Town Sedan, stock engine, carb and ignition, on a 130 mile club tour today over some hilly terrain. Reaching the top of a long climb the engine started to stumble, felt like the ignition was shorting out. On the down hill and level motor ran fine for a while but condition got...

Driving the 30 Town Sedan to the Belltown Motorcar Meet and suddenly I was coasting. Thought the car had slipped into neutral but would not engage any gear. After the tow home I opened the inspection plate and found the clutch disc demolished with the springs at the bottom of the bell housing...

I'm tracking this tapping sound that starts after the engine runs for about 10 minutes. Checking with stethoscope sound is most noticeable near right side of timing cover.Loud tap on every other crank revolution.I suspect exhaust valve #1 or #2 but I would expect noise to diminish as the valve...

Trying to track down a thumping noise on this motor accelerating under load. Motor was rebuilt 2 years ago and driven 2000 miles.Pulled the pan and made some measurements Reground Crank .020 Rebored with new pistons .060 Re-babbited mains .0015-.002 new babbit rods .002 Crank end play .009...

Recurring issue with connections between field coils on a 5 brush powerhouse. The copper wire broke twice in the past but I was able to pigtail a repair. This time a wire broke again but I noticed that there was some movement in one of the field coils,flexing the wire. Even though the screws...

Looking for a female dovetail for Murray Town Sedan. This part screws in the center door post. Repro dovetails will fit Briggs but not the Murray bodies. Any restorable condition is ok. kenkostek@verizon.net

My 5 brush powerhouse would only put out voltage at around 600 engine rpm. Any faster and voltage drops to 0. Checked all connections, brushes,, spring pressure and commutator , all ok. I connected a jumper across each of the 6 field coils one at a time. When 1 coil was shunted voltage came up...

Looking to replace the brush springs in a 5 brush powerhouse generator. Does anyone have a source?

Been running my 5 brush powerhouse for 12 years with no problems. Recently on a tour my ammeter was spiking erratically and showing no charge for most of the 60 miles. Put a tach on the engine and voltmeter on the generator. At 600-700 rpm generator put out 6.8 volts at 5 amps. Raising the rpm...

Been running my 5 brush powerhouse for 12 years with no problems . years. Recently on a tour my ammeter was spiking erratically and showing no charge for most of the ride. Put a tach on the engine and voltmeter on the generator. At about 600-700 rpm the generator put out 6.8 volts and the...