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Friends on the same trip as us are having lots of tyre trouble, they have the new 21 in radials on,they got three flats so far,apparently the little stickers inside the tyre that were inadvertently left in cause the tubes to fail. Also the tube with "for radial tyres " written on are little...

i posted my last trip,away in my 34 coupe on the v8 side. Myself and Cheryl in our As are off to albany for the nations there so though our trip would be of intrest. we left Mackay on the 27th , after i had driven up to mackay from gladstone(450klm) , with another couple who,s car gave some...

Has anyone used the new 21 inch rims Im about to order some and just wondered how they stack up Lawrie

Is there such a thing as a 3.78 with 10 splines Lawrie

I have been working on my friends 28 A for some months on and off trying to get to the bottom of a stalling problem. The car would run as sweet as on the highway or around town, but when coming to a stop at lights or the like it would falter and most time stall. Car has a B carb, I tied a...

Our dragster came out of hibernation this morning, It had been in the trailer since my wife Carol passed 5 yrs ago, I have passed it onto my son, he drove the last few years it was in constant use. Its getting a freshen up with new paint scheme , tyres and belts etc, engine is good to go...

I leave this morning for the trip down to Victor harbour for the Aus V8 nationals. About a 7500klm round trip in the coupe. Up to Mackay today to pick up my travelling companion, then a day sorting her Model A carb issue. then heading off on mon or Tuesday ,via Roma, Cunammula ,Bourke,Broken...

My 34 3w ,sold new in NZ and obviously made in Canada,has a new body tag riveted onto the firewall, but blank, I would like to maybe put the numbers onto it, I presume it would have the body type ( 720) then a place for the body number. would this be correct and if so how would I find the body...

I have been working on a friends A for some time, finished it the other day,/so decided to remove the generator on the 34 to fit a new front bearings per the last V8 times mag article, the 34 will do a few miles in the next two months so this was a nice clean easy job. So, a thank you to the guy...

I have started to get lots of ads when looking at the forums. any ideas how to fix it. Lawrie

I have been working on a friends model A for a bit, took it for a test drive today , seems all good, but had to shift the 34 out to get the A out, so rather than just drive it back in the shed I took it for a drive , I forgot how nice it is to drive, had two very young girls in the neighbour...

Would any one know why there are three roller bearing in the cluster shaft.2 long and one short, making up the three, I see on my V8s there are only two bearings, one long and one short ,plus a spacer between. I would ask Mitchell ,but Im assembling the transmission tomorrow, and with the time...

would anyone have a close up picture of the very early brake cross shaft bearings on the outer short shafts that are mounted on the chassis via the A-2748 plates, at the centre they are connected to the little dog bone link. the brakes are the real early ones with the park brake on the side...

just a note to things to check on fitting new spindle pins. The ones we are fitting are FPS brand, they came with made in USA on the packet. they are really nice and right on the diameter,BUT , the little slot that allows the grease to feed up to the thrust washer is about 1/4 inch to long at...

Im just doing some work on a friend's model A, it has a Mitchell O/D installed. It has about maybe 30K miles on it, it shifts nice is quite ,and oil is clean. as Im doing some work on the rear end replacing an axle shaft, O thought maybe I should look at the O/Drive. The car will do a couple of...

My 33 developed a mysterious miss, It would run cold fine, but but when it warmed up it would miss fire on pulling from slow speed, it would run fine at speed and accelerate fine on the hiway, but as soon as you slowed down for an intersection or the likes it would miss like mad until it got a...

How do I change my password Thanks Lawrie

I took my Model A to the local car show last night ,a big turnout of all sorts of cars, My A was the oldest, but there was a really nice Mercury ,I spoke to the owner, they had worked in the USA for a few years and bought it back with them.it sure looked very stylish. Lawrie

Having just fixed up the vacum wiper motor on my 34, i,m trying to fit the wiper arm to the shaft and can't work it out. man, its one fiddly little contraption. is anyone is familiar with how you attach it to the wiper shaft. Thanks Lawrie

After refitting the rear end of the 34, I did up the speedo cable nut on the turtle, and promptly broke it, because like a dummy, used a set of slip jaws to tighten it, It was a fairly new cable, so thought I could fix the nut. I turned up a new nut from nylon, the machined a sleave to fit over...