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Sorry I can’t find the original thread on this topic. Yesterday we finally got the A started and took it for a brief drive! As you may recall we took the gas tank out and had it cleaned. We started this process in March. There were many obstacles this year, but we tried starting it a couple...

Back in the spring we took the tank out of our ‘28 to clean it. At the time the only way we could get the ignition cable out was to remove it from the distributor and the only way I could see to do that was to remove said distributor from the engine. Please don’t tell me there was a simpler way...

My car seems to have many issues and I keep plugging away at it. Always working on it more than driving it, but I suppose that’s ‘T Life’. One thing I need to check on is the coils. I bought rebuilt ones 4 years ago and have put less than 20 miles on them. Surely they are still in good shape...

Is there a wiring diagram for the Terminal Box? I had to take mine apart a few months ago and now I’m trying to recall how it goes together. Fortunately the wires have their ‘memory’ and that will help, but just wanted to be sure. How do I keep the wires tight and connected? I assume the nuts on...

I had posted earlier that I have gunk in my gas tank. I'm trying to decided if I want to remove the tank and have it professionally cleaned or try to clean it out on the car. I was thinking that maybe I could remove the sediment bowl screen and put a clear plastic filter in temporary to catch...

For over a year now I've had a LOT of grief with my '28 Sport Coupe! I haven't been able to drive it more than a couple miles since August of last year. It's a fuel issue. I'm sure of that as I can remove the line between the carb & the sediment bowl and turn the valve on and nothing happens...

When I bought my '28 Sport Coupe, I was 'gifted' with the original glass. There is safety glass in the car now. Is there any point to keeping the original other than it's a good pattern? Really getting tired of moving it around and storing it. I'm already overwhelmed with the original flywheel...

My '28 Sport Coupe has a problem and at the end of the month we're moving 15 miles away to a new place and I don't want to have to trailer it if I can help it. The car will start decent and idle, although not sewing machine smooth. It will go through the gears and do fine for a couple miles and...

If you remember in one of my other posts from a couple weeks ago I've had trouble with this '28 running well, or even running (backfiring) recently. We took it out yesterday for a couple miles in 78 degree weather. The two miles was about all it wanted. It started losing power and surging. There...

Last night I finally changed the stock fan (looked fine) to the two blade aluminum one. I had been putting it off and hadn't driven the car since last August. I just haven't felt like doing anything. Things at work might have me depressed. I told myself that I'll do this for my wife and it did...

I'm trying to get a clear answer on this, but asking on the Facebook groups isn't a great place to get info. I've tried and was actually laughed at! I have a '28 Sport Coupe and it has a 2 blade fan. I'm seeing 4 blade and two blade online and I'm wanting to know....which one is correct for my...

I bought this '28 3 years ago and it was restored back in 2005. I have some homework to do, but I'm chasing some backfiring out of the exhaust and occasional intermittent rough running. It also acted like it was fuel starved the last time it was out. I've done the research and read the different...

I was watching a video on Youtube from TFL Classics the other day. They have an 'A' and a 'T'. The owner was was telling the mechanic that the Model A had no engine gaskets and that's why they leaked so much. Has anyone heard of this theory? My '28 leaks some, but it has gaskets. They'd have to...

We took our '28 Sport Coupe to the Model A Day in the Amanas this weekend. It's 82 miles one way. It did really good going there. I did notice what I thought was wind gusts blowing us around or maybe just pushing the wind since the car isn't very aerodynamic. Does anyone else feel the wind when...

I'm going through everything on this car and giving it a complete tune-up. This is a '28 Sport Coupe. I've had it for three years and I'm wondering....how often should it be necessary to check the timing? I know I haven't done it since I've owned it and I don't know when the previous owner did...

I've had this before and I know I read something about it somewhere, but can't recall. On my '28 spark plug #1 was so badly fouled last night that the gap was nearly closed with carbon! I seem to recall that this is an issue with the front cylinder. True? Anyone else have this? All the others...

A few weeks ago we replaced the gas valve in our '28 Sport Coupe because it kept letting fuel past and draining on the floor at night. When we did so we didn't have on hand one of those pencil filters to put in the tank. We bought one and will put it on. In the mean time the car has started to...

Looks like I might be getting some new tires for my '28 Sport Coupe. Is there a good brand, or rather, one to avoid? I want blackwall. Plain tread. I'm thinking about picking some up at Birdhaven in Colfax since it's a 45 minute drive and I could avoid shipping costs.

I know I've had this problem before and fixed it, but can't remember how. It seems like it was a simple carb adjustment. Anyone know?

For some time now I've had the 'Death Wobble' when driving my '28 Sport Coupe. I have noticed that when parked, and someone turns the steering wheel left to right some, that the front axle moves. I would imagine that's not correct? (I know it's not) How much of that could come from a worn Radius...