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The local car museum, Gippsland Vehicle Collection, holds a coffee and cars get together once a month. After the latest get together, I dropped in to look at the latest display. The display changes every four months with different themes. This one was local legends. Fordbarn is not normally...

Yesterday, moving some spare valance panels, I believe USA calls them splash aprons, I noticed production assembly marks on the underside of one. This is from my dads first model A, a 1929 Australian made tourer. These have never been restored, just dis-assembled in the late 1960's. One is...

Are attendance numbers at USA national meets increasing, remaining sort of constant, or declining?

This explains why I had a tight spot after assembling the diff in my roadster. It was the only thig I didn't measure before assembly. Now to go through my collection of spares to get one that runs true. I don't know how something could get this far out of true. There are assembly marks from...

I am restoring the rear end of my roadster. When I removed the rear end, I found the top leaf was cracked and missing about 50mm of one end. No problem, I'll get another from the leaf collection, or so I thought. Putting both side by side, the roadster leaf is longer than the others I have. They...

Quick question, when was the first slant windshield town sedan produced?

Recently lost a fuel cap on dads A. Silly me put it on the running board, went in to pay, came out, got in, started, drove off. It's somewhere on the Mornington Peninsula. So, I buy one from an online auction site, win. Yay me. It arrives, I unpack it, and then look perplexed as there are no...

Going through my collection of parts to get my roadster done, I have three different type of hand brake backing plates. I have been through the JS, and came up with nothing about them. Which ones were used when, and when were each changed. I may have more different styles, but these were the...

Last weekend, coming home from Melbourne on a club IMAD run, as I slowed down from 80 Km/h (50 Mph), to 50 Km/h (30 Mph), my engine started to make a loud thump noise. I nursed the car home, and thought it was a rod big end bearing. I was wrong, it was the rear main. I don't know if the goldish...

Drove my A today to the MAFCV, Model A Ford Club of Victoria, IMAD outing, 206Km one way. The old Tudor did well on the way there. On the way home, it did 180 Km well, After that, not so good. Sounds like a rod bearing has seen its last Km. Nursed it home, and tomorrow, start pulling it down to...

How easy is it to straighten/re-align the bell of the axle housing. Whilst mounting one of my housings in my lathe, as I rotated the housing to check for rotation clearance, I noticed a.070" difference on the mount face between top and bottom. The housing is mounted with both the inner bearing...

I have slowly been rebuilding the diff for my 29 roadster. Did a clearance check between the crown wheel and the housing. The was some light rubbing, so it was a few hours with marking out dye and a fine flap disc to get the necessary clearance. Finished the day by setting the centre housing to...

Which style of bolt was used first to hold the diff carrier together. The D head, or the rectangle head?

Is there a difference between the crown wheel and spider carriers of 9-34 and 10-37 gear sets. I have just disassembled my Roadster diff, which had 9-34 gears fitted, but also had .062" side to side movement clearance between the crown wheel and pinion. The speedo drive has 10-37 on the housing...

Today, the local car museum had a run for vintage cars. When we arrived at the Swing Bridge, The Victorian T club were occupying the car park. So, whilst the other museum club members parked else where, I decided to park my modern A with the old cars, T's. A bit cheeky, but fun, and T drivers...

On page 4-10 of the JS, the early version of the housings have a weld seam along the middle of the housing. It does not state if they are sided, ie if the weld is on the front or rear depending on the side. I mean were the welds on the front of both sides or would the weld be on the front of one...

Question, when did the alignment pins on the crank handle support change from offset to equal distance from the centre. I have five offsets, and five equal distance pin supports. All are 29-29 as they are flat across the top where the spring clamps go.

A few years ago, I mentioned in a post about a service part replacement for the outer splines of a multi plate clutch, where the old splines were machined off and a new spline hub bolted on. I was asked for photos. Well, I finally got around to digging out the flywheel and took some photos.

Who here has the round clutch and brake pedals that are smooth, and I don't mean worn smooth, but smooth from new. Are they from late month multi plate clutch, early single plate clutch, or later single plate clutch. I have one set of smooth rounds, amongst many sets of ribbed rounds, and I am...

Finally got to look at the axle of the Roadster my dad bought a while ago. We were busy with his tourer(phaeton), and now it's finished, we are paying some attention to the next project. I'm glad I have five good axles that I reconditioned a while ago. I now get to use one. I don't think the...