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They are filled with hydraulic oil at assembly.

Sounds like you've already learned a lot about 32 Fords (actually all the early v8's are similar anyway). The closer you can get this car to original the better, but 32 parts are not easy to find or cheap. A Frankenstein car could still be a fun project and you don't have to feel bad about...

Henry Ford would smile and say "The safety of steel, from pedal to wheel".

This sort of reminds me of the movie "Airplane" with the red-zone, green-zone stuff.

Backing up a hill puts the motor (carburetor) lower than the gas tank. I think the tank was under the seat, when the level was low it barely ran into the carb. Plenty of positive ground cars and tractors have had a battery hooked up backwards. The amp gauge reading wrong is a clue that that's...

It looks like Grandpa put those new-fangeled sealed beam headlights from a 40 on it. He'd probably say "leave em on there - they work better!"

At least with the cast iron heads, you are bolting two pieces of cast iron together with a gasket in between them. How could it matter which way the gasket goes? Gravity can't be an issue, what else could there be? A leak is going to be the same problem in either direction. Aluminum heads would...

As far a a grease fitting sealing because of a taper, the 1/4-28 fitting are tapered, even though the threaded hole is not. If you look close at a 14/-28 grease fitting you can see the slight taper. They are supposed to tighten at the last thread and seal, at least seal enough so that grease...

They might be Tacoma Cream, sort of a light yellow.

But if the dwell is somewhere around 30 degrees, then the overlap is most of the time. I think that's right anyway. I'm too old to think hard anyway. It's snowing real bad here in Wisconsin, I'd rather be in Tenn.

At least for a part of the time that the coil has current flowing through it, both points are closed. During that time both would have to "bounce" open in order to break the circuit. During the time both sets are closed, I guess you could say the chance of point bounce is cut in half, not...

If you put tire chains on our old Fords they go darn good in the snow, but I don't do that anymore either. Florida looks good to me!

Well, I can't see the state of Michigan, but I can see Lake Michigan real easy. It's too big to miss. No one is parking a nice old Ford along the shore now though.

Gee, that looks just like the sun rising over Lake Michigan here in Wisconsin. Where are your icebergs?

I read that article too, 10,000 on a flathead? Maybe that tach was reading wrong.

It would make a great name for a convenience store.

The barn down by the road is the "Toy Barn". Vendors with model cars, etc set up in there. For many years the local Lions Club sold fried chicken (lots of it!). I think that's not being done anymore. Things change.

Pete, I have seen many vintage racers at Road America with mechanical brakes. Bugatti for one, old '30s indy cars, etc. At speed? Well they aren't as fast as a modern race car for sure.

How could hydraulic brakes multiply the force? The power comes from your leg pushing on the pedal, the result is the shoes pressing on the drums. If no other power source is used, how could there be any multiplication? There is no such thing as free energy. Extra leverage can increase the...

It seems like that brake rotor would get really hot, like red hot. Maybe you could run a water jacket around it and make coffee.