Cross Country Model A Trip Disaster

George has it right on about grinding. And yes that is a lot of load for an A esp anything over 60 mph IMHO. I have been cross country and back several times (in a modern) and there is no shortage of considerable hills and worse along the way. Not sure if they went thru PA but that state is just a pile of mountains someone drew a pencil mark all around and decided to call it a state since they couldn't do anything else with it. I-80 is brutal and I-70 is not much better, and Missouri and a bunch of others are loaded, too. With that kind of load, and stock suspension components, every bump in the road is trying to find that non-existant radius on the grind of the journals....
 
tbirdtbird said:
Not sure if they went thru PA but that state is just a pile of mountains someone drew a pencil mark all around and decided to call it a state since they couldn't do anything else with it. I-80 is brutal and I-70 is not much better
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Thats some funny stuff right there. :p
 
I'm sure they have a new high dollar crank. These guys do the big peking to paris race across siberia and mongolia. They have the best made equ. that is ava. have fun modelAtony tony white Lafayette,LA
 
Might be a good case, to use a Burlington crankshaft over an original. And I don't 'push' our Model A whatsoever.

Has me re-thinking that now for sure.
 
modelAtony said:
I'm sure they have a new high dollar crank. These guys do the big peking to paris race across siberia and mongolia. They have the best made equ. that is ava. have fun modelAtony tony white Lafayette,LA
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Quote from the article- “Because we set off to do this with all original equipment, we didn’t go for a modern crankshaft on the rebuilt engine,” Mr. Wade said.
 
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