My hand-me-down
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Tom Wesenberg
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Looks like a nice ride.
Are you going to leave it as is, and just lube all the moving parts and drive it?
On the tailgate hooks, it's best to come up fron the bottom and flip the hook 180* so there's no chance of the hook bouncing out of the hole.
Are you going to leave it as is, and just lube all the moving parts and drive it?
On the tailgate hooks, it's best to come up fron the bottom and flip the hook 180* so there's no chance of the hook bouncing out of the hole.
robw
Senior Member
Looks like a nice ride.
Are you going to leave it as is, and just lube all the moving parts and drive it?
On the tailgate hooks, it's best to come up fron the bottom and flip the hook 180* so there's no chance of the hook bouncing out of the hole.
Oops, you are right, missed that hook deal.
Yes, at least for the near term, all I plan to do is keep it drivable. I'll probably crawl under it and clean up the gunk a bit to get a better idea of how bad the leaks are.
Right now there is nothing holding the seats in, so I should figure that out.
Steering is real loose so I need to look into that too.
Rob
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inex01
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Your fuel filter is way to low, move up as much as possible, and the filter that has the least amount of restriction is a standard lawn mower filter, as far as rust what may help temporary is stick a couple of heavy duty magnets under the tank at the lowest level and it will collect floating rust.
robw
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I had it up higher and it would only partially fill. When I moved it down low it filled more completely... why is having it low a problem?
rob
montanafordman
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Looks nice! It looks like you have an original two blade fan - I would suggest swapping it out for a new cast aluminum fan so you don't have a fan shaped hole in your nice hood and or radiator or head! 
search the threads and you'll find a lot of discussion on this. Have fun Model A'ing!
search the threads and you'll find a lot of discussion on this. Have fun Model A'ing!
Forker
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Very nice and very lucky...my dad was only able to pass along his fond memories of his Model A, but it was those memories that stayed with me over the years and why I ended up buying my first Model A just recently. I know he's smiling down on me with my 'new' Model A. Upon hearing about my Model A purchase a family member dug up an old photo of my dad's actual Model A from back in the day (see below):
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ora masters
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robw order a shut off filter frpm snyder/s 1 888 262 5712 take shut off valve out of tank filter fits in top of shut off valve then get rid of lower filter no more rust problem i have 6 model A with filters in all
inex01
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In the picture your line is lower that the carb fuel inlet and should be as direct as possible, try a lawn mower filter and install as close to the tank shut off as possible.
robw
Senior Member
Thanks, I have one of those, still a lot of gunk getting through, so this is a temporary solution till I run a couple of tanks of gas through the system.
robw
Senior Member
I understand what you are saying, but I'm not sure what the problem is with the filter slightly below the carb.
The filter and the carb are both well below the tank. The fuel flows through the filter to the carb easy enough, even when the tank has less than a gallon of fuel. When I had this particular filter up high on the line air would be trapped in there and limit the amount of fuel passing through the filter.... especially when the tank was very low on fuel.
I could go with the smaller filter, no problem there... I'm just curious why having a filter at the lowest point in the fuel system is a bad idea.
rob
Tom Wesenberg
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I don't think the position of the filter in the line really matters. The net flow and pressure at teh carb should remain the same.
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