Very cool. Love the disc wheels. Iâ??d like a model t roadster some day.
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> On May 24, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Larry Young via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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> My dad was a Ford guy. He tried to brainwash me on Fords too, but I
> rebelled and got a TR250 rather than a Mustang (good move right?). Anyway, he
> had a 1926 Model T which he got when I was about 8 years old and I inherited
> it when he stopped driving. I naturally gravitated to the performance end of
> the Model T hobby. Most people our age think sports cars and hotrodding
> started after WWII, but the same thing happened when the doughboys came back
> fror WWI. They wanted cars like they had seen in Europe. The Model T was the
> natural platform, since they were so abundant. I call my other one my "Poor
> Man's Bugatti" (see photo). It was built in 1922 on a junked 1914 roadster
> chassis. It was fitted with a mail order boattail body. It has several
> performance upgrades which were available in the period, e.g. full pressure
> oiling, RAJO overhead valve conversion, 2 speed rear axle (also a J-type
> overdrive not available in '22). I plan to build another speedster. I've got
> another speedster body and a Model T motor with a SOC head. There were a lot
> of speed parts available for those cars.
>
> I wouldn't put to much weight on what the manual says for lubrication. Most
> lubricants today are better than anything available then. I run straight 30w
> or 10w-30 in the '26 which is still running with splash oiling. You want the
> oil to be fairly thin to get into the bearings. The Model T manual calls for
> 600w oil in the rearend, but there is some debate about how oils were
> designated back then (before SAE standards). I use the same Sta-lube GL4 90w
> that I use in my Triumph. Penrite makes a heavy steering box lube that I use
> in one car. I don't know how it compares to cornhead grease. I am surprised
> about how slow GM was to adopt more modern technology. Ford went to tapered
> roller wheel bearings around 1920 and pressure oiling about 1932. They got
> away from babbitted bearing in 1936 and started using oil filters about the
> same time. However, it was a bypass system, not full flow oil filtration. It
> is all eventually filtered (after it flow around enough times).
> - Larry Young
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