[Fot] Old Cars

[Scott Janzen]

Very cool. Love the disc wheels. I’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 at 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.
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> 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).
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