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<div> <font size="2">Ah the manual fuel pump!</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Some years back a buddy was trying to figure out how to get both of his race cars to a dirt-track event @ Zephyrhills Fla, not far from Sebring.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">He had a big Indy car w/a GMC 6, and a midget w/V-8 60, real cars, not modern repros.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Both with the handle on the left.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">We fixed that problem real easy, I hauled one over in exchange for seat time in both.</font></div>
<div><font size="2">The big car was a handful but the Midget was almost way too much fun!</font></div>
<div><font size="2">Glen Efinger</font></div>
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From: Bill Dentinger via Fot <fot@autox.team.net><br clear="none">
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Sent: Sun, May 24, 2020 6:40 pm<br clear="none">
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<div>Is that a manual fuel pump mounted outside (driver's left)?
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On Sunday, May 24, 2020, Larry Young via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">My dad was a Ford guy. He tried to brainwash me on Fords too, but I <br clear="none">rebelled and got a TR250 rather than a Mustang (good move right?). <br clear="none">Anyway, he had a 1926 Model T which he got when I was about 8 years old <br clear="none">and I inherited it when he stopped driving. I naturally gravitated to <br clear="none">the performance end of the Model T hobby. Most people our age think <br clear="none">sports cars and hotrodding started after WWII, but the same thing <br clear="none">happened when the doughboys came back fror WWI. They wanted cars like <br clear="none">they had seen in Europe. The Model T was the natural platform, since <br clear="none">they were so abundant. I call my other one my "Poor Man's Bugatti" (see <br clear="none">photo). It was built in 1922 on a junked 1914 roadster chassis. It was <br clear="none">fitted with a mail order boattail body. It has several performance <br clear="none">upgrades which were available in the period, e.g. full pressure oiling, <br clear="none">RAJO overhead valve conversion, 2 speed rear axle (also a J-type <br clear="none">overdrive not available in '22). I plan to build another speedster. I've <br clear="none">got another speedster body and a Model T motor with a SOC head. There <br clear="none">were a lot of speed parts available for those cars.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I wouldn't put to much weight on what the manual says for lubrication. <br clear="none">Most lubricants today are better than anything available then. I run <br clear="none">straight 30w or 10w-30 in the '26 which is still running with splash <br clear="none">oiling. You want the oil to be fairly thin to get into the bearings. The <br clear="none">Model T manual calls for 600w oil in the rearend, but there is some <br clear="none">debate about how oils were designated back then (before SAE standards). <br clear="none">I use the same Sta-lube GL4 90w that I use in my Triumph. Penrite makes <br clear="none">a heavy steering box lube that I use in one car. I don't know how it <br clear="none">compares to cornhead grease. I am surprised about how slow GM was to <br clear="none">adopt more modern technology. Ford went to tapered roller wheel bearings <br clear="none">around 1920 and pressure oiling about 1932. They got away from babbitted <br clear="none">bearing in 1936 and started using oil filters about the same time. <br clear="none">However, it was a bypass system, not full flow oil filtration. It is all <br clear="none">eventually filtered (after it flow around enough times).<br clear="none"> - Larry Young
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