Gave the A a bit of a wash and brush up after the indignity of the recovery truck a few weeks back.
Wash and dry, Zymol Wax Prep, Meguiars Wax and Autoglym Fast Glass
Shiny, Shiney
Ford
The History of Ford’s Iconic Flathead V8 – Ashley Webb – The Motorhood
Interesting Flathead V8 article from Ashley good historic content and a timeline of Henry’s icon!
As you know I try to gather as much Flattie stuff here as possible, read Ashley’s article here
Traditional Hot Rod How-To: Making the Right Chassis Mods for our Racing Roadster Project Model A – Hot Rod Deluxe – Scotty Lachenauer
Building a Four-Banger Model A Motor for Street and Race – Hot Rod Deluxe – Scotty Lachenauer
This is what I’d love to do for my Model A at sometime in the future (if I win the lottery 🙂
Scotty Lachenauer is following the build of a hopped up roadster for TROG
This episode covers the build of a four banger for the project, the article is here
HouseOSpeed’s 1929 Ford Roadster Build Blog
Nice 1929 Roadster Build Blog Here
So you want to build a ’32 Ford Roadster? – Blog
The blog hasn’t been updated for some time but contains good information
Back to the Future (well kinda :)) Part 2
If you’ve not read part 1 please take a look here
After rewiring and getting everything put back together, the car started first time and ran beautifully, in fact the best since I’ve had it!
One thing I learned during the process was to make use of some of the tools that are available.
These two tools were really helpful
GZNTATOOL Timing Tool
The French Connection
As we posted last week all about the Duxford Car Show we are back on track again with updates on what Mustang Maniac are up to, we would to thank those of you who sent in the emails to say they were there and had the same problems. So what have we been up to?
Park & Pic:
We welcomed back an old friend Rodger Davies and his Convertible which mostly resides in France now. We had his little lady in for a rear spring swap out and a very worthwhile borgeson steering box upgrade.
The rear springs were sagging a little so we replaced with some mid range stock options. We like to be sure and replace the spring plates that hold the springs and shocks to the rear axle.
At the other end of the car the new rack and pinion Borgeson power steering was fitted. The eliminates…
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Rare Indeed – 1929 Model A Town Car
Edsel Ford’s idea of a Town Car based on the Model A never really chimed with the intended audience, this plus the Great Depression killed off the idea as the cost was double the standard Model A.
One of the reminding 19 examples is for sale and can be seen Here at a mere $177000! Purchase at your own risk I’d say?
Back to the Future (well kinda :)) Part 1
After the breakdown on the way to Wheels Day 2017 and some diagnosis the Pertronix module was the culprit (well the symptom anyway :))
This is the second module failure, so it’s back to points which as least can be fixed on the road. I’ve gone for the “modern points” setup by Nu-Rex, “modern” is pretty amusing as the new plate contains the 1957 onward Ford V8 points as opposed to the original 1929 setup.
Before I began I set the timing to TDC via the timing pin as per usual on the Model A I then started to remove the Pertronix system
During removal I found that the lower distributor plate had been deleted, a bit annoying as I’d ordered the upper plate from O’Neills. Luckily John Cochran had a used item I could use (thanks John :))
I’d also ordered the recommended longer pigtail for the lower plate, this is recommended to alleviate the stress on the original which is a little short and often fails due to fatigue. So after desoldering and drilling the old pigtail was removed. Then it was a matter of a little cleaning and soldering to get the new item fitted. As my car has no pop out ignition switch I further modified the plate to securely fix the hot cable to the plate by drilling the dimple which was designed to contact the original pop out switch.
Once all the modifications were completed I installed the plate into the distributor.
The pigtail was connected to the points contact ensuring that the connector was not able to accidentally ground to the distributor housing.
Also checked that the timing advance lever was in the fully retarded setting at this point
Next the upper plate was installed taking care to wrap the pigtail around the cam spring whilst making sure not to pinch the cable.
The upper plate will only install one way into the tabs and groove and should turn freely.
See the next episode for rewiring, points adjustment, timing and hopefully an engine start.
