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Yeah it is. Was a good trip, but I'm glad to be home. Had to impulsively clean the garage tonight. There was at least 2 weeks of dust build up. lol Also took care of a few projects for some friends.
 
Taking apart a 90 year old transmission 101.

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Take more pics, I'd love to see how they built them.

I assume it takes lots of clamps.
 
With exception of the 3 drive bands and the flywheel this is a model T transmission in it's entirety. A hi/lo, reverse, and braking action all happened here.

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Simplicity at its best form. I still have no clue how it works, but it sure looks easy to put it together.
 
RC cars have a more complicated trans.
 
The one I worked on (we pulled it out for grand openings) was tough to start in cold weather because the oil was thick in the tranny (too much drag). We had to start it up with the aux tranny in neutral and let the oil warm up/thin down. Ours ran on two and a half cylinders. Nice looking truck, but it scared the heck out of me every time I had to move it. The car that replaced the T was truly easy to operate. Four wheel brakes, modern tranny, throttle, brake and clutch pedals. In my opinion the Model A is a closer relative to the 60's Mustang than it was to the T it replaced.
 
Ecam said:
The one I worked on (we pulled it out for grand openings) was tough to start in cold weather because the oil was thick in the tranny (too much drag). We had to start it up with the aux tranny in neutral and let the oil warm up/thin down. Ours ran on two and a half cylinders. Nice looking truck, but it scared the heck out of me every time I had to move it. The car that replaced the T was truly easy to operate. Four wheel brakes, modern tranny, throttle, brake and clutch pedals. In my opinion the Model A is a closer relative to the 60's Mustang than it was to the T it replaced.
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Yep, all of those things are true, however it's easy to look back and say why did they do it this way or that way, but when you pioneer not only the design, the manufacturing techniques, and production, it's pretty awe inspiring.
 
Agreed. I got stuck with maintaining the T because I had an A. Once I took on the job I was amazed how different and simple the T was. At 6'2" I could just barely squeeze into the C cab. My knees were on either side of the wheel. Getting it out of the trailer and moved to the store with traffic, or running it down a parade was quite an event to me.

I got lucky and found someone in town who had several T's and gladly gave me some coaching. He was also the guy to get it running as well as he could on the two and a half cylinders.
 
Note to everyone else: Don't drop an ancient distributor cap, they shatter :( Luckily I was able to find one online for a reasonable price.
 
At least it wasn't the trans you dropped.
 
Everything old and hard to replace seems to shatter when dropped!
 
The car is actually getting close.

The motor is probably done as of today
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Just have bolt on a few accessories as I get them finished up as well

Tore into the distributor last night to figure out where all the play is at. Found that, broke the cap and need to see how the gear fits the new cam gear.

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Need to do the same to the water pump and then finish cleaning up the hogs head and in theory I should have almost enough parts to fire the motor.
 
Delco Remy on the dist?!? A rebuild at some point?
 
Yeah, it's got a few upgrades to make the car a bit more driveable. 3 speed gear box behind the stock tranny so I'll have 6 forward gears and 3 reverse gears. Hydraulic brakes off of a mid 50's Nash. No more magneto system but until I get the generator cleaned up I'll just run it off of the battery since all it has to power is the ignition system. A water pump that didn't come factory on most T's. I'm trying to keep it as period correct as possible while still being able to safely drive the car in modern traffic. Most of the parts are from the 20's and 30's with exception to the brakes.
 
My dad had a 27 T that needed restoring but left it at his old house when he sold it. That and a 64 Mercedes. Women will make you do dumb things.
 
Chris said:
My dad had a 27 T that needed restoring but left it at his old house when he sold it. That and a 64 Mercedes. Women will make you do dumb things.
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Lol, well I hope I don't have to say that any time soon. The wife and I just hit 2 years and I think I'm the culprit of all the dumb things.
 
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