The Ford Barn

CC33 · 10-26-2013, 06:04 AM

Will need the extension to go with that.

Mart · 10-26-2013, 11:56 AM

Bruce, the shape of the dog nut ramps will prevent you getting a kick if the engine fires in the correct direction. You get the kick when it fires and goes backwards, a problem when cranking slowly and if the ignition is advanced.
I was taught not to wrap my thumb round the crank handle, so if it does kick it would just come out of my hand.

I have only done it a few times, and once did get a nasty kick. I can't remember exactly it happened but the handle bruised the inside of my forearm mid way between the wrist and the elbow.

We all moan about the intricacies of modern cars, and how complicated all the electronics are, and years ago an older colleague summed it all up by saying "The deletion of the starting handle was the thin end of the wedge". How right he was.

Mart.

Bruce Lancaster · 10-28-2013, 01:20 PM

Through the later '30's, Ford made the crank, the grease gun, and the tire pump optional rather than OEM as the general tone of the times moved farther from do-it-yourself...
My '48 is an export car and came with full tool kit, but strating about 1936 the tool bag got lighter every year...
For a while when I was a teenager, the '48's original tool kit was nearly my entire tool set!

10-26-2013, 06:04 AM	#21
CC33 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 465	Re: hand crank start 1933 ford Will need the extension to go with that.

10-26-2013, 11:56 AM	#22
Mart Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Solihull, England. Posts: 8,749	Re: hand crank start 1933 ford Bruce, the shape of the dog nut ramps will prevent you getting a kick if the engine fires in the correct direction. You get the kick when it fires and goes backwards, a problem when cranking slowly and if the ignition is advanced. I was taught not to wrap my thumb round the crank handle, so if it does kick it would just come out of my hand. I have only done it a few times, and once did get a nasty kick. I can't remember exactly it happened but the handle bruised the inside of my forearm mid way between the wrist and the elbow. We all moan about the intricacies of modern cars, and how complicated all the electronics are, and years ago an older colleague summed it all up by saying "The deletion of the starting handle was the thin end of the wedge". How right he was. Mart.

10-28-2013, 01:20 PM	#23
Bruce Lancaster Member Emeritus Join Date: May 2010 Location: Madison, NJ Posts: 5,230	Re: hand crank start 1933 ford Through the later '30's, Ford made the crank, the grease gun, and the tire pump optional rather than OEM as the general tone of the times moved farther from do-it-yourself... My '48 is an export car and came with full tool kit, but strating about 1936 the tool bag got lighter every year... For a while when I was a teenager, the '48's original tool kit was nearly my entire tool set!