'26 and '21 getting ready for spring

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Went over to Andy's shop this afternoon to put my flywheel together. Got all the magnets bolted on with the spools, plates and brass screws in place. Was mounting the center shaft on and had 3 bolts in and drawn down. Andy went to put the last bolt in and it wouldn't tighten. The threads were stripped out the full depth of the threads. So we had a little conversation and decided the best thing for me to do was grab a different flywheel from under the bench, bead blast it and start all over again. So I got one side blasted down at Andy's and tomorrow I'll finish it up here at home. Then I'm going to sit in the door of the shop with the flywheels side by side and start switching parts over. I guess it's just one more glitch in a one long endless line of glitches. I'm starting to realize I would have been time and money ahead to just start this project with the whole idea of a total restore of the running gear. And if things continue to go as they are I might just go ahead and do it. It's just that last fall when the magneto went to hell the motor was running so strong. It wasn't using any oil, though everywhere I went it would mark it's territory. If anything, it needs a decent set of gaskets on the oil pan. I'm a little concerned with the rearend and thought it would be a good idea to look at what it would take to rebuild it.

I remember when I rebuilt my '38 Ford pickup running gear I spent day after day feeling like I would never get it finished. And then all of a sudden I had it done and I was driving it around the yard. The battery was held in with haywire and I also used haywire for the throttle. I was really happy because everything worked exactly as it should. I'm thinking I've got a day like that coming in the future and I'm really looking forward to getting to it.

[fordman67]

Boy am i with you on that whole situation.im chomping at the bit to work on my stuff.But i have 4a pprojects not of my own now to finish b4 i can work on my own.My biggest hang up is i have been down in my back totally since sat. NOT getting anything done.barely getting to work. By the time i get done im shot and can barely pick my little girl up.NOT good at all!
Just keep up the good work! Maybe someday i will get caught up to you!

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Fun day today. I'm paying bills and taking care of the taxes so this POS state's Democrats and POS country's Democrats can quit trying to starve us to death for this year. Then if I still have time today and my state of mind isn't too bad I should be able to start the rework on my flywheel. Hopefully I can get a bus load of people here to help me.

[yachtsmanbill]

Looks like the BUNKO squad! ws

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Originally Posted by yachtsmanbill

Looks like the BUNKO squad! ws

I think it looks like one of the busses that casinos send out to pick up loads of elderly people to make it convenient for them to give their social security money to the casinos. They constantly warn seniors about illegal scams that are out there to rip them off but the casino's are taking their money with absolutely no regard to their welfare. The stupid seniors will give up food and and cut back on their medication in order to have money to go to the casinos and no-one cares. What the casinos are doing is actually legal.

[fordman67]

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We have one here in town.let me tell you! It should be illegal.my grandma before she died was down there quite often.she always said she made out good.somehow with how her affairs were after she passed i think not! I work way to hard for MY money to just go give it away.If im gonna waste it i will at least burn it and get a bit of heat from it!

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11:30, time for lunch. break out the chicken drummies and the chips. What the heck you're retired, have a beer while you're at it. Then get your butt back out there and finish that flywheel.

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I worked in the shop for awhile today. I finished bead blasting the flywheel. Now I can go out tomorrow and put the magnets on the new flywheel. It just seems like this job is 2 steps forward and 1 step back. I'm getting it done but it's a pain to have to redo the magnets again. But tomorrow I can sit quietly and get the job done.

Than Saturday I'm going to head North about 170 miles and visit my grandkids till about 4:00 and then to a lady's house on the west end of town to meet a bunch of the people I graduated with from Grand Rapids Senior High School in Grand Rapids Minnesota. I haven't seen these people for 44 years and I'm pretty sure I won't recognize any of them. When I was in High School there was an unwritten rule that if your dad owned one of the business in town or worked at the paper mill you could run with the "cool" kids. But if your old man worked in the mines like mine did, you weren't anyone they wanted to waste their time on. I think out of 345 kids in our class 5 or 6 of them went to Viet Nam during what should have been their college years. The rest used their deferment to go to college and stay away from the draft.

So enough of that. After spending a couple hours with them I'm headed for home. Hopefully I'll arrive back here in one piece. At any rate it's going to be a sober night.

Then Sunday it's going to be a call to Andy and see if I can get down to his father in laws and put the gauge on the flyweel and set the height on the magnets. Then hopefully I'll be able to get everything balanced and ready to start assembling. I hope the engine comes in early in the week next week. Then I can get it together and get 'er done. I suppose sometime on Sunday I'm going to have to clean up and express my anal glands. That way I'll be able to go into public during the week.

So does anyone have any experience with magneto lights and horn? It seems like it would be a kind of a good way to go on a "non-electric" car such as my '21 touring. All I'd power off it would be signal and brake lights. I'd probably hook up the headlights In case I'd ever get stuck out after dark and had to get home.

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The main bearing cap thrust surface is rebuilt and torqued in place. The flywheel is all assembled. Taking it to Farmallcub49's shop on Saturday to set the heights of the magnets and also flatten the oil pan on his jig. Worked a little bit today cleaning up the block a bit. Scraped the remaining pan gasket off the bottom and washed the mounting bolts for the flywheel and the center shaft. Would really like to get started balancing the assembled flywheel as well as the low, reverse and brake drums. Also match the weight of the triple gears. Then start reassembling everything. Still going to replace the starter and though it's never had a charging system on it, I'd like to put a generator and voltage regulator on it and then start getting ready to start touring. I finally got the canvas for the top and I've still got to rebuild the bows. It'll be nice to have something to keep the rain off. I'll hope to have both the touring and the sedan running and ready for tours no later than July 1st. The club has a really fun tour every year on the 4th of July and I want to make sure if one car won't make it the other one will. I'm also heading up to Grand Rapids MN for their annual car show this summer. I'm not all that excited to put my sedan in the show as to drive it around town and show it to the original owner's daughter and her husband. The husband had driven the car for 30 years after the original owner was forced to quit driving it because of health problems. Maybe he'll get a chance to drive it again.

[fordman67]

Boy oh boy...u are sure making me wish i could get time to work though on my project. I hope you at least have some. fun for the me! Good luck!

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Originally Posted by fordman67

Boy oh boy...u are sure making me wish i could get time to work though on my project. I hope you at least have some. fun for the me! Good luck!

What's the current status on the '41? I am having fun but I'm constantly in the middle of something else. Last Saturday I drove about 175 miles, went to a gun show and then ended up at a get together with old classmates from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM then drove another 175 miles home. That knocked me out for the next 3 days. I don't know if it's because of my overweight condition or advanced age or all the medicine or the dying liver but for some reason I just cant seem to get caught up once I get tired. Now on Saturday I want to go to a gun show and Farmallcub49 wants me at his shop to do the magnets on the flywheel and straighten the oil pan. So do I stay with my previous plans and see if I can go to Andy's shop on Sunday? Or do I suck it up and go to Andy's on Saturday? Being single and having hobbies that I can somewhat afford really stinks. Haha But then I put in my 33 years married and raised 3 kids and put my ex-wife through school. And believe me I gave up some beautiful cars during my time in order to put my ex through college. And once she had finished her masters and got the things she wanted in life I was gone. So now it's my turn to live for a change.

[fordman67]

Haha the 41? None! I got roped into helping a friend finish up a 33 he was working on and have my boss's mustang in my shop so nada. I hope to work on something of my own here in a couple of weeks.probably going to get the body up so the frame can go to powder coat.my buddy is trying to sell his powder coat business so he said i better get it to him.then...i think im gonna get the t chasis back together and may drive it with the body like it is for a while....only time will tell.
just take care of your self.dont over doo it.but keep having fun doing it!

Them dang exes....im lucky.i never had any young uns w her so i dont have to see her.i just hope she gets remarried and looses MY last name.that still makes me mad.she should change it back since she got gone.oh well.peace!

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Well Will's joined the ranks of the employed. Puttin' in some long hours but at least he's working and he'll be able to get that ole Pollinator finished the way he wants. He'll just have to take a little longer to do it. And to think he was giving me crap about how long it was taking me.

Went over to Andy's shop today and worked on the flywheel. We got all the magnets set. I figure there within .002" of each other. Or not. I didn't measure it with an indicator. Just the hard gage. We also threw the pan on the fixture and Andy did his magic and got it flat. Should seal ok. It did leak before but he figures a gasket should work just fine now.

Next step is balance the flywheel and drums. Then back to Andy's to put it together. I can't believe how much I have to force myself to get down to his shop to get some work done. Because when I get there I really like it. I guess it's because something gets done.

[fordman67]

Sounds like you are at least moving forward.that is better than not at all.
what does andy charge to straighten one? Im thinking i should have it checked...
My block is on the stand now at least...

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I don't know what his cost would be. I know it took him about 15 minutes to do mine. thing is it needed to be done on an actual pan straightening fixture. I seriously wondered if mine would really need it. But after seeing him heat the metal and saw how much it had to move to straighten it, I'm a believer. Send him a private message. His handle on here is farmallcub49. Yeah that's right he named himself after his little tractor.

[fordman67]

II do love them farmalls! Got an M myself.can never remember what year. I look it up by serial then promptly forgeg once again...i will have to drop him a line.at least its clean...i just had it chemical cleaned.it was NASTY!

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Originally Posted by fordman67

II do love them farmalls! Got an M myself.can never remember what year. I look it up by serial then promptly forgeg once again...i will have to drop him a line.at least its clean...i just had it chemical cleaned.it was NASTY!

Famall is the only real tractors ever built everything else is just a copy. They were the first row crop and started in 1923 with the Regular. I had one from 1930 and I loved it. I sold it at an auction and now I consider that one of the biggest mistakes I ever made in life. At the time I had around 7 or 8 old Farmalls and one Allis Chalmers and that was my tractor for clearing snow. When I took the Regular engine apart I pulled the rod inserts and they were stamped March 3 1930. I thought that was a really neat deal.

[fordman67]

That IS too cool! Mine is actualy from a elderly family member.He bought it brand new.it was on one farm all its life.when he retired he sold it to us for 400$ and threw in a 65 ford f600 grain truck for free.both ran with very little work,i tractor pull the m at the co. Fair once in a while.mainly to remember my best friend who died and introduced me to most of my bad habbits.it needs some cosmetic work but i cant bring myself to do it.afterall they are only original once.

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I know what your saying and I actually feel that way to some point with my T's. I like the idea of leaving them in the "survivor" classification. Today I found a running '46 Ford club coupe. No rust but cosmetically scary. I want it but it's really not in the cards. I don't have any room left. I really want to invest in a speedster some day. And though I'm a really bad shade tree mechanic I don't want to build my own. I'm too old to go through something that complicated.

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Been a while since I've been on this thread. Gotta go pick up Poncho and Patches in a couple minutes. I'm looking forward to working on the '26 today. I've got to take the muffler off so I can put the new packing nut on. What I've got to do on the sedan today really isn't anything difficult. It's just a matter of doing it. I think it'll be fun to finally hear the motor run right. I hope it's got some decent power. It seemed like it was there before I started on the manifolds and all I'm really doing is improving it.