The Ford Barn - Secret Tips

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- - Secret Tips (https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showthread.php?t=173762)

Surely many have discovered a SECRET/EASILY DESCRIBED, TIP/FIX, for a Model A, that many have NOT heard of.
Please SHARE THEM:)
Bill W.

Great post idea Bill! Sorry I'm too new to have anything good to share.. Maybe in 10 years God willing I will :)

Bill Here is the best tip I can share Buy the most RUST FREE model A you can. I get tired of fixing rust. But here in Indiana most every thing is rusty. Keep those secrets coming. Don in In.

can not tell. because if I did it would no longer be a secret

Well, I tried, hoped I could get some INFO to SELL---HOW do I delete a THREAD?
Bill W.

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Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON (Post 1123791)

Well, I tried, hoped I could get some INFO to SELL---HOW do I delete a THREAD?
Bill W.

Make a political comment. ;)

You did good Bill. I was just giving you a hard time. When I think of some I will post them.

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Originally Posted by 700rpm (Post 1123797)

Make a political comment. ;)

That'll do it ! :D

Here's a secret tip....if you have a question just post it on the Barn....surely you will get an answer

Here's one I learned from a wiseman:

"Tap, tap, tap"

Bill here is a tip to be used for all cars, especially the engines, make sure you have all the bolts started in the project before you tighten any of them, if you don't when you get to the last one it wont fit, you wont be able to start it

Vintage Hi-Tech Inexpensive Tap Water Engine Tip for Poor Folks:

A. Used mostly by the poorest of the poor years ago by Model A owners after buying a dilapidated Model A that had worn rings, plugs fowled with excess soot; very little engine power because valves were starving for fuel caused by the combustion chamber carbon build up around valves; and last but not least, one experienced extreme exhaust smoke while driving that could kill swarms of mosquitoes in the back forty acres clear across the one (1) mile wide Mississippi River.

B. By now, most have seen Forum photos of tops of pistons and the tops of Model A engine blocks that "shined" like "new"; and were immaculate and spotless where an adjacent segment of the head gasket was blown and this one (1) particular combustion chamber had been "steam cleaned" with the introduction of small amounts of radiator water.

C. If one is ever in a situation where a worn Model A engine idled for far too long, (like maybe in a Parade), or the former owner left his worn engine idle for too long; or a former owner drove very slowly with a worn engine for long periods of time; one can experience increased plug fowling and excessive carbon build up, and loss of engine power.

D. Get a bottle with a spray device, (similar to a "cleaned" Windex bottle), and spray a little water at a time into the intake of the carburetor while the engine is running at a fast idle to steam clean soot and carbon from all four (4) plugs and around valves in the all four (4) combustion chambers.

E. Afterwards, scientifically remove a few plugs with a delicate spark plug instrument, diagnostically look inside the combustion chamber with a hi-tech surgical flashlight to check this sanitizing endeavor -- many poor people did this because they could not afford piston rings and/or new plugs -- please don't ask me where I learned this hi-tech Secret.

that's an easy way to find a leaking gasket letting water into one cyl, pull the plugs till you find one with out any carbon on it, usually it will be snow white

My auto shop teacher gave us the water carbon cleaner method in class. His version was to mist at fast idle and then increase mist till it stalled and leave the engine sit overnight and start it in the morning. He warned us not to have it up to a wall or let friends stand by the tailpipe. He also said Saniflush makes a great radiator cleaner but warned if there was stopleak keeping in the water it would be gone with any other debris and rust.

Bill I thought you had all the secrets:-) my secret is the Ford Barn!!

My secret is to try to find out what: Bill W, Tom, Marco, Purdy and many others would do.

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Originally Posted by Jwilli (Post 1123941)

My secret is to try to find out what: Bill W, Tom, Marco, Purdy and many others would do.

A Very elite group ! Wayne

Great thread, Bill. Most of what I know came from the barn anyway so it's not much of a secret.:D

If your cluster mounted dash lite flickers at speed, just add a LITTLE dab of rosin core solder on the tip of the bulb. Seems that some bulbs are a trifle too short & it seems that you CAN'T bend the socket connector goody. A higher candle power bulb helps you find coins in the floor, BUT, it gets HOTTER, & you have to be QUICK, when turnin' OFF the light!!!!!
Bill W.