My new 1930 2-dr sedan

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Originally Posted by 1930artdeco

Here are my thoughts:
1) The zerks should all be the same. That being said a lot has happened in the last 100 years. I like screw in so that they don't pop off when trying to push grease into a cavity.

2) If you have oil up to the threads in the tranny you will be fine. As far as the 80/90 wt. it will work in the tranny as a top off. It may thin the 600wt. out a little but if you need to you can add some STP to thicken it back up. JUST A LITTLE as that stuff is really thick.

3) Good luck on the road trip and have fun. Are you going to the National in Oregon in June? IF so we are having a Ford Barn meetup for Pizza, there is a thread here about it.

Mike

Won't be making it to Oregon. I'd love to do that someday. I am considering going to French Lick for that national meet this year. This car has been there in the past when the previous owner was alive.

This weekend we're going to Dewey, Oklahoma, to a car show that we usually go to. We normally take Clarence, the 1948 Ford panel truck but it's in bodyshop jail right now. It's about 350 miles each way. We've never driven the Model A more than about 150 miles in one day. I'm really looking forward to the adventure. FWIW: there will be one more interesting Model A there. Larry will be driving his Vicky from Albuquerque. It has a hopped-up banger motor (but otherwise pretty much original) and he drives it everywhere. Any other Model A's there will be hot rods, as this show is a hot rod and custom show.

b-t-w; I'm inside for lunch right now but when that's done I'm going to run into town and pick up lube and change out the trans and rear lube today.

[tnhammond]

Welcome to the fun atch !

My father bought our 1930 coupe in 1957. It was Earl Scheib blue at that time.

In 1965 the young lady that is still my wife , a couple of friends and I took it all the way down to the frame.

It remains our favorite weekend driver.

Best regards,

Tim & Linda Hammond

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Originally Posted by tnhammond

Welcome to the fun atch !

My father bought our 1930 coupe in 1957. It was Earl Scheib blue at that time.

In 1965 the young lady that is still my wife , a couple of friends and I took it all the way down to the frame.

It remains our favorite weekend driver.

Best regards,

Tim & Linda Hammond

WOW! Nearly 70 years in the same family. That's awesome.

[1930artdeco]

Atch, about 250 is about all my body can take-well I can go more but why? Have fun adn just listen to her sing away.

Mike

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So I got the engine oil, transmission lube, and differential lube changed this week. Also most of the grease fittings lubed. I have 2 grease guns and ran both of them dry. Running to town to get more grease cost me almost an hour. I guess I could have stayed with it a while longer but came into the house, showered, and packed. Enough is enough.

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As I mentioned in response #102 above, this just past weekend we drove the A to Dewey, Oklahoma. At least we drove it a little over 300 of the 350 miles. We were cruising along just happy as a clam when the engine died hammer dead right there on southbound US 169 in southern Kansas just a hop skip and a jump from Oklahoma.

It rode on a rollback the rest of the way to the Airbnb where we were going to stay. As soon as we got there I called the fella who puts on the show and asked if he knew of anyone who could come figure out what to do. He told me to stay by my phone and he called "the best mechanic around," who then called me back. He came over to the Airbnb to look into the situation. By that time I had turned the engine by the crankshaft bolt and watched the distributor rotor. It didn't turn.

He removed the side cover and I bumped the starter. The crankshaft didn't turn either. OOPSSSSS. It's now sitting at his shop and when he figures out what parts it needs I'll order them and have them shipped to his address. Yes; logic says timing gear but let's just wait and see. When it's roadworthy again he'll call me at which time we'll make another road trip to bring it home.

We rented a car in Tulsa Saturday and drove it home today. We ran down to Tulsa in a borrowed car.

All that said, I didn't let a little mechanical faux pas spoil a perfectly good car show. I saw lots of friends who I have met at car shows in various locations over the years and made a couple of new friends. One from Minnesota and a married couple from New Zealand.

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So Harold, mentioned in my previous post, has been on an extended vacation from pretty much right after the A went to his shop. He got home over this past weekend. Parts are being shipped from Bert's today directly to his shop. I have no way of knowing how long it will take for the parts to get to Oklahoma but sometime in the next week or two I should be going back down to Bartlesville and driving it home.