How to pull a Model A engine - step by step

[Tom F OHIO]

When we removed my engine it was hard enough with just the engine only watching that you don't hit anything. We bumped the front pulley and broke it. I could'nt imagine doing it with the transmission on. The town sedan body was on the car.
Tom.....

[V4F]

i have pulled my own , by myself to many times . pull the motor first , then the trans . DO NOT forget the 2 bolts hidden by the wishbone !!

[Brendan]

http://youtu.be/VqomZQMZQCQ check this out...LOL

[skryla]

Thanks Tom, those are the kind of tidbits I was hoping to get from this post.

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

As I mentioned earlier, I think it's easier to remove the engine by itself, but either way, be sure to remove the throttle cross linkage first, and keep track of the brass shims under the two mounting ears.

[700rpm]

Originally Posted by Brendan

http://youtu.be/VqomZQMZQCQ check this out...LOL

That is one great all-time scene right there.

[sidhartha]

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This one from Blazing Saddles cracks me up.

http://youtu.be/TFwprS_L6tg

[Mitch//pa]

pulling engine step
#1- disconnect battery

[Terry, NJ]

Skip, I saw that humorous/facetious element in his post immediately (it must a joisey thing!) And I recognised it from the movie! It's been used many times, many ways to illustrate arrogance on someone's part. That scene is one of my favorite, in one of my all time favorite movies, I just wish it turned out better in the end.
Terry

Originally Posted by Napa Skip

Having had the pleasure of pulling the engine on my Model A more than once (as I’m certain many – if not most - other FordBarner’s have) I read this thread with passing interest. Accordingly, I apologize (in advance) for the following detour:

FWIT (probably not much) the “Stinkin’ badges” line originated in the 1927 novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven (which was the pen name of the German author Ret Marut) and was later popularized in the 1948 film of the same name, staring Humphrey Bogart (who never made a bad movie), Walter Huston and Tim Holt. The director was John Huston, Walter Huston’s son.

In the novel, the line was (further apologies for the language): “Badges, to g**-damned hell with badges! We have no badges. In fact, we don’t need badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges, you g**--damned cabron and c***** tu madre!”

In the movie, the line – spoken by the character Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya, one of the great and largely unheralded Mexican character actors who appeared in roughly 175 Mexican films and a great many US films - became “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges.” The character Gold Hat was later executed by Mexican Federales (but not for saying this line).

The rest – as with the line “Play it again, Sam” (another often misquoted line, this time from Casablanca, another great Bogart movie) – is history, and generally misquoted as “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges/books/seat belts/etc.”

In fact the line has become so widely used (in its misquoted format) that the list of such use is legend, and includes Blazing Saddles, WKRP in Cincinnati, Stephen King’s novel It, and so on (although I didn’t note any reference to Cheech and Chong).

Just something to reflect on while taking a break with your Model A engine (hopefully sans transmission, as recommended by others) suspended in mid-air…

[Bob/Kansas City]

Quote: "In the movie, the line – spoken by the character Gold Hat played by Alfonso Bedoya, one of the great and largely unheralded Mexican character actors who appeared in roughly 175 Mexican films and a great many US films - became “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges.”

From "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" one of the greatest scenes ever.
Alfonso Bedoya makes a great trivia question as many people remember the lines but few remember the actor!

[Tinker]

Originally Posted by sidhartha

This one from Blazing Saddles cracks me up.

http://youtu.be/TFwprS_L6tg

Slim Pickens is one of the greats in that movie... and many other movies.