I purchased the engine Mike & Bill used in this series. It will cruise all day long at 50 mph. The engine that was in the car ( not the original ) with the High Compression head would hit 43 mph max. This engine 53 mph. I am so glad I purchased this engine . There is no way to build your engine yourself like Mike & Bill builds them. Tools & knowledge that don't come easy. . It had a slight oil leak & used oil for the first 1500 miles. Not much, but normal T oil consumption. I have 3000 + miles on it now & I can go without adding any oil between changes. I live in Florida & was going to get the Russell rear end but Mike talked me out of it & I'm glad he did. It's not needed with this engine. THANKS GUYS !!!!!!!!! RICK DAVIS
Thanks for making these videos! I'm a fellow Oklahoman living in Japan and hoping to bring a model T over here some day soon. Greatly appreciate your videos!
Perhaps the biggest failure with the T, is the tiny crankshaft. Your careful step by step methods and techniques is excellent. But my question how far should we really go? H Fords methods of assembly line craziness did work. But the life expectancy before these failures took place did seem to work amongst the poor people around the world for sometime. What was the average before these failures, like the tiny crankshaft failure occur?. And what was the normal acceptable vibrations of these solid mounted engines? I tried to follow your guidelines and methods of balancing and alignment and still with a counterbalance crankshaft there is still vibration at over 1500 rpms. It's seems the nature of this beast is inherent and impossible to correct.
Thanks Ron Moore for the comment. We had planned to get a rear end video shot before Chickasha but I don’t think we will make it now. We shot a fill in on balancing rods and pistons that we will us in a presentation at the Speedster Reunion in June. It is a step that we did not completely cover in the original Engine series. Rear end is next!
I purchased the engine Mike & Bill used in this series. It will cruise all day long at 50 mph. The engine that was in the car ( not the original ) with the High Compression head would hit 43 mph max. This engine 53 mph. I am so glad I purchased this engine . There is no way to build your engine yourself like Mike & Bill builds them. Tools & knowledge that don't come easy. . It had a slight oil leak & used oil for the first 1500 miles. Not much, but normal T oil consumption. I have 3000 + miles on it now & I can go without adding any oil between changes. I live in Florida & was going to get the Russell rear end but Mike talked me out of it & I'm glad he did. It's not needed with this engine. THANKS GUYS !!!!!!!!! RICK DAVIS
Thanks for making these videos! I'm a fellow Oklahoman living in Japan and hoping to bring a model T over here some day soon. Greatly appreciate your videos!
Hope you are well on your way to building your T. Thanks for taking time to comment.
Yes, we plan on doing a full rear end rebuild this fall.
Thank you for the videos. Very helpful.
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Even if you aren't in to Model T's, these are great and informative (and well done) videos.
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Real cool videos. Thanks for making them.
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Do you have plans for a differential rebuild?
Perhaps the biggest failure with the T, is the tiny crankshaft. Your careful step by step methods and techniques is excellent. But my question how far should we really go? H Fords methods of assembly line craziness did work. But the life expectancy before these failures took place did seem to work amongst the poor people around the world for sometime. What was the average before these failures, like the tiny crankshaft failure occur?. And what was the normal acceptable vibrations of these solid mounted engines? I tried to follow your guidelines and methods of balancing and alignment and still with a counterbalance crankshaft there is still vibration at over 1500 rpms. It's seems the nature of this beast is inherent and impossible to correct.
i got one im working on,it was my 31 birthday present
Please show complete model t rearend rebuild
Thanks Ron Moore for the comment. We had planned to get a rear end video shot before Chickasha but I don’t think we will make it now. We shot a fill in on balancing rods and pistons that we will us in a presentation at the Speedster Reunion in June. It is a step that we did not completely cover in the original Engine series.
Rear end is next!
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