Hi Douglas and welcome to the channel! It was a quick fix indeed. I am getting ready to drive the car to Dearborn, MI for Old Car Festival. When I get back, I should be creating a video on that adventure too!
Hi, I as from today I am following you, as I have a 1930 Model A, and as your trip was developing, it made me vary curious what was that sound you where hearing. You see, in this case I was very pleased to understand it was the shock or the shock link, but anyhow very wise to have abort your trip, to investigate the source of the noise. If I was with you I could have detected, right away but this was not the case, and again happy for you that this was a simple and minor issue. I live in Curaçao the Antilles island in the Caribean next to Aruba, and very much in contact with Paul Shin, and my parts supplier firm costumer and a happy one also from Snyder’s. I have liked very much you footage and will continue to follow you posts. Here in curacao very welcome one day you might decide to travel to the Caribean and here you have your Model A, for us to tour this lovely island. My cousin lives in York PA, and back in the eighties I lived for 1 year in Front Royal VA. Ok, hope and look ahead for your upcoming new footages. Regards and happy Model A drives.
Hi Myron! Thanks so much for the kind words. I appreciate it very much! Also, thanks for subscribing to my channel. I'm glad it was something simple like the shock absorber rod. But, I'm still learning all the little things about a Model A, so I enjoy the adventure.
Great video AGAIN.You sure are courageous heading out like that.Great news on the (simple)repair on the shock arm. The 1st part of the video is fantastic.That small town looked really quaint.Keep on with your journey and be safe .Thx again...
Hi Dean! Thanks for the kind words. That small town is where I live. Jonesborough, TN. It is the oldest town in the state. Next week, the journey is to Rugby, TN where I have a very special photo shoot lined up!
Enjoyed the street scenes of Jonesborough - looks like a very historical place. Fitting for a 92 year old car! Hope you check out Paul Shinn's Model A Videos on TH-cam - lots of good tips there.
Keep trying to make it the whole way, persistence wins the day !! But PLEASE tell me that you have FULL COVERAGE antique car insurance on your car because it would be a terrible shame for an accident to ruin such a beautiful car and there be no compensation for you.
Hi and thanks for visiting the page! I truly appreciate it! Yes, I have classic car insurance on it. I drive it as often as I can. Hoping to make a drive to Dearborn, MI this year with her.
That must have been quite frustrating for you to discover that the problem was just a loose shock link, something you could have fixed, yourself. (At least I assume it was a link and not the arm. I've never heard of one of them coming loose). Was it the original tubular links you were using?. Usually they just pop right off and are gone forever. I replaced mine with the dogbone links and have never had a problem with them falling off or coming loose. I wanted to see more of that nice scenic country and small towns.
You need to talk to the manager tell them you don’t realize who I am and they need to get you a room with a quiet AC unit because you will give them a good review or a bad one need to let them know who they’re fooling with and also you need to tell them that you know a guy
I'm not sure to be honest. I would say they were probably the original links for a very early 1930. Also, it was not the link that was loose. It was the shock absorber arm where it bolted to the shock absorber.
@@kensmithgallery4432 Just a simple matter of tightening a loose nut then. I thought those nuts were castelated and cotter pinned so they couldn't come loose anyhow. But there's always something coming loose on a Model A.
Just checked my front shock arms and you're right. There is play in the arm on the shaft. And that's even with the castelated nuts tightened and cotter pinned. Maybe a shim could be added between the arm and the shock to stop the knocking. Meanwhile I wouldn't worry about it.
@@kensmithgallery4432 That's good. If you used regular nuts, I hope you used lock washers under them. But to keep it original, of course, you'd need to use castelated nuts with the original bolts which were drilled for cotter pins. But when using those nuts, you have to back them off a bit when tightened to line up the slot in the nut with the hole in the bolt. Then you have to fool around with splitting and bending the cotter pins. No wonder that the industry went to lockwashers.
Awesome! Glad it was a minor fix!
Hi Douglas and welcome to the channel! It was a quick fix indeed. I am getting ready to drive the car to Dearborn, MI for Old Car Festival. When I get back, I should be creating a video on that adventure too!
Hi, I as from today I am following you, as I have a 1930 Model A, and as your trip was developing, it made me vary curious what was that sound you where hearing.
You see, in this case I was very pleased to understand it was the shock or the shock link, but anyhow very wise to have abort your trip, to investigate the source of the noise. If I was with you I could have detected, right away but this was not the case, and again happy for you that this was a simple and minor issue.
I live in Curaçao the Antilles island in the Caribean next to Aruba, and very much in contact with Paul Shin, and my parts supplier firm costumer and a happy one also from Snyder’s.
I have liked very much you footage and will continue to follow you posts. Here in curacao very welcome one day you might decide to travel to the Caribean and here you have your Model A, for us to tour this lovely island. My cousin lives in York PA, and back in the eighties I lived for 1 year in Front Royal VA. Ok, hope and look ahead for your upcoming new footages. Regards and happy Model A drives.
Hi Myron!
Thanks so much for the kind words. I appreciate it very much! Also, thanks for subscribing to my channel.
I'm glad it was something simple like the shock absorber rod. But, I'm still learning all the little things about a Model A, so I enjoy the adventure.
Damn pretty car.
Hi Kevin and welcome to channel! Thanks so much for the kind words about the car. I truly appreciate them!
Great video AGAIN.You sure are courageous heading out like that.Great news on the (simple)repair on the shock arm. The 1st part of the video is fantastic.That small town looked really quaint.Keep on with your journey and be safe .Thx again...
Hi Dean! Thanks for the kind words. That small town is where I live. Jonesborough, TN. It is the oldest town in the state. Next week, the journey is to Rugby, TN where I have a very special photo shoot lined up!
For a second I thought you were going to blow through the stop.
LOL, I stop at all stop signs!
Brave Soul.
I'm all about driving the car!
Enjoyed the street scenes of Jonesborough - looks like a very historical place. Fitting for a 92 year old car! Hope you check out Paul Shinn's Model A Videos on TH-cam - lots of good tips there.
I subscribed to Paul's channel. Lots of good stuff there.
Keep trying to make it the whole way, persistence wins the day !! But PLEASE tell me that you have FULL COVERAGE antique car insurance on your car because it would be a terrible shame for an accident to ruin such a beautiful car and there be no compensation for you.
Hi and thanks for visiting the page! I truly appreciate it! Yes, I have classic car insurance on it. I drive it as often as I can. Hoping to make a drive to Dearborn, MI this year with her.
That must have been quite frustrating for you to discover that the problem was just a loose shock link, something you could have fixed, yourself. (At least I assume it was a link and not the arm. I've never heard of one of them coming loose). Was it the original tubular links you were using?. Usually they just pop right off and are gone forever. I replaced mine with the dogbone links and have never had a problem with them falling off or coming loose.
I wanted to see more of that nice scenic country and small towns.
Hey Jim, It was frustrating but it was also a great learning experience.
You need to talk to the manager tell them you don’t realize who I am and they need to get you a room with a quiet AC unit because you will give them a good review or a bad one need to let them know who they’re fooling with and also you need to tell them that you know a guy
:-)
Yes but what kind of shock links were you using? I may want to do a similar trip.
I'm not sure to be honest. I would say they were probably the original links for a very early 1930. Also, it was not the link that was loose. It was the shock absorber arm where it bolted to the shock absorber.
@@kensmithgallery4432 Just a simple matter of tightening a loose nut then. I thought those nuts were castelated and cotter pinned so they couldn't come loose anyhow. But there's always something coming loose on a Model A.
Just checked my front shock arms and you're right. There is play in the arm on the shaft. And that's even with the castelated nuts tightened and cotter pinned. Maybe a shim could be added between the arm and the shock to stop the knocking. Meanwhile I wouldn't worry about it.
@@jimervin1637 after tightening them like a gorilla they haven't made any noise since nor have they become loose.
@@kensmithgallery4432 That's good. If you used regular nuts, I hope you used lock washers under them. But to keep it original, of course, you'd need to use castelated nuts with the original bolts which were drilled for cotter pins. But when using those nuts, you have to back them off a bit when tightened to line up the slot in the nut with the hole in the bolt. Then you have to fool around with splitting and bending the cotter pins. No wonder that the industry went to lockwashers.