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Actually it's FPA018, although the listing doesn't indicate that any of their repair kits are for Franklin... Roger

1928 with the Series 12 cars. This thread shows dates of many makes - as early as 1921 for Duesenberg apparently Roger

There are bolts into the engine behind the fan - so first you have to remove the fan from the front of the crankshaft - get the crank snout off first, then undo the big nut (without using a cold chisel) and then pull the fan off. While the fan is off, you should send it to Paul Fitzpatrick @PFitz for him to put new rubber disks in it. Roger

That's what I'm doing too - turned out my rear wheel cylinders were new, so I'm replacing the front one with the larger 1-⅜ wheel cylinders, and once I get the master cylinder apart will send that and my 2 rear cylinders to Jeff to go for sleeving along with the new cylinders so all are sleeved in stainless and will last forever. Roger

Yeah I saw that, and bid $35 to start if off, and almost immediately got over bid, bid $50 and immediately over bid. Someone wants it very badly it seems... Roger

Standard they came on artillery wheels, but you could get them with the same wheels as your car had so that you had 1 spare to go on either your car or trailer. So it's possible the wire wheels are original to the trailer if they are wire wheels from a contemporary car. Roger

Put me down for a set for Series 15 please. And a set for Series 11A when they're done. Thanks Roger

Looks like this car is in great hands now!! Congratulations!!!!!! Will we see it at Trek 2024? Roger

Yeah I've done that once too - a finicky fiddly little job, but in absence of a gascolator already, getting the wire basket might be even harder. I recently got hold of one that is to go in a car at the Franklin Automobile Collection at Hickory Corners that I put a small Wix fuel filter and spring to hold the filter up against the Gascolator housing. Roger

Do you know of a source for the filter elements for the gascolator? Originally they are a wire basket with chamois leather over it. Roger

So that is actually filtering the line from the fuel tank to the vacuum tank?! If so, then that's probably normal as the vacuum tank operates - the suction is applied by the engine to the vacuum tank, the fuel is drawn from the fuel tank through the filter to the vacuum tank, and what you're seeing is the fuel arriving to, and being sucked out of the vacuum tank as the vacuum tank cycles. At idle it only has to do this every few minutes. Roger

Can you upload it to youtube.com to make it viewable? Roger

Does it look like fuel is sucking back out of the carburettor at the times the vacuum tank cycles - i.e. is drawing fuel from the tank? Can you take, and post, a close up video of the fuel filter that is below the vacuum tank showing this "frothing"? Is the amount of fuel in it changing perhaps increasing in level as the vacuum tank is drawing fuel from the tank? There's only 1 gasket in a vacuum tank normally, and they are readily available. Roger

The frothing in the fuel filter is probably when the vacuum tank operates. It could be one of two things... If it's in an aftermarket fuel filter in the line from the vacuum tank to the carburettor: I saw this at the 2023 Trek with a vacuum tank where it turned out that the flapper valve on the bottom of the inner tank of the vacuum tank wasn't sealing completely, and so every time the vacuum tank operated, it was actually drawing fuel back out of the carburettor. If you are observing the "frothing" in the original Gascolator mounted on top of the vacuum tank, depending on how much "frothing" there is, this is normal as fuel is drawn from the fuel tank to the inner tank in the vacuum tank. Roger

Also try Tim Long in Ohio - tmlong51 at gmail dot com Roger