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I am getting ready to reline the brakes and emergency brakes on my 1919 Mclaughlin The original brake shoe lining material was a woven material. I was wondering the good and bad of going to a more modern brake lining material like used in the video link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_FEQJVW4k I worry about finding the correct width of woven brake lining and I am also worried about it tending to unravel at the ends when you put in the rivets. The other consideration is that the thicnkess of the hubs is not that thick and more modern linings may tear through the original hub material. I will work on getting pictures Your insight will be appreciated

I am getting ready to reline the brakes and emergency brakes on my 1919 Mclaughlin The original brake show lining material was a woven material. I was wondering the good and bad of going to a more modern brake lining material like used in the video link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yh_FEQJVW4k I worry about finding the correct width of woven brake lining and I am also worried about it tending to unravel at the ends when you put in the rivets. The other consideration is that the thicnkess of the hubs is not that thick and more modern linings may tear through the original hub material. I will work on getting pictures Your insight will be appreciated

Great to see all the work you have done... love to hear a bit more of the story... how was the wood? Loose at all? I agree this should be posted in the restoration project forum. My project is going at a much much slower pace..

This seems like a good way to check for this type of thing... thanks for explaining how... I`m not a computer person but I can manage this. My interest I have the last plate used on my 1919 Mclaughlin and the last plate was 1930... looking to find out more about the car history. I checked with the Saskatchewan museum and it appears none of those records were saved. I will also try using the serial numbers to see if that turns up anything.

I have an instrument cluster available if you need one... needs some work, Let me know Don

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The diameter of the hole would be useful.. also if you have an idea of the brand Hupmobiles used that would be useful as well

Just another difference with the light six.... tire size there is 32*4... if somebody has a set of those I would be interested.... even new ones are getting harder to find,

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Did you get one? i have an extra one as well Let me know... I think mine is off a 1932 plymouth

The 86 and the 86 com are the same heat range , the 86 com is a bigger diameter and longer body than the 86 I have lots of 84 plugs if you are interested in a cooler plug. I have some hotter plugs as well but this is all I have in the 86 range Don

Hi Steve I will dig them out and get a picture to you. If you could send me you zip code I can get a postage cost as well. Thanks Don I found 3 86 com plugs and 3 86 plugs. the 3 86 are all from different manufacturing dates. sorry I don`t even have a complete set for you.

Hi Steve I will dig them out and get a picture to you. If you could send me you zip code I can get a postage cost as well. Thanks Don

I like to sell on this site but sales are very slow. even the number of views is modest. I buy any where and every where. I do like doing swapmeets but my nearest one is 5 hours and a couple are a 12 hour drive... really hard to justify with the price of fuel and the modest sales at the swap meet. sometimes you do find some interesting package deals to buy and that is good. Generally the cost of doing this business is getting too high to justify but I love seeing my friends and talking cars for the weekend.

Dodges and Plymouth in the early 30s also had free wheeling transmissions. I do have the free wheeling knob off a plymouth but it would need an extension added to be useful... the knob is fine and is nickel finish. Does not have FW on it as I recall.

Over the years I have picked up 4 1919 ish Northway engine starters. The original type I have 2 like this and they have pot metal backs but they are both toast and unusable. The other 2 have cast steel backs and they are good but the units have differences. The mounting holes appear to be exactly the same... the overall diameter of the starter is larger on the good starters but they seem to fit fine. The diameter of the starter shaft and the diameter of the engaging gear are both larger than the original starter. The larger starter unit will not ingage the the flywheel correctly due to it`s larger size. My plan to fix this is to machine the shaft beyond the front casting to the 1919 smaller diameter starter and install the enaging unit on the machined shaft and all should be fine. What could possibly go wrong???? Your thoughts.... Thanks

Nope the generator is stand alone the distributor comes off the block and is not attached to the generator in any way. Thanks for the thought thou as I know some cars are set up this way.

I was reading through the literature I have on my 1919 northway engine in my Mclaughlin (See below). I am in the process of rebuilding the engine. In the literature it is suggesting that how the gear of the generator are hocked to the Crank shaft gear is important. That does not make any sense to me. Why would the "timing" of the generator matter? I do understand that the cam gear and the crank gear is critical. Any help is appreciated

There is nothing like a 500 mile trip to make a car run better.... with regard to the new plugs they make a couple of sizes to cover all the sizes and heat ranges that were made in the day... I know a lot of the guys don`t like the new plugs ompared to the old plugs. I have not heard any complaints on the NOS plugs to date. I use NOS plugs in my 34 dodge, my other car is a long way from running but looking for plugs for that car is how I got into the spark plug business.. FYI my other car is a 1919 McLaughlin Let me know if you decide you want my AC 86 plugs