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Here is where the rubber meets the road. You can build anything but getting it all to work together and work like it should is a different matter. It really is true, form follows function, and proper function makes demands on form. This becomes even more critical as things become smaller because there is less room to work with. Most people don't realize what it takes to build a car. Setting a motor down into a frame is the easy part, even though that effects steering components and driveability. Weight distribution can become critical with steering and with braking. You can have a beautifully designed car that is not steerable or stoppable. This is why there is a team of engineers designing and building cars, very difficult for one man to do. Looking really good. I'm sure you'll get there in the end. Just make sure your body can't move during this operation. They have a tendency to.

What's the status of the car, if I may ask?

My suspicion is the grease was developed for high rpm gear boxes where the grease gets really hot and therefore leaks out of the box. These gear boxes 'sing' while in operation. The problem, as I see it, is everybody is always trying to improve things and most marketing is an effort to improve. Think of all the aftermarket parts and devices developed in an effort to improve the model T Ford, or STP. All neat tricks, but did any of them actually improve anything? I hear all the time how the oils today are so much superior to what they had at the time but it is easy to forget the components were developed to run on the oils of the time. The fact that the cars have lasted this long should tell you something. The other problem is our society as a whole has decided it must save the planet. "One drop of oil is enough to pollute the water on the whole earth," is a quote I often hear, never mind the fact that it is a natural product that seeps out of the ground in places and plants are still producing it today. I don't advocate pouring used motor oil on the ground but how about a little moderation. Maybe use some gasket sealer. I put flowable grease in my 1940 truck transmission because it was said to be superior to the 90 weight recommended by the manufacturer. Turns out the manufacturer knew what he was talking about. Don't make the same mistake I did.

In my experiment, I did stir the corn head grease rapidly before turning the cup upside down. It was not a scientific experiment by any means but I couldn't get it to perform as advertised. Years ago now I put some flowable grease in my 1940 truck transmission. Then I had to tear it down to rebuild it. The flowable grease never made it into the needle bearings. It actually never did flow. You have to remember, any kind of lubrication will work for a while. I'm sure Corn head grease works great in combine gear boxes, that's what it was designed for.

I did a little shade tree mechanic experiment. Put some in a cup and turned the cup upside down. Funny, it did not run at all, not one bit. The oil ran down the cup and out on the table. What's more important, minimizing oil leaks, or lubricating parts. My cars are too expensive to experiment on.

Yes, the article I quoted above also stated the difference between modern race cars and the early ones. The camber shown on the car above would make driving on pavement more difficult but on dirt easier. It's just a fun fact to know why, and yes, the spindle was intentionally bent.

I think I may have found my answer. This was posted in an online chat: "Positive camber was used on some old open wheel race cars because it made them easier to steer and more stable on uneven terrain. It also helped them avoid nose-diving under braking. However, positive camber also reduced their grip and cornering performance on smooth roads." When race tracks were nothing more than dirt roads, as in, the Long Island Parkway, some race cars were given positive camber.

D, While I appreciate your efforts here, I'm looking for the why. If circle track cars are still built this way, there must be a reason why.

I'm hoping someone can explain why the left front wheel on this old racer is splayed out from the top. This was deliberately done as there are hammer tracks on the spindle where it was bent. Guessing it has something to do with running on an embanked circle track?

Wish we could see a picture of the racing roadster 90 horse with large gas tank and small oil tank.

My next door neighbor bought a sweet 58 cameo pickup several years ago missing a few hubcaps. He ended up finding them at an old guys place. He told me, "I really need to take you down there. He buys these cars and restores them and then sticks them in old shelters. The shelters are scattered all over out in the woods and he has parts galore." I never went. He died a couple of months ago. When I bought my current house, built in 1915, there was a 40 Ford convertible in the garage, in barn find condition. It didn't go with the house and was later street rodded. I suspect the OP was truly wondering if anybody had heard of anything like a private sale. Perhaps he had heard a rumor about something changing hands he'd like to track down, or, maybe his car had been found and sold as a barn find. A few years ago, a friend's dad was operating a bull dozer, leveling out a building site. Within view was a pole barn with several brass era cars in it. He told his son, who promptly looked into getting the cars out. Not long after, the cars disappeared. I suspect some barn finds are actually stolen cars. After a car sets around in a barn or garage a while, titles get lost and proof of ownership gets muddied and possession is 9/10ths of the law.

The Limited racing train photo can be purchased from MaryEvansPrints.com.

Does anybody know what this goes to? Period 4 cylinder Timer by Thomas A Edison Jr.

Talking about burning the shop down, a friend in Canada always left the radio playing in his shop until one day it shorted out and burned the shop down with his car inside. The experts do recommend a little thread sealer smeared on the flares if you can't get them to seal. The 410a refrigerant is notoriously hard to seal up with flared fittings but that's a whole different kind of gas.

My question would be how much difference would there be in this jug and the next size down. What if you took an A or B jug and sized it up?