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Are we sure it's a Ford?

Must be a pretty good design. Mercedes used the design in the 70's & 80's on all their cars. They may still be using it, I'm just not familiar with them after 89.

Which part ran when it was parked??????

Well, honest guys, it ran when it was parked!

Yes, I know. My brother owned a 1953 Jowett Jupiter with the 4 on the column crazy.

If you do that with a car that has a three brush generator you will burn up everything that's using voltage, like coil, points, condenser. As soon as you disconnect the 12 and there's no battery connected, the three brush will go wild with voltage.

Everybody thinks that standard shift means a manual transmission. I doesn't. The model A had a standard shift transmission, meaning the normal H shift pattern like the later Franklins had. But earlier cars had many different shift patterns. The Franklin shift, the Dodge of similar years had a different shift from Franklin and standard as did many other cars.

The fumes from carbon tetrachloride can kill you faster than the fire or smoke inhalation. There're dangerous and have been outlawed as fire extinguishers for decades. There're only available in antique shops or flea markets.

Absolutely necessary. Just think of how much that fire extinguisher that you didn't buy cost, if you had a fire. Also some people have them loose on the floor. A neat idea is to stick the hook part of Velcro on the fire extinguishers bracket and it will stay where you want it on the floor. That is if you have carpeting.

This is too far........................everything else is fair game

He's not stuck, he just stopped there the give the farmer a hand in backing up his horse.

Either take pictures or buy a parts car so you can see how it goes together and where all them there extra parts you have goes.

The best way to avoid this problem is to just not buy Goodyear tires. I've learned my lesson on several!

I know your new to the forum, but why don't you ask your question on the Franklin section. You may get a lot more reply's.

TTR, I sent you a private message.

The chain and lever on the A frame that was used to apply the brakes on the towed vehicle was designed for most cars mechanical brakes that had a cross shaft in the frame that a chain or cable could hook to. It was a little more complicated hooking it up the the brake peddle linkage of hydraulic brakes. I never used it since all my tows were short and relatively slow.

These were common up into the 1950's. Your missing the steel clips/clamps that are used at each clamp. There about 3+ inches wide, 3-4 long and about a 1/4 inch thick and in the shape of an S with a slot that the chain goes in and the the bolt tightens up the unit on the bumper. They worked very good. Oh and the chain in the middle of the a frame unit is attached to a lever to hook to the pulled cars brakes.

Wake up and smell the flowers! We're not talking about an old Ford with a Bendix spring. We're talking about a 1960's Lincoln.

Another nice little bugabo on Lincolns. The intake manifold has core plugs (freeze plugs) under it. Then another fun and games is the camshaft sprocket has plastic teeth. Time is not their friend.

Well that takes care of the first solenoid. There's another one on the starter. When power goes to the starter it energizes the solenoid that pulls the Bendix gear into the flywheel. When that happens it makes electrical contact and starts the starter motor. Those contacts could be corroded or not slamming together like they should. For that fix, you'll need to remove the starter and remove the sheet metal cover exposing the contacts. On GM starters it's all combine together on the starter. They have a similar but different can of worms.

Take a jumper cable and clamp it to one side of the solenoid on the large terminal. Then touch the other end of the jumper cable to the opposite large cable on the solenoid. If all your cables are tight and clean and your starter is OK then the starter will turn over the engine. If that's the case you have a bad solenoid.

Gee, the parts stores must have gone broke stocking them when nobody needed to buy them. They failed. You may just be the lucky one. They failed in the Lincoln convertibles and the starter usage. I have had many in my 62 years experience.

I had solenoid problems with a 1958 T-Bird, a 1961 Lincoln Continental and a 1964 Lincoln Continental. Who says they rarely fail? They do! The contacts inside that little unit burn and refuse to make contact, then all you have is click, click until maybe it hits, or not.

Not only what you said, but the fact that Franklins were air cooled made them accessible year around without having to use alcohol or draining the system each night. This was pushed as a sales plus to Doctors as well.

Here's a few shots. The restored shots are at the Franklin Trek in 2005