theKiwi

I'd be interested in seeing anything you have about Series 11A - this is the first I'm hearing about "service charts". Roger

That's a beautiful looking car!!!!! Yes, join the H H Franklin Club - it has a wealth of information about these cars, including almost all of the original factory drawings available online. Welcome Roger

Take a look at this thread where this was discussed already, and I posted a picture or two Roger

Sorry - my answer was meaning that according to the drawing, the top of the mat was flat - i.e. no ribs shown on it. Roger

According to the factory drawing part number 31467 Running Board Cover it was flat. Roger

It's been too cold here in Michigan most of the time, so my car sits out in the unheated barn, waiting for me to put the transmission back together with new bearings and gaskets - either when the weather warms up, or I face the wrath of my wife and bring all the parts into the house LOL Roger

Ahh - gotcha. Waldron show a regular muffler at 25" long and 6" diameter at $80 http://waldronexhaust.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=22_382&products_id=4615 although from that image it does seem to have the same size inlet and outlet. The muffler I put on my car came with 2" inlet and outlet, but I bought a reducer on Ebay for under $10 that stepped the 2" outlet down to the size of my tailpipe (which is wrong too - a project for another day). Roger

When you say "correct ends" - do you mean set up to take the flange like the factory front pipe has, and the pipe outlet on the rear?

Cool - I had told Phil I would help him out as well since I live a bit over 30 miles from the Gilmore Car Museum. Roger

Next year's spring Midwest Meet is in Indianapolis June 7-9 I'm not sure that the Fall Midwest Meet has been decided yet. The Air Cooled Meet at the Gilmore Car Museum will presumably be on 16 June - the Saturday before Father's Day Roger

I went to several places here in Grand Rapids with no success :-( The best I could come up with was places that make headers by cutting and welding many many bends together, but everyone I asked said there was no one in the area with a mandrel bender that could do what I was looking for. André Audette has shared some magazine article that showed how to fill a pipe with sand and then heat it and bend it without collapsing it - I think I might be going to give that a go to see if I can make a new front pipe at least since that is very simple. Roger

My 11A came with some modern, very oval muffler on it with offset inlet and outlet that caused the pipes to be routed in quite different places. So my first fix it up was to get a Walker 18129 muffler from Amazon - it was the closest I could find to the original diameter and length - 24" long and 6" diameter. It has 2" inlet and outlet. Sadly they're slightly offset too, but it let me get the pipes more back in the right places. https://www.amazon.com/Walker-18129-Tru-Fit-Universal-Muffler/dp/B000C917GU My next effort is probably going to be to get a Waldron muffler - they will make one the right dimensions with the inlet and outlet centred for about $85. I've looked at the club drawings and still am quite confused about how the Powell cups are drilled to let the gases go through, so if I ever go for one of them it will be quite some way in the future. Roger

For the 11A, the drawings call for 1½" tail pipe and 2" front pipe. Roger

The Powell muffler was what was original equipment on some Franklin cars. It's made up of a series of metal cups with holes in the bottom all joined together. I think at some stage in the past the Franklin Club had cups made. There's at least one thread here already about them Roger

Mike do you have any spare wheel locks for 1926 Series 11A - even without keys... Roger

Well I'd start at $50 (plus shipping) - would that do it? Roger

I'd be interested in the Lion alone - assuming it's a genuine Franklin lion (not a reproduction, but I don't know how to tell the difference) for my 1926 Series 11A, but the Franklin emblem is later than my car, so of no real interest to me. Roger

Can you repost the Lion one as a JPEG file - it's posted as an Apple .heic file which the forum software, and a lot of computers can't handle. Roger

No, the gauge is shown whole as a purchased part, but if you contact Jeff Hasslen - you can find his contact on the club website - I think he might have reproduction floats available to sell - I haven't got that far yet as the only intact(ish) gauge I have is in a tank and I've had it soaked in Kroil for ages before I try and get it out without breaking it. The one that came with my car had to be smashed to get it out, and it was broken above and below, and a couple of spares I was given were also broken. One of these days I'll brave it and see if I can remove the one from the tank without breaking it. Roger

Do you have the Series 11A parts book? It shows all these things in reasonable detail, so you can see the various items - and then membership in the Franklin Club gets you access to all the factory drawings of these parts. This page on the club website lists all the publications, and you can find the Series 11A parts book shown there - you actually buy it at Amazon.com My car does not have an original gauge/outlet on the fuel tank currently (something I'm working on) The line needs to be ¼" OD otherwise it will be very hard to get fittings for it to fit it to things like the fuel gauge, the vacuum tank Roger

It's ¼" OD copper. Roger

And since I was digging through the photos, here's the "patch" I put in the fuel line under the car... One end is in the double flare fitting, and the pipe is running alongside the damaged section - you can see the section that has been worn down to the inside of the pipe. Roger

The Franklin drawings call for Dull Nickel. I have looked at some of the "do it yourself" Nickel plating kits available on Amazon, but so far just left things the way they are - my vacuum tank to carburettor line is original and has a small amount of the nickel left, but I had to make a new manifold to vacuum tank line and so right now that is copper. Roger

My original line was nickel plated copper, so I replaced the part I cut out with copper. Roger

Welcome Noel and Amy I bought my Franklin 11A a bit over a year ago and immediately joined the H H Franklin Club - they are a great bunch of people with fantastic resources available online and amazing knowledge. There's also a pretty helpful group on Facebook too - "Show Us Your Franklin Car". Where do you live? I'm in Caledonia, only about 30 miles from the Gilmore Car Museum, and was down there just last week to put a license plate onto the black 1925 car - which is how I know what its engine number is as I have copies of the title and registration here while I worked on getting the authentic plates for the car. Hopefully we'll see you at the Air Cooled Meet at the Gilmore next year?! Roger