ThomasBorchers

Hello ! At our 1922 Cadillac Town Car I have to remove one rear wheel. But I am asking me how... I removed the small hub cap, and a ring at the hub. Then I could pull out something but I am not sure what it is. Looks like the axle or so. Behind this the is a large nut. Does this nut hold the wheel ? How can I remove the wheel correctly ? Thanks for your help Tom

Hello ! At our 1922 Cadillac Town Car I have to remove one rear wheel. But I am asking me how... I removed the small hub cap, and a ring at the hub. Then I could pull out something but I am not sure what it is. Looks like the axle or so. Behind this the is a large nut. Does this nut hold the wheel ? How can I remove the wheel correctly ? Thanks for your help Tom

Hello you all. I let check the ignition coil yesterday at a Bosch Shop. It is absolutely ok and sparks really good. So it can't be the coil. The contacts make contact. I tried it with an ohmmeter. Seems ok. Is there anything I can do it by myself before I have to send it to Jake ? What about the small ignition resistor. Could there be the problem ? Regards Tom

Hi Bill, I need the answer for a classic car quiz here in Germany. I found out that they have 4 cylinders with two cam shafts and that the 6 cylinder is a ohv engine. But how much cam shafts. I think that "2" should be correct. Thank you Tom

Hello ! Oh yes, it is an English Riley with a 6 cylinder engine !! Regards Tom

Hello ! Who knows how much cam shafts a Riley March ( Special ) of the 30s has ? One or two ? Thanks for your help. Tom

Hello you all and thanks for your tips and tricks. Would like to let you know what I did in the meantime.... : Yesterday evening I removed the two "distributor caps" on the right and left side oft the dist. I saw that all the contacts where very oxidized. Actually there can't jump a spark from the rotors to the caps. I cleaned them and now they looks like new in shiny brass. I also checked if the contact points are also clean and measured if there will flow current between the two contacts of the contact points. Yes, it does with no resist. An interesting point is, as I tried some days ago after a long time of not trying, the engine had some ignitions. Now after trying and trying is has no longer an ignition. ( of course I charged the battery over night ). I forgot to mention this : It could be that my father forgot to switch of the ignition one time in the past. And : Some month ago I tried already to start the engine and it turned so slow that I used a 12 Volt Battery. There it made some revolutions but the engine didn't run longer. If I will have no chance for me to do it, I have to contact Jake. At the Lincoln it is so hard to find the problem since it has this distributor. On other dists. it is easy to check if the coil has a problem. Kind regards Tom

Dear Rolf, thanks for your information but you gave me just "Jake Fleming in Texas". I belive you that he is a great guy regarding Lincoln problems but how can I contact him ? In the AACA Forum I saw that he is a member of the LZOC and found his address and phone. Since I live in Germany it would be great to have an Email address of Jake or a Fax Number. I don't ignore him but I don't know him. So if I would have the contact information I would ask him. To call him is not possible for me since my English is not the best. Thank you and have a nice day ! Tom

Hi Peecher, tried this in the morning but the car will not start. I read again the voltage at the two terminals at the ignition coil : Before I started : Left side 2.8 Volt and right 3 Volts. After I tried to start the left side had just 1.9 Volts and right hand 2.10 Volts. The battery reads 6.85 since I have a charger on it. So the battery actually has enough voltage to deliver these 2.8 to 3 Volts to the terminals when the engine is not running. Some more ideas ? Thanks again for your help. Kind regards Tom

Ahhh, thank you. Will try this. Very good tip. Thanks Tom

Hello you two, thanks for your explanations. The are actually two distributors in one housing with one coil ( or two coils in one housing ? ). ..... Contacts at the leads are already cleaned. .... I hold one spark plug lead direct to ground but there was no spark. .... @Oldford : Would you sent me the wiring diagram directly to my Email address : Borch1090@aol.com ? Because the attachment is very small. Kind regards and thanks for your help. Tom

Hello ! Our 1947 Lincoln stands still since ca. 6 Months. Now I have a problem to start the engine. It has no longer a spark at the spark plugs. I found out that at the two terminals at the ignition coil ( two red leads ) are two different voltage. As I started to measure the left terminal had ( ignition on, of course ) ca. 6 volts, the right one had ca. 2.2 Volts. After I tried to start the engine it had on both sides just 2.2 Volts which is of course to less. These two leads go through the firewall under the dashboard and ends at a kind of "resistor" or so. Then at the ignition coils ends at the two condensers two yellow leads. With ignition on the is no voltage. These two leads ends at a box which is mounted at the firewall. Why is there just these 2.2 Volts ? This can't be correct, or ? We really want to drive this beautiful car but I need your help. Has someone a wiring diagram for me ? Thanks for your help Tom

Hello ! Our 1947 Lincoln stands still since ca. 6 Months. Now I have a problem to start the engine. It has no longer a spark at the spark plugs. I found out that at the two terminals at the ignition coil ( two red leads ) are two different voltage. As I started to measure the left terminal had ( ignition on, of course ) ca. 6 volts, the right one had ca. 2.2 Volts. After I tried to start the engine it had on both sides just 2.2 Volts which is of course to less. These two leads go through the firewall under the dashboard and ends at a kind of "resistor" or so. Then at the ignition coils ends at the two condensers two yellow leads. With ignition on the is no voltage. These two leads ends at a box which is mounted at the firewall. Why is there just these 2.2 Volts ? This can't be correct, or ? We really want to drive this beautiful car but I need your help. Has someone a wiring diagram for me ? Thanks for your help Tom

Hello ! I own a 1912 Cadillac Model 30 with nickel trim. I also saw a photo of the 1912 Model 30 with brass trim. As the car was new was there also brass trim available ? Thanks for your answers. Tom

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Hello ! Still I have always problems with the ignition of my 1912 Cadillac, I thought about to convert it to an more modern distributor. Has someone tips how to do this or even some photos. But should be so that I can always convert it back to the original distributor. Thanks for your help. Tom

Hello ! Still I have always problems with the ignition of my 1912 Cadillac, I thought about to convert it to an more modern distributor. Has someone tips how to do this or even some photos. But should be so that I can always convert it back to the original distributor. Thanks for your help. Tom

Hello ! Still I have always problems with the ignition of my 1912 Cadillac, I thought about to convert it to an more modern distributor. Has someone tips how to do this or even some photos. But should be so that I can always convert it back to the original distributor. Thanks for your help. Tom

Hi Rick, thanks for the information. Yes, it is a engine by Continetal. Should have around 50 hp. I had the techn. dates but I lost them... Regards Tom

Thanks for the answers. @oldmitchell : I mean that am needs a loooooong antenna instead of FM radios. I thought they made it with two antennas since a dipol antenna was used with FM radios sometimes. But I must say : Two antennas at the rear looks cool... I also have seen "french antennas". As far as I rember they were installed in the rear door or so ? Greetings Tom

Hello ! Have another question : I have often seen US Cars of the 50s with two antennas : Dual Rear Antennas. For example as option at a 1958 Chevrolet Impala. But why two antennas? Why not just one ? Thanks for your help Tom

Hello ! I need information about the displacement of an 1917 Overland Light Six 85 B. Can someone say me how much it is ? Perhaps also how many hp it has. I mean around 50. Thanks for your help Tom

Hi Judy, great to see you here again. All the best Tom

Hi Barker, many greetings also from me to her. Hope that she will be ok as fast as possible. Greetings from Germany to you Tom

Hi, this car is an ex East Germany car. It is a Trabant 601 built from 1964 to 1991. It has a 2 cylinder, two stroke, air cooled engine. 23 HP, displacement around 600 ccm this is around 37 cui. Max. speed 62mp/h In the last version of 1990/91 the Trabant had 40 HP and an engine by Volkswagen. This was the last year of the make "Trabant". The car you see maybe belonged to the DDR Military. Don't know. Regards Tom