Larry Schramm

The old style that I was taught was to wipe the bearing over your palm, not trying to put it in with your fingers. I still do it the old way sometimes but I also have a bearing packer that I use below. Depending on the job I use both.

Pump diesel. Go to the same pump with two nozzles. Put in 1 gal diesel and fill up the tank with the gas. Most of the cars of that era have about a 10 gallon tank.

All of my cars and trucks up to 1917 use gravity feed for the fuel. After that the next two vehicles have a Stewart-Warner vacuum system.

I was on a tour a couple of weeks ago in Alabama with a southern group and I was told by members of that group in hot conditions that 10% diesel to gas will help vapor lock.

Agree with this statement. I put disc brakes on our T because I want to stop. With a Warford transmission or a Ruckstell differential if by chance it goes into neutral, there are no real brakes. Then if you drive/tour in the mountains the extra brakes are of great value. That is why Rocky Mountain Brakes were developed in the after market in the day. Here is one article on them. https://www.fordmodelt.net/m/rocky-mountain-brakes.htm

I have similar tags on my '15 Buick truck.

The house is across the street from the Durant-Dort Carriage offices and around the corner from the GM Factory 1 facility. It is in an historic district as the article noted.

If you think that price is high, buy a pair of pistons for a 2 cylinder 1908 Model F Buick.

I agree with Mark. These engines are only clean for maybe the first 15 minutes after a rebuild and maybe shorter if you start driving them. When the owners manual says to oil the lifters and valves every 25-50 miles, every thing gets dirty. Also, if the car is not dripping oil, then there is probably something wrong or it is running out of oil.

I was on the same tour with Brian. Good time and good roads.

Our local Culvers restaurant has a cruise-in car show every Tuesday afternoon/evening during the summer and they regularly have over 500 cars and their owners & families show up. No judging. Just getting together and have some fun. There is a DJ with music that is NOT TOO LOUD so everyone can still talk. One or two of the local auto parts stores donates some "prizes" for a drawing- give away which they may give away 50 small items from lubricant to microfiber towels. The restaurant gives a 10% discount on all meals to the "cruisers" for the night as an incentive to attend. How many organized "car shows" have over 500 cars show up, let alone almost every week all summer? Trophies not needed for a good show and a good time. No one gets their feelings hurt. Just IMO and observations.

I have seen worse.

Where are you located?

Car worked well, except I hit the limit of the brakes after the thousands of miles we have put on this car.. I am in the process of renewing the brakes/ new linings. Need to get them done in the next couple of weeks as we are leaving for another tour in July in Alabama. Most important part of a car is being able to stop.

Last week was a good week for touring. Brian & Christine Heil with their '23 Buick, Joe & Julie Tonietto with their '23 Cadillac, and Joyce and I with our '13 Buick just finished a tour out of Harrison, Ohio just a little north west of Cincinnati along with 15 other vehicles. We got to see a number of sights including several creek crossings and had a good time with this group. (Thanks to Brian for getting us involved). Through Thursday we recorded about 430 miles which brings our total for the year to 500 miles and we are still moving forward with several more tours for the summer.

"Sticking the clutch" in not really necessary if you use the car weekly, but if you let it sit over the winter or for a month or more it will save you a lot of grief where the clutch will stick to the flywheel and it can be problematic to get it loose. I keep a stick in all of my cars so the clutch is disengaged when not driving. My truck shown below.

Nice looking car!

It would be very light steering.

Lamar, Been a while since I scrolled through your pictures, but the "barn" looks great. You do great work in tying everything together.

Interesting how it grows to collect rain water and funnel it back to the fungus root/tree area to keep growing.

Thanks for the information. Car has now been sold.

I had one of those in college.

My first impression is that it is a storage box for a sewing machine.

If the OEM transmission cooler is located in the radiator tank, how is it optimum to have a cooler transmission? The OEM's designed the vehicle transmission to be able to take 200degF. Should not be a problem. Now if the transmission temp is running in the 250degF, might be a problem.

Talk to John, He owns the place. Good guy. Note, they have been in business since the mid 1920's and they have done a lot of one and two cylinder engines.