On this beautiful Saturday, April 20th, work continued to prepare our T’s for the Portales tour. Michael Housholder had replaced the bronze steering bushings on his mother’s car the previous week, and now it was time to turn his attention to his sisters pickup truck “Pete”. This process involved removing the spindles, removing the old bushings, installing new ones, reaming the bushings to the correct diameter, and shaving the height of the assembly to match the front axle dimensions.
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21Tom Miles brought a 1926 engine for his touring car in need of rebuilding. The engine was disassembled the parts measured for wear. Once everything was apart, Larry was able to help Tom develop a parts list. The most challenging part of the disassembly was the removal of the pin at the front of the crank. Only after heating, pounding, and eventually machining, did the pin come out.
Mark brought a front wheel with loose spokes to tighten. This front wheel was off of this 1925 coupe and was an original wheel (never having had its hub bolts removed). The wheel was loose enough that the hub had almost a quarter inch of slop when pushed in and out! Using sheet copper, shims were created with punches. The copper added 0.020″ to the tenon end of each spoke having the effect of pushing them inward towards the hub. Chipped paint was sanded while the spokes were out and Larry used his hydraulic press to force the spokes back into their original positions with the new shims. The resulting wheel is now perfectly tight and only needs painting.
Work also continued on Bob Sieglitz’s 1926 pickup truck with Vernon, John and Ken making progress on the rear spring replacement project.
Paul and Marilyn Duncan continued to replace their original wood felloe wheels with the new set they had made with 30″ x 3.5″ tires and demountable rims.
It was another productive Tin Lizzie work party at Larry’s Garage!