Projects Building My First Roadster in San Francisco

Cacti and roadsters go together well

 

As usual awesome weekend report and great to see your hot rod is being used as it should be. Soon your truck will be obsolete. It is heading into winter here almost time for shoes and socks and long pants and a jersey... you have a whole hotrod summer ahead.
I don't want to burst ya bubble, but the zinc additive is completely unnecessary in a Model A engine. Zinc additives were not even added to oil until the 40s. It is there primarily to minimise wear at high pressure/friction points, of which the Model A engine(or the flathead V8) has none. It is an OHV problem where high valve spring pressures(needed for the heavy valve train) create a high pressure high wear issue at the cam follower/cam interface .
The oil companies have not removed zinc from oil formulation, just reduced it so that catalytic convertors do not fail (so often). There is plenty in the oil you buy to satisfy the needs of a Model A Ford. No oil filter, no air filter, no problem, just use a basic oil and change it often.

 

Car looks great! Ya need some reverse eye springs now.

Ya might try leather on the windshield posts, and some spring washers to keep tension on things. Just a thought, I'm sure experts will chime in.

 

Great update, Thanks. Good to see it out and about. If you are still worried about zinc, several years ago when I was a parts guy I talked to a tech at STP. He assured me that though not listed on the bottle there is enough zinc in a bottle of regular STP to cover the needs of an old engine for an oil change. I use it in my GMC 270 which is OHV as pointed out by 97. Funny thing, some of the zinc additives don't have any zinc.
The aluminum gear will 'run in" in a while and quiet down some.

 

Sorry you didn't get the Bonneville poster. That is the year I barely graduated from high school, didn't make it to Bonneville for another 45 years.
The car looks lonely at the beach, too bad Playland isn't still there it would be the perfect backdrop.

 

Dawn dish soap

get yourself one of those big cookie sheet looking drip trays from the box store. A little kitty litter and your floor will always be clean

 

I picked up a drip pan at AutoZone, seems to me it was less that 10$. It’s about 2ft x 3ft, maybe a bit smaller.

 

Just noticed looks like we got our seats from the same pile. Need to cut mine down a bit

 

Put a belly pan on it with a drain plug then you can collect and recycle the oil.
I like the hood. You don't have to show all your stuff all the time, that's why we wear pants around strangers.

 

Personally, I like the hood too. You can also pull the sides and run just the top if you want to show off the engine.

 

Dang, no wonder I can’t make new friends...

 

Be careful what you wish for, you might not like the type of new friends you attract!

 

Guys roadsters are tops off not bottoms. Let’s let 6 balls keep it a mystery and keep this roadster friendly lol

 

You're a cool dude. Good on ya to give back.

 

What about losing the sides and just running the top?



Something to think about?

 

Live with the leaks. Old stuff was built when leaks didn't matter (ever notice how the lanes of roads had an oil stripe down the middle 'back in the day'?). The no-leak automobile is a (relatively) modern thing that has come about by years of expensive engineering, tooling manufacturing tolerances and QC. Clean the driveway.

 

It's not leaking It's just marking It's territory.

 

OMG, best line I have heard all day! Freaking hilarious!

I myself prefer hood top, no sides.....of course on my deal, there is no way to effectively run sides, at least in my opinion.

 

Nice Shop all the nice fine Gear to make some trick Parts.

 

Leaks do matter, they were/are a design feature, kept the oil refreshed between oil changes when oil was not so full of additives and no oil filter !

 

I run a hood top on both of my cars with leather hold down straps. This is the '29 CCPU

 

My girlfriend asked what I was wearing today. I answered, "NOTHING! I'm going to make some new friends today!"

 

I was in the first year of the Auto Shop class at my high school and I did a cutaway similar tho that only on a single cylinder Wisconsin engine. I did a chart fo it in my commercial art class. The next year I happened to see then both displayed at the county fair with ribbons they had won. No credit given to me at all. Oh well the extra after school hours counted against the many hours of detention I owed so I was able to graduate. I should never have taken my '38 coupe in the gem. I had to sand the floor too.

Looking forward to more about your trip. If you can get a picture of the air mail delivery.

 

There are a few cutaway engines that run,
I like this one



But the fun engine video I think I like the most is this one from Mart , years ago.