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- August 5th, 2015, 12:27 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Transmission Gaskets?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Transmission Gaskets?
You could make one for the bearing retainer
- June 27th, 2015, 7:38 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Clutch pedal return spring
- Replies: 4
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Re: Clutch pedal return spring
The longer pin replaces the original shaft retainer and serves as one purchase for the coil spring. The other end of the spring bears against the clutch pedal shaft.
- May 28th, 2015, 8:57 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Place to clean out gas tank
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3067
Re: Place to clean out gas tank
I have used a strong lye solution. I fill the tank and boil it on a camp stove for a while. You can use a length of chain as a scrubber to break up the loose stuff. The cement mixer idea was pure genius, but you need to have the mixer. Aviation sloshing compound is a good treatment after the tank is...
- May 8th, 2015, 10:19 am
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: model AA parts on crags list
- Replies: 2
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- April 22nd, 2015, 2:26 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Hub puller woes
- Replies: 44
- Views: 21262
Re: Hub puller woes
Heat did it for me with just a propane torch. You can leave the axle nut on a few threads to catch the drum which, if it is like mine, may tend to launch itself off the end of the axle.
- April 17th, 2015, 7:56 pm
- Forum: AA Buy and Sell
- Topic: Needing two right threaded studs and 2 lug nuts for 1929 AA
- Replies: 5
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Re: Needing two right threaded studs and 2 lug nuts for 1929
You always have to check because the drums and hubs are often installed on the wrong sides. Having both L & R on one hub is just nuts. Someone probably just had extras of the wrong kind. Left and right thread lugs continued on many makes up through the sixties and quite often tire shop guys have...
- April 14th, 2015, 5:46 pm
- Forum: AA Buy and Sell
- Topic: aa emergency brake parts needed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2605
Re: aa emergency brake parts needed
Thanks, got em from a forum member!
- April 12th, 2015, 6:06 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Engine knocking
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2643
Re: Engine knocking
It may just be time to go down another babbit hole.
- April 12th, 2015, 6:01 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Speed-o-meter reads wrong
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2097
Re: Speed-o-meter reads wrong
If you have a good speedo shop they can build you an intermediate gear box to put in the speedo cable to correct the ratio. It's a common solution to a ubiquitous problem.
- April 10th, 2015, 6:51 pm
- Forum: AA Ford Discussion
- Topic: Customizing brake rods.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1969
Customizing brake rods.
6436k14p1-d03c-ms-land.png Here is something that a few folks may find useful: I have been working on hybrid AA truck with a Standrive chassis. The brake rods are different than the other AA's or the Model A vehicles and so I have been making my own custom rods by cutting down longer rods that are ...
- April 3rd, 2015, 11:58 am
- Forum: AA Buy and Sell
- Topic: aa emergency brake parts needed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2605
aa emergency brake parts needed
WANTED; EMERGENCY BRAKE PARTS FOR 1931 AA (ONE SIDE) I am currently working on a 1931 AA with a "standrive" chassis that someone made a short bed stake truck out of sometime in the dim past. When I opened up the RR drum I discovered that the emergency brake system was absent save for the b...