Out and About the Town Again

Took another ride around town, this time touched all four corners of the village. Additionally, my wife and I had a new passenger, Buddy Love, my father in laws sheltie dog. He sat on Jan's lap and took it all in as he was the king of the "T". Unfortunately had no one to take a picture of his inaugural ride. This was his first "T" ride as he has never been in my father in laws '22 touring.
Got better at shifting into high gear, need to throttle way down. Still seems to run fairly hot, on the motometer right near the top, but this is short streets with lots of stop and go driving. Probably not a good parade car with out a water pump. Will need to work on the leak in the pump and see about putting it back on and seeing how that works.
7 miles.

Out of the Garage and on the Road

Was able to get out Sunday and go for our maiden voyage in the topless Clyde. It was a beautiful day with sunshine, temps around 80 and it wasn't raining, for the "T's" first introduction to the village streets. The wife and I took drive around the southern side of town, stopped and got some gas and just enjoyed the ride. After that our daughter and her fiancé came over and I took them both for a short ride around the neighborhood, put a total of about 9 miles of travel on Clyde.

He ran very well, and the wife remarked that he seemed a lot quieter than her father’s '22 touring, to which I agreed as you could clearly hear the coils buzzing away, but I don't have a cover for the coil box and we didn't get much above idle speed in high gear as we were on residential streets. Shifting in high gear is not as smooth as her dad's "T", with a fair amount of rough chatter. Transmission brake was fairly good but could use a little tweak and need to adjust for a better larger neutral position on the brake lever as there is not much movement between having the rear brakes on and before high gear kicks in. No major territory marking just a little oil from the rear of the transmission at the ball joint.

Need to get the new top on, pretty warm sitting in the sun. Hopefully we have finally arrived at warmer and dryer weather and we will have many more enjoyable days of driving.

Honeycomb Radiator

Here are a few pictures of the honeycomb radiator on the "T". I have not had the shroud off so don't know if there are any hidden marks under it.
The first is a front view, the repaired leak was in the lower right corner.

 

The next is a rear view.

Here is shot of the upper right side numbers "159216".

Finally a look at the center rear, can't make out these number "***47"

Water Pump

The original water pump is leaking and looks to have been for awhile as there is a good rust stain at the moter pan joint. The "T" has a honeycomb radiator which the previous owner had just had repaired before I purchased it, (this was in the lower front right corner of the radiator). I thought I would try without the water pump and see how Bonnie/Clyde performs.
Removed the water pump and found that the horn  support bracket that was attached with the water inlet bolts had one ear cracked off so needed to replace it. Attached a new water inlet casting and horn support bracket with new bolts. Found that the horn would now hit the steering column if mounted with an extra bracket attached to the horn. Need to make a new plate to offset the horn up and away from the steering column.
Put the water hoses and pipe on to the casting and attached to the radiator bottom. Refilled radiator with water (no antifreeze yet).

Rear Wheels

Pulled off the rear wheels with the help of a borrowed wheel puller. The brakes are metal shoes without any lining, maybe latter I'll replace with lined shoes. On the drivers side there was a slight leak of fine lubricant. removed the end cap, felt seal and washer, and pulled out the bearing. This bearing had no grease in it just fine lubricant like oil coating. On the passenger side removed the same parts. This bearing was packed with dried grease such that I had to scrape and dig to remove it. Neither side had internal oil/grease seals. Cleaned both bearings and measured them and they were all around 0.498 - 0.497 diameter and looked in good shape (these are the original Hyatt style bearings). The sleeves had some pretty good grooves in the outside edges so replacement was called for. Installed new neoprene seals and bearing sleeves, packed the bearings in grease and reinstalled them. Cleaned out the two grease cups on the axle shaft and repacked with grease. Replaced the end caps, felt and washer with new components, and reinstalled the wheels after cleaning and painting.

Crank

One of the parts that I received was a spring for the crank to keep it disengaged. I installed this spring on the crank. Additionally I installed a front choke wire which was not on the car. Now I can choke it from the front while cranking without opening the hood and stretching to reach the carburetor.

Going Topless

As noted previously the top is in real bad shape and needs to be replaced. Got a replacement top from CarTouche, instructions say that it is best to install when temperature is about 75 degrees. Well this is the middle of winter it's going to be awhile before we see that. Anyway in preparation removed the old top and bows. The bow wood have a lot of tack holes in them and the front bow at one end had some rot from a previous moisture leak. Started to fill in the holes with toothpicks, but as I proceeded I got to looking at the joints to the bow irons.
These bows are 3 piece wood assemblies in the irons. A curved piece inserted in the irons and a straight section across the middle riveted to the irons at each end. These joints were fairly loose so I decided to make new cross members after filling the old wood with hundreds of toothpicks (looked like a porcupine). Using the old sections as pattern cut new cross bars out of oak. Sanded down the irons and repainted them.
Right now Clyde is topless ( thank goodness she isn't Bonnie at this time).