Engine overhaul...

[wore out]

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[Mule Meat]

Still true on a lot of models today.

Almost easier to raise the car and drop the subframe with the engine and transmission attached than pull the motor out from the top.

 

[Fritz Maurer]

The Model T service book says the motor should be out in 38 minutes.

 

[JMOR]

OSHA approved, too!

 

[Richard G.]

The Model T service book says the motor should be out in 38 minutes.

I took my Model T engine out in 45 minutes one time.
Could not do that now at my age.

 

[Gambles]

The Model T service book says the motor should be out in 38 minutes.

When I was a young kid, an elderly man ( who I will admit WAS a BSer) told me that, as a teenager, his vehicle engine started knocking. Do he pulled over along side the road, dropped the oil pan, took a connecting rod apart and then sliced a leather strip out of his boot to replace the con rod bearing. He said he drove it for years without replacing it. I don’t really know how much of his story was 100% true….

 

[Richard G.]

When I was a young kid, an elderly man ( who I will admit WAS a BSer) told me that, as a teenager, his vehicle engine started knocking. Do he pulled over along side the road, dropped the oil pan, took a connecting rod apart and then sliced a leather strip out of his boot to replace the con rod bearing. He said he drove it for years without replacing it. I don’t really know how much of his story was 100% true….

I know of that happening also.

 

[Duner Wi]

I know of that happening also.

Same here only using leather sole.
Another story of removing the piston and rod and driving without.

 

[caterpillar guy]

On the Gleaner E we used to put leather from old shoes in the walker bearings with a hole in the bottom piece so the grease would get to the inside of the leather .Ran it like that for decades. Dad was filing down wood blocks and all that .One day dad was not around for some reasona nd grandpa did the leather trick since it worked dad just adopted the practice. Told me they used to do that on the thrashing machine.

 

[NDIHC]

I wonder what the lifted car is. Not a Model T. It has longitudinal springs on the front axle, not a transverse spring like a Ford. Rear differential housing is not Ford either.

 

[rrlund]

Looks like home. There was four of us boys and we did some pretty questionable things. My uncle was here one time and we had something jacked up kind of cockeyed with one of those widow maker jacks I guess. I remember him saying "It's a wonder somebody hasn't been killed around here yet".

 

[620 John]

When I was a young kid, an elderly man ( who I will admit WAS a BSer) told me that, as a teenager, his vehicle engine started knocking. Do he pulled over along side the road, dropped the oil pan, took a connecting rod apart and then sliced a leather strip out of his boot to replace the con rod bearing. He said he drove it for years without replacing it. I don’t really know how much of his story was 100% true….

I know someone who did that with a Farmall F12 or 20. Yes it worked until they had time to fix it properly

 

[rrlund]

Same here only using leather sole.
Another story of removing the piston and rod and driving without.

EJ Potter did that with a car he was driving home from California. He said it threw it out of balance so bad that it shook the tubes right out of the radio.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

When I was a young kid, an elderly man ( who I will admit WAS a BSer) told me that, as a teenager, his vehicle engine started knocking. Do he pulled over along side the road, dropped the oil pan, took a connecting rod apart and then sliced a leather strip out of his boot to replace the con rod bearing. He said he drove it for years without replacing it. I don’t really know how much of his story was 100% true….

I've heard of similar but have my doubts regarding the " for years" part. gm

 

[rrlund]

I've heard of similar but have my doubts regarding the " for years" part. gm

Ran when parked.

 

[Janicholson]

I wonder what the lifted car is. Not a Model T. It has longitudinal springs on the front axle, not a transverse spring like a Ford. Rear differential housing is not Ford either.

The engine is a model T but certainly not the car lifted. The flywheel "generator" is unique to it. Jim

 

[NDIHC]

The engine is a model T but certainly not the car lifted. The flywheel "generator" is unique to it. Jim

I believe I have some of the flywheel magnets around somewhere.

 

[maqbill]

When I was a young kid, an elderly man ( who I will admit WAS a BSer) told me that, as a teenager, his vehicle engine started knocking. Do he pulled over along side the road, dropped the oil pan, took a connecting rod apart and then sliced a leather strip out of his boot to replace the con rod bearing. He said he drove it for years without replacing it. I don’t really know how much of his story was 100% true….

I ran across a john Deere a with the same fix once.

 

[Texgasser1]

Seems like only yesterday.

 

[Texasmark]

When I was growing up, the story was that I6 Chevy, babbit bearing, engines had a bearing problem and it was common practice to do the leather repair thing. I was a Ford V8 lover at the time so I never had that problem.....had Ford block crack problems. later on, in high school, helping a class mate, dropped the pan and replaced some inserts (using the proper parts) on a '64 Chevy I6 in the guys yard. Never did it before but it turned out OK. Was surprised.