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Tony,

The bevel gear driven, overhead valve V/8 engine made for no chance of “side of the road” valve grinding on the Wills Ste Claire. The W-6 and T-6 still requires removing removal of cam tower assy. (upper 6 inches) , then the head, before any common valve repairs. Like many 20’s cars, Wills is made to climb mountains, the norm for the day. In 1926 they drove a 26 roadster coast to coast in under 90 hours. A new record for the time. First gear is used to move the car ten foot and shift to second, wind out first and you will never get 2nd gear! The engineering is what drew me to Wills many years ago. It was Wills owners who also owned Pierces that talked me into then looking at Pierce-Arrows for the “over engineering” of this marque.  Karl

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Who has some photos? Need help posting them? I am glad to help if needed. Karl

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Hotel Registration is open, don’t wait until the last minute and find you can not get the rooms you need. The link above will take you to online registration or call the Double Tree directly.

Below is just one of the trucks we will see on tour Friday at the Jay Crist’s collection. It won a Senior Grand National Award last Saturday in AACA judging at Gettysburg PA.

 

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Terry, No photos in my phone of my car from Saturday, but here is one from Thursday when I said it was ready for the trailer. I will post a shot from the show field after I download my camera. Karl

 

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Wow you got to love the new website for the photo quality compared to my Feb,2020 post on this thread!!! look at the same February picture  posted again. No changes , just the new site doing it’s best for the Society. (LOWER PIN) Karl

 

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I was able to take a photo of the wood blocks covered with top material on the 1929 Pierce coupe at the AACA Meet yesterday that I am missing for my car. I did not have anything to measure the diameter of the parts, but maybe someone will now be able to understand what I need. They are the same coupe and Conv. Coupe. I need the measurements for top and bottom covers. Karl

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Jim,

The short answer is NO. The new site has so much more information available to our members. New format is not the end of the world . The web committee is working hard to give you the tools to keep in touch with everyone. Spend some time learning how to use the search boxes. They answer so many questions that used to require the message board when asking for technical information. If you log in and don’t log out that phone, desktop, etc. stays signed in for 2 weeks. That said, it can look like traffic is less when it is not. Someone can be on five time a day and it wont show on the “Current Web Activity” page if they don’t sign out. Post a few photos and see how easy this is in the new site!  Need help navigating this site e-mail the committee for help. Look for new help videos soon.

Karl Krouch Sr.

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Bill,

Eric Rosenau made them, so if there are still some for sale Bill Sandvik should have them, I have installed 2 sets. They do require some “fitting” of the three mounting ears, but the finished product is great.

Karl

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Randy,

In the world of generators with the wire hanging free it is running a “wild” voltage ride. This does create heat in time and could unsolder the armature windings. I don’t expect you to drive to Florida like this. Here is a real world scenario of the cutout and output of your generator: When you have a battery tender on your car, the battery voltage is high after an easy start of your 8 cyl. car, with no other lights on the generator is not going to pull the cutout contacts in and “excite” the generator to dispose of its amp load to charge the battery. This is the same as you starting the car with the wire off. If you are in town, at low rpms it can take miles to excite the generator. Your amp guage will show no charge even if it is set for 10 amps or more. Only the 1929 Generator have a voltage cutout in the generator to protect itself from a meltdown. So startup in your garage… real world it’s a test start, If you are still worried, take the cover off and wire back the 3rd brush. No out put.

Karl

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Bill, the part fits 1929 -31 all Gimmer or Ross boxes. The headlight and hand throttle arms change between years and models, but the parts you show stay the same for all. Some models have Deco ribs, others have acorn clusters on the arms. Only the acorn are being reproduced. The arms fit between the horn button and the outer ring. Karl

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Randy, running with the wire standing in air from the case is no different than the cutout in the off contact position. No harm done. Karl

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1921 X5 Two Ton Project

General / Travelodges & Trucks

William Props

24-May-17

Scroll back to 2017 not 2016, this is the date of the last post. you will find it there. Karl

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1921 X5 Two Ton Project Saturday, 17-Sep-2016

Put truck in the search box on the Message board index page and scroll back to 2016 it should be there, I can not get a URL link to work because of the password issues.

Here is the thread from when Bill was a member and was very active in working on this truck, Karl

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arm pins for bars

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Greg, this is the lower landau bar mounting pin.(just behind the door) There is a center drilled dowel with a square 3/4 inch hole that slides over this pin. The wooden dowel gets covered on leatherback and conv. coupes with top material. There is also a covered washer? or a rubber washer? against the body at this location. I am thinking this was about 1 1/2 inches on my last coupe. the upper front location also has a 3/4 inch pin mount with the threaded cap nut. I will get another photo later today. Karl

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