Ford Truck tool layout

[Papaw]

At a car show yesterday I saw some tools.
With a 1927 Ford Fire Truck was a fireman's Elkhart Spanner Tool.

On the bed of another  old ford truck was a layout of wrenches, not all Ford.

[Yadda]

The Elkhart Fireman's Tool is wicked looking!

[Papaw]

The Elkhart Fireman's Tool is wicked looking!

My firefighter son says it is not correct for a 27 Ford Firetruck, at least not here in our area ( Southeast Texas ). But it is a correct fireman's multitool.

[captjack]

Good afternoon:
At best this is a hoge poge of tools.
None of which I have seen with 1927 Ford Trucks as I can not see the individual items.
I will find all the ones I have that came as a standard tool kit and get them photographed and posted.
Thank you for the fine subject.
captjack

[Papaw]

Good afternoon:
At best this is a hoge poge of tools.
None of which I have seen with 1927 Ford Trucks as I can not see the individual items.
I will find all the ones I have that came as a standard tool kit and get them photographed and posted.
Thank you for the fine subject.
captjack

The guy and I talked about the tools quite a bit and I gave him some pointers about what he should include. I feel he just wanted to ave a bunch of old tools there.

[captjack]

Good morning:
Many people do not realize that when we (Grandfather and Father) had Model T's, we made pickups out of them for use here on the farm.
And, as you know, when the Model A's came along, (of which I have a 1930 and the bed from what was called an AA pickup among other names).  We again removed the lid from the rumble seat and made them into pickups.  On the T's we always carried a strip of pork rind to use as a crankshaft bearing.  We also jacked up a rear wheel (usually the left rear) put on a saw blade and cut fence post ...True.
Thank you for this great site.
captjack

[Papaw]

Some say you could stuff banana peels in the differential to mask worn gears when it was time to sell !

[captjack]

That might be true yet we raised hogs but not banana's.  That was an exotic thing in those days.
captjack

[Bill Houghton]

Some say you could stuff banana peels in the differential to mask worn gears when it was time to sell !

Back in the 1950s, long before the Pan-American Highway had been completed, some intrepid group of idiots decided to drive from North America to South America.  They chose Citroen 2CVs for their vehicles.  Somewhere in Central America, as I recall the story*, one of the motors sprang an oil leak.  After they'd used up all the oil they had, they took to peeling overripe bananas and stuffing them in the oil filler.  The motor continued running for several hundred miles, smoking like a house on fire but running, until they got to a town large enough to have a repair shop.

*I've tried finding that tale in recent years, without success.

[Papaw]

Long ago I read about American soldiers using shoe leather to keep H D 45 engines running when the main bearings wore out.

[mikeswrenches]

American ingenuity at its best!!

Mike

[strik9]

The Ford T bootleather main bearings thing has been found in old cars being restored.

    I have found alu sheet from beer cans making .10  over main bearings work in .30 over worn blocks on old Cat machines.  They csme in running if poorly.

[Papaw]

I can't remember how many tines I used beer can material to shim up motorcycle handlebars !
It was mentioned in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig. His riding partner was a purist who cared nothing about doing work on his own bike, and when Pirsig offered the solution to him, he said NO.