⚜️ Ford Model T ⚜️ How to Rebuild the Coil Box
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Over the past few weeks, I noticed old Liz was starting to develop a misfire, which at first, I thought was one of her coils beginning to fail. However, upon testing each coil myself, and taking them to visit a fellow Model T enthusiast with his 1914 Touring, running his car on my coils, revealed that there was nothing wrong with them. Still, to be on the safe side, I bought some additional coils from him, so I had some spares!
Fast forward, I've been busy replacing (and cleaning) the coil contacts where needed, and while I was at it, replaced my rather shabby looking porcelain insulators.
re-connecting everything back up, and ... well you'll have to watch and see!
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I imported my Ford Model T from the USA, not far from Detroit, Michigan where it was built.
The Model T was manufactured between 1908 and 1927, and was know by various names including Tin Lizzie, Flivver, T‑Model Ford, or just 'T'.
The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile became popular. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that opened travel to the common middle-class American; some of this was because of Ford's innovations, including assembly line production instead of individual hand crafting.
On May 26, 1927, Henry Ford watched the 15 millionth Model T Ford roll off the assembly line at his factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
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The Model T is a great example of why keeping cars simple allows you to make a lot of them, and sell them for reasonable prices. Who needs a distributor when they have a coil for each spark plug? More coils means less horsepower lost when there's an issue with one of the coils, but sometimes all of the coils have an issue simultaneously. It happens, but we have the technology to fix it.
If only more cars today adopted the same technology as the Model T... but then they'd never sell you another car because the Model T is so reliable 😆
@@ModelTMitch They could sell replacement parts. When things wear out, you replace them with "new" ones and send the "old" ones off to be refurbished. Less harmful to the environment than current real-world production methods.
Love your videos. Will be very helpful in tuning my 1919 T police car!!
Thank you very very much another awesome video Mitch I hope everything is going wonderful for you and I hope married life is treating you very very well your videos are awesome and I've always enjoyed them.
Thank you 😊 and I'm glad you enjoyed the video 😄
This is different to the fuse plugs in my Mini. I remember when you drove the model t on the outlet highway it reminds me of when I went driving on the steep hills like Nubeena back road.
Dishwashing detergent are perfekt to clean up the porceline and if wife permits - a dishwasher is even better :-)
But you should have exchanged the wood with plastic.
Nicely done Mitch a shout out from the States
Thank you John 😊
Excellent well detailed video. Thank you Mitch!
Thank you so much 😀
Thanks for the video. Good job well done. Just a few points here. I am curious how the coil box operates, how it builds up the charge to fire the plugs and how the spark timing is accomplished or changed. Also, you might already know, the bolts with the square behind the head are called carriage bolts here. They are quite useful for tightening into a piece of wood from one side as the square prevents the head from turning once it gets a grip. I would also suggest a good set of Imperial socket wrenches to make your work easier.
I have a 1964 Mercury and it's interesting to note the advances in technology in the 40 years between your car and mine. It makes me think how far we have come since that time too. After all, it has now been about 60 years since my Mercury was built and things have changes quite a lot. It's an open debate whether all the changes are worthwhile or not of course.
Thanks always for your videos. Fascinating always. Have a good day mate, from Minnesota USA.
One of my earlier videos explains the basics of how the coil boxes work...
czcams.com/video/hKRv-E_HC2Y/video.html
...however I think I should do a revised video soon, which explains the ignition circuit in more detail 🤔
Whoops head bump caught on camera.
Thanks for another informative video Mitch. Are the wooden buzz boxes original or have they been gone through? I heard the wax capacitors go bad over time, but I bought a few and tested the capacitors with a meter and they were still good after 100 years.
I don't know much about the wooden ones, I only recently got them, but I saw them working in a 1914 touring and they worked fine, so can't complain 😁
The way you keep lizz tuned up she'll make it to 200 years old but unfortunately no human in this certain generation won't makes it to 2124 but as long as you're family tree is still growing I wouldn't be surprised if she makes it 1,000 years that would be varry cool to have your ansesters 1,000 year old car bring it to kindergarten show a tell in 3024
200 years... if petrol/gasoline is even still a thing in 2124 🤣😂
Might have to ask Doc Brown to do a hover conversion on it 😆
@@ModelTMitch actually Henry Ford designed the model t to burn bio fuel I feed my model t ethanol and she still runs the same way as she did on petrol also Henry designed the car to burn a little boose to for emergencies so if my car is been a good girl I pore a shot of whiskey down the tank and she drives fine with that to I use synthetics for lubrication that come from soy beans and rubber comes from trees in tie land and with wheels and a inline 4 cylinder engine there will be no mistake that that is a 1,000 year old car plus model t's are designed to drive off road if that car makes it 1,000 years she'll be just fine being a ground vehicle in 3024 that would be ancient every one will be buzzing over your head in there flying car and lizz is still chugging along over the ruts and bumps that's what I would do in than