Finally Driving the 1928 Ford Model A

Today I replace the tires on the 1928 Ford Model A and finally take it out on the road for the first time.
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This Week With Cars - Episode 0318
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[@leonhart2452]

I've been mounting tubed tires for 50 plus years. Bicyles, farm equipment, cars, trucks and motorcycles. Adding just anough air to the tube to hold its shape before installing in the tire helps prevent twisting and pinching as you mount the tire. Once mounted you inflate the tube without the valve core using a rubber tipped blowgun to seat the beads then let the tube deflate. This relaxes the tube to remove wrinkles in the tube. This helps prevent the tube chafeing inside the tire as it rolls down the road. Adding a dusting of taclum powder indide the tire helps too. Then install the valve core and inflate to pressure. The best way to find the proper pressure for tires is look in the owners manual or on the tire placard on the car. If those are not available is to set them where you feel comforatable then drive down the road at highway speeds for at leat 15 minutes to get the tires warmed up to operating temp, pull over and check the tires hot pressure. If your cold pressure was right your hot pressure shoulb be 10% higher than the cold pressure. If its less than the 10% your cold pressure is too high. If lmore than 10% the cold pressure is too low. Tires flex as the roll down the road, this flexing heats up the tires causing pressure to go up. Manufacture's know this and allow for it in determining cold pressure. This 10% works for all tires. Even when using the manual or tire placard for cold pressures, those only apply to the size and weight limit of the tires listed. If your tires are not the same size or weight limit as specified they may need a different pressure. So checking with the 10% method is a good idea. Running the proper pressure increases the steering and brakeing responce, maximizeing safety as wheel as tire life.

[@pr.emersomcardoso251]

Congratulations from Brazil. God bless you !!! Emerson Cardoso Santo André, SP/Brazil.

[@daveshongkongchinachannel]

Amazing how well it drove with just the minimum of work. Would definitely love to see more of this car.

[@stephenricketts7764]

I think that was a success as well. All the creaks and rattles are part of the experience. Really nice to see it out on the road and seems to run well. Thanks Steve a great video.👍👍

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

The wood floor is not bolted back in yet from replacing the battery so a lot of the noises will go away when I button everything back up.

[@stephenricketts7764]

@@ThisWeekWithCars Understood Steve!

[@stephenhenion8304]

Model A's are a Must Have for anyone Serious about collecting cars. Yours looks great, just the way it is!. I was 12 years old when my Dad bought a 31 Tudor Sedan. It had a metal bucket seat back in 1968...

[@AndrewHCann]

Excellent video Steve :) those tire back then amazing how last on tires and got on option of air pumps for tire on old 4 cylinders of Connetial one when engine running to! I changed lots tires in past one were most common in 1990's was Firestone and Good Years to in those balloons types owners buy for those cars also trucks back then ! I have one orgnail air pressure from 1918 to 1940 it made out copper metal ! Hope you enjoyed that car and Restoration lots them over years!

[@keystonekid7451]

Nice job Steve!! A few days ago I watched your videos on how to remove the fuel tank and replace the sending unit for my Bugeye and how to test the sending unit to make sure that was the problem. Thanks for making great how to videos for all these different types of cars! You do a great job! Install was a success!!

[@Mr49Studebaker]

Good seeing this car making more progress.

[@johndavey72]

Hey Steve ! That's a win from me ! Interestingly you mentioned a wooden chassis ? Thanks Steve .

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

Wooden floors

[@johnvender]

Seems to run really well.

[@hatrickmusicnz]

Another excellent video Steve. Keep up the good work with your channel.

[@heckmacbuff]

What a car, fabulous colour and condition. When I see a tyre like that, I just picture Oliver Hardy sitting among a pile of scrap with one hanging around his neck!

[@campionoverbagh561]

Really great!!

[@MrDunky48]

On a push bike I was always told to softly inflate the tube before getting the cover right on. This way you could see you hadn’t twisted it? Another great video which shoes you at your best

[@davidnelson6893]

Yes that was cool

[@Bbbuddy]

Very nice. Model As did not have a wooden chassis. All steel.

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

Wooden floors

[@graemelliott3942]

Nice Steve! Saving one classic at a time!

[@jeffdayman8183]

Always like Model A content. Cheers!

[@Dog.soldier1950]

Missed an opportunity to paint the wheels

[@craigwiest772]

I swear, I saw dusty air come out when you broke the bead.

[@strokenumber3]

Excellent. Did they just make cars better back then?

[@robpeabo509]

It has earnt the right to creak & groan! I creak & groan and I am a little under half the age of your 1928 Model A!

[@paulhall170]

Lovely to see this old timer (the car LOL) out on the road and motoring along. What else do you have planned for it, Steve, it must be worth a bit of money... ?

[@fishaussie9112]

🇦🇺Great video

[@baakdimtri8385]

the tire looks a bit like a bicycle tire, you also need an inner tube and outer tire and rim tape, but this tire is 10 times larger

[@sparksw9dkb187]

Really enjoying your videos on the Model A. Did you balance the wheels as well?

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

Use DynaBeads if you want to balance them but tire balance would be the least of your vibrations original wheels like these are always somewhat bent.

[@stephensim5839]

Hi Steve, nice video. Why no rustrid on the inside of the wheel?

[@idk420blazeit]

Would like to see how the pontiac star chief is doin

[@evs2760]

Is this the same method/procedure you would use on an MG or Sunbeam with wire wheels?

[@88SC]

The tire machine barely broke a sweat on those.

[@annikajinx]

Not even a ... bead.

[@mafcawebmaster4237]

Interesting, but it would have been more helpful to people who don't have access to a tire machine to dismount/mount the tires "by the book."

[@ThisWeekWithCars]

You would have to break the beads loose with whatever you have sitting around and there is no by the book way to do that especially when they have been on the wheel for decades, every video you see on changing Model A tires will be different. I think I made the only video showing a tire machine used.

[@bladerunner6282]

too bad the first drive looked to be primarily on cement roads with expansion joints. ouch!

[@mboykin6047]

That left front looks out of round, that'll add vibration

[@peterpowell4821]

Was that drone video?

[@leonhart2452]

The camera he uses can delete the image of the selfie stick. I just learned this. It doesn't delete the sticks shadow. On better lit videos you can see the shadow but not the stick.

[@BubbaSmurft]

REALLY hate those drone shots.