1930 American LaFrance Part 5 Large 540p
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- This is the final of 5 videos showing the results of many weeks of work. We finish some repairs and make some modifications and then take the truck out on the road for a road test!
Thanks to bensound.com for the music.
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G,day from Sydney Australia. That was a really interesting and educational five part series. Excellent determination to overcome engineering obstacles with adaptive solutions.
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Fascinating series. Love the loud music drowning out important sounds. Who needs to hear an engine run anyway.
Wow beautiful ride great mecanic love that old truck
Stay tuned for a video down the road on removing the chain drive chains and sprockets and doing a brake job.
I just purchased a 1972 American LeFrance in the south we call them water pushers? It just means it Carrie’s water and drown out what ever fire or laying down water for other fire fighters. These are great machines,the one we had won on reserve had only13,000 miles on it. I wanted to pass a question along to the gentleman in the video. I know why these trucks are built to take a beating! The first time you work on one of these trucks you will experience what it is like to work on the most complete machine I have ever seen! I mean this truck is almost 50 year old. It had set in a field for 12 years! Two batteries and a quick go over and she rolled right on out. If you ever drive a American LeFrance nothing else comes close.
Enjoyed the series
thank you for all the infomation you have given me on the alf
Good video.
Thanks!
great job. well done. I visited the ALF museum in 95 and have photos of me with each and every truck that was on exhibition there. what a legend.
You know alot about engines
Very cool videos.
Very nice 🔥 FireTruck 🚒👨🚒👩🚒
thanks so much
being a car enthusiast and a volunteer fire fighter loved this series. From the Gold Coast Australia
Glad you enjoyed it mate!
Love old fire equipment, hope to see it painted and restored everything working.
... in an earlier episode, he says it will be a "patina restoration" which means clean, polish, and fix what's broken... that's it.
I hope so too!
Simply amazing! Thanks so much for posting this series!
You bet!
Use leaded av gas to save the valves and seats add lead additive too
Thank you, enjoyed your journey
That engine was new when my father was 11 years old. I bet at one time or another he saw that engine doing it's job in Hartford where he lived. Hope to see it myself one day.
Your fan I believe is set to push air so when stationary, pumping water, air is pushed throw the radiator for cooling not every think is as I seams
A great drive through town!!
You got it running...GOOD JOB!
Great work. I'm thinking that sometimes the number one tool you need is patience.
Very true!
Absolutely fantastic series of videos!
Thanks! Keep watching there is more content coming next week….
Wow
Great Series, I loved watching it
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great truck and great restoration series. But I'd really appreciate losing the music track--motors and tools sound is vastly superior to clanging gee-tars! Thanks for the ride!
Turn the music up a litle more. Sometimes i could still hear a man talking and an engine running.
you can also run that exhaust pipe from a lawn mower or a car idling into the gas tank and that is a ineart gas and it will not explode
.... if the tank is washed properly you can run the blow end of a shop vac into it and that will keep vapors from building, PLUS, dry the inside. OTOH, this tank would need acid washing, degreasing, etching wash, and an inside coating. Likely around $200 worth of chemicals on a tank this size and a week for the curing process. I have done it several times and it works well.... but only on a tank WITHOUT baffles.
Awesome stuff Travis sent me here!! I’d love to see your collection
Awesome thank you!
Seems to run nice, shame the music drowned out the engine after all the anticipation of wanting to hear it run. Ah well, other videos I guess
We will note this for future videos, thanks for commenting!
You need the finger style valve spring compressor
Why the crap music. ???????????????
The fan might not be on backwards, sometimes on a pumper truck, the fan was set up to suck the hot air out of the engine compartment and out through the radiator. When set up at a pond, or other water source, supplying other trucks, the engine compartment would get way too hot.
Forklifts and construction equipment run the air from the engine compartment out through the radiator too.
A little second guessing. You could have it dipped to remove the rust.
You can also flood the tank with nitrogen for safety while you make your cuts.....
... you guys get too complicated. Wash it internally then fill it with water. If you don't like water all over the place then after washing and draining stick the blow end of your shop vac in there. No vapor build up = no boom!
Got to put lead add to gas for the valve sets
John, In this video you mention valve clearance. What is that number? Also at what angle of degree did you grind the valves at ? I have a 1922 Seagrave with the F series motor. Thinking I also need to seat the valves but I am unsure of the finer details.
Thanks for taking the time to make these videos I am learning a lot.
Great series. If I'm not mistaken, you have to double-clutch, right? I have a '31 Pontiac and double-clutching is required with it. A super fun driving experience, to be sure. My father was a volunteer Fireman for 60 years in my hometown of Heber City, UT. The Fire Department there has an American LaFrance Engine similar to yours, but I don't know the year of it. Dad drove it in the annual Fair Days parade and young kids were allowed to ride on it, or Fair royalty, etc. Great fun!
I checked a photo of Dad driving the old Fire Engine and see where it is a Mack and appears to be a handful of years younger than your American LaFrance.
Yes its a double clutch setup for sure
Would like to see if the pump works
If anyone needs NOS valves we may be able to work a deal... I need a water pump for a 1924 !!
... engine water pump or fire pump? On the fire pump you might be amazed at what is still available from the MFGR. We recently got pump seals direct from Waterous. The engine pump might be rebuildable if it's just a shaft seal leak. There are guys out there converting those old things to a late style ceramic seal. Did both of those on our 29 ALF a few years ago. (ours has a Buick engine)
Are station has a 1929. Same truck, restored. Needs some brake work. Did the motometer work on that 1930?
Yes the Moto meter worked well. Give me a ring and we can help you out with that brake work. Check out www.gaspersautomotive.com
the fan appears to cut the air the same direction whether turned around or not
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Why didn't you weld the casing to fix ot.
Legal. Keria te. O. Prazer. De. Coice. Sua. Pessoa. Um. Abraço
I see that you drive the American La France in a similar way to a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Once above a smart walking pace, get into top gear ASAP and stay there until a halt or a steep hill.
Rolls-Royce? I thought more like a farm tractor. Top RPM must be about 800! lol
@@thomasewing2656 One very rarely uses over 1000 RPM in an early Ghost. It is a very long stroke engine and although maximum power is developed at 1500 RPM, it sounds a bit strained at that. The 1909 London to Edinburgh Ghost I occasionally drive, has an uprated engine from the original 48 BHP at 1500 to 82 BHP at 2000 RPM and a 4 speed overdrive gearbox but it also has the luxury of full flow oil filtration and an oil cooler. I would regularly take that to 1500 RPM but that is in effect a lightweight competition car.
Did that motor require leaded gasoline?
ALF for ever are you going to repaint it
you don't lap the valves in?
I wish he would have cut the seats. That much wear on the face means similar down below. (not to mention a worn guide)
Where can that be seen?
Did you go to local fire dept and show it off?
missed one of the plugs?
Do you know if the fire pump works?
The video would have been better without the music
what size are those plugs for the valves?
Your shifting into 2nd gear to soon . You need more speed before you shift.
No one wants to hear the mechanical noises, or the old engine running. Please mute the original soundtrack, and dub it completely with more cheap & loud music.
hate the music and you jump all over the place stay with one thing and finish it