A piece of 2 x 4 isn’t in keeping with the class of the car. We’re talking Grey Poupon here, not Cub Food’s mystery mustard by the jug.
What about replacing the lead hammer with a carver’s mallet? Oiled hardwood handle, dense rubber face, lead insert. This is a work of art. Michaelangelo would have used one had it been available.  

Or a wood…[Read more]

Another method: get a 8 or 10-inch bit of 2×4. Rest an end on your knockoff ear & hit that with any hammer you want. 

 
Why don’t you use the Clark and Clark protective knockoff wrench picture as a pattern and make your own with plywood and a jigsaw? Be the first on  your block to own a three eared knockoff wrench.   

My knock offs are three eared and chromed, although I think it might be cheap chrome.  There is a small chip on one of them, like it peeled off. I’d be hesitant to hit them with a metal hammer. 

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Ah, the link is back then! Good dealy. For any interested, the SoCal wheel is here. Quite spendy at $360, I know, but no more so than the Flat 4, once all the accessories you need for the Flat 4 are counted (Boss kit: $50, horn button: $90?!), and it’s an almost drop-in replacement for the old style Grants all our cars came with, AND it’s…[Read more]

 Xenon lamps do put out a lot of light but do take a lot of power to do it if you charging system can handle it do it i do not do that much or type of speed to make that kind of change I just like  40mph not my age in speed   Dan,,, good luck

I agree.Those German engineers used rubber. That should be good enough for us!

Cool find Ed!Reminds me of my 1965 Plymouth Satellite. A reproduction windshield washer fluid pump sells for over $100. But…the same pump was used in late 1950s Ford Pickup trucks. THOSE pumps sell for about $25 or $30!Go figure!

Welcome aboard Pat!

I’d do it if I had spinners, B. I don’t, so I wont. Plenty other projects pending and, yeah, there will by pics.BTW, what’s the big deal? The stuff was made to be hit with a hammer. Why not do it?

 Hi Pat, Welcome to the forum!
There is a Ford based Classic Motor Carriages replica for sale in Reidsville NC.The engine has been recently rebuilt by a local mechanic and has some performance modifications. It’s red with a white top and tan interior and auto trans. The car is very low mileage and looks good. It’s at Randy Keaton Auto Sales in d…[Read more]

Paul overstates it a bit. 58 hp was rating for the Mark II, special speed edition (fewer than 2,000 were made, as against nearly 30,000 total TD production). The stock, standard XPAG engine was rated (rather ambitiously, I hear) at 54 horsepower. Top speed tested around 78 mph, and that’s with a bit of tuning. Gross weight was given as “a…[Read more]

 
Post pictures. Perhaps you can improve on the idea. A collapsible/removable handle would reduce the need to hit a piece of wood with a hammer. Add a few bits of brass and people will think that it came from the factory. 
A wooden wrench. What a concept.  

Word on the steering couplers is that the pretty red urethane ones fail; stick with rubber.

Nice looking block, Al. You do realize the original TDs are strictly show, right? Saw one at Carlisle with Ohio plates. Asked the owner–who looked like a hardy soul–if he drove it. He just laughed. Said it rides like a buckboard & so he never goes more than 20-30 miles at a time, and never near the highway. Now, I guess a Rover/Buick 8 could…[Read more]

Turns out the 40 Ford banjo wheels will fit a VW hub
with just a little filing.  17-inch wheel and apparently available in
beat-up shape from bone yards. A cool hack.I got mine from SoCal. Direct bolt-on for the three-hole Grant hub. They were supposed to send a 15 inch version but didn’t. I still see ads for a smaller one here and there. The…[Read more]

Welcome to the forum, Pat. We’ll keep an eye out & so should you. I found mine on Craigslist.

That’s what I’m talking about. That material is in my scrap bin, so my cost would be about $0 + a half hour of fiddling with the jig saw.

What Mike said! The original TD wheel will not fit the VW column.