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Picking away slowly.

I dismantled both sprockets, the one that was vulcanized together came apart easy with some heat and the individual rubbers are all in good shape.

I decided to put the diff that came in the axle back together and use that. Both looked good. The serrated lock washers for the differential bolts are falling apart so I left them out and used a dab of Loctite instead. Bolts were torqued to 12 foot pounds.

The operations manual only says "oil" for the diff, no other explanation. I'm just going to grease it, for all the moving the spider gears will do, grease will be fine. I imagine the fitting was for an oil gun and since I don't have any British Standard threaded grease fittings, I machined one of the oil gun fittings down and made it an adapter for a 1/4-28 grease zerk.

Someday I’d like to build a period-correct speedster of some type. A Model T or A gow job could be fun, and would certainly be the easiest route. Something a bit more different might be more my style though. This Studebaker Commander on BAT checks a lot of boxes. Looks like decent execution and I’d bet at 100hp in a 2500 pound car, it would be plenty quick. I’d go a bit more period-correct on a few things and black tires with an aggressive tread would look more fitting on a car like this. But still really cool. It’ll be interesting to see where the bidding goes.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1931-studebaker-commander-2/

Men have hobbies and collect stuff.  Its what we do.

Besides the bad habit of occasionally buying a car and then eventually selling it for less I collect photos.  This started 30 years ago when I got Ted Billings photo albums from his wife Winifred.   Ted is mentioned quite a bit in the topic on the Bring A Trailer Duesenberg from last week.  He ran a restoration shop in the 50s/60s/70s and took a lot of photos.  He also liked cars that I like so the albums were very cool to me.   My dad started in the 50s also and he gave me all his stuff too.  Then I started looking and buy photos.  

eBay made it easy to blow money and I swear I have personally built the market for prewar photographs.    These days I have become very particular and maybe buy something on eBay once a month.   Maybe.

This is maybe 25% of my stuff.  I have it organized in albums and bankers boxes.  Along with the photos I have collected auction catalogs (I have hundreds),  original owners manuals, and other junk.

I know @SteveMackCT collects petrolina,  @Hupp31 had photos and sales stuff like me,  @DuesyGuy has corned the market on Model J parts.    Do you guys have collect other stuff (and maybe regret it?).

I've always loved this S7. The proportions and styling are just perfection. And how about that startup and rev.

RM Hershey has become the magnet for no reserve collection sales.  Each year they have at least a couple of collections, often from an estate selling no reserve.    When there is a collection of cars, especially from an estate, those are are selling.  Regardless of the bid.   Problem is that dealers know this and they are buying the good stuff at what looks like wholesale.

This year's auction is no exception with some very cool cars selling with no reserve.   I want to pick out a few of the ones I like.
https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/hf26/lots/

I bought this car from a friend in late June and promptly had it running after diagnosing a bad ECU and various grounding issues. Upon getting it started it had a loud knock which was undisclosed. Fast forward just over a month later it has a new motor and is back on the road!