Moving along with plumbing. I finished the fuel line and ran the brakes. Then exhaust. I only did the exhaust as far as the bump over the diff because I want the body and rear bumper in place to make sure the pipes exit where I want them. And tailshaft time too. Plus, to meet rules, I'll need a hoop. So much power Bolt in hoop! Now complete with new shaft and ready for the chassis inspection. The result was all good, carry on. (3 step inspection process. Step 1 is the chassis in the raw with all suspension in place, brakes, engine mounts brake lines, exhaust etc. All welds are supposed to be un touched, although I obviously cleaned some up. They are looking at engineering, clearances and quality of work.)
Wow, you passed inspection with that right front tire just floating out there...the inspector didn't notice? Kidding, lol. Chassis looks good. Your moving right along.
For those who are still watching…I have been working on the car. Setting up handbrake, making brackety things for it etc. so it works good. Handle will be pull out dash mount. Also figuring out and making an a/c mount on the engine. I always try to make things as simple and unobtrusive as possible and for me, that takes a lot of pondering and mock up time, but I’ve got it figured. I have about 50 pulleys for my engine, but do you think I’d have the ones for what I want to achieve? Naturally, no. But help is on its way. Have also worked out and modified the factory monkey motion column shift for the C4. The shift on the trans is on the left, so for RHD the factory made a shaft/lever thingy to cross to the right before connecting to the column. Mine now works in the 38 frame , which is somewhat different from the 1970 Fairlane it came out of, but it works now. All fun. Also been rebuilding a distributor and have some neat electrical stuff from Brillman. Handbrake so far. It’s a mix of Ford and Toyota pickup (diff is out of a Toyota.) Shift monkey motion. It required narrowing and frame mods. Once the body is back on I’ll discover how close the linkage is to the lever at the bottom of the 40 column. Looks like it won’t be far off. I’ll finish the welding once I pull the chassis apart for painting. I know I could have taken the easy way and run a cable, but I like things to look factory. In the end, all these things go into making a car work.
The simple things we take for granted...like the column shifter and the transmission shifter being on the same side! I had not previously thought about the linkage necessary to cross to the other side of the car, very cool to see! I like your e-brake arrangement. It looks like great adjustability and leverage is part of the design. Oh yeah, and I'm still watching.
It's a Toyota pickup. 56 1/2 " good brakes and modern Ford bolt pattern. Tank is modified original. This post covers the modifications: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/1938-39-40-sloper-custom.1210500/page-5#post-13922424
I suspect there are more people watching than you realize. I tend to just hit the Like button since I am enjoying your progress but I don't really have anything else to add to your thread content-wise. Your pondering pays off - you do really nice work and I appreciate that you take the time to document and share it with us.
I am feeling a little stupid at the moment.....I actually read that post just a few days ago. old age I guess....
Like when I walk into a room and forget why I went there. Which is not as bad as about 6 months ago when I was looking for my car keys and found them...in my hand.
Will you be retaining the commercial gears (4.11:1?) or swapping them out? A friend had a similar rear axle in his old PU and I recall him stating that they weren't good highway gears. He ended up swapping in a Toyota Cressida passenger car centre for a more user friendly user friendly [Economy and top end] ratio.
So for a change of pace, I thought I'd have a go at resurrecting the instrument cluster. The original with my 1940 dash had suffered the ravages of time and weather so the old warped plastic facia looked more like dried out bone than plastic. And the back looked like the pic in my previous post, rusty and crusty. Time to get inside... Lots of little pieces, but interesting to see how it works De-rusted and cleaned up all the housing parts and painted them.
The numbers are new strip decals. I applied them after cleaning with acetone and fine Scotchbrite. The gauge faces were also renewed with decals. Finished job, including new glass. I elected to use idiot lights for oil pressure and charging so installed some small LED lights in the gauge faces.
Looks great! Whats with these little red lights in the corner of the oil and battery gauges? I don't remember having those on my 40's.
Dang, I thought I read the whole post....... My senior itis must be in overdrive this week. Anyway, nice work as usual!
Been working on dash/windshield stuff. Wiper motor and mech done, a/c mounted and ducting done. Good windshield frame de-rusted, cut and ready for repairs (different frame in these pics.) Filled all the cowl vent and hinge mechanism gaps in the windshield garnish. One thing I did add were vents for demist. I didn’t want anything in the dash top so made louvers in the 39 garnish a-la 1940.
Sano job on the exhaust! I appreciate attention to detail on the mundane bits. Keep it going, I'll keep watching.
So tidy !!! How'd you do it though ? The garnish louvers. What are the the lengths ? 3, 4 inch ?? Err' .. umm' .. 7.62, 10.16 centimeters ? Look great !
It was definitely meant as one. Some cars are built, some assembled, some are metal art. I prefer the latter and yours is fitting the bill
You´re flying through this right now. Fantastic save on the dash panel. I like the use of enchanted vapours as front suspension.
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