No.... unfortunately I have not. I’ve been focused on my 40 Chrysler. But I do have plans this summer to bring the T back home. It needs a turn in the garage.
This is what has been taking my attention. Once I “finish” this, I will get back on the T. My Traditionally inspired ‘40 Chrysler https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...-Traditionally-inspired-‘40-Chrysler.1171511/
You have some awesome cars. Nice job on the T build, Looking great. Looking forward to seeing more, will be following along. Thanks for sharing!!
Sorry for the delay?? Been sitting in a trailer since winter of 18-19. I guess you could say COVID helped spark me into working on it again. Daughter tested positive, had to quarantine for 2 weeks. Have spent most of the time fixing the many wrongs I did 5 years ago. I re-reversed the front spring, gained me an extra inch of clearance from the axle to the frame horns. Completely redid the steering box mount. Dissected the rear x member as it had no clearance from the 9”. Added some of RJay’s speed shop rear spring mounts and cut out around 2” of the x member, built new u bolts to collectively gain enough clearance. Got rid of the triangulated 3rd link and ran it to the tranny x member.
I spent a long time trying to find narrow wheels that would work for what I wanted. Decided I needed to just narrow what I had. Fomocokid had figured up this nifty set up to widen some spokes for his old mans project. Worked out great to thin mine up a bit.
Plumbed my tranny cooler and all of the brakes. Got drums finally figured out all the way around. Had to do some cut to fit rear axles. Had a buddy at work help me go thru the 9”. While waiting on chassis parts I started filling holes and re working the firewall.
The chassis is now “done” minus paint. So back onto the body. I don’t have much for pics but the floors are 90% welded in and complete. Flipped it on its lid to properly attach the body to the subfloor. Fomocokid is willing to come help me patch up some of the bad sections on the passenger rear quarter and wheel well. I ran the cheek poker 2000 over the crappy parts and splashed on some Eastwood rust converter from the late 80s....should be fine......When we are done with that I will squirt some primer on the bottom side and flip her back over.
In the minority here, but prefer T shells on T's, rather than too-tall A shells. I'd rather see a straight tie-bar between headlights also, to go with the squarish lines of the T's beautiful flat top. Aesthetics, I know. I used a straight tie bar on my '27 tub, with a T shell. Looks much more 'straight' from side, as an imaginary hood would otherwise be going 'uphill'... A customer of mine had a '29 roadster, car was a high points 'resto-rod', 1980s. He fitted a Deuce shell, but the shell was 'high', (he didn't want to chop a perfect '32 shell!) Hagamann Sr. made an aluminum hood, (he grumbled) The finished chocolate brown beauty looked like it was turning up its nose. Otherwise, perfection...
Should really update this more often. Got a huge spark on this project a couple months ago. Have put a lot of time into it. Did a TON of small finish welding. Lots of little here’s and there’s. Finished the floor, trans tunnel, seat mounts, gas tank mounts. Cleaned the gas tank. Built a tranny tunnel. Seam sealed everything, and threw a coat of primer on most of it. Will do a bit of a photo dump and try to be better about updates going forward.
I also made a small standoff for the gas pedal, did some tweaking on the brake pedal. Figuring out the dash layout a bit. Will do a better update, with some more pictures soon. Also finished off the taillight/license plate mount. Next is door patches and keep tinkering on the dash.
Glad to see that you are back at it. Seems most of the closed cab T builds have disappeared and I was starting to feel rather lonely out there.
Somehow I got it to peak a little bit right at the patch weld. Suppose I will have to figure out how to fix that now.
Really not good at updating this. But if anyone still cares I will try to keep doing some photo dumps. I have been working a bit every day. Lots of small things. Spread a little kitty hair to hide some skeletons. Dissecting and mocking wiring, dash switches and gauges. Made a wiring bulkhead cover out of a portion of a sbc script valve cover. Shrunk and squeezed it a bit. Waiting on a lower passenger door patch. Then realistically I can blow this apart one last time.
Kinda caught up until I get my other patch panel. Or fix my 40 so I can move it and have space to blow this thing apart one more time. So I have just been putzing the last couple nights. Messed around with a steering wheel center piece tonight. Far from perfect, but I think it might work. Probably find some slotted screws for it.
Looking good man... The chopped T Sedans always look cool. Tip of the day... That trans cooler, if you get stuck in traffic, its worthless. Be prepared to shut down and sit....Never boiled mine but slightly burnt the fluid once in Austin sitting in their wonderful freeway traffic jams for Roundup... Then I started shutting down at every 10minute or longer idle fest of traffic... All depends on traffic around your area also...
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