Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

Swapped the stock wheel studs for some long Moser’s. I probably didn’t need them, but I probably don’t need a hot rod either. Also working on brake hose routing. The weather was just too nice today not to work on the old Studebaker.

 

64 mile round trip in the rain. Each time I’ll go a little further until I work out all the bugs.

Last Tuesday I visited @gary terhaar RIP. This is the man who inspired me to pursue metal fabrication as a career 30 years ago. He mentored me, especially when we built the engine in my Rancho back in 2013.

 

Honoring the ones who inspired us...Kudos To you you sir....

 

Thank you for that. I couldn’t visit him in my boring commuter car. I had to pay respects while appropriately dressed.

 

Made a hood prop for our '47 that tucks up out of the way when done. Decided I didn't want to use an in dash cable on the hood latch so I added a handle you can reach thru the grille.

 

After a lot of screwing around finally got the exhaust installed in the roadster...


And thanks to @Hitchhiker I've got a good 32 grille and shell to work on!

 

Varnished the dash, and the faux wood trim... View attachment 6157503

 

I put the interior back in the 41



Gave everything underneath a final look over then took it off the wheel cribs and set it back on concrete



Tested brakes, forward/backwards gears, cooling fans, brake lights and the line lock, all works !

 

...nothing like hotrods in the morning with a cup of Joe...

 

More work on the 27, floors and tunnel, today will be brake master access door and shifter mounting.

 

Bigger

 

I spent the afternoon making a spacer for the front part of the scoop on the 41, sits just about perfect now.
Previously when I rebuilt the scoop I had it right where I wanted it but the new blower is taller than the old one, so I had to change my way of thinking on how it should look.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/cutting-up-a-surfer-scoop.1077517/

 

Well I'm continuing with the frustrating task of getting my car road legal too - this past week I was supposed to be with visitors from Israel but for obvious reasons their flight got cancelled, so I decided to have the week off and concentrate (among other things) on the car. On the positive side the machinist managed to adapt the water thermometer housing so it accepts the sensor (previously it was mounted on a brass pipe which had a too large diameter thereby ruining the rubber hoses and having no swage to hold them) and the cooling system is now assembled with water inside and what appears to be no leaks. On the negative side the car refused to pull gas into the carb (so no full working temperatures/pressures test) which can be either the fact the car was on the incline with an almost empty tank/kinked & loose steel pipe from pump to carb - or a dead fuel pump. The first is easily repaired, went to the local building supplier and got a copper pipe which I need to cut, flare and shape. The second will be PITA simply because it takes so long to get anything here from the US... I also managed to get other annoying things sorted like the windscreen washer working, the gas pedal fixed and some exposed floors cleaned and coated with paint. All during a heatwave meaning working at 90°f-100°f.

But I am a masochist, so all is good.

 

raced this guy

 

Been working on rear quarter panel. Have gotten it closer. Still needs some more finishing work on the high spots. Should be able to take care of the low spots with filler.

 

Installed trunk carpeting

 

Me and my son aligned the front end yesterday, which was the last of the mechanical things, so today I started working on the hood sides.
I never finished the body work from where I made all the separate pieces into a one piece tilt front end.
The plan is to smooth out the cloth and resin then cut the majority of the hood sides off but leaving enough to still tilt it by the hood.

 

Did ya win!

 

that tilt nose looks mean...are you painting the truck flat black ?

 

It's been that color for 30 years, all I'll do is paint the hood and touch up the fenders

 

raced him twice
beat him once

 

Added a larger overflow…..it’s shiny stainless so I’m not going to show it….. I semi gloss blacked the last one that was aluminum but this one is not that easy…

 

Painted firewall

 

Repaired a flat, a damn screw in my new whitewalls......

 

Put some trim on our '47. Really need to get the doors out and gone over.

 

Went for a drive.

 

slap the shit out of it, that'll all come out...if it starts oil cann'n put some heat on the pop spot and give it some light slaps..quench it with a wet rag.. metal has a memory .... unless it's like the 100 year old doors on my 27 T... they have Alzheimer's ... and get some shit brick for a good guide.... not say you don't know how ... but just incase... here's a video that'll help you and outers not use so much filler..

 

I don't know the secret hand shake, and I'm kicked out of all the reindeer games... so can I just ask what you raced him with??? with all due respect...

 

I don't have any pictures of my car at that event but here is one from GGPNW 24

 

wow, ask and you shall receive... bitchen car.. I didn't get my macs catalog yet, so gotta ask,..what year body..seems the pre 25's have more swoop on the rear of the cab, and rounded doors