Projects My 1929 Model A Ford AV8 truck build thread

awsome ...glad your enjoying it ..

 

I spotted you at BTTF cruising around. The kids had grins from ear to ear. I never found you parked to chat. Sure enjoyed this build. Very nice pickup.

 

Truck is looking good. I like it and i think children also liked it. It's body should be very solid.

 

Saw you at BTT50's. Very nice truck!

 

Tonight I started making the push bumper so I can push start the Fiat with the truck at the Meltdown Drags.

 

Today we finished the brackets for the push bumper. I had David paint a bull's eye on it then for me.

 

...lookin forward to seein your truck at the Meltdown; you bringin the kids?

 

You bet we are! See you there!

 

Here are are both of my Model A's posing for a picture:

 

Nice.Good to see whole family enjoying it

 

Thats nice to see the old truck being used.

 

Your Tudor is AWSOME!!! more pics of that one please

 

Maybe you should buy it. Here are some pics; http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=224479

 

Here are some pics from the 2011 Symco Shakedown taken by www.juddsphotos.com

 

Holy smokes! Those are some cool pictures!

 

some lucky kidos

 

Dont know how i missed this thread, but WOW!! your attention to detail is amazing as is your craftsmanship. Good job man! Its cool the kids are helping.

 

Those pictures are awesome! In fact I have been trying to take this picture and antique it in photoshop, but I just got CS5 and I really messed it up! Well anyway it looks like a blast and it turned out great!

 

I finally took the time to check out the steering problems I am having. The truck darts all over the place. It turns out it was a simple fix. The steering arm I installed has deep holes drilled and tapped in it and it bolts on through the top two holes in the spindles. I originally measured the hole depth and used a 1/2-20 x 1 1/2" long bolt. It turns out the holes are not tapped to the bottom and the steering arm was not tight to the spindle and was just slightly loose causing the truck to wander. All I did was run a bottom tap in the holes. Now it is 50% better. Next I am going to fix the drag link's funky angle.

 

It has bee pretty quiet but I am going to tear her apart soon. I did just pick up a 34 glove box door though. Saturday I spent looking at all the flathead transmissions I have because I have problems with the 39. I think I have decided to just rebuild the one in the truck though.

 

looks awsome man those last couple of pictures are insane the one with your 2 boys behind the wheels are just awsome ...keep it up

 

Here are the pictures of the correct steering. It drives so much better now. I eliminated the bump steer.







BEFORE


AFTER

 

Great steering fix tech!!

 

Thanks for the advice Rob!

 

Awesome pictures! The truck looks nice. Great job

 

I love this truck ! And those pictures are so cool.
Awesome the kids were/are so involved.

 

Great truck, thanks for documenting so well!

 

I have been wanting to put aluminum heads on the Flathead since day one. I really did not want to spend a ton of cash on heads though. Today at work I scored when a customer brought in a pair Fentons he bought new in 1962. He took them off because he was having engine problems and did not want to wreck the heads. He gave me a sweet deal and now they are mine!

 

I could not wait and had to see how they looked, now I need to clean them up and have them checked out.