Not very close to done. Kind of like an extended mock up until I have a place to blow it all apart and finish the frame and put it altogether properly.
Still picking away at body work on the truck. Box side is pretty rough. Lots of patches and s***ches. Dr Frankenstien would be proud.
Spent an hour or so tonight after work beating the good parts out of a cracked 201 Plymouth flatty. After a day or agonizing precision work it is very the****utic to dis***emble an 80 year old engine with a pipe, cold chisel and a sledge hammer. Saved the rods, cam and lifters. Block was rusted and cracked.
Na you need dodge flathead six Pistons. They are 3.312 these are little light weight 3.125 Pistons. But if you wanna build some real power I have a nice set of new 201 Pistons with rings and a fresh block! Lol
After a bit of a break to do other things I am back at the truck today. I have been fighting with the drivers side of the box for a while on the bench, I think I was chasing my tail. I bolted it back on and it seems straighter. I need to copy @robbob and use some tube to repair the top but it is getting better. Hung the tailgate as well.
Decided I didn't like the stainless wing nuts on the air cleaners either. So I repurposed the side cover bolts off a s**** 201 flatty. Going to see about getting them plated.
I have been trying to figure out some rear shock mounts. I haven't seen any that really fit. Until a couple weeks ago when I bought a whole stash of 36 Plymouth parts. Included were a set of spring plates with holes for the Lovejoy shocks(nice name they are the same bolt pattern as my u bolts and after some blacksmith work they look just about right. I am going to weld a stud on them but you ge the idea. Plymouth parts sure fit Ford hot rods well.....
Dumprat you finding the HAMB acting up a bit tonite? I'm having trouble 'liking' but I gottem in ... the loading dohicky keeps runnin on and on. You double posted just wondering. You gonna call your truck a Plyord?
And because it is super hot and muggy I figured I needed more heat and heat formed my front nerf bar! Needs a touch more shape but I ran out of torch juice. I need a real shop with a propane forge....
Nerf bar welded complete and brackets fabbed. Bar will get polished once I get to that point. And yes the Cali plate is horribly poser but it is all I had to get sizes and plate mounts correct.
Working on pedals. Plymouth pedals, mustang master, F100 mount, bracket and bushings to make it all fit together. Now I need to make up a 32 style K member to mount all this too.
Looking good Matt. That Plymouth pedal ***y looks like a problem solver for many builders. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Yes it should be. I was going to run the Plymouth pedals un modified, in a coupe this would likely work. In my truck I needed to drop them down a bunch more and move them forward as well. The Plymouth pedals are a little over an inch shorter than stock 34 pedals.
Sh.., all that Flat six power you better make a 33-34 style X like in my truck! Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
My X was butchered by a street rodder to fit a 700R4. So I took it out and used it to box the rails. I got some real nice rusty sewer pipe to build a tubular X out of.....
Never liked the rake my truck had or the fact the box rails didn't line up with the body lines. So today I started fixing it. Not done yet but will continue after some supper.
All tacked and bolted back together. I am going to pull the rear cross member and use tube instead so at that point I am going to lay the rails one beside each other and double check they are exactly the same before finish welding an boxing the inside. I made a couple of wood blocks for the front box mounts but for some reason they are a 1/4" short. Box needs rubber strips yet so I will make some new ones.
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