Projects Building My First Roadster in San Francisco

I've used friction tape to set side windows in the bottom channel on my '53 pickup. They roll up and down and stay in place. I glued one once and will never do that again.

 

Any good glass shop should have a glass grinder, a little off each side will be easy, they normally cut them a little bigger than needed ,then clean up the edges .

 

i don't know about fuel lines hooked to a electric pump inside firewall, never seen in done , maybe there's a reason

 

The fuel pump is under the floor where they are mounted all the time, the hard lines under the dash are the stock location. Nothing here that hasn’t been done a trillion times

 

Getting close to getting him back on the road! Very similar to how I just ran mine. I noticed you opted out of the pressure regulator. I might end up pulling mine out. Good idea on the heat shield. Great work.

 

I can see low down A's concern. If you get in a crash and the line going to the carb comes off at the connection, you'll have the fuel pump pumping fuel into the cockpit of the roadster.
I installed an inertia switch on mine. If you get into a wreck it shuts the pump off.

 

That’s a fare point @Aaron D.
The pump is a low psi unit so it’s probably no more pressure than what would normally gravity feed out of the tank.

Not much about a stock gas tank feels safe no matter how the lines get run. The inertia switch is a good idea. I wonder if a roll over valve could be fitted to the bottom of a stock A tank?

 

The inertia switch is much easier than a Model A rollover valve. Similar protection.

 

Did you wise your Alliance Tag to cover a hole?

 

no info on the switch, but are you guys twins? tom

 

i would just run those fuel lines on the motor side of the firewall and i think it would be alright as is

 

This is a Ford item, more reasonably priced.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1990-2004-...df-7a24-425c-a06f-267b79d32cc5&epid=679741233

 

I have used 3 of them, on fuel injected hot rods. The shock trips the switch and there is a red reset button on top. It not a off and on switch.

 

This is the one I used. Mounted it under my seat where I have my fuse box. Not sure if it is ‘good’ or not. I had to swap one lead/contact to a different position to make it ‘normally on’. I also wacked it to see if it worked. It did. Ha!


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I’d just run to the junkyard and pull an inertia switch off an 90’s era Ford, they’re behind the right inside kick panel on F-150’s.


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That’s a thoughtful concern about the fuel pump. I honestly would never have considered it. One more reason this place rocks.

 

They are on the left side of the trunk in Mustangs and Crown Vics

 

I went to the wrecking yard and got one out of a 90s Ford Ranger. I mounted it to the firewall and wired the fuel pump ground through it. If the inertia switch trips, it cuts the ground to the fuel pump and stops it from running. I also ran the same ground wire through a toggle switch so I can turn the fuel pump off and have full power to the car.



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Do we have new smoke and loud noise yet?
Inquiring minds need to know.

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I fear these brothers have gone astray. If was the '60s we would start looking in North Beach wherever Carol Doda was performing.

 

Carol Doda, the Perfect 36!

 

Sounds like a name for a small local car show! Necessarily small because a cul de sac is just that , you could have the dead end dudes or the dead end guys bands playing and/or show the 1937 movie dead end, with the dead end kids . Just a circle of vintage hot rods at the end of a culdesac all cackling all day!