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

Added some cool frogs mouth scoops painted to match my ribbed valve covers.

 

Took my father in law from the nursing home to a doctors appointment in OKC in the Buick.

 

Added some frogs mouth scoops to go with my valve covers.

 

Roughly propped the seats in my A pickup. Now to fab a frame to mount them.

 

I finally got my roadster on four wheels as a roller.

 

Blew the front suspension apart for powder coating and put the second coat of paint on the frame.

 

Finished the back fenders, convinced the rear pan to fit, and installed the bumper irons and bumper on our '47. Now it looks like the bumper guard lights and tailpipes want to occupy the same place.

 

Rainy day here, but I got out to the garage and gathered parts and got them ready for this weekend, better than nothing

 

Went for a drive to celebrate New Years Day.

 

Carpentry work in the new house and some time on the Desoto coupe..

 

Installed the exhaust, 1 day break in the weather, I'm exhausted

 

Went to the ol pick n pull found some nifty headers


Found a master cylinder and a proportioning valve from a disc/disc car

 

Worked on my friends 302 for his hot rod

 

It is a little cold today I decided to give the sanding a rest and put together my dash for the model a sedan. I used leftover gauges and it turned out ok.

 

Needs a Hemi, definitely a Hemi.

 

Um....I don't think that'll happen. It's just going to be for bracket racing, and actually more so I can check the boxes "Own a FED" and "Build a FED".

But yeah, a Hemi of any sort would be some nice eye candy.

Lynn

 

I finished the ford 302 for my friend today

 

Pulled transmission to replace the clutch. Naturally there is also a ton of additional restoration & repairs of things other than just a clutch replacement. Nothing like opening a can of worms!

Trans after the 1st & 2nd round of cleaning:

 

do any more cleaning there won't be anything left.

 

With three different vehicles to finish, I am trying to do a little on each one. I rebuilt a set of pedals for my '40 pickup, and bolted them in today. That has been holding me up from installing the cab, as it's a struggle to install them with the cab in place.

 

Well, I feel less significant than the rest of my HAMB bro's, in that all I've gotten done over the past 2 weeks is:
1. Installed the new F150 discs and brackets/calipers from GM;
2. Caught a bad cold which morphed into pneumonia;
3. Gathered the dual master cyl. and residual valves/prop valve for the new 3/16" lines;
4. Obtained a brake tube straightener (16 steel wheels in a frame!)
5. Laid out the bracket for adapting dual cyl. to '55 passenger swing pedal ass'y;
6. Began planning and straightening 3/16" tubing and fittings for a 'sanitary install'.
7. Eyed my 354" Chrysler Hemi for installation upon removal of 350 Chev in said '55 F100. (at Last!)

 

Well at least you got that task out of the way.

 

Continued to rewire my car today. Slowly wire by wire I am progressing and I have a discovered a very important fact...there is a reason I DID NOT become a sparky in the Air Force. I am a mechanic and not a wiring wiz at all. But hey, it is getting done and I can 't wait to get to welding!!!!!!!!!!

 

Almost 40 years ago a friend and his wife trimmed the interior of my 38 Chevy. He didn't do the visors I've had them in a box for over 40 years. I did some trading with @stanlow69 and now for the first time in over 50 years at least, there are visors (and my wife is happy about it too

 

And I have a set of Stude Fins. Worked on some seats for a guy who is working on my motor.

 

Drove both my running old cars this weekend for a total of about 300 miles different days back and forth to a weekend chop class taught by Joel Davis @Pinstriper40. Great class and I would encourage anyone to go that would like some insight into chopping a car as well as an opportunity to hang out and work with other custom car guys.

 

Finally got those bastard rivets out for my steering box adapter. I swear it feels like I got beat with a ball peen hammer. I mean it hurts down to the bone from my fingers all the way up to my shoulders

 

Well this is quite the design flaw on my part. When I mocked this thing up to set the drivetrain in place I used a GM HEI distributor and had enough clearance to slip it in and out. So the plan has been to run a Accel dual point with a tach drive. But that was not in the plan during mock up. So this weekend I worked on switching out the distributor with only one problem, it won't fit !
I raised the rear of the motor up and down and still no go. You can take two screws out of the housing and the top half of the distributor comes off with the points in that part. That is not to bad but you have to make sure you have the two halves keyed right when assembling them.
So I can live with that , now to install the cap ( which is for a 66 V-8 Chrysler ) With the cap on the next issue is the rear wire is jammed against the firewall ( wheelbarrow tub ) So for the time being I will put my stock distributor back in as I smoke over my options . Which really sucks ! Plus I got some new made in the USA 10 inch wheels from US Wheel for like $65.00 each

 

I sit and stared at this for far to long trying to figure out a bulkhead, needs to be removable for service which creates the problem of what to attach it to.

 

Finally drove it. The first drive is always the best.