I must be setting a world record for dragging this out so long... Anyways, here's the link to previous episodes. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153481 Now, the latest... I am finally getting some time to work on my car again. I recently purchased a new Muncie M21 from Auto Gear Equipment with an overdrive gearset. It will sit in the crate until I get ready to mock up the engine for mounts. I started closing the roof a few weeks ago by putting in the C channel above the doors and then a short piece of roof filler on each side. I found that the roof will tell you what it wants as you go. It just takes patience. I did split the center back open all the way to the front so I could lay it down lower and get the right slope to the front. Here are a couple of pics of the final stages. The last one is a teaser for the hood line. I need to narrow both hood panels at the rear before I decide where the cab will be positioned. When that is settled, I plan to sweep the frame rails upward in the front to get the cab down to about 5 or 6 inches off the ground, but keep enough clearance at the front cross-member to use a dropped I beam in a spring behind set up with hair pins. Look in the background for a drawing. Stay tuned... http://new.photos.yahoo.com/scottybaccus/album/576460762323153776/photo/294928804282637000/87 http://new.photos.yahoo.com/scottybaccus/album/576460762323153776/photo/294928804282637028/88 http://new.photos.yahoo.com/scottybaccus/album/576460762323153776/photo/294928804282637048/89 http://new.photos.yahoo.com/scottybaccus/album/576460762323153776/photo/294928804282621993/86
Yep. That's another funny story. Being poor, I try to leach off my pals all I can. A good friend and sometimes employer has a chassis shop where He\we have done tube chassis race cars and few hot rods. A couple even got published! Anyways, He and a former customer partnered up in a ProMod a couple of years ago. As they were finishing a complete overhaul of the car last winter, they bought a new mig welder. I looked at it for weeks before asking to borrow it. I just didn't feel right bumming a machine they hadn't even plugged in before. So after a while, I finally got an angle on trading favors and bummed this welder. Well, I like it so much, I decided to keep it. I paid them straight off the invoice and never looked back. (a little buddy lay-away didn't hurt either) Now they are bugging me to borrow it back.... Thanks for the kudos, guys! I expect my spending to open up next week and the parts selection will commence. The wife has given me a dead line; Round Up '08 or Bust (me in the chops).
I like my MM135, too! Cool chop, BTW. I agree that the top usually tells you what it needs. Start out with the plan, but once you jump in, adjust the plan as necessary.
I don't fear flat-glass chop jobs..its the curved glass jobs that bug me..I did a really nice job on a 56 Chevy a few years back and never finished it because I couldn't commit to the idea of maybe breaking a few $200 windshields before I got it right...
i have a 135 also, but my dog chewed the negative lead...so does anyone have any extra negative wire they wanna get rid of? longer the better
Scotty, I checked your link.............. Nice work......careful, well laid out, and you can see the patience taken...... I only wish I had a Miller mig.......eventually I'll get one of their multi tig units. Stick, mig & tig. Lincoln has one that I've been looking at for a long time, but I like the Miller's better. Since Miller owns Hobart and another company who's name I can't recall, I got a Hobart AC/DC stick unit about 2 yrs. ago.......I love it. I still use a Craftsman mig unit made by Century, and it's a gas/gasless welder, but I bought it new for $50.00 so I can't complain. It was returned because a connection in the gun didn't work. A 5 min fix and the thing was up & running. With an argon/CO2 mix, and light wire, that thing lays down some decent welds for a cheapy. It does well with flux core also, but that stuff never looks as good as gas welds. Anyway.....that truck will be a nice ride when it's done. Take care, Bob
Thanks Bob! Well, I am lucky enough to celebrate my birthday every Memorial Day weekend, so when my wife asks me what I want, I reply "Two Full Days in the Garage!" So here it is... I finished the suspension bars last weekend and finished the extended frame rails this weekend. For any that missed it, I started with a fully boxed model A frame that had a 2" lowered rear cross member. The extra length of the cab I'm using prompted me to move the rear axle back, so I have settled on a 118.5" wheelbase. I guess it has about 12 inches of drop in it now. Next up will be addition of another crossmember above the front tube to finish out the 3-link mounts. Then I'll move on to sweeping the front rails.
Thanks guys. Wish I could take credit for the tig work. I have to give credit for that to my buddy, Cam. I'll be enlisting his help with some decorative fish plates at each frame splice later on. I can make it strong, he can make it look good.
Good goin' Scott...... It looks nice & neat......and overall, carefully planned out. I'd love to have a tig welder but the Lincoln or Miller conversion units cost a mint. I have to settle for stick & mig for now. Tig is so much cleaner looking. Penetration wise though I like my old stick....but I'm a little more "old school". I just got back from Syracuse yesterday and we got some paint work done on my brother's 41', which I had done some flames on the week before. Now it's time to get back to work on my car......seems like I'm always doing someone else's car and mine just sits there....... Bob
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