Sow finally I started my first hotrod build. Because I'm from the netherlands is kind of hard for me to find parts. So I first went looking for a chassis, front-end, rear-end and some wheels for measuring. That worked out pretty well. Meanwhile I was still looking around for a body. till I found this complete model A 1929 leatherback with danisch title. Before After met een 6"chop To get the car from Danisch to Dutch title they asked to put the car all back together to see all is complete. Also they wanted to see the Danisch title matches the chassis number. The numbers on chassis completely rusted away. Lucky in off I found some extra numbers on the firewall. Because I can't work on the body untill I got my Dutch title I started working on the chassis. Z frame It now got a complete tig welded boxed chassis. Yes I reversed the spring eye
Nice welding on the chassis. I seem to remember seeing this car or a very similar one in Belgium a year or two ago. Just noticed the 21 inch wheels. That,s what the restorers want here.
Crazy kid! Looks great man!!! Quit screwin' around on the HAMB and get to work... P.S. Maurice is right here... He says he will kick your ass when he gets home if you don't get back to work.
that last picture looks like the model a motor is that what your running???? if so come check out the banger mnthly discussion here on the hamb just search banger and you will get alot of info tk
I don't know what engine I'm gonne run. The A ford engine is in there just for weight. another update. Before.. After...
REally COOL, Loved The Way You Shortened The Rear Doors, You Probably Wont Need All Of Those Leaves In THe Front Spring, Nice Job!
cool lookin little jigger! i think i woulda got rid of the rear doors and made it into a tudor(dont think they'll be very useful being that small anyway). id never seen one of these cars before today and now it seems like they're all over the net (maybe i just havent been paying attention)
Great looking car. I love the chassis. It has a number of similarities to mine with the swept Z in the rear and the axle out in front of the frame horns. The overall look is very cool too. Those big wheels really work. One thing I noticed in the video of the test drive though was when you were turning hard back into your driveway you were experiencing some severe Ackerman issues. You might want to look at extending your tie rod and bending your steering arms outward to establish the correct relationship between your tie rod ends and king pins. As I said before though, I have a very similar set up but I have managed to keep my tie rod behind the axle, maintaining the proper geometry. To achieve that I had to build a drop into my tie rod for clearance under the split bones and frame. Very nice work. Pete
Yes I know. The first thing than came out during the test drive was the steering system problem. I already did some small adjustments which helped out alot. It's still not a 100% perfect. But I'm configuring if I want to change the complete steering system or not. There alot of slack in my 36er Ford steering box. Tnx for the tie-rod tip.
This diagram was posted on another thread recently. It is the simplest way I've seen to describe how to properly set up a front end with the correct Ackerman setting. Put plainly, whether the tie rod is in front or behind the axle, an imaginary line from the centre of the rear axle housing should pass through both the steering axis (king pin) and the tie rod end. Apologies if you already knew this but I thought the diagram above was a good one.
Yes I'm familiar with this diagram. But it's been a year ago since I build the steering system. So I don't know exactly what I did back then. It's good to give it some attention sooner these days. I will post you another movie wenn it's done.
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