Projects Rancho Deluxe '32 pick up shop truck build.

MORE please your doing a bang up job the rear shock mounts look super. The whole build is super but you know that.

 

love your work and ideas dude. The rear shock mounts are brilliant

 

Finally,,I've often wondered what happened to your truck and remember your initial post,,I am in awe of the frame work,,just gotta love the old Deuce pickups! HRP

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff305/ranchodeluxe/DSC01500.jpg

 

Just if you have tunnel vision.

 

Waiting on parts for customer work, so used the morning to make these. I'll cut the ears off the waterpumps.

 

That'll clean up the engine compartment some! Killer.

 

Smart!

 

Nicely done Ben.

 

Very very cool!!!!! Man I normally don't always recommend getting rid of the welds since that's just more meat off the bone but if those were filed they'd look like a cast Ford part!!!!

You're my hero.

 

Thankyou all. I thought about overfilling the welds and grinding them back, but once everything is installed you practically cant see them at all! And I've gotta work on customers stuff today, so that'll do.

 

very nice work man!

 

That's why someone like you can build cars for a living and someone like me cannot.....well that and that whole having a lot of skill thingy that everyone thinks is the rage today.

 

nice work

 

That's damn tidy... you got style what spills over onto all you touch, my man!

 

One more for the subscription list... love the ch***is work and care for all the details. It's going to be a killer company car!

Cheers, Eddie

 

Must be time for an update please Ben.

 

Lookin' good Ben...

Hope you're not going to let Chris near it.. Could end in trouble, especially is he is wearing his wrestling mask and wielding a blow torch!

 

I'm not overly convince that's a good idea...

original flathead water pump / engine mount bolts (4) are mounted in sheer over approx 8 inches total c-c for a reason.. they carry & spread engine load throughout the block without loading the blocks threads..

your design with two bolts about 2 1/2 inches apart is reliant on thread loading / pullout resistance only..especially on the lower two bolts... & you've increased the loading on the mounting bolts by moving the ch***is mounting point forward to the crossmember.

hope those 70 year old flathead threads hold ! I'd hate to see that motor come loose...

 

Oh, hogwash.... For a fella with a username like yours I think you would know that's the same a way 32 v8 engine mounts from the factory.

Looks great too, by the way, Ben. I mounted the engine in my roadster the same way.

 

hogwash maybe....Ben's call on how he mount's it.. I wouldn't

by the way...did you ever think it may be a reason Ford changed the design for later motors....

 

It's also a similar design to every Hurst engine mount ever made. I'm sure those four grade 8 - 7/16" bolts torqed to spec in one of henry's finest blocks will be more than enough to keep his oil pan off the pavement.

back to your regularly scheduled programming...

 

just because something has been done aftermarket in the past doesn't make it stronger..hurst made race parts...sometimes used for street cars.

In Australia & particularly NSW we have to justify modifications of our vehicles to engineering inspectors to ensure each modification is an improvement in design & strength..

in this case.. it isn't.. it's a backward step in strength...

function comes before style...sometimes

 

Rad stuff squire , love your idea's ...

 

I like all the details and great, tasteful ideas. Very nice work!


Malcolm

 

Deuce 32, I guess you know that this design is original to 32s , there is a step that catches under the block at the back of the mount, which takes the gravitational shear load off the bolts, you can't see it in the photo. The only disadvantage I noted is a slightly smaller resistance to rotational torque loads of the engine, but neither I , nor my engineer, consider this a problem. Thanks for the feedback though!

 

Hey Ben.. no can't see the tab in the pics.. they would be fairly small to clear

the pan rail so doubt they would show...hey.. as long as your happy & your engineer is

OK with it.. all good...some nice fab work..

I just mentioned it cause it's one of those things I would worry over.

 

Very nice work! I'm in for more

 

Beautiful truck man... excited to see this thing come together!

 

This looks great, somehow I missed it before.

 

Slick idea using the F-1 front shock mounts as rears!! Very nice.


Pete-