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Thanks all. Comfortable now with the shackles angled out as it seems with a panhard and sway bar the axle isnt moving. Yeah, the bump stops are...
Thanks, I was in the process of removing the spring so it's half taken apart. I guess I was thinking that the spring being too long was part of my...
Those were just reference I pulled. Here is mine without any weight on the front. When off the jack stands the spring is horizontal and I have...
My spring on my 41 is tired and need to replace. Figuring the correct length has been a puzzle. I have a stock panhard set up and seems like if I...
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It's been a minute but there always seem to be a million little things to do. Almost done. Waiting on my wide whites [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
I did it but don't recall having problems with the socket. The one I had snapped in the existing hole. You will need to use the small 1157 bulb...
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Some sections of my drip rail were rusted and I chopped the top and wanted to keep the drip rails so had to fabricate some sections of the roof....
I am in the PNW also and a month or so behind you on my 41 project.
Thanks for the info. Going to be a return line now with a feed line from the top of the tank.
Anybody know what thread pitch/size the vent fitting on a 48 Ford car gas tank is? 1/4 npt goes in about one thread. Looks like some type of...
Fast forward a bit. Slippery as butter. Will post more pix when it gets assembled
Mr Musico's chopped 41. I like it so much I am making my own version.
48 Fords had a panhard bar and front sway bar as a stock setup. For my 41 (which is similar to a 40, same front axle) I am adapting a panhard from...
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Work continues. To cold to do any body work so focusing on the fiddly bits. Drip rails are in. I cut them off the sedan body leaving about half...
Like many of us I would like a 36-41 pickup but it seems like they have all been bobber'd/rr'd and that isn't my thing. Prices seem to be coming...
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Work continues... [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Making drip rails from the sedan I cut up. Fenders and doors are done after fixing a...
I am with you saltflats. Getting a hot puddle in the center seems to get the edge of the top piece of metal glowing and then trace the hole with...
Hey All- Mocking up my grille, fenders and hood on my 41 and have a big gap in the center of the hood where it meets the fender. Probably 3/4...
Sold, thanks HAMB
Thanks all, that should get me started. Sent from my XT1710-02 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
I received a bunch of small parts with the sedan. Can any 40s Ford experts out there help me identify them? Thanks[ATTACH] Sent from my XT1710-02...
End of summer sale. Have a new project and would like to get it in the garage this winter. Thanks.
Quarter windows and catwalk roughed in, started door frames and fender skirts. The rear of the skirts look good but not happy with the front, too...
Old roof looks like good use for some fender skirts.[ATTACH] Sent from my XT1710-02 using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Front and rear roof sections welded together and roof attached at A, B and C. Should get the catwalk and quarter windows roughed in this next...
Aaahh, you guys are making me homesick. Grew up as punk kid in East Detroit in the 80's and would pass by these factory skeletons on my way to...
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