30 Roadster on Duece Rails Project-It begins

Lookin real fine.

 

Hey good for you! Lookin good!

 

Like the details on the wishbones and the mounting tap, good location, thanks for the continued posts, Merry Christmas,,,,Sam

 

Killer build so far, look forward to seeing more.

 

Looks good Jerry. Nice job cleaning up the bones. Looks like it's "full steam ahead!" for that project.

 

Pump Seal!

 

Looking good. Your progress motivates me to go out and work on my Sedan.

 

coming along great, i'm a couple of weeks away from starting my AV8 project

 

you better believe it...learned my lesson the last time

 

Motor and ****** are in...pics coming soon...Spent the evening cleaning the 40 year old ****,dirt,mud,undercoat,sludge off of the rear. Still have a little more of the rear to do. I'm using a 3M paint and rust remover wheel that I got at Auto Zone.

 

Also, got some tail lights from JAWS for mockup. I think the shape of these 42-48 tail lights will work out best with the sectioned panel below the trunklid. I think the size of round Pontiac or 39 tear drops will not work out. Any other suggestions?

 

Jerry, your most welcome man, now get to fittin'.

 

More progress

Bolted the front shocks onto the lower mounts and opened them up to determine the placement of the F-100 upper mounts. After factoring in shock travel about 3 inches were taken out of the upper mounts and they were welded back together,holes were drilled in the frame and then they mounts bolted on for mock up. Have to do some grinding yet

 

Put a finish weld on the ch***is motor mounts

 

Got the motor and ****** in..didn't have to cut the firewall much, just a little on top of the ******. Moved the front crossmember forward slightly giving me more engine clearance in the back. Everything seems to fit really nice. Thanks to 1oldrat for lending me the front wheels for mockup. I'll be using wires eventually.

 

Alright..so with the engine and ****** in...I couldnt help it..I had to decorate the tree...the engine will be painted gold eventually. I got the valley pan from Vintage Speed..they just started making them for cadillac. The Carbs were from Porterville, here on the HAMB, and the intake,scoops, and spacers I got from Chis, also from the HAMB.

 

That is a good goood goooooood feeling.. and boy do I know it,,

Your scoops are on backwards BTW

thats going to be a mean som *****...

evel

 

You'll get a good view from behind..haha

 

thanks for keeping this thread going,
you are making some good progress!

you inspired me to push some of my **** out of the way and start doing some initial mock-up

 

ahhh sweet Jerry its coming along nicely the motor set up looks badd ***. cant wait to see her fly down the road

 

Excellent post, please keep us in the loop on the whole build.

 

rear ladders..need to get the crossmember and rear end brackets..

 

Hey Jerry, everything looks great. Whens the next s****ple, I'd want to try and make it.

 

Not until Jan...it's to f'n cold out...plus there is usually to much stuff happening in Dec. for everyone..

 

Some more progress today. Picked up a cool finned dash cluster at Carlisle this past year. Got the dash holes cut out

 

Getting ready to mount the rear end spring. A friend had a Pete and Jakes rear crossmember with a spring plate welded on and was nice enough to let me take a tracing of the dog bone plate and brackets. A place up the street from me does CNC laser cutting. I took them a template and they cut this out for me. The large bone is 3/4 inch and the smaller ones are 1/4 inch. I still have the template if anyone wants it. Can't beat it. The large bone plate gets welded underneath my rear crossmember and the two smaller ones hold the rear spring in place.

rear crossmembers with the dog bone set up go for about $240. I will have about $75 in my home made one. Check out the pic below of a new one already welded up

 

Still waiting for rear end parts...so on to the steering


Scored a really nice 40 Ford column,box, and wheel this year at Hershey. Half the fun of building these things is hunting the swap meets for the parts and haggling over the prices. I had to lug this thing almost a half hour on my shoulder...but it was worth it. It's a damn nice set up.

We shortened the column to a respectable length and used an original 40 ford steering box bracket to mount it to the frame rail. We trimmed the bracket slightly, bead blasted it and tacked it in. No finish weld yet until I'm sure it's where it needs to be. Also had to heat and bend the pitman arm slightly.

The pic of the bracket itself is a pic of an aftermarket one so you can see how we trimmed our original one. Also the sharpie marker line on the framerail kinda shows how much we had to trim it. It was a little work..but the whole steering set up will be original 40 parts..kinda cool.

 

How do you plan to get the tie rod and drag link anywhere close to parallel with the steering box that far back?

 

Hey Tim,
As you can see in the pics I'm doing a cross steer set up. The pitman arm was heated and bent to get the angles and geometry correct.. We installed the draglinks in the process to make sure we had clearance and that things were right. The drag link/tie rod that runs from the pitman arm to the second hole on the p*** side spindle sits nice. Everything looks and works fine. I'll get a pic of the underneath up so you can see what I'm taking about.

 

Going to be using these 16 inch wire wheels. I really like the look of wire wheels on old hot rods. I'll be getting the adapters from Wheelkid sometime soon.

Going to blast and prime them today while the old lady is at work.



Also...my carbs that were soaking in kero a while back came free..neat old trick that really worked.