Projects 39 Standard Tudor build thread

God bless America.
Looking awesome Jocko.

 

Nice work man, you would have made a great farmer
I like the cpvc, prolly never wear out.

How did the vintique parts work out?
Many old timers ***** about the quality of their parts
I’ve found the vintique parts that I have purchased to be very acceptable

 

I'm gonna call em ok, like 80%. I had to reshape all the window felts, 1 out of 8 was close. I used the back of the garnish moldings for final fit, and was caught unaware on the rears. Would you (we) believe the rear windows are different side to side on an early Ford? They are. Almost ¼", both the body and molding. The new channel for the right rear had the stop screw hole off-center. I was ready to weld and re-drill/tap but thought I'd try a fillister head 10-32 1st. It squeezed in there and stops as it should, but no forgiveness. The forward stop "leg" bends easier (way easier) than it should. The whole install is a major "secret handshake" process that CAN NOT BE DONE without help. Of course we won the fight but like said, scars and anger management.

Hey, Merry Christmas to you and yours brutha!

 

Yeah, installing felts, window channels and gl*** in these things can be "interesting"... to say the least.

 

Those back window regulators can definitely be fun to get in and out. I had to pull one to fix a broken crank. They only seem to take a buck of running and twisting In just the right direction to get them to come free.

 

As I said there's secret handshakes to the whole job. The rear regulators, crank stub up, main body (long side) toward you. Ease to the back near the wheelhouse, push toward the outside. Drop the main/long end down a bit and gently raise the crank end higher up behind the inner sheetmetal. Don't force to the outside as that's finish metal. BE CAREFUL, DON'T WEDGE OR BANG THE OUTSIDE. All of a sudden with drop and a turn you'll be facing the right way and ready for the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment which is getting your big glommy hands in there to hold it in place to start the screws. You need a scratch awl or small drift to align the holes, perhaps 2. I liked a small thin one to hold the small sheetmetal screw that locates the final ***embled position. Once in you have to crank the mechanism up to where the roller/slider studs are about 1¼ to 1½ apart. The rest? During ***embly and slider alignment I even called it the dreaded 'C' word. Front in, try for the back, front falls out. Move it just a little, back won't go in. Whoops, there we are. No, we're not, back fell out. Ok, keep at it...for the 5th, 6th, 7th time. And it's dark. And you can't see what you need to see unless you're trying to emulate some Phillipine contortionist from an old Ed Sullivan episode. Once it's in, just hope you didn't bend the wide bar that pushes the gl*** fwd or the stud that it pushes on. Then they miss each other and the window doesn't work after all that mess. I'll bet Leo and Stan in 1939 had it down to a literal science on the ***embly line.