It's been a while so here's what's up. I picked up the remaining 1 1/2 tubing I needed including one stick of 10 ga (DOM). DOM is pricy!!! My friend who's doing my TIG work is overseeing the bends and is getting the 1 5/8". I dropped the 1.5" stuff off at his place last week. It was good to visit the front of the chassis now welded up. Now I need to be patient on the bends. It has been a challange finding folks with the radius dies I'm looking for especially the 4" ish radius bends. The guy doing those will probably get to it at the end of this week. I did order and get the JW Performance ultrabell stuff to adapt a Turbo 350 to the hemi. most of it looks great but the plate to adapt their flex plate to the hemi crank is wrong. Nothing a little time on the lathe won't fix. This last weekend I laced my front wheels, trued them and mounted the tires. The rims had a lip that stuck out that looked just pain ugly. I dismounted the tires and used the lathe to cut off part of the lip. They look ok now. Not sure what the alloy of the rims is but it sure is some serious steel. It put the hurt on one of my carbide bits. I keep dinking around on 9" rear, and finally cut the aluminum allignment bushings for the third member so I can weld it all together. Went to weld it together this weekend and... you guessed it, I was out of gas for the welder. :-/ I'll weld it later this week. Finished the machining on the kingpin bosses. Still chasing the steel for the front axle. Finally got some chrome hemi valve covers that I had bought off of the bay. One has a couple of threaded bungs. Any idea what they were for? All that said I'm dieing to get the bends and start putting it all together.
It looks like you made a mini hub cap that bolts to the hub with 5 screws. Am I seeing correctly? I have a set of 17" wires for the front of my woody rail, but the hub is so small the only way to cover the spindle nut is to use some kind of freeze plug, which we both know ain't staying on at speed. Any ideas on how to mount a cap so the ugly spindle nut is covered?
Not quite. I found the smallest dust cover I could find and cut the hubs id to fit them. The five holes you see are left from the hub's past live as a Harley wheel. What is the ID of your hub?
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