Technical Help Needed for 27 Ford T Touring windshield assembly

Hello Fellow Rodders
I need someone with 27 Ford Model T roadster or Touring windshield frame experience to help. I have a stock steel 27 T Touring body with repro aftermarket windshield posts (full height) and am mounting Speedway's chrome windshield frames (top and bottom) using repro (also Speedway's) Wingnut, stud, Chrome swivel cone into these windshield posts. They Chrome swivel cones came with a loose nut that seemingly was to be positioned into the cone. But, if I do so the ***embly does not seem to tighten appropriately because the loose nut acts like a jam nut preventing the wingnut from pulling the chrome windshield frame tight to the cone. Perhaps the attached drawing will help? Does the nut belong in this ***embly and if so where? I also have a second related question below the pic.


Second Question. Currently I have these windshield posts bolted to the T's cowl with a piece of inner tube as a gasket sandwiched between the post and the cowl. Is this typically done or do most of you do a simple steel to steel ***embly? My concern stems from the fact that each inner tube gasket is a good 1/16+" thick and the distance between my posts seems perhaps 3/8" - 1/2" too wide when compared to the width of Speedway's chrome windshield frame. I worry that if I tighten the wing bolts too much I might break the welded corner joint of the chrome windshield frame. What advice would my more experienced rod builders care to offer?

 

The flat nut is what holds the cone to the post stud.
Photographs are easier to understand for us older folks.

 

Many thanks RoyalShifter for taking the time to respond to my question. Given that you use a RatFink graphic I ***ume you are of a similar vintage as I am. I thought my sketch would communicate to those who had experience with the problem.

Like you suggested I first placed the nut in the cone but then when tightening the Wing nut and stud ***embly to screw it into the windshield frame the nut interfered with the stud threading into the window frame. Am I ***embling in the wrong sequence?

 

Some of these aftermarket parts are just not completely correct and need fine tuning.
The avatar artwork is by Von Franco of me in my T roadster.

 

The wingnut goes on last. Screw the bare stud into the frame, place the cone over, then thread the thin nut on the stud to lock the cone. Place the frame between the posts, and bolt down the posts. The wingnuts are to keep the frame from rotating. Hopefully the thin nut doesn’t contact the inside of the post before the cone does.

On my well worn 26 touring project, it required a LOT of manipulation to get the original posts in a somewhat vertical alignment. Heat, bending, grinding, and even some m***aging of the cowl too. Hopefully your car isn’t all chromed and painted yet.

 

Well super thanks Alchemy. I just wish I had known you while I was in Ames on the faculty there - it is not too far from Marshaltown. And you have a touring as well! One does not see many of those.
Your response to my ***embly question was very helpful and I will certainly try that. That sequence did not occur to me because the nut that was supplied was of regular thickness and not a thin one.

Given your comment about working over the posts and cowl, Did you place any form of gasket material between the cowl and the windshield posts? What is the distance between the inside of your windshield posts at the first, lowest pivot point and also the distance at the top pivot point. But don't take anything apart, just measure what you can easily check with a tape measure. How much space is there between the inside of your windshield post and the lower windshield's frame?

Thought you might be interested in seeing my Touring with my son at the wheel doing a test drive this July; and also one just last week on the lift after we put in a solid week's work building our front bumper and the rear splash aprons to the running boards. That is a Pontiac 460 ci by the way.