All you at home Model A builders out there, I have a question. What did you do with the seam for the rear quarter in the door opening? The rear quarter was nailed thru the door post. Anyone welded this joint, or did you leave it alone?
On my all original A ,I left it alone, and just re-nailed it. After driving it around, listening to it flex and watching it move, I am planning to weld the sh#t out of every seam and replace most of the wood with steel on the hot rod version of an A.
I'm planning on welding mine up on my coupe. I'm not going to use wood in that area anyway. It may not be "traditional", but hopefully will render the car a little less crate-like! Greg.
I plan on welding it also. I already replaced the wood with 1" x 2" steel tube. Just waiting to do the lower quarters then I'll finish it up.
What do you guys who take all the wood out of Model As plan to attach interior panels to if there is no wood?
I am planning to replace the structural wood at the doorposts, etct. with steel. I am then going to either use self tapping screws, drill and tap the new steel to bolt interior parts to, or attatch wood to the new steel to attatch interior panels to. I will burn that bridge when I get to it.
I weld up the ones I do, but not before the body is bolted to a jig and EVERYTHING fits right and is adjusted. You can move those things almost anywhere you want when all of the nails are out...
I took the wood out and made metal in place of it, then I drilled through the nail holes into the underlying metal and plug welded it and ground it off smooth.
I replaced all the wood in my Sedan with square tubing and welded up the seam shown in your pics, after I took all the panels off and blasted the rust away. There is no seam there anymore on mine just like there is no seam between the back and side panels anymore. My body is super rigid now.
My Wood was good, I nailed it back up with ford nails, or nails i got for the restoration of model A's
When I did my '28 Tudor way back in '72, I had to replace every piece of wood in the body. I used an old coach builder's trick, apply bee's wax to the wood where ever it contacts the metal. I drove the car 14 years, and never had a squeek or a rattle. I nailed the wood to the body exactly like Henry did.
I think that area looks like shit,with all the dips in the metal around the nail,are you just smoothing with bondo or what,i think smooth would look streetrod,i dont like the dips but i think it would lood more traditional? Any pics of what you have done in this area?
i welded the door jams on my `28 tudor , filled the nail holes and smoothed it all out with dura-glass filler. the wood in the door post was glued in with PL400 construction adhesive. i wanted the wood so the upholstery could be attached sorry..... to lazy to take pictures, but i think you can visualize how it looks been that way for 16 years and it's fine
I'm going to keep the wood, and use the nails. If I were going to weld it, I would drill the nail holes and plug weld it. Then grind the welds flush...
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