Noah's 53 is just about done. He has to cut glass and do upholstery. He will have a build thread full of lovers and haters soon enough!
Testing to see if this will post FB videos...I know humans are laxy and like pictures and videos. If you missed the link, here you go . (Edit, I guess it works!) https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10100677213577212 https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10100677162424722 I FINALLY stopped by a hot rod shop close to work (Car Creations in Fridley, MN) and asked if they happened to have some e-brake arms laying around. The owner said "yeah, I think so! We part one out for the third member"! I ended up scoring a set of loaded backing plates and drums, with all the parts I needed for $50. I blasted all the parking brake parts and painted them tonight. I also have my brake line mounts made and painted. I purchased a riv-nut gun to do the mounts for the brake and fuel line. Now I just need brake lines and a bleed an the brakes are working!
I was able to get the rear brakes all built and together. I need to track down some short e-brake cable options. Otherwise I was maybe thinking about some sort of rod pull set up so I can do away with cables.
@Beau I was in touch with a company called Bruin Brake Cable a while back and they make custom cables based on your specs. They were pretty interested in making cables for Hot Rods and as I recall they're fairly reasonable and made in the USA.
Cool, thanks. I have a friend locally that works at a chain and cable company. He said he can probably make what I need. Otherwise I checked out a 53-56 F100 one piece cable today at Little Dearbord (local early Ford store) and I think I can make a straddle cable type set-up with what I have. It looks like the F-100 cable with work with a Ford 9", and I have a cable holder from a Ford Prefect that would work real nice with this set-up. In the mean time, I ground down my club plaque that I poured a while back.
Well, our move is complete. Last week I picked up the last cabinets and the hot rod in Minneapolis. I started a new job at a shop near Rochester, MN called Early Iron Restoration. Full restoration and custom shop. I'm happy I found another shop to take me on and give me a chance. Looks like I will be here for a while I almost have my home shop set-up. It was quit a bit of work and sorting it all out has been a chore. See ya'll soon.
Awesome ! I will say ... that I find you on a lot of my interested stroked 215 topics. Hard to get good intel' on those, as you know. Great little hot rod. Pretty much on task to be perfect. Good for you.
Thanks! I picked up a whole bunch of little crap yesterday to get the brake lines started. Hopefully I can get a driveshaft made next week, and sort out the radiator hoses. I'm gonna pull the body today and finish up the last little bit of metal work, then POR15 the rest of the body. I just need to persuade my co-workers into helping me with the body work and hopefully get it sprayed!!
Great thread and with all the personal touches I feel like I have come to know you and like what you have done. I really like the way you keep at it even if you don't know how, you just do it again to get it right. I also work on the rule of 3. The first one you make won't work at all, the second one will work but you can't show it to anyone, and the third one is perfect. Good luck with all you do and I look forward to following your build.
Real great that you could actually find a job in the field you wanted. Now get back to work on this one.
I just dropped off the slip yoke at the drive shaft shop today. That should be done next week. I got the floor painted this past weekend, and the brake lines ran...but now I'm told I was suppose to use 1/4" line and not 3/16" so I have to run back to the store and get some different brake lines. I hope to have the line bled this evening! The clutch is all hooked up now. Hopefully I can track down some radiator hose's that will fit today as well.
In the bicycle world we call them riv-nuts, and they are used to fix water bottle cage mounts. The rest of the world calls them nut-serts. Either way, I have a tool and they are really handy little things for mounting the brake line/fuel line/wires. While I was doing that my lady was installing the shiny sticky stuff to ease the heat and noise (in a roadster ).
I installed some mismatched SW gauges in the firewall, and plan to retain stock 35/36 dash gauges. Trying to figure out my wiring and routing now.
Read the entire thread, can't believe I missed it til now. You're on the home stretch now. Can't wait to see what you'll do with a fully equipped leather shop. riv nits are great, we use M10 and M12 on frames at work, I was part of the extensive destructive testing we did to validate, made me a believer. What installation tool do you have? Keep the updates coming, congrats on the new place, the shop space you have will open up opportunities.
I got my stuff through a bicycle distributor. Any bicycle shop in the country can order this stuff. http://www.jbi.bike/web/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=riv+nut I was able to get the brake bled and after a few extra turns on a couple fitting it seems to be leak free. Nice and solid! Batteries now days are friggin expensive! I found the smallest one I could with side posts and the right amount of cranking amps. All this little crap adds up to big dollars....damn. This is the stuff that sucks to buy.
Playing with some of the tools in the leather shop. This is more for looks and practice and it turned out looking more like an old belt. It won't really be seen after this, but it was fun either way.
Great modified man....not enough of these being built on the HAMB any more. It seems like everyone is building a "traditional" $30k hot rod....
I could get my hands on a 36 gmc cab,I have a 36 chevy front suspension,couple of rear ends and a 270 gmc. Your makin the gears spin beau! This is getting better and better
Button screws for a snap on cover are now in place. I got a steering wheel from a local guy and welded on a taper/threads so the steering is done. The wiring is about 50% complete. I need to figure out some relay stuff and run wires for lights and that should be good to go. The next big thing is getting the gas tank done and sealing it up.
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