Hot Rods Mr Cheaters 32 ford truck build

Starting on reassembly now, took the time to slide the seat in also we bolted on some of the things that are attached to the firewall

 

Got the hood blisters attached to the hood and ruff set on the truck took some time to paint the insert on the grill today as well. When it first came out of the can I thought it would be to bright but it seemed to tone down a bit when it flashed off

 

Seat looks good, who sewed it?

 

A local guy Stitch Krazy he works out of his home garage. The seats really comfy and it cost more than my couch.

 

Some of the non glamorous work. Punching holes in the windshield hinge gasket painting the dashboard insert semigloss black and playing with gage placement

 

Looking good!

 

Today was a hot one so we did some easy things. We got some insulation put in the cab and we put the dash together and mounted it in the truck hopefully for the final time As it sits now with the windshield in it

 

Looking great!

 

It's-a-beautiful !

 

Made a head light bar for the truck. Pictures are a bit out of order. But you should get the gist of it

 

Looks great and love the headlight bar

 

That truck is gorgeous!

 

Moving right along with the lighting part of the project I worked on making the ditch light. Took an old BLC fog lamp and got the bucket of elbow grease out and gave it a good polishing. Then a fog lamp mount was modified to work on the frame

 

That light came up great! Nice work!

 

Kinda a big kid Lego day today I set the doors in the holes and rolled it outside

 

Another good day in the shop today got the doors installed with the hinge pins and check straps. Got my Covico steering wheel cleaned up and mounted.got the seat set in and got my shifter knob put on

 

Looking good!

 

Very nice, those King Bees will look great on it.

 

Is that what those lights are called? They don’t really have any markings on them

 

Many moons ago I bought some stainless steel bends from a vendor at the Jefferson swap meet this was my time to put them to use building an exhaust system and doing some back purged stainless steel welding

 

Got the wheels back from powder coating and got those mounted and put on. Thinking it’s going to need hub caps. I went with 600-16 on the front and 650-16 on the rear

 

Looking good! Caps would set things off very nicely, maybe trim rings if you want to get fancy.

 

I love your exhaust, beautiful ... and I love the wheels, just black is fine in my mind.

 

you should've painted them red and got some whitewalls, that would've made it baller.

 

Think you have enough wheel weights there Butch If it were mine I would be concerned.

 

that’s what I’m wondering as well. Any suggestions

 

Try turning the tire 180 degrees, if it takes the same weight at that position, I would think the tire is the problem.

 

Truck looks great!

What happened to the 32 k member cut out?

Wanna sell it?

 

Lookin' real nice! Hub caps for sure. I agree it might be a good idea to deflate the tire, mark it and spin it 180 degrees and see where the balancing lands. Maybe I've been lucky, but I've successfully cut way down on wheel weights before by trying the tire on the rim in different positions. If the weights just follow that spot on the tire no matter what position they're in, it could be a tire issue. If they stay on that part of the wheel, it could be a wheel issue. If they move around, usually you can find a sweet spot where they mostly cancel each other out. I've also had where the tire doesn't seat on the bead perfectly square the first time, and breaking the bead and re-inflating sometimes will fix it with way less weights necessary.

Sits real nice though, and I like the tire sizes, same sizes I run on the T.