Love to hear that I had a feeling. Although it's kind of a the fact they where just banging around with all my other parts loose in a box.
Found a few hours today to get out in the shop, I was able to get the three lasalle cases painted inside with red glyptol and brushed on a ford tractor gray to the outsides. Modified a spare side shift case with a ford trans mount to get an idea where my trans crossmember will sit seeing as the lasalle trans is a few inches longer. Was hoping to mount the engine far enough forward to avoid cutting up the A rectangular crossmember but no dice. Hoping to get my wish bone mounts dialed in and welded on tommorow now that my engine is sitting square and level in the frame rails.
Recent focus has been on wrapping up the radius rods. Mounting plates inboard on the frame rails hopefully for a better turning radius made a pie cut at the yoke to bring the rods closer to the frame ending with 8° of caster. I think down the line when I find a nice set of longer later model radius rods I'll revisit this project. Not thrilled with the look of the short "A bones" but they will do for now.
Had some time to spend on the car today, picked up a pair of NobelSpeeds new laser cut mounts and worked them over to better fit what I had in mind they are based on the deminsions from the VernTardel book. I found these mounts far superior to the speedway universal type mount I was using previously, right now they are bolted to the stock shock mount holes 2" from the back of the crossmember. I will be adding a third bolt from the topside although i think its unnecessary. Body is still just sitting inplace going to work on steering next. Gathered up all my model A U-bolts for a quick media blast and thread chasing. I thought a few where too far gone but they all cleaned up nicely.
Had my friend Zac drop by on his newly finished scooter to address some loose nuts and bolts and he was able to help me get the body set back on the chassis. Choppers go hand in hand with hotrods.
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