I am hanging my head in shame, because I lost sooo much momentum on my build. I have been doing a few car related things. The little time I have had (I have two boys, 3 and 5) has been put into my 64' DeVille, or doing real fun stuff helping out Buddy and his run to Boniville. But I did have a visit from Santa a little early this year. Buddy, I mean Santa brought be just about the prettiest block I have ever seen with all the goodies needed to bring that fire back to my build. I am starting a new thread for a fresh start. Here are a couple pics to get you as excited as me. I am back with a new fire in my belly... wish me luck.
Hell Kevin, Don't hang your head! You've been doing plenty fir the Caddy flathead group! What about www.flatcaddy.com.? And those two boys are important. That '64 caddy is veerrrry sweet! Glad I was able to catch up with you! And as always, I'm very appreciative of all the work you are doing on the FlatCad Racing Heads and such! Glad to see your build is back on track- it's too cool to ignore!
Here is my mandatory contribution to the Harbor Freight Roller Beef up trend. Works pretty well, the base is from an old drill press. The wheel is a spare Model A wheel I had. It is powder coater and I can store all the rollers on the top. Oh ya and it is way more machine than I need in my very limited space garage. You can see it battling for floor space with the kids bikes and trikes.
I am sure some of you will really not like this but it is my car so suck it up (well I hope Buddy does not mind since he gave it to me). Buddy was very nice and gave me an old Cadillac Banjo Steering wheel shortly after I bought a Schroeder Steering box. So my next move was to make them work for each other. I might be one of the only model A's with a quick release wheel this big. Now for the bloody details. (and yes I was very nervous cutting into this beautiful wheel) But I am real happy with how it turned out.
Go for it Kev, it sure is about time you hit back at that project. It is a sweet build and a lot of us are waiting for it to continue. I know you have the commitment and ideas, so lets hope you can grab some time and get into it now. I hope to see you in LA town early october if the gods are with me.
Bought an F1 crossmember and pedal assembly on here a couple weeks ago. I replaced the bushings sandblasted them and made a set of pedals. Here is how they sit now.
I was having a hell of a time squaring up the body, I saw a tip on here about building a platform with 2" squares marked off will help. I had a buddy help me get the body on it last night, hopefully it helps. I also finally brought the block home so no slowing me down now... pics to follow of course.
Kev. those pedals look delicious! Great job on the quick release banjo wheel.... Tell me, please. The bushings for the F1 pedals: Are those by any chance wrist pin bushings from flathead con rods? Source, please?
I am disassembling my 37 LaSalle Tranny right now and ran into a little snag. The pins holding the forks in can be a bit of a pain to get to. In the manual it refers to using a special Tool No. J-806. For those of you with out a special tool J-806 here is how I made mine. I used 1/2-13 threaded rod about 4.5" long. Turned down the end to about .375" for a little easier access, then welded a nut to the top. Then I tapped the smaller end for 1/4-28 about an inch deep. The little plate is just some scrap I had laying around just about anything would work. All you have to do is thread it on the pin the tighten the second nut on the plate and the pin slides right out no problem. $.5" is a good length to work on both forks. All seems easy enough now but not when I was trying to squeeze through the fill hole to get the pin out with out it. You can also use it to press the pins back in on re-assembly.
Mounted a ford rear transmission support to the LaSalle. I have found some great info on here about the conversion which has been very helpful. Here it is mounted. I posted on another thread but did not get a response, does anyone know of a sealed bearing to replace the rear bearing of the 37 LaSalle. The number on the stock one is - New Departure 47508-7. I have had no luck finding one.
No, neither me or this project is dead, but two little boys sure can eat up any free time you have. I spent 5 times as much time this weekend putting together legos with my 6 year old then I did putting together a hot rod. (Wouldn't trade a minute by the way.) I'm finally free from the engine lift, so I pushed it out in the street for a quick pic.
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