Technical Build: The 60's Style T build

it actually looked pretty good so I welded it all up

 

removed the wood shims the trans has been sitting on, bolted the new mount in place and tacked it good

 

this here post is another in my modified series.

I lost count, it's been so long since I posted one.. seems like about day nineteen?

anyway today I slid out of work early to work on it,

I put together the steering collumn with the three on the tree.

I used a late fifties F100 box and shaft and the collumn out of the '61 Lark.

and here's how;

first as usual I gathered up all the parts

 

I trimmed a little off the bottom of the mounting flange on the box

 

clamped the box in place and figured 14" shorter would work for the shaft

 

I beveled the ends and cut a 7/16" grade 8 bolt to fit inside and drilled the two shaft pieces for roset welding it in

 

stuck the bolt in and welded it through the drilled hole

 

clamped it and the other half in a chunk of angle iron to keep it true

 

and welded it up

 

then measured the collumn, it gets 9-3/4" taken out of it

 

so I took it all apart and cut it too

 

welded the shifter tube and collumn back together

 

reassembled the collumn

 

put the collumn on the box and shaft, put the wheel on and clamped it back in the car for checking fit

 

I used a chunk of angle iron to clamp to,

I will make a new bracket to accept both the box and wish-bone end,

but you can see it will all come together nicely

 

and another

 

last picture

 

making a pattern for the radiator shop...

check the fit of the shell
take measurement of shell
cut cardboard front pattern
duplicate for back, cut sides and tape it all together to make a box
check fit

 

pattern is done,

tomorrow I will take it to the radiator shop

 

it's been about 14 months since I really had any time to work on the little car

yesterday I pulled the frame out from under her and started welding it up

the new frame table works!

not much to show right now, but here it is assembled and the frame on the table
the rest of the parts are tucked out of the way, here's also the Stude motor in pre op with the other patients

 

second day went a lot like the first
continued welding on the frame,

when I unclamped it from the table after the first day of welding one corner lifted about an eighth of an inch,
it actually had a bow in one rail where I had welded the steering box mount,

so I clamped all four corners nice and square and put some tension on the offending area.
with a little carefull application of heat I pulled it back into shape and let it cool over night.

just a few more hours of welding and it'll be time for reassembley

 

yesterday with all the major welding done on the frame I finished up the few little things and got it ready for paint

here's the cracked front cross member,
cut out,
patch tacked,
patch welded
and dressed and drilled

 

here's one of the bone tabs clamped

and welded

 

corner gussets

 

and outside getting cleaned up

knocking down the rust
metal prep
and paint ready!

 

got some POR15 on the underside, while it dries I'm going to try to set up my rearend per the-rodster's tech thread

 

yesterday seemed like a lot of nothing..

couldn't come up with shim gaskets for the banjo,
got some on order, should have them by Wednesday..

anybody in the Seattle Tacoma area have them on the shelf???

so I spent most of the day cleaning and painting parts.
why does painting take so long?
a car could be built a LOT faster if you didn't have to clean, paint and wait for it to dry...

this morning I start reassembley

 

'27 T Touring front half with shortened A bed

 

presto change o!

 

another day spent mostly cleaning and painting,

a little assembley and parts chasing