History Help me find some old photos of this Cedar Rapids Iowa 1940 Ford Coupe

This is a great thread. Who doesn't love a 40 coupe?

 

I sure had fun with the 40 this summer, that i may keep the small block in it for next summer.
The 392 short block is built, and it ready to go back together. Well see how the winter goes.....





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HEMI! HEMI! HEMI! HEMI!

 

Looks like a perfect lineup of hot rods! The small block is still awesome in the '40 and it sounds pretty wicked too!

 

I'll post progress as I put the motor back together..!

I've got a '29 on 32 rails that I want to build.....The small block may end up in that.

 

As I find more history on my 32 Sedan a I get a few bits and pieces related to the ol' 40 coupe. Before Girard Christopher had the 40 Ford Coupe, he had this Chevrolet coupe. Here's a cool picture form 1952. I think it's actually a 41 not 40 as stated.

 

Eric, wasn't your first car a '40/'41 Chevy?

 

Yes, 40 tudor sedan master deluxe. Car was in a junk yard in Jackson MN in primer with tuck and roll seat covers. I saw it there when I was 8-10 years old. Car went to the Fairmont junkyard and the owner put a small block and 53 Chev front in the car. I bought when I was 14 or 15 to and had it on the road when I was 16.

 

Been awhile since I updated this thread. I plan on taking the 40 to the H.A.M.B. Drags this year with new Cheaters slicks, more gear, and blow proof bellhousing, and will run the small block.

I did button up the hemi today, and it's ready for paint. It will be Oldsmobile gold like my nailhead.





Hemi head 1, foot 0. One head almost got away from me after a dry fit I was prying it up, it slid down, one corner onto a towel, the other I stopped purposely with the top my foot. Had a leather/ canvas shoe but it got mashed pretty good.




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At least it's not the go pedal foot. You'll be needing that soon enough.

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Ouch!!!
Hope nothing is broken and you have a speedy recovery.

It hurts just seeing that for me and I'm sure for many others on the HAMB.

Glad it wasn't worse.
Keep workin'... but a bit more carefully... please.

 

Damn ! If you would have had your shoes off .... those finger toes could have mitted the head, and thrown it back up to chest heights ! You throw baseballs with those things or what ?? Be a good tree trimmer .... hang from limbs and sh#t, climb ropes with no hands ....

( Ok, the hemi looks awesome. That is all. Heal quickly sir. Love you. )

 

Yeah, it's my clutch foot though. Already on rehab, took the dog for a gimpy walk!

I really did get a little lucky, and I really didn't want the head to slide to the floor.

Haha.....!

 

I am really glad you kept your foot and the head safe overall. But extra excited the Hemi is closer to seeing its time in the car. But I couldn't bring myself to like that post as I winced away in sympathy.
Wyatt


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Well, my foot is still swollen, but it doesn't hurt. So this weekend I pulled the rear to drop it off at a shop for the ring and pinion change, and I pulled the tranny to start the bellhousing swap. That involved pulling the exhaust, dropping the x member/split bone bracket, and the front floor boards.
Looks like a bomb went off.




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Your bomb is pretty neat and organized.

 

Yeah, I had to clean up a little

When I pulled the stock bellhousing I noticed it was missing one dowel. Might explain a little noise in the tranny bearing. Since it was a pain the ass to get that tranny out I decided I might as well check out the clutch disc. It's a Centerforce assembly, the disc looks pretty good, but best to change it now. Ordered it from Summit along with standard and offset dowels to true up the bellhousing.

Last week when I ordered my ring and pinion and install kit from Summit it was Wednesday night 10:30 Central time. Got an email that the parts were picked and shipped just past midnight. Parts on the door step Friday morning with standard delivery......Man that's great.

Ordered cheater slicks from Towel City a week and half ago. They said it would take 3 weeks - pretty busy, but they know I have a hard date and thought that it shouldn't be a problem.

Drawing up some plans for an aluminum radiator shroud to bend up for the electric fan.

Fuel system is not up to my liking...I think I'll re-plumb that as well.

 

Ha, just mentioned Towel City in my last post and the tires are on the steps today.

 

My plan was to get the tranny and rearend buttoned up this last weekend.
Dad came up to help and when we checked TIR on the bell it was .037" out. I only had a pair of .007 offset dowels that would give me .014" TIR correction.
A buddy in town had a pair of .015's that he machined, but was out of town this weekend. I picked them up tonight, pulled the straight dowels, pressed in the offset dowels, and re-checked and got .007 TIR or +/-.0035 which should be good enough.


So we moved to the rear and installed the rear axle (now with new Motive 3.73's) and got that buttoned up, and lubed.


I also got the Towel City tires mounted and balanced. Rubber feels a little hard. I hope they work good.


This weekend I should get the tranny buttoned up, and I can work on the Electric Fan and Re plumbing the fuel system.








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Well after getting a cheap ass rental tool from Advance Auto that didn't work worth a damn, thought there was no harm in trying the bread trick. I packed in a slice and a half of low cal, and six hits and it hydraulic'd right out.
I'm a believer.



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Bread came out a lot cleaner than packing it with grease.



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I like the slicks, they look like they will smoke a nice medium blue and leave perfect little chunks on the rear fenders.

-Abone.

 

And another thing.... many years ago, some guy was staring at a pilot bearing stuck in a crank and said...".hmm....I bet if I crammed a hunk of bread in there, it would come right out."

You know his buddy said, "you're a moron."

-Abone.

 

Thats the 1st time I've ever heard of using bread. Thanks for the tip. I wish I knew about it before. The last time I had to remove one I made a huge mess using grease.

 

Yeah, Where the hell did that come from? I've heard of peanut butter, maybe someone tried that and it extruded out so he decided to put the other part of the samich in? I was thinking of going hi-tech with play dough, silly putty. Now that I think about Flarp would be hilariously funny to video and audio.

 

It really did work well. Had another stroke of luck on the rod I used. Chev pilots are .5905 which is 15mm and we just happen to use a lot of 15mm turned ground and polished 303 bar stack to make shaft. I had a scrap piece of 1" tgp turned down to .5905 to drive the new bearing in.

 

That car is killer!!!

 

Well, early last week I had the bellhousing, new clutch disc, and pressure plate installed along with the new pilot bushing and throwout bearing.
Took last Friday afternoon off and Dad came up to help install the tranny.
I made sure to clean the paint off the bore in the bell, and do a test fit. It was a honeymoon fit, went together real nice.
Had a lot of re-assembly. Center X, and split bones, clutch linkage, floor boards, tranny cover, shift linkage, clutch linkage and adjustment of both. Got the wheels and tires back on, and the last thing was the exhaust. Dad got the tip of his finger pinched while installing one of the front flanges, so it was time to have a beer, and call it a day. Car is fighting back for some reason....





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Saturday i drained the coolant, pulled the radiator to fit the shroud that mounts an electric fan too, while the paint was drying on the shroud I strung the wires.
Sunday I yanked all the fuel lines and tossed them. It was a complete cobbled mess.

I relocated the electric fuel pump, with a new filter to the rear crossmember and rubber isolated it, and cleaned up the wiring to the pump.
I have Black AN fitting and new hose to install. Waiting for a few more hose end fittings and a bulkhead fitting so I can finish it up this week.
Also need to install a driveshaft loop.
I've got Friday afternoon off this week. Plan is to put a few miles on it and make sure the shifter, rear, and clutch are ready to go.

Then I think that will be about it.... wanted to try adjustable shocks but think run it as is, and decide from there.

I'll post a few more pics this week.




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I just found this thread; wonder how I missed it. You find the nicest cars. Sorry, I don't know anything about this one. Regarding using Peanut Butter to remove a pilot bearing : I tried it and it didn't work. Smelled good, though. I ended up making my own specialized puller. (This was on a '49 Rocket Olds.)