"Instead now my kids call them uncles" I'm not touching that one, yet I can't really let it go either.
Brother @Austin kays came threw with a set of what we think are the correct running boards! Im super stoked on them and can’t wait to see what we’ve got in person going back to work this weekend with a VERY heavy schedule so any progress will likely be stacking up parts in nature. But I do have a couple big acid soak projects I’d like to do so maybe I’ll post how that goes? thanks again Austin! ~also if any of you guys are looking for 35-39 ford gauges he’s unloading a good pile of them
No problem @TimM glad someone could use them and yeah if anyone needs some I have a pile haha Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
@drdave well, @flatout51 got me hooked on soaking stuff in citric acid. Mix the flakes with water and let it soak! Doesn’t eat paint or platting. Works pretty quick, seems to neutralize easily with some dawn and water. Obviously dry it off good after that. doesn’t seem to make any difference if you cover it or not and I get bubbles to come off it even when it’s dang near olive colored “water” in the bucket. Good bang for your buck. did some experimenting with an old license plate last month and found that covering it didn’t really make any difference but it will eat threw a disposable broaster pan/ tin foil pan so maybe stick to a 5 gallon bucket. I see David soaking some leaf springs in what looks like a 2x4 square nailed together with a plastic tarp to set everything in. Trying to figure out how to soak those running boards with out waist of a lot of product. Could dump it all over the board and wrap it with plastic wrap but I doubt it would work like a good soak you can agitate
This thing was CRUSTY before. after I soaked the whole thing I left this end in for a week and got that result! Been setting on my porch for about a month now after the fact with no coating and it’s obviously not flash rusted or anything
There is a great powder coat color called "as cast aluminum" works great on intake manifolds. Looks like aluminum.
That's pretty impressive! Less messy than sandblasting, that's for sure.....at least a lot less sand down my back and in my ears. LOL
If you look back you’ll probably find some photos of me soaking a stuck steering box in it. Works great
Now that I’m looking at the photos of the running boards they don’t seem to be model A. The bead around the perimeter and the Rounded over side don’t look familiar. any ideas what they might be?
Got this heater coming my way. Pretty excited about it! Seems to be 40’s after market and I’ve read reports of it thawing ice off windows at -20! Good to hear, should keep us warm on those cool nights with the windows down and maybe the top open! @RICH B on Austin’s post you showed how you framed in the roof opening on a sedan with square tubing. You mentioned a home made roller and that there are other methods to get the subtle bends as well. wondered if you could expand on that? Didn’t want to clutter his thread with my curiosity so thought I’d ask here
Picture I snagged from an old hamb thread to show the size of the heater. That’s a 49 chevy it’s in if I’m remembering correctly
@Six Ball i try to use the cars nearly 10 moths out of the year if I can get away with it and some early mornings, or if I’m coming home after work late nights, get pretty chilly. after talking about the various ways to seal up an A and insulate it, then deciding I want a snap off roof like Nathan Stewart <- can’t get a tag to work- uses, well it just made more since too get a heater that could warn a motorcycle in January and call it good. All the jeeps I’ve ever been in that have the option of pulling the doors/ roof always have a heater that would burn you if you touched the vents. Figured I’d it’s good enough for that it’s good enough for me lol
Can we start a Arvin members only club, or would only two of us show up for meetings? Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
...I see a funny face in this Heater...must be Arvin... I guess the Passenger will have the warmest Tootsies... Having a 29 myself I know it'll be real easy for the Driver to get the Tootsies warm too as it's pretty tight in there...
Looks like it’s got three directional vents on the bottom and a defrost port on each side. I’m hoping that the reostat switch lets me keep it just barely on so we don’t melt our toes haha
Here’s mine, it’s all apart now for a fresh green hammertone paint treatment. Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Cool, that’s the one I see more often. Way more chrome though! Should be neat in your hot rod. I like that the single knob has a light inside it so you can see it down under the dash in the dark. no problem
You should like that heater. I drove my coupe in as low as 18 degrees F. I used a blanket for my legs and wore a coat. Wasn’t too bad really.
I’ve driven the 46’ in cold weather like that but all the insulation I added keeps the engine heat out now lol.
When I was a kid we had a '41 Ford pickup with a Southwind heater. It would make you roll down the windows. My dad rarely turned it on because it used too much gas. We had a great heater but we froze anyway. I'm looking for a heater for the roadster build.
These are a hot water/ electric heater thankfully! I can absolutely remember years ago having heaters just absolutely melt me
Mail order hot rod parts mailed my buddy a few templates and between his giant quarantine honey do list items he’s been knocking them out and sending them back to me. This is the block off plate for the hole left in the intake manifold for the heat riser. I’ll pop 3 holes in it and eventually make a gasket. Done deal! figure with hood sides less than 5 inches from the intake we should t have any trouble with it being to cold but if we do this is 1/4 plate and shouldn’t be any trouble to adapter a riser from the header
Tim, I posted the Lane Anderson Rodders Digest article on refurbing heaters years ago. I still have it. I will dig it out and the NAPA parts book and get the info to you. Part numbers and everything to modernize these
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