Technical What did you do with your car today? * NEW*

Quality wise not sure, but this one has a proper arbor, and a button to lock the spindle. The other one I had to put a vice grips on the output shaft and use a wrench to swap wheels

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Stripped and sanded a set of early 50s Ford car wheels, and then cleaned and painted them. Hard work in the heat. But I started early and was mostly done by 1:30. I'll let then cure overnight and then add clear coat tomorrow.

My new '53 Customline project is one step closer to cruise-in ready!

 

Picked this up today at a swap meet.

 

Did an on-line auction....picked up some early Poncho stuff and some early OT English stuff....for re-sale to fund my 1940 project....and usable NOS parts for stock.....

 

finally got the top on my T. It's not quite finished, but a lot closer.

 

got the linkage and shifter set up on my "new" Muncie. Gonna put in a new rear seal and get it into the T roadster

 

Searched for missing part for the '58 so decided to do shop house cleaning. Surprising what one could fine after 20yrs of pigeon holing parts .

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I Parked On The Lawn And Celebrated Our Holiday...It Took All Day...

 

Got the passenger door bottom patched/welded and ground, welded in the bottom door patch also..
Poured on the light weight polyester auto body filler (Fancy name for Bondo) sanded and primed the outer door. Time to finish the inside next..






Then pulled the intake off the engine that is going to be used..
And what a SURPRISE



Cleanest used engine I have ever seen...

 

That will get u a ticket in my neighborhood and it’s not a co-op or hoa.

 

Bound and glued some carpet to cover the silver stuff on my '47. Made some brackets for my friend to mount his cowl lights down low and under the fender lip. Hoping they look better than the typical amber motorcycle lights. Now we need to switch out the headlight switch to an early style so park lights are not on with the headlights. Always something.

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Then pulled the intake off the engine that is going to be used..
And what a SURPRISE

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Cleanest used engine I have ever seen...[/QUOTE]

 

^^^^^ Meant to say NICE

 

Today, I started disassembling my seized 327 on my 63 Impala restoration. Thank you guys for watching! Please like, share and subscribe on YouTube!

 

Delco Remy replacement ignition system parts are/were common.

 

Friday I gave the 47 a fresh coat of wax, it came out nice (though I noticed I'm starting to get some bubbling on the roof, I think is probably from some rust that wasn't properly dealt with before the PO had it sprayed).


Then later that evening we took it out to a non-sanctioned cruise night for burgers, fries and Cokes.

 

aturday morning I took the 30 pickup out and joined a July 4th parade in a local town. There were a few nice cars there. These were shot in the parking lot after the parade.

 

I spent all day making a garnish molding for a T coupe. Instead of buying two new repops for a buck and a half.

One is original, the other is new.

 

Great job Jim, from that pic I can't tell which is which. Of course, I'm not a knowledgable T guy, so there's that. But it looks like maybe the one closest in the photo has a roughened textured surface from age, so I would guess that's the original. Am I right?

 

Yes.

 

Got the floors welded in yesterday.

 

Spent most of the day fighting rusty and stripped body mounting bolts on my parts car. Almost ready to lift it off the chassis. It is going under my 50 Fleetline project.

 

My damn key froze up in the column, so I tore down the steering column and popped it out, repaired. Ready to cruise to the drive-in with a buddy and the wives Thursday for malts and coneys....

 

Cleaned out the shed,roof leaked and ruined most of the parts that were in there.

 

Pulled the 57 out from around back and bribed the little people to wash it for date night at the Mexican restaurant down the road!


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I've got a few hundred miles on my project car now, so today I climbed under it and did my usual nut and bolt tightening check. And a good thing I did! I found one nut and bolt on each spindle steering arm that had backed off almost 1/4"!! Yikes!
I removed the bolts, and replaced them with new bolts, and locking nuts. Then while replacing them I also put Loctite on the threads, just to double down on keeping them all tight.

 

Finally came up with a license plate light, finned body is a parking brake cover for a quad, fitted with a clear 3/4" trailer marker light inserted in the bottom.

 

That reminds me, the key switch in my 47 was getting real sticky last time I drove it. I was going to apply some WD-40 to see if that would free it up. Thanks for the reminder....

 

I got an old ahoogah horn working in my T. It's so cute!