Projects My 57 is home

So good to see someone do the brake lines the right way.

 

Very good. What bonding agent did you use?

 

Looks good. I love seeing progress. Must be 57 Ford season, made a little progress on mine also, last month.

 

Was the Meteor a two door or four door? It would be great to have saved it. (I have. '56 Rideau Victoria.). Why would lifting a body off a '50s be such an ordeal for you? Too big?

 

I also used a panel adhesive on the eyebrows. I just was getting rid of seams. The first time around I just cleaned up and glued around the edges using enough to make good contact and close the gaps. The car sat for about 3 years after that paint job through a couple good summer and winter temp cycles (this was paint job #3). I was checking things over getting ready to finish the Car when I noticed hair line cracks right where the seam used to be. Talked about it with the paint supplier and it was decided I didn't rough up the surface enough or use enough product. Personally I thought I followed there directions pretty well. During Body and Paint job #4 (this one and last one) I removed both eyebrows and with little effort from what I expected and I did it again. This time I took a rotary file and burred up the total back side of the potmetal eyebrow as well as the full edge of the fender. I then filled the back side of the eyebrow with adhesive and pushed them in place letting product ooze out all the way around. Once cured I filed to a finish and has been re painted again. That was another 5 years ago and so far nothing seems to be going on. If it crack's out again I'm just going to live with it. I hope you have better luck than my first go at it.

 

The repro and the original are not even in the same ballpark, Jeff. Looks like the original was made by Firestone?

 

I always look forward to your updates Mr. Norwell

 

Great information, thank you. I have a service manual AND a Norwell binder. I need all the help I can get.

 

Jeff; Thanks for the insight. Like you, I like things to look correct as well as work right. I can see the issue with the repro unit. Now I have to go rummage through countless numbers of boxes and find the replacement pedal I have and take a look. I know I have fresh new units for all 3 pedals and have for near 30 years. I wonder if I'll get lucky and have a correct unit being when I started my project there was a lot of N.O.S. parts still around. Last time I was rooting around I was kind of impressed how much stuff I had in FoMoCo boxes. Did I send you the info on Classtec?

 

Damn, I hate those Safe Places! Finding them often times take more time than the actual Job does.

 

You must be missing the little U brackets for the Center strip.

 

I'm famous for that. I have a small box on top of my rollaway and the top drawer in the chest is where I keep my critical parts... most of the time. I just went through my new and used parts, I had some scattered, now they are organized and I found stuff I never recall buying. Most of my used hardware is bagged up or in old prescription containers and labeled.

I had painted a lot of the interior parts, down to small items, wrapped them in masking paper and labeled them. They were in this one copier paper box that I kept losing in the garage, it would take days of off and on searching. FINALLY painted a stripe on each side of the box with day-glo orange.

The gas pedal on my '59 went right in, I could have used my old one but elected for a new one probably from Concours Ford.

 

Looks great, Jeff! That difference to the pedal was news to me

 

I knew about the 2 types of arms. Had not given much thought to it being it's not the hands on project as of yet. So it looks like the actual pedal itself is for the late 57/58 hardware. Is that correct? I'm trying to refrain from getting sidetracked back into the 57 project until this 34 is out of my life and I'm only days away from watching the taillights go down the driveway. I'd go do a little hands on with my pieces but it always seems to suck up Days instead of Hours.

 

Mine is the one on the right style. 9725. Is there a way to correlate the 4-digit part numbers to full Ford part numbers?