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I brought the rear end of the car down a little and am getting ready to build the truck floor. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
It is tilting 12 degrees foward
I re-configured my rear shocks. Here is a picture of the new design, just tacked in place. I plan on doing a series of spot welds around the...
Great acquisition! Other than the flathead V8, what do you plan to do to it?
Thanks. I will have the body back off again soon. Do you have a picture of what you did?
[ATTACH] I rolled it outside last weekend so I could look at everything from a distance. I am moving up the firewall end of the body about...
Yes there is to much angle. I am going to see if they will keep it from bouncing down the road or not. I did not want them sticking up into the...
Thanks. I did not notice I had them on upside down.
They are certainly not ideal.
Been working on building the floor and also decided to raise the front end of the body (firewall end) up about 1/2". Now the hood (If I had one)...
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Thanks Tutashen! I am having a good time building this car. Every time I go out to my shop I cant believe my eyes. Never thought I would have...
Do you have your speed-o-meter gear housing bolted on? It limits were the solid drive shaft can set forward to aft. If you rest the solid drive...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I got my peday assy installed. I will probably have to rework the actual pedal pads a little.
Ya, I might be able to weld by the end of the program as well. I agree that anything I make from this effort will be better than were this crust...
Well I got my shocks mounted. They have more angle than I would like. I did not want to put a lot of heat into welding the radius rod ends...
It looks awesome. Very unique. Nice to see someone doing it their way, instead of following the heard.
I have my drive train going 2 degrees down in the rear. Just not sure how straight in line is straight enough?
So in theory, when you only have one u-joint instead of two, in a drive line, any mis-alignment will cause accelerations and decelerations (which...
You have very similar thoughts to me and my build. Mustang background, then I moved to the 1950's and now I want to build a car such that someone...
I did the boiled linseed oil treatment on one of my Studebakers and luckily read about that spontaneous combustion thing before it could happen....
Thanks for the encouragement to everyone who has commented. I thought I had been building cars for years before this project, but I had only been...
Congratulations! Do you know any history on the car? (other than the interior) When was the last time it drove?
I forgot to mentions this one runs and drives.
I just bought this '52 F100 drive train from a friend of mine that is doing the crown vic swap into this truck. This is significantly accelerate...
I am glad this car ended up in capable hands! What a dream!
With all my projects I love telling the story as much as showing the car. Context is very important. You made my heart stop asking if I had the...
I am going to run a 1957 ford truck pedal assy and use its brake and clutch master cylinders along with a '62 chevy slave cylinder. This last...
I cut down my torque tube myself. The drive shaft required some help. After talking to several shops I decided to just do it locally. I have a...
So sadly, it was time to blow it all back apart and weld up the motor mounts, radius rod brackets, tranny mount bracket ect. If I did not...
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