The Jalopy Journal
Thanks mate! So glad it’s finished and now we get to go round at have fun with them! Thanks fo all your help and inspiration
Hi Steve, The shocks are lever Armstrongs, used on early British cars like MG's and Triumphs. they are aluminium bodied and oil filled. i think...
So this last weekend it was all back together, clutch pedal movement reduced, also changed the brake pedal. and now working good. Matt, Fred and...
So now it was basically time to start engine in car and perhaps drive it. this would be the first time that we heard the mufflers and boy they...
once interior was done (i made a carpet too but no photo) i had matt, fred and ryan came over to help with the wiring. matt is really good at it...
After paint and perhaps final assembly i needed to figure out how to make the interior. i had bought an industrial sewing machine a while back and...
Hi all. Well the car is finished, way behind schedule way over budget, typical stuff. Wanted to at least finish this build thread. Will add more...
NICE work Matt, simple cheap solution for a real problem. I suspect people encounter this without realizing. Thanks for sharing! A
lovely update mate, and as usual amazing work! its gettin close....
OMG thats awful the hit and run. glad to hear they caught him. looks like you are doing an amazing job getting it back to its former glory.
@brEad thank you mate, yeah much better. I also have a new axle pending from anson which I hope will push it over the edge! @unforgiven thanks...
Thanks Bugguts! I think one of my favorite things is making and adapting tools.
heres the car all back together. im not sure if you can tell its higher. but it certainly feels like it when you are sat in it - way safer view of...
whist making this i found a 2:1 drive (same SW one) on the bay. this makes things easier because needed to slow it down to the drive. i got that...
tach work. i cut a snout off a old crank, cut jaws and indicated it to make sure its concentric and straight. screwed a bolt in and drilled a 1/4"...
rear spring work. i am trying to make it a little higher in the rear, or create more slope forward. i have a reversed main spring in the back. i...
Made some dies for my bead roller to put a bead on the radiator pipes and then made some pipes out of 1 1/4 SS. im not sure i like them though. so...
ha yeah im confused also. the threaeded mcmaster piece is stickin through a hole in the table. after i machined the head off i drilled a 3/8" hole...
Spent a while today making a seat adjuster. this was probably a bit of a waste of time cos im sure it will stay in the same position. i thought...
Cheers Mate! THank you rod1!
i need to start working harder on this. im starting to see the end of it and im gettting excited about driving and hearing it. thanks for listening!
i made a throttle linkage and carb linkage using some old spring cup linkages. you have to lock the springs out after they are on the ball. so i...
started on the seat using webbing as a base. i put a bar between the two seats hopefully to stop driver and passenger getting in each others...
matt donated a pretty bent hood so i could extend mine the 3" or so. need to get it back into shape with the english wheel and welded it to the...
I still needed to make the drive shaft, so i cut one to length then machined the end so it was a tight press fit to a coupling. i had seen...
BAck at it....Well its Bonneville time....Another year and not ready! Shock i know! We will unfortunately not even be attending this year due to...
Thanks Clem appreciate the comment. Yeah first car, i have built a motorcycle before (i say built i mean got about 90% completed then stopped)....
Lovely stuff Mr Ralph! getting excited to drive mine. hopefully that will happen this year. does that have a rear wind down window? i wish mine...
Auliz, your style and skills are great to me, and i enjoy reading your posts very much. Thank you for sharing.
Vilanar! Thanks very much. Yeah i couldnt survive with just mig now i have had tig!
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