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'21 steel roadster body

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by youngster, Feb 1, 2011.

  1. youngster
    Joined: Feb 26, 2006
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    from Minnesota

    Had a good day the other day. 4 hours of work in the shop got me $200 and this;

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    Ron
     
  2. Sweet! didja get the turtledeck?
     
  3. youngster
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    Already had one. Guess didn't mention it came with a good title too!!

    Ron
     
  4. youngster
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    Here's the parts box that came with it.

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    Ron
     
  5. Streetwerkz
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    lucky duck!!
    good score
     
  6. The37Kid
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    All you need now is a parts catalog from Lang's! Nice find, what are your plans with it?
     
  7. hasty
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    Congratulations!
     
  8. youngster
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    Future plans for it are a little sketchy right now. I really like Bent's build, the old old school soup job. Maybe get the body straigtened out a bit and go from there. I really don't need amother project right now but ........

    Ron
     
  9. Thats pretty cool. How about a flattie?
     
  10. butch27
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    Ron: If you need any frame planes for that you can buy some from Canada.LOL
     
  11. youngster
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    Thanks Butch ... that's just what I need ... lol

    Ron
     
  12. youngster
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    I was poking around the ol' girl this weekend and felt sorry for her. Thought maybe a patch or two would cheer her up. Here's what it ended up lookin' like. i think I saved about 60% of the cowl pannel. It is the worst piece.

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    Trying to get it to the point where a good coat of surfacer will level it out.

    Ron
     
  13. looks good Ron, i have to stop over and check it out
     
  14. woodienut
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    Always amazed at how much is still around.
     

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  15. youngster
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    Nice collection of parts wooodienut. A little bit of all the styles and years.

    Ron
     
  16. youngster
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    Went back and attached the adjacent pannels last night. Everything fit pretty good except for the door. It's got a bit of a twist to it. There's another one coming that won't need as much work to make it usable.

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    Ron
     
  17. steel rebel
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    Good luck it's a journey.
     

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  18. youngster
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    Scored a '29 A chassis today! Motor turns over by hand. Drained the oil and it looks nice and clean with no metal in it. Got a set of 21" wheels, 5 in all. They seem to be straight, only one with bent spokes. Can't wait to dig into it.

    Let the fun begin!!!!

    Ron
     
  19. studematt
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    That pile of touring parts look very very familiar.
     
  20. rusty28a
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    Go to it Ron! We're rootin' for ya and look forward to the pics. Rusty
     
  21. youngster
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    Got a chance to go thru the parts bucket that came with the chassis today. It's amazing. The brakes work just fine. pulled the dizzy and it needs a new cap otherwise it's nice and tight. Clutch seems to work with ease. Gonna make up a contol pannel to mount on it and get'er runnin.

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    The axel assembly was a nice bonus with the chassis, it's from a '41 Ford. Sold off the spindles and brakes today for $335. Paid $575 for the chassis so I've got $240 in it. :)

    Ron
     
  22. youngster
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    Because the body had no sub frame, I started to make a replacement out of wood like it was originally. There are a lot of stress cracks in the sheetmetal. I felt there was no reason to set the car up for more so I made a sub frame out of 16g CRS. This should also help getting the right shape to the patch pannels on the bottom 4" of the body.

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    Ron
     
  23. captainjunk#2
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    pretty neat score should be a fun lil car , keep posting photos of your work
     
  24. youngster
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  25. youngster
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    An up date on the T's progress.

    I had another A frame that was in pieces so I used the rails from it. The T rear xmbr will now be the front xmbr. I slotted the front and welded a 1/2" plate in it at 7 degree angle. It worked out good. I've got 5 degress' with the chassis loaded.

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    The center xmbr was narrowed to 23". Now the rails are 23" from the front xmbr to the center xmbr. I left the stock kick out in the A rails.

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    The rails where cut at a 45 and the back section was welded to the top of the front section. They where capped and boxed also. This is a pic before welding.

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    Here it is all welded.

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    My finger's tired. More later.

    Ron
     
  26. youngster
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    About the middle of Aug. I recieve a notice for the F.A.S.T. meet in Northwood Iowa. And decided to take the chassis down. As A result there was a lot of undocumented work done.

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    I wanted to keep the wishbone intact. Since the front axle is mounted in front of the xmember and the motor was set back 2 1/2", I had to extend the bones 8". I just used a second wishbone and spliced it in. This caused a clearence issue with the flywheel housing. A 3/4" aluminum spacer for the ball cured that problem. The next glitch was with a reversed eye spring, the frame sat on top of the tie rod. Replacing the stock main leaf yelded 1/2" clearence. Still not good but it went to the show that way. I have a pair of '33 spindles now to swap in. More on this later.

    Knowing the 4" frame kick would still leave the back too high, I move the Spring down in front of the axle. A tab was welded to the axle and a 3/8" plate made to reach forward to the radius rod. A lenght od 7/8" DOM was welded thru the bone to accept a 1/2" bolt. This all worked well except I now need a shorter main leaf for the rear spring. What you see here is something I cobbled up till I get the new main.

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    I will be running the stock A mechanical brakes with a floater kit in stalled. I shortened the brake bellcrank about 4" and built mounts on the outside of the frame rails as Brent did with his build.

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    A quick coat of black paint and a few hours assembly and it was off to Iowa.

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    Ron
     
  27. SaucyNordicTart
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  28. youngster
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    When I got the body, there was no wood left in it. I thought about building a wood sub structure but my strength is in metal working and not wood so I had some 16ga. broke into C channel and Z channel. Armed with a set of dimensions (which where wrong) I used some 10ga. to fab the firewall mount.

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    Time to start repairing body panels next. I started with the passenger side cowl. It was the worst piece as you can see in the pic.

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    Added the top cowl panel and door for effect.

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    At this point I had some other folks stuff to work on so ..... it went on the back burner fro 6 weeks.

    Ron
     
  29. youngster
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    Had to make some room in the shop to work on a customers Model A speedster today so I rolled the ol' girl out side for some fresh air and pic's. Hopefully I can get back to playing with her pretty soon.

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    Ron
     
  30. FlynBrian
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    Man that is Cool! Nice job!
     

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