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
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. Trying to get it to the point where a good coat of surfacer will level it out. Ron
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. Ron
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
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. 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
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. Ron
Sorry about the pics. Moved them to a separate file. They can be seen here; http://s215.photobucket.com/albums/cc314/Youngster1945/1921 roadster/ Ron
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. 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. 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. Here it is all welded. My finger's tired. More later. Ron
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. 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. 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. A quick coat of black paint and a few hours assembly and it was off to Iowa. Ron
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. 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. Added the top cowl panel and door for effect. At this point I had some other folks stuff to work on so ..... it went on the back burner fro 6 weeks. Ron
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. Ron
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