Projects My 1929 Model A Ford AV8 truck build thread

What are those tires? NOS or repop?

 

Coker sells them, They are repop Firestones. They have a 100 miles on them and they are 1 year old.

http://store.cokertire.com/650-16-firestone-knobby-truck.html

 

Damn,talk about eye candy! Really enjoying this build. Hope my T on A rails comes out half as nice.

 

I LOVE THIS BUILD!!

Rich

 

No pictures but today my 78 year old hot rod buddy hooked me up with a good flywheel, clutch and disc. Also temp senders and a bearing for the flywheel. It is like going to the mall when I stop there

 

I blasted the flywheel and noticed the ring gear was bad. I have a good one on another flywheel so I switched them. I heated it up with the rose bud and pounded it off. I cleaned up the rust on the flywheel, reheated the ring gear and dropped it on. That was easy!








Then I put the exhaust manifolds on the engine that were blasted and painted with high temp paint.

 

Great little truck, and great build-up. Thanks for the photo-story.

I love that rear bumper.

 

...that's gonna be way too nice !

 

The boys and I went to the junk yard Saturday because I heard they had an old bus with the seats still in it. My plan is to mount the bus seats in the box and make them removable so I can haul the kids and nieces and nephews at Back to the 50's and Iola. I grabbed a third seat for the cab because I don't have a seat and it will cost about $600 to get springs and have them covered. This will work for now.

 

I made more progress on cleaning up small parts and priming them. The starter is next.

 

hah, damn seat looks good, good idea.
love your build...

 

Great job!

 

I'm enjoying watching the build!

 

How wide is the bus seat you picked up? I got ahold of some real nice old theater seats but they are to wide to fit on my 27 tudor

 

It is 38". It is out of a early 70's bus.

 

Here are some more progress pictures. My Edmunds intake does not work with this style generator so I am going to run this stock intake for now. I have the wire lools on and the starter and generator painted and installed.








Since I could not find the right fan spacer, I made a stock on fit by machining it down and welding it.






How old is this gas? It is from the fuel pump on this engine. I am going to replace the pump.

 

I got all the small parts hung and primed with the help of David.

 

are you using primer in a can ?
what type ?

 

No spray cans, I used Acme etch primer and a hvlp spray gun.

 

cool the job looks good, i was just wondering about the cans in the pic.

 

Ohhhhhh, that is Rustoleum I was using on the generator and starter, and some misc engine parts.

 

Today I sprayed black on the hanging parts and the frame.

 

Tonight we started a little bit of assembly. We put the front spring together and mounted it in the frame.

 

I am rebuilding the brake and cluth pedal assembly. I took it all apart and sand blasted all the pieces and primed and painted everything. I put new bushings in the pedals, but the pin is badly worn. A new pin is $25.00 but I wanted to build my own. I started with a 7/8 x 8" grade 5 bolt.



I chucked it up in the lathe and parted it.



Then I spun it around and turned the head to size.







To finish it off, I had to drill a grease hole down the center and tap the end for a 1/8" grease fitting. Then I had to cross drill it for the grease to get to the pedals. And that is it. Now it is ready to install. It took about 1 hour to do.

 

looking good

 

Today I primed my rims (steel wheels), and primed the transmission.




Then I painted it black and mated it to the engine and put it in.

 

good job

 

very clean little truck.
nice job.

 

I'm loving this build, good progress so far, that bus seat was made for it.

 

very nice job mate. love every detail of this little truck, cant wait for more. keep up the good work