Thread: 32 3W progress photos ...

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I have been slowly plugging away on the 32 3W chasis. A piece here, a part there ... kind of deal. Finally got motivated a little in the past few days and installed some of the parts I have been collecting or working on.


Hung the A/C compressor, the new alternator and the Jet Hot coated exhaust







Installed all the lines back on, the fuel filter, the transmission filter and the extra transmission cooler. Got the Wilwood adjuster proportioning valve and the residual valves installed too.





Hung the Vintage Air back on the firewall ... made the hoses today ... forget to get the photo ...

Looks great to me, you guys make me so jealous, i cant wait till i can build a car from the ground up, instead of unscrewing a bad car from the getgo. anyway looking real good!

Shaping up very nice!!!! That is some excellent workmanship on the chassis and components!!!! Going to be a very fine car when you get it finished!!!!!

Wow, fantastic workmanship. You are going to hate putting a body on it to cover up all that pretty stuff. Super job Deuce.

Don

Okay Randy, we're supposed to buy that line about you being a broke, old, retired guy?

Really nice progress, good work!

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Okay Randy, we're supposed to buy that line about you being a broke, old, retired guy?

Really nice progress, good work!

So now you gonna start picking on us poor broke retired guys??????

Just like Rodney, never get no respect!!!!!!

Whadda ya mean start!

That is excellent work - magazine quality. I really envy the A/C.

If you don't mind a small comment . . . I noticed that there doesn't seem to be any flex tubing between the trans cooler lines and the frame. Are you concerned about the trans moving a little and stressing those lines?

Looking real nice..... very clean. When do you hope to have it done?

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Whadda ya mean start!

Hmmmm. Guess that was kind of inaccurate, wasn't it???????

Did you have to use spacers on your spreader bars? I bought some bob drake ones and they don't measure the correct length according to wescott's frame drawings. I don't remember how much they were short but if you bolted them between the rails it would be about 1/4 or so short of being the proper width.

Originally Posted by Uptown83

Did you have to use spacers on your spreader bars? I bought some bob drake ones and they don't measure the correct length according to wescott's frame drawings.

After market spreader bars are famous for being too short. They are made up to fit between any body's chassis rails ... and add a spacer. If they were the correct lenght ... they would not go in the frame of some after market frames. I have found that every after market 32 chassis I ever measured was 1/4 or more of a inch too narrrow. They are purposely built that way IMHO ... to help get the chassis under the after market fiberglass bodies. Fiberglass is thicker in that area and some fiberglass bodies will not sit down on a original 32 Ford Henry built chassis without grinding away . I had to add about 200 hundred thousand to my spreader bars. I am using a set of original frame rails that came under the 3W coupe. My original spreader bar fits perfect. It is just not stainless and shiny.

Originally Posted by Henry Rifle

If you don't mind a small comment . . . I noticed that there doesn't seem to be any flex tubing between the trans cooler lines and the frame. Are you concerned about the trans moving a little and stressing those lines?

Not really,
Factory GM cars and trucks do not have any flexiable junction ... and my 32 Roadster is done the exact same way as the 3W and I have over 50 thousand miles on it without a issue from the line.

All i have is the rails, I was debating if i should build the rails to match the spreaders or match the original. I have a original 32 frame, but it is rough and I figured i would be ahead to buy new rails for a hiboy.

Very nice work, great detail ! Would you tell me the part number of your vintage air?

Not really,
Factory GM cars and trucks do not have any flexiable junction ... and my 32 Roadster is done the exact same way as the 3W and I have over 50 thousand miles on it without a issue from the line.

Thanks. Good to know.