Been checking out your thread as I am new here.
All I can say it that is amazing skill you have, great work!
WOW! :cool:
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Been checking out your thread as I am new here.
All I can say it that is amazing skill you have, great work!
WOW! :cool:
Here I am happy with primed and painted calipers. "One mans ceiling is another mans floor". In this case I am in the basement. :)
Not much to show as most of it is the boring stuff at the moment and this detail stuff can eat up a fair bit of time but i did get around to making the master cylinder look a bit better, I was originally going to chrome the body but after 1/2 way through polishing i decided to paint it.
Master cylinder is new Raybestos unit from a 1955 F100 truck
First off got all the roughness off it and ground off the lettering and sticky out bits and put on 3 coats of epoxy primer, next 2 coats of Green TI hibuild, then it was all rubbed down and 3 coats of my special mix 2k white applied, its matches the firewall.
The cap was made on a CNC mill and is fashioned after a aircraft cap, this was hollowed out and glued to the original cap with 2 pack epoxy glue. Once set it was given a nice shine on my polisher.
The outlet of the cylinder was 1/2" UNF and you can't get a stainless fitting to 3AN so i spun one up on the lathe and drilled and tapped the centre to take a 3/8" stainless banjo fitting & bolt.
I wanted to add a lanyard to the cap and found some stainless bicycle brake cable, I'm well pleased how it came out
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Wow, even the little stuff! Looks great. Love the depth to the paint!
Very nice, I think that is called making a silk purse out of a sows ear :LOL:
Ken
Thanks Ken, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, Thats very funny :LOL:
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Wow Steve, even the stainless wire cap strap is just amazing and is the sort of detail that I would not of thought of. Very very nice and as Stoven's said, we are under ground compared to your skill level but in saying that, thankyou for sharing with us as your ideas and skill helps us to set our horizon higher. So to you and Ken Thurm on behalf of everybody else on here, thankyou guys..;)
Whip the way i see it we all are talented in some way, car building is way behind brain surgery however :LOL:
I do blow a mean Harp though :)
Thanks for the kind comments.
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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T
Got lucky today and found a stainless banjo & bolt
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A few people asked about the copper washers so here's what they look like before compressing.
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Wow...........just WOW, Steve. Really art. I imagine you run silicone brake fluid (as do I) so that pretty finish doesn't get damaged by regular DOT 3 ? And here I am happy when I get a nice bug bomb finish on my MC. :o:o
Don
I never run silicone fluid Don, too many bad things with it for my liking :(
I just run Dot 4 fluid It don't seem to affect 2K paint anywhere near as bad plus you shouldn't have fluid leaking :eek:
Looks like we may not be over this year after all, maybe early next year.
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Yeah, I've heard stories about soft pedal and all with silicone, but that hasn't been my experience. In fact, when I got around to finally restoring my 27 and drained the brake fluid that was in there, it came out a clean as the day I put in in, and that was 20 odd years ago. The wheel cylinders and lines were also in great shape, probably due to the Dot 5 not being hygroscopic. Here in Florida where our humidity is like 7,000% it seems to make a real difference.
Sorry you and Sue aren't coming this fall. :( Hope it is soon though.
Don
Yesterday was such a nice day I decided it was time i cleaned my block ready for reboring and hot tanking, Put it on a stand and first job was to remove the various core plugs and gallery plugs and then started zip wheeling the crud off, The caddy block is a high nickel block and quite a good smooth casting, They don't rev very high in normal operation so are not generally worn even after high mileage, I'm boring it 60 thou but decided to mic up the bores and lifter bores etc etc anyway out of interest, I don't know how many miles it had done but there was nothing wrong with the bores at all, they all measured stock with no ovality at all, amazing !!! Shame to bore it really.
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Once the crap was off I started to smooth the various casting flash off but got sort of carried away anyway here it is roughed out, just needs a going over with a finer flap wheel and a few corners to smooth out and it should look nice painted.
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Oh so you got carried away,heck why paint the engine,just keep polishing it to go with the highly polished frame.:toocool: Now I 'm gonna be lazy and ask what type of engine is it??? Yeah I know I could go back to the start of this thread and start reading it again to find the answer but I'm too lazy today.:rolleyes:
PS. Hope you didn't get any crude all over Sue's pickup????
Steve, that's going to look great!
Ken
Too bad you can't clear coat it to keep that shinny metal look!. Would go great with the stainless steel theme.
Cadillac 500 Whip.
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ha ha ha, no mate i moved it well away.
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I hope so Ken, I thought i would just smooth out the main parts and just scoot the corners and it would look good but the more i look at it the more i need to do all the corners properley, nobody will probably notice but the mad side of my split personality keeps telling me to do it all :LOL::LOL:
I'm usually pretty focused on colours right from the start of a project and had decided on copper flake for the engine and autobox but after my master cylinder came out so sweet i'm thinking of going with the off white engine and trans with copper flake valve covers. it would look very 60's, what do you think ??? Am i mad :LOL:
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Steve I don't want to go over the top :eek::LOL::LOL::LOL:
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I got my steering box bits back from the platers today so bolted it back together, The sector shaft is missing as i'm using a cowl steer setup and it needs to be 5" longer, Its hardened so Steve (rusty coupe) is turning the relevant ends on it as my lathe tooling wouldn't touch it
Its a series 2 Land Rover box which will be mounted on my interior steel framework, the extended sector shaft is supported at the cowl side by a flanged 1" bore rose bearing which again will bolt to the steel frame.
It was in pretty good condition when i got it so just needed a good clean out, a couple of new seals and adjusting correctly.
Outer column is the original land rover with a stainless tube slid over the top, inner column is again land rover, both will be shortened the required amount when mounted.
The rough casing was smoothed off with a tungsten burr in a die grinder, a normal grinder and flap disc and small flap wheels for the corners, It then got 3 coats of black 2 pack epoxy primer and finally 2 coats of 2 pack Off white, Bolts replaced with polished stainless and cover and end plates chromed.
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Are you crazy Steve???? No not at all because I and all of us here absolutely love the fine detail of everything you do and man that steering box looks so good it will be a pitty that most people will not notice it.
Looks awesome!!!:3dSMILE:
Ken
Thanks Whip, Your probably right that no one will notice but i know its there :)
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Heck, it doesn't matter if anyone sees it or not!!!!:LOL: Fit, finish, and detail is what it's all about and that is some really first rate work!!Quote:
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Thanks Dave, appreciate the comment.
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Well after 25 hours of smoothing the block is finally done I did it in bursts of 3 or 4 hours over a few days as its a bit of a soul destroying job.
Tools used were a 80 grit flap wheel in a 4" grinder, a power file and various shaped tungsten burrs in a die grinder. The sides were pretty easy to do as you can get in everywhere easily but the front and back easily took twice as long due to the many nooks and crannys. Its a lot smoother than it looks in the pics, the various scratches will be filled in nicely by the epoxy primer.
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While i was there i removed all the flashing in the lifter gallery so the oil had a quicker route back to the sump.
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All the gallery pipe plugs were removed ready for when the block gets hot tanked and drilled & tapped to recieve NPT pipe plugs, Only one plug came out easily with the rest being drilled out.
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While the grinding tools were out i removed the various sticky out bits from the Edelbrock inlet manifold and polished the Edelbrock lettering so it would look good with the inlet painted.
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Because the Cadillac was originally filled with oil through the rocker covers and I'm using early covers without holes i needed to add a filler to the inlet, there was a flat area on the front of the inlet so a 1" holes was put in with a holesaw and a flange made from a scrap of 6mm stainless and fitted with a stainless tube, This was then capped off with a chrome breather cap.
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I recently did a polished exhaust system for a customer and had a few offcuts that were left over and after looking at them for a while i decided to use them to make some tailpipes, I had always intended to have 4 pipes at the rear, very 60's. They are over length at the moment so they can be trimmed when fitted.
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Absolutely awesome,Steve...and that has to be the best Landrover steering box I have EVER seen...:cool::eek:
Thanks mate, i'm well pleased how it came out :D
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Popped in the chromers today to pick up other peoples stuff and my axle and spring was back
So i did the same as every other hotrodder and rushed home to throw it together to how it looked, I'm a happy bunny :LOL: can you tell i'm pleased with it :3dSMILE:
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Looks great, Steve. I see pictures of where some builders leave their chrome parts wrapped up in tape and paper while building their cars..........NOT ME. I'm like a little kid and have to see what effect they are having on the overall look. As soon as I get them home I am ripping off the paper and bolting them on. Glad to see there are others who like to look at their new parts, no matter how many times you have done it before. :D
That steering box looks perfect for hot rod usage......did you say it was from a Landrover?
Don
Yes mate, series 2 or 3 Landrover, do you have these beasts over there ???
I'm using mine for cowl steering.
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Okay Bunny Steve,you can pat your self on the back and shake your hands together for such an excellent job on the motor. I too like to look at all the eye candy when one gets it home,( no not that young lady down the street Steve):LOL::LOL: the front axle looks good and can you just refresh me again, you do drive the socks off these cars you build???:toocool::toocool: How is the giving up smoking going???? I noticed that the ash tray is not as full as usual so you either was having a good day at the office or you have managed to cut back????:):):)
Can you put some photos up on the Pop too please????
I'm no different Don, i'm like a big kid with a new toy when shiny or new bits arrive :LOL:
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:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Whip your a funny guy :LOL: I like your sense of humour.
Still smoking i'm afraid, my trusty helper Gomez has been in and emptied the ashtrays and swept the floor and generally tidyed up :)
Oh yes this will get driven just as hard as the rest of them, I wear my chips with pride :D
I find it amazing the amount of people that say to me "you won't drive it will you"
If it gets bad i will repaint or repolish but to be honest my T was pretty much as good the day i sold to what it was when i first finished it, maybe i've been lucky ???
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Whip there is a build thread here mate for the Thames/Fordson, have a look and let me know what you think.
http://www.nsra.org.uk/newforum/showthread.php?t=37278
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Well with the block all smoothed and in bare metal i needed to stop it flash rusting, this was a bit of a predicament as i couldnt give it to the reborer as it would go rusty while it was waiting to be done and if i primed it he would probaly chip or scratch it, after a bit of thinking i decided to epoxy prime it and take a chance on scratches and chips
Firstly i went around the block again and sanded off any light rust that had formed, then i washed the block down with panelwipe to degrease it, next i put it in front of my blow heater to get the block nice and warm and dry, then applied 4 coats of black epoxy primer.
It came out real nice and smooth and should be even better when its flatted for the topcoat colour.
While the gun was full i decided to do the intake manifold as well, this got 3 coats of epoxy and 3 coats of green TI hi build as well as it wasn't as smooth as the block, this will enable me to flat it out and hopefully acheive a really nice finish on it
Here's the block masked up, to get a nice edge i put the masking tape over the shaped parts and gently tapped the sharp edge with a hammer so the sharp edge cuts the tape.
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Thanks for the link Steve for the Thames. I have read the first 3 pages and it seems our "Pommie" rodder friends complain about how high you set that damn bar also with your workmanship.:LOL: Thanks again as I am going to enjoy reading each and every post on that thread as there appears to be some hardcase individuals over there in the UK that also keeps you on your toes.:D And yes I will let you know what I think of the project,da.:D