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Well winter draws closer and its now dark at 6pm so progress is slowing rapidly but i picked up a B&M Quick Silver shifter cheap, been butchered in a couple of places but sorted that out and fitted it to the trans tunnel with rivnuts, Oh and decided to fit the Willys badges i had.
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Lookin good Steve. I know what you mean about loss of daylight. Winter is coming quickly!
This is tough time of year to build. No time and lots of flash lights.
Thought i had better sort a handbrake, luckily i had an old upright handbrake lever from a old 1950's bus ( I knew i would use it someday)
The lever was 3ft long so first job was to shorten it to a nice comfortable length.
1st pic is what i started with.
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Next on the list was a floor mounted bracket, someone had butchered the mechanism before i got it so i made an upright and welded the ratchet piece to it.
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The pawl was pretty badly worn so i made another from steel, heated it to cherry red and quenched it in water to harden it.
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Heres the bits laid out before reassembly
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1st pic is fully closed and 2nd pic fully open. I was gonna cover it with a leather gaiter but thought it would look cool left open and chromed.
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I also treated the old girl to a pair of ARE magnesium spindle mount 5 spoke 4" x 15" front wheels, these came with discs and calipers, bearing etc but need a little bit of fitting to complete.
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Also got the other header done and finished.
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Well you have been busy,, looking good
Gotta keep busy Charlie !!!
Gotta love the detail work, Steve!!!! I guess that's what separates us from normal people who drive stuff the way the factory built it!
I've heard of those people do they realy exist???
Probably just a rumor, but a friend of mine claims that they're really out there---wondering around bored to tears and hopelessly lost---but they are there!!!!!Quote:
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one of them probably has Steves missing pair of channel locks
REally???? I didn't know that they knew how to use tools!!!!
Just showing off to the others
As they say Dave, its all in the details :D
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Well the last couple of evenings i've managed to sort a job that i couldn't make my mind up about, namely the brake pedal, the sensible side of me was saying under the floor dual circuit master cylinder but i just thought it looked to modern, the other side was saying swinging pedals and 1960 Chevy picup master cylinder, the one drawback was that it as single circuit but as i already had a brand new cylinder i decided to go the unsensible route.
Obviously to use this cylinder i needed a swinging pedal box, the Ansen type fitted my needs perfectly and used the chevy master but after seeing the prices they were going for i decided to make my own.
One problem arose straightaway as i knew i had a master cylinder but forgot i had sold it to a customer, a quick call and another was on its way and the customer kindly sent me a template of the cylinder base bolt pattern, this at least enabled me to get started.
This is the 60-62 Chevy cylinder i'm using.
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This is the expensive & rare Ansen pedal box
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My version is made from 316L stainless, base is 1/4" cut from plate (not laser cut) pedal is 3/8" and as its on display i polished it all, master cylinder mounts on firewall. Mine is also adjustable
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Looks great!
That pedal set up is a work of art Steve. Nice going! Don Jr.
thanks pugsy
Thanks Don, I think it turned out good. hope your both well. Me & Sue both woke up this morning with a flu virus :CRY:
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Oh no! There are alot of people sick with the flu and colds her in Florida right now. I hope you both feel better shortly. Stay in bed today and eat some chicken soup!
I'm trying Cider at the moment !!!
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Cider will get you healthy quicker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is that Dickens' brand cider? I always enjoy my Dickens Cider! :eek:
Steve the pedal setup looks great and goes well with everything else you are doing. A lot of flu and colds around here too!
Well cider should help, full of B vitamins and C, not to mention Alcohol! How's the elbow healing up? I cracked my right one in a motorcycle crash back in the 80's, right on the funny bone. If I bump it today, it's still more sensitive than the other side that never got injured. I'm amazed at all the stuff your getting done, despite your injuries!
I know what you mean, Sue is quite keen on a Dickens Cider too :LOL::LOL::LOL:
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Thanks Steve, elbow getting better each day, the swelling has now completely gone but its still sore if i lean on it, it really felt good the other day but i carried an I Beam axle into the chromers from the back of my car, that night it ached like hell, I guess its gonna take a little while to fully heal :(
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I was just bragging to Dan the other day that I haven't had a cold all year. I have become a germaphobe and wash my hands after pumping gas, shaking hands, and definitely before I eat anything. Then this morning I woke up with a headache, sore throat, and chills, so there goes that theory.:o
Steve, I have been running that same master cylinder in my 27 for over 20 years and when I redid the car last year I bought the same one and put it in again. I run Dot 5 in everything and I actually could have reused the original one but didn't want to push my luck. They work great and I am using half for my brakes and half for my clutch.
I'm glad to see you went the plain Jane route on your brake pedal ! ;):LOL:
Don
QUOTE=roadster32;442430]I know what you mean, Sue is quite keen on a Dickens Cider too :LOL::LOL::LOL:[/QUOTE] See video below.
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My daughter who swears this works..:rolleyes: I don`t know have`nt tried it yet or should say have`nt had the opportunity to try it...cut up a white onion, put beside your bed at night....when you go to bed, it draws all the bacteria out of you system...:whacked: more snake oil ...I don`t know...
Or you wake up with a terrible smell in your nose! :)
well it should keep people with colds away from the smell coming off you :)
Sort of like sleeping with garlic!
Don i've been using them cylinders for a while now and they work real good but i found the cheap Dorman ones are not great quality, the Raybestos brand are much better.
Yeah i didn't want to go OTT on the pedal :LOL:
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Had a spare couple of hours tonight so thought i would sort my fuel block, I picked it up ages ago in the states and is an old Thickstun block, I only bought it as i thought it looked cool !!!
Anyway it was on the shelf so thought i would use it, first job was to drill out the main passage to 1/2" as thats the size of my main fuel line. Then i found a 1/2" stainless fitting with 1/2" NPT thread so drilled and tapped the entry port, the exit ports were a little more tricky as i wanted to use stainless fittings to match but couldn't find them in the right size.
Had to make some on the lathe in the end and weld in short lengths of tube, I didn't have a NPT die so I put a 1/2" UNF thread on them and seal them with a copper washer.
Added a Moon fuel pressure gauge and its ready to rock.
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Awasome I like that to you it was a chalange and you took care of it .....to others it just wouldn't have been....Great job.
Thanks Charlie, It was a nice sit down job for a change :LOL:
Steve I can see why you bought it, it looks really cool! Nice fab job as always.
Fuel Block looks killer Steve as usual! How are you and the misses feeling??:confused:
We are ok Don, Sues virus has turned into Bronchitis but she is on antibiotics so will improve next couple of days, I've moreless recovered now but feel tired and its left me with a bad couch which keeps me awake at night :( I'm sure it will be gone soon. It appears its nationwide at the moment.
What i need is more Florida air :LOL:
You guys ok ???
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Steve it was just sitting on a swapmeet table with a $40 sticker on it, couldn't refuse it, It was shouting buy me buy me :LOL:
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I maybe the only one but been thinking about finishing the ends of bolts where the nut sits in a different way, nothing too difficult to do but looking for something cool and different, I ground a lathe tool to the required shape so it could be done in one process to save time.
Heres what i came up with.
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When used with a Castellated nut it takes on a nice different look.
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