Thread: 1940 Ford Pickup
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03-12-2014 07:05 AM #391
I do like the looks of the headers on there.
.I've NEVER seen a car come from the factory that couldn't be improved.....
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03-12-2014 07:26 AM #392
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03-12-2014 09:14 AM #393
The headers look great, once again nice work buddy.My Chevy Truck Project
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03-12-2014 11:37 AM #394
Very Nice!" "No matter where you go, there you are!" Steve.
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03-27-2014 04:55 PM #395
Well its been a few days since my last post and this is what I've done since then. My old roof was bent, warped, split you name it so off it came and I started installing a new old one. Never did a roof swap before so its time consuming, took me 2 days to do this. I made window templates, measured every thing 40 times. The back inside edge had to be un-crimped. Next I plan to hang the doors back on the cab and see how they line up with the roof. The passenger side fit very badly with the old roof so I'm hoping that this helps that issue also.
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03-27-2014 05:26 PM #396
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Good luck with the roof repair. I'm sure it's nerv racking as well.Ryan
1940 Ford Deluxe Tudor 354 Hemi 46RH Electric Blue w/multi-color flames, Ford 9" Residing in multiple pieces
1968 Corvette Coupe 5.9 Cummins Drag Car 11.43@130mph No stall leaving the line with 1250 rpm's and poor 2.2 60'
1972 Chevy K30 Longhorn P-pumped 24v Compound Turbos 47RH Just another money pit
1971 Camaro RS 5.3 BTR Stage 3 cam, SuperT10
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03-27-2014 05:39 PM #397
You're a brave man, Navy!Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.
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03-27-2014 06:50 PM #398
Heck I figured you guys had done this a bunch of times and would give me some pointers !
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03-27-2014 06:53 PM #399
You don't know what you can do till you try. Looks like a good startCharlie
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03-27-2014 07:11 PM #400
Does anybody know if the front window on a 40 ford are parallel/rectangular from the center to the round outside corners. I had different measurements with the old roof but it had been beat a bunch. I don't have any glass myself to measure.
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03-27-2014 11:01 PM #401
Okay young man, before you grab that welder, hung the doors and have your screen so that you can check the gaps as you weld it together. As you tack weld it together, continue to close the doors so that you will see if it starts to pull. Same with the screen, once you have a few welds holding, fit the screen temporarily so that you know that everything is fitting. It is time consuming but you will appreciate that time when everything fits properly when the final fit together happens.
I maybe a little crazy but it stops me going insane.
Isaiah 48: 17,18.
Mark.
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03-28-2014 09:14 AM #402
Thanks for the feed back Wiplash23T !
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03-28-2014 09:43 AM #403
I'd offer that trying to use a piece of glass (screen?) that's going to be in a rubber gasket might be a bit of a challenge. You might think about cutting a piece of plywood and mounting a couple of screen door handles on it? Maybe even make it a bit oversized to account for the gasket thickness, then you could maybe clamp it on the sides and bottom and watch to see if the top starts pulling?Roger
Enjoy the little things in life, and you may look back one day and realize that they were really the BIG things.
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03-28-2014 11:15 AM #404
do you have a pattern you could send me of the cab wood?
I would like to make some for my truck that I am starting to build
thanks,
kelly
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03-28-2014 05:16 PM #405
Welcome to CHR. I think that you need to hook up your vacuum advance. At part throttle when cruising you have less air and fuel in each cylinder, and the air-fuel mixture is not as densely packed...
MSD 8360 distributor vacuum advance