Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Hey, hijack away. If it wasn't for other stuff being interjected into this thread, it would have been 2 pages long. This thread is like America.......a big melting pot.

All kidding aside, I really welcome any and all topics being put in here. Breaks up some of the boring stuff I have to post.

Don

That spring is looking good. Don't beat yourself up too much. Considering your original goal of under $3k, that Posies spring would have just added to the cost.

Have you ever tried the plastic(teflon?) spring liners that Speedway sells?

By the way, that barbecue sounds good!

Mike

Mike:

I have an order sitting here to call in to Speedway tomorrow, and have some of the teflon spring liner on it, in both sizes, for the front and rear springs. It works well, and they have it in white or black.

Yeah, thanks, the cookout was nice and got to see some old friends of ours.


Don

Glad to hear the liner works. I'm going to use it on the front of my car.

I don't know how the rodders( and bikers) in your part of the country are, but all the ones I hang out with are always looking for an excuse to drive somewhere to eat.

That may explain why my clothes always seem to be shrinking.

Mike

Don your using to much hot water to wash the clothes, I had the same problem. it had to be the hot water makes them shrink.
Brad

It must be a universal thing my clothes are shrinking too more now that I retired.

I've started drinking some of that SlimFast stuff. You know, it isn't half bad with a bunch of chocolate chip cookies and a bag of potato chips. But I think their claims are overrated, I haven't lost one pound on it.


Well, I got my housework and laundry out of the way, and it is cooling off for the day, so it's time to go do some grinding.


Don

Don.

You have to break the choclate chip cookies in half.
It lets the calories leak out!

Hot Rods and Laundry, Look out hip hop a new fads on the wing!!!

Don the same with the potato chips, you only eat the broken ones they have no calories................lol
Brad

Haha, the directions on the can should have SAID that.


But I did work off some calories at the shop today. Just got in, and spent the entire day at the sandblast cabinet and the bench grinder, cleaning up all of the front end parts that are going to get painted. I think this is all of them, and maybe as early as tomorrow PM. when all the people leave the park, I can wheel some of these outside and shoot a coat of primer on them.

I have decided to go a slightly different direction on the front brakes and spindles. Originally, I had pirated the complete '40 Ford/ Buick brake drum setups off the front of my '27 and was intending on using them. But I have rethought doing that, because I keep stripping more and more from the '27, and pretty soon it will be too hard to ever put it back together. So these are going back on the '27, and I am going to use the '40 Ford brakes Dan had on his '29, before he switched to the Wilson Welding brakes and Buick drums.

I inherited them (by quickly moving them to my part of the shop ) so I might as well use them. They have been totally rebuilt, drums turned, and the spindles bushed already, so it is dumb to just have them sitting there. I did blast off all the paint we had put on a couple years ago, and will start from bare metal when I paint them. The drums only need sanded and reshot in black, so they are almost ready to go.

All of this puts me in a pretty good position to get this front end painted and hung pretty quick, hopefully by next Sunday PM the frame and all the front end will be in color. I ordered some stuff from Speedway today, some chrome shackles, poly spring liner, steering arms, and a new moon style tank. The one I have been using for mockup has fallen a few times, so it has some dents and scratches. I'll use it for that rat rod, down the road.

In the meantime, here is a picture of all the pieces I cleaned up today. Kind of looks like those break apart part things you get inside a model car package, huh?


Don

It's a little past 4 AM, and I just got in from pulling an all-nighter at the shop. I went in about 9:30 and decided to stay until I had the last piece of the suspension sandblasted......the rear axle and Model A rear spring. I wanted to do it at night for a couple of reasons. First of all, the park in totally empty, and secondly it is really cool out. I was going to be wearing my sandblasting suit and hood for several hours, and even as cool as it was, I still sweated a lot in that getup.

But the good news is..........I'm DONE sandblasting big stuff. Now the entire front end is ready for primer, and so is the rear end. I can concentrate on wheeling the stuff outside over the next few days and putting some primer on it all.

I bought 200 lbs of sand, and thought that was overkill, but I not only used the 200, but had to scoop up about another 50 lbs from the pile I had created, and recycle it. I would have never thought it would take that much, but even the rear spring took almost 100 lbs to do. It also took me about an hour to sweep up all that sand and erase all traces of what I had done tonight.

Here are some pictures of the parts I did tonight. I am one wornout puppy, and plan to sleep in til about noon tomorrow. But I can sleep pretty well, knowing this hurdle is over.

Don

Looks good Don, Sleep late you deserve it for working so late.
Brad

Just a quick suggestion on the sandblast to ease the clean up. Get some 6 mil (visqueen) plastic sheet and form an open ended "booth". You'll still have some from bounce back that's behind you to sweep up, but a majority will stay in the "booth" and instead of sweeping you just keep rolling it into a pile to pick up from the plastic. Also keeps it cleaner for "recycling".

Don,
I nominate you for the most dedicated Hot Rodder this week.
Ken