1930 Chevy sedan build thread...trying for 3K.

[brickman]

Are you going to put any rubber between the metal's of the body mounts in the final assembly?

[buckroseau]

Got in about 6 hours today on the chubby. I pissed away about half of the day getting my plow truck started and plowing snow. Spent pretty much that time getting the doors mounted back up and swinging.....I think it's pretty cool that it has probably been 50+ years since the last time those doors swung open. Took a pic of the backing plates I made. Drilled and tapped them to 1/4"-20 and used a counter sunk machine bolts in the hinges. The orginal ones were countersunk also, but they were wood screws

Doesn't seem like much to get done today, but drilling and tapping those plates and then I had to drill through the 3/16" flat stock on the A pillar I had made a few weeks ago. After installed they actually fit pretty decent. I did fire up the gas ax and heat the hinges in a couple spots and massage them a bit to gain an 1/8" here and there in the door openings.

I had boughten a couple door handles throught speedway, along with some bearjaw door latches last week. I spent a couple extra minutes and installed those handles in the doors, I think they look pretty good. Hopefully this week I can get some more time in and start fabbing up the bear jaw latches and striker pins.

Matt

[buckroseau]

Are you going to put any rubber between the metal's of the body mounts in the final assembly?

Yes, I am planning on it. I have some rubber belting here about an 1/8" thick that I am going to cut up and mount in between the body and frame. Not a lot, but figure it might help take some of the vibration out. And, that's what I have laying around.

Matt

[EMSteiner]

Looking good

[bluestang67]

Buck some great work you have done in the past few months. Stay with it and dont forget YouTube will let us hear it run when you get it ready .

[brickman]

Cool, I would imagine that it will help with keeping it from squeeking too huh?

I like the way the outside door handles look, very cool. Do they work nice and easy too?

[buckroseau]

Cool, I would imagine that it will help with keeping it from squeeking too huh?

I like the way the outside door handles look, very cool. Do they work nice and easy too?

The handles rotate nice and easy, but I have no latches in yet so really don't have a good feel for that yet.

Hopefully I can get some time in on it this weekend. I have the bear jaw latches and pins. Probably take a good day to get them installed.

Matt

[MNPoser]

Looking really nice Matt man!

I am really looking forward to making it up to your place for a weekend!

Hopefully there are all sorts of fun projects to get after…

[brickman]

You pretty much just designed your frame to fit the body you have the best way, how did you come up with the length demention?

[buckroseau]

You pretty much just designed your frame to fit the body you have the best way, how did you come up with the length demention?

In that one pic I have the body, drivetrain and radiator layed out on the floor. I actually traced the outside and inside of the body, roughly penciled out the motor and traced the radiator...I had the the fan on and got the distributor 1" from the firewall. I picked everything up and marked everything out, snapped a few chalk lines and started cutting.

Hope that helped, Matt

[brickman]

Thats Cool Buck, I love the simple stuff. Everything is coming along nice, I am wondering if there would be enough room for a 6'2" man with lets just say a "Mature" stature to drive the car. Just wondering for my own build which way to go body wise.

[brianrupnow]

Thats Cool Buck, I love the simple stuff. Everything is coming along nice, I am wondering if there would be enough room for a 6'2" man with lets just say a "Mature" stature to drive the car. Just wondering for my own build which way to go body wise.

It doesn't matter how "mature" your stature is with a sedan. you just move the seat back untill there is room to get the "mature" part of your stature between the steering wheel and the seat. And generally, tall men and short men are all the same height from their arse to the top of their head, when seated.

[brickman]

Good point Brian, that is excellant food for thought considering I can pick up sedan bodys fairly reasonable.

[brianrupnow]

Two door sedans are perfect for us "Mature statured" men. When I built the roadster pickup (see avatar) I made the length from the dashrail to the back of the cockpit 6" longer than Henry Fords roadster pickup and pickup, and put in a tilt steering column. And if my stature gets any damn "maturer" than it already is, I'm going to need a big can opener---

[buckroseau]

We'll I hope it's big enough for a man of stature....I'm 6'9" Not skinny, but not to wide..about 280.

That was a concern of mine before I chopped the top, head room. I had it tacked together and I was sitting inside with boards stacked up, calculating the 4" channel and chop. Kinda came up with 3.5" chop for that reason also. I am planning on using the orginal seats and they pretty much sit on the floor.

I was actually sitting in there tonight with a couple boards stacked up. With the seat in the right position and decent angle to it...I seem to fit in there just fine.

Matt