1940 Ford Tudor Build Thread

[stovens]

Ryan until you get the dually painted hear is an interesting story that you could use for the eagle diamond graphic!From Wikipedia

"The Eagle Diamond was discovered in Eagle, Wisconsin, USA in 1876 by a man named Charles Wood while he was digging a well. The land in which he was digging was not his own; it belonged, rather, to Thomas Deveraux, and Charles and his wife Clarissa were merely renters. Wood did not think the stone was very valuable, and believed it to be a topaz, because the color of the 16.25 carat (3.25 g) crystal was a "warm sunny color". Some years later, when the Wood family fell on hard times, Clarissa sold the stone for $1.00 to a Samuel B. Boynton of Milwaukee. Sometime after the sale, Boynton took the stone to Chicago for appraisal where it was revealed to be a diamond, and worth at least $US 700.


Five views of the Eagle Diamond
Boynton sold the diamond to Tiffany’s in New York City for US$ 850. It remained at Tiffany’s until World War I. J.P. Morgan bought the diamond, and presented it as a gift to the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City. It was placed in the J.P. Morgan exhibit along with the Star of India and the DeLong Star Ruby until it was stolen on October 29, 1964 by Jack "Murph the Surf" Murphy and his two accomplices, Allen Kuhn and Roger Clark. Even though Murphy, Kuhn, and Clark have been all caught, it has been hypothesized that the Eagle Diamond was probably cut into smaller stone(s) and no longer exists.

At that time of the stone’s discovery, it was one of the largest ever recovered in the continental United States. The stone's discovery location, however, is not adjacent to a natural diamond source. The Eagle Diamond may have been transported to its discovery site in southeastern Wisconsin by glaciers during one of the Ice Ages. The disappearance of the original diamond makes it impossible to determine its actual point of origin, but several kimberlite pipes have been discovered in the Northwest Territories, Canada."

[40FordDeluxe]

That is very interesting. I've tried getting in touch with the owner before the guy I purchased the truck from, but no luck yet. This morning I got the head lights and turn lamp housings all replaced on it. Someone hit something with the RH front fender and broke all the plastic stuff. I have big plans to convert this truck to 4x4 and put a 6 cylinder in it later on. For now, I'll drive it until the 7.3 needs some big money part. I also installed some LED head lights and had to replace the clearance lamps because they were cracked and had water in them. I drove it to work today. Hey, I have a truck with AC now! This one might be a keeper. Haha

[40FordDeluxe]

Yesterday during the torrential down pours more parts from Hot Heads arrived! Luckily the box didn't get very wet with the direction of the winds. I know I was a little skeptical about buying the headers, but they are so much nicer than the garbage ones I had first.

I went ahead and lowered the steering column down and left the engine where I placed it the other day. I will have to lower my steering shaft idler mount, and get a longer piece of the double D shaft, but it is all going to work and have enough clearance to fit nicely.

I will cut off the flange on the headers and weld on a v band. The biggest reason I have to do that is because these headers hang so far down. I won't be able to put a 90* on there right now without being below the front cross member. Right now I'm searching for some super tight radius 90s, and then we'll be good to go!

[40FordDeluxe]

Here are more pics of the headers and engine placement I'm going with. Hopefully this weekend I can find the time to build the engine mounts and transmission mount. Then it will be time for the rear suspension.

[34_40]

OOOOOOOoooooo... there's many keyboards around the country with drool all over them right now!! 8-)


Not sure if it helps but the round part just above the flange at the bottom of the header looks like an inch maybe an inch and a half could come out and it would add some clearance?
Just thinkin' out loud...

But it'll look bad-ass! 8-)

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[RichB]

Love seeing that Hemi in there !

Rich

[Mike P]

Looks like you're using a good portion of the recessed firewall now

The carbs/distributor clearance is sure tight but looks like it does give you enough room for everything. It will be interesting to see what you decide on for air cleaner(s).

It does look good in there!!!! Fess up....how much time have you lost just standing back and looking at it ?


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[40FordDeluxe]

OOOOOOOoooooo... there's many keyboards around the country with drool all over them right now!! 8-)


Not sure if it helps but the round part just above the flange at the bottom of the header looks like an inch maybe an inch and a half could come out and it would add some clearance?
Just thinkin' out loud...

But it'll look bad-ass! 8-)

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Mike, you must be reading my mind. My plan is to cut them above the tag they welded on there and then add the v band there. That should be about perfect then.

Love seeing that Hemi in there !

Rich

Thanks. I can't wait until it's all painted up and looking nice.

Looks like you're using a good portion of the recessed firewall now

The carbs/distributor clearance is sure tight but looks like it does give you enough room for everything. It will be interesting to see what you decide on for air cleaner(s).

It does look good in there!!!! Fess up....how much time have you lost just standing back and looking at it ?


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I have a plan to use 4 lawn mower deck belt gaurds and I'm going to build a bat wing type air cleaner similar to the Cadillac ones. I was searching dual quad air cleaners and I wasn't seeing anything that I really liked. (In my price range) I kind of thought about making some like the imperials had, but that really isn't the look I want. I've kind of threw out the idea of the T/A scoop for now. If I found another hood, then maybe I'd do that. But for now, I can't bring myself to cut the hood just yet.

The carb to distributor clearance is tight. I have to put a 1" spacer under the carbs to get the back carb up away from the distributor cap. They just haven't arrived yet.

I've spent some time looking at it for sure! Haha Trying to get it centered in there, and placed so it looks right in there. It's my background on my computer too.

[Whiplash23T]

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This is Duncan's ole roadster with a 4 speed gog box to a 9" .

[Whiplash23T]

Man oh man, those hemi's take up some real estate in an engine bay for sure. Very impressive though and next tim I'm out at my friends hot rod shop, I capture some photo's of his " spare hemi's " in his engine rack and the monster one sitting in his '60 Corvette. I have another friend who has a hemi powered fibreglass 32 Roadster that is patiently waiting for a rebuild of the whole car from frame up. I find the photo of it taken way back in the '70's of it and post it up.

[40FordDeluxe]

That is awesome!

[53 Chevy5]

That motor is the best. It looks great in there and nice work making it fit !!

[Matthyj]

I'm partial but they are one of the best looking hot rod motors ever I think, you will never regret the added work or expense it will take once its done. Dont forget to leave some sort of room to get the valve covers off, and put a set screw with silicone or pipe tape in the bottom of the valve cover bolt threads, that way if and when you pull off the covers (if you use bolts and not studs, on tight engine bays you cant use studs as you have to pull the cover up and over the studs on aftermarket covers) you wont see water oozing out contaminating your oil, as they go into the water jacket. Lookin Good Matt

[40FordDeluxe]

Thanks Matt, I'm planning on using studs on them. I did notice it has 2 bolts on the bottom of them though. I'll have to check for set screws in there.

I didn't get any time to work on it this weekend. Saturday was honey do day. I took the boys to get their hair cuts. While we waited on the girls to get their hair cut, I went to my parent's place and grabbed some metal to build the engine mounts for the 40 out of. Then it was off to meet the girls for lunch. Afterwords the boys and I headed home. I talked them into picking up sticks up for me while I unloaded their new to them bunk beds. We got their old beds torn down and put away, and the bunk beds hauled up the stairs, assembled and put together before we had to leave for dinner.

Sunday was honey do day for my mother. My Dad just had his hip replaced on Friday. One of my mom's horses walked through a fence Sunday morning. It ended up being too windy to finish putting her pool up, so my wife and I removed old rotted wood, and put up new fence boards and some posts. In the afternoon my mom brought my Dad home. I helped him in the house and returned to take the fixings my wife brought to make dinner for everyone. As I went up the stairs to the deck, they crashed out from under me. Good thing that didn't happen 2 minutes earlier when Dad was on them. So, my next project was to build new stairs going on the deck for them. Good thing Menards isn't too far away. Haha My middle brother did help do that project. We got done at about 11:30 last night. Boy, I sure do get a lot of stuff done. Maybe someday I'll be that productive on my stuff. Hahaha

[34_40]

I didn't get any time to work on it this weekend. Saturday was honey do day.
Sunday was honey do day for my mother.

As I went up the stairs to the deck, they crashed out from under me. . So, my next project was to build new stairs going on the deck for them. Good thing Menards isn't too far away. Haha My middle brother did help do that project. We got done at about 11:30 last night. Boy, I sure do get a lot of stuff done.

Maybe someday I'll be that productive on my stuff. Hahaha

HMmmmm, since you're such a hard working fella.. I'll refrain from some smarta_ _ wisecrack 'bout bustin' the stairs and blamin' it on rotted wood!

In all seriousness, so glad we didn't hear you say that you and Dad crashed through! God was watching out for him!

So what's it like being an over-achiever!