onsdag den 28. december 2011

The first step.

Today, after a lot of sickness, I finally got to work on the cab for the pick-up! At the Pirate shop, there was only me and Victor, so I'll wait with the subframe, which was my initial priority. Therefore I started with the cowl, placed it on the empty frame and made a replacement piece for the drivers side bottom.





Keep 'em kruzin! Dannerr

onsdag den 7. december 2011

First things first...

It has been a while, since I thought, I was just about to start the project. But then a carcrash, finding a new winters car, working overtime and two weeks with fever had me in a hold with the progres.
Tonight I was by the Pirate Kustomz shop- it is wednesday!- and we actually started the project!... Well, we started cleaning and then found a space for me, where we put in a frame to use as reference.


And if I'm not bussy building a mini-bike, I'll start building the subframe for the cab next week.

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

lørdag den 12. november 2011

A carb for the pick-up.

Found a Stromberg 81 carb for the model B engine through the Danish Ford V8 club, so now I just need to overhaul the engine and carb, and build a manifold for it, so that it'll fit the fourbanger! That ought to give it some go, "as we did in thee fitties!"


Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

mandag den 31. oktober 2011

A nice sunday...

Woke up to this pretty sight:



Bought me a new bike:



And brought home a "new" car, a 1962 Volvo 221 (first year of 220's stationcars) with closed compartment, the closest thing to an Amazon panel van:



At the new warehouse, next to my garage:









Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

fredag den 21. oktober 2011

Headlights and more space

Bought a set of '30-'31 headlights with stag for the pick-up, but the stag was wrong, and the headlights was converted (via a transformer) to 220 volts- so now I have a new lamp in the garage:



Had a talk with my father in-law last night, and we agreed, that I could rent some more space at their farm, so I can get all my stuff at one place. So within the next year, I should hopefully get all the Volvos and parts up from my garage in the south, have it all in one place and be able get some work done, instead of using my time on the 150 km (ca. 95 miles) trip!

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

All sorts of meters...

As I was trying to clean up the garage, I stumbled upon my collection of different meters, which was expaned at my birthday with this Volvo 444 gauge cluster:



Still thinking of using the Chevy piece for a gauge cluster, here with some Smiths instruments:



So many to choose from, so little dashboard space! Thank god, I don't have to choose tonight!

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

onsdag den 19. oktober 2011

Birthday in the garage

As I turned another leaf in the yearbook of my life lately, I desided to have a celebration with hot cocoa and layered cake in the garage. So last sunday, I pushed Ole-Henry out the door, put in a couple of tables, and had invited some people- we were 16, and we couldn't have been one more! Here are some pictures:












As usual had my mother in law made me a cake, this year it was a Model A engine:






I especially liked the ceramic sparkplugs!

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

mandag den 17. oktober 2011

Av!

Glad I'm a Volvo man - and this is why!!






Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

torsdag den 22. september 2011

Small steps

Yesterday I was at the shop agsin, this time I tried to save the door post, that was already nailed to the corner.
That gave me an idea: I might actually be able to make money on the rusty pieces! So one of these days, I'm auctioning off original model A nails and two screw-heads, scavered from the rusty pile of parts, I hope to one day call a pick-up! Not to make more money, than to by new ones for the cab-to-be!


I've had some people asking me about, what the big difference in the parts are, since I can't use the cab corners, which I tried to capture below:






It doesn't align, when the door fits in the door post.

Next week is pick-up free wednesday, since I'm helping the piratez building a buck (a wooden skelleton) for a speedster project for one of their metal shaping classes. A rather different project for me, since I'm a metal guy!!

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

tirsdag den 20. september 2011

So it begins...

I've thought a lot over, whether to make the pick-up from the spare sedan parts, I have, or to use the fiber roadster. But my plan was to build a pick-up, so that's what I'll do.
Started out last wednesday with the roof posts (over the doors), and tried to straighten them.



Then the plan is to use the one-piece back of what seems to be a Murray fordor (ford-or, ha ha!), make it fit the tudor doors with beads and upper roundings, and then make the back out of what pieces, I have left over from other bodies.



More to come, as I continue.


Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

torsdag den 8. september 2011

The sedan, who thought it was a pick-up - and how I didn't notice!

I have for several years now been waiting exited for the time, when I could start my rebuild of my pick-up. As you might know by now, I bought a rolling frame last winter, I'm meadling with engines and gears for it, and was planing on starting the rebuild of the cab this fall, hoping to have it ready for next summer.
And so I began, full of hope and good ideas, last night at the Pirate Kustomz shop, starting the mating of the cab corners to a '30/'31 door, in order to begin the reastauration of the beads. And then we discovered, that it didn't align with the beads on the doorskin, so Tim told me to go find pictures of a '31 pick-up to match. And by looking at the pictures online, it hit me: a '30/'31 pick-up cab rear piece is a one piece, not two corners, an upper and a lower midlehalf, like the parts, I have!
Our best guess so far is, that it is a converted fourdoor sedan, and NOT an original pick-up cab, as I was told.
The question now is, if I should build it as the pick-up I meant it to be, build the spare tudor or build the fiber roadster, that came with the rolling frame...

I'm still thinking...


Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

søndag den 28. august 2011

How mistakes can turn out for the better

A while back I made a wanted "to buy AA bellhousing", because I wanted to put a Volvo M40 gearbox in Ole-Henry (like Artiki did: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=168654), in order to get four fully syncronized gears. I kind of had forgotten it, untill suddently some guy emailed me and said, he had two, a 28-29 and a 30-31. Seeing the possibility of the A clutch housing on the B engine could be a permanent solution, especially if it was fitted with the M40, I thought I could use the AA bellhousings, or at least give it to some other 4banger guy, and made the arrangements to pick them up.
When I arrived, we first had to look at some spare AA gearbox parts, I couldn't use, since I'm only in need of the housing. Then the seller excused for misinforming me, because he had found out, that the second housing was not for a different year of the AA, but it was for the BB! My jar dropped to the ground, and suddently I saw the opportunity of getting a M40 behind my Kölner with the full alu bellypan! So I shook his hand, and the deal was made - from last sunday afternoon I am now the owner of both a AA and a BB bellhousing!
Today, a week later, I got to try if it woud fit the G28T (Kölner) engine, together with the B upper engineside of the bell housing, and it did!












Here with the belly pan:





But I need to make new rear motor mounts:





And the AA fited the A like a glove!






So now I need a couple of spacers, pick up two M40s from the Volvo shed, drill new holes to match them, and figure out a way to mount the torquetube to the back of the M40 or convert to open shaft, and make new pedal mountings.
But I'm not far from a couple of four speed Model A's!

torsdag den 16. juni 2011

Broken flywheel housing

I ended up putting the B-motor back together, in order to get it in to Ole-Henry, my '30 tudor. And in the middel of reassembeling it, I discovered that I have broken the motor side upper half of the flywheel housing!



























Therefore am I looking for one, which is not broken!

For now, I assembeled the engine with one from a model A, but I would like to have the right one for the B-motor.

UPDATE: After going to Bedrock, I found out, someone had heard my cry out, because suddently I was stopped by Kedde - the guy, who with his Kölner-powered '29 Tudor is responsible for getting me hooked on Model A's. And he gave me an old clutchhousing for free, because as he put it "I sold the car, so you need it more than I do"... Gotta love those generous 4banger guys!! :-D

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr


torsdag den 2. juni 2011

I found me a Kölner!!

I finally maneged to get me a Ford Kölner G28T engine, with a G38T head, like the one I have on my B engine. It seems only to be the head, there is different on the G28T and G38T model.

I started stripping it to determine its condition and to find the crutial differences with a model A engine.
Besides what I allready knew (bigger bearings, better lubrication, sharper camshaft), I discovered it has an all aluminum oil pan! That the upper half of the fly wheel housing does not have the mountingholes for the mounting brackets between the engine and car frame. And that the rear end of the crankshaft is closed in by the oil pan, instead of having a , like the A and B/C engine.
So now I'm looking for a upper half fly wheel housing from a B engine, where the bracketmounting holes are. Otherwise I could cut the bottom half fly wheel housing off the G28T oil pan, but I think it looks good, so I try finding the B upper half.
Here are some pictures of it:
































So, for now the future holds some parts searching, and then I hope to have it ready to put in to a car next spring!

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

onsdag den 1. juni 2011

Another motor...

After some searching, I did manage to find me a Kölner motor.

A while back I helped the guys and good friends of mine from Pirate Kustomz at a car show in Fredericia. We were there advertizing their workshops in metal shaping, and that got me to talk to Morten, who drives a Mercury Monetery highway patrol car and has a t-shirt designing company named Rare Dog designs.
We got to talking old Fords, and he told me, his father used to own a Model A, which he sold just a few years back. I told him, I was on the lookout for a Kölner engine, and he said, that his father might have one still. Of course, I got interested, but he couldn't remember, if his dad had sold it with the car.
So I gave him my phone number, and said, if his father found it and wanted to sell it, I would be very interested in buying it. Being a old-car-guy himself, Morten knew how quick answers are easing on a car-guys soul, and therefore he got back to me the same night, confirming his father was willing to sell the engine.

His father had told him, it was an engine off an old water pump from the danish civil defence (like the US national guard). It shouldn't have run for very long, the cylinders had good compression and the engine oil was still clear.
I aranged with Morten, that we would find a suiting weekend for me to pick it up.

And so it came to be this past weekend, where my girlfriend and me were at the Gråsten Oldtimer meeting, visiting my clubmates from the Jalopies Denmark. Bringing the mob-in-law's (Svigermafiaen) car and trailer for the engine, I desided to haul my DKW motorcycle to Avnbøl, where we would sleep for the weekend, so I could ride that to the meeting.
The cruising at Gråsten Oldtimer takes place in beautiful surroundings:


Leif, a friend of mine, had just maneged to get his '61 Chevy driveable in the week just before the cruise:


Some of the clubs cars (sunday morning):



On the way back to Copenhagen, we stopped in at Mortens fathers, to pick up the motor. And there it was: a G28T block with the G38T head on it, downdraft Solex carburator, flanged exhaust manifold, special water pump and a Scintilla magneto on top. The price was good and the deal got struck! And then Mortens father said: "It's heavy!" I thought, we seemed to by three strong men, we sould be able to lift it, but no.
Being a voulenteer firefigther, the father knew a local guy, who had the time to help us load it on the trailer, so we were four men to lift it. It got tied down next to my motorcycle, and away we went for the ride home.
We stoped in at Middelfart to get something to eat, and I tried their de-luxe burger with beef tenderloin:


Well at home, I sat the engine down outside, because the wheather was nice, and this winter has been too long!



The last couple of days have been spend disasembling it, but today I got my father in law to help me make a wash tub out of an old oil drum:


Tomorrow I'll take out the old engine and start fitting the parts needed to make the G28T fit in Ole-Henry.

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

søndag den 22. maj 2011

The end of an era?

So, this weekend I went to a meeting called Trackdays, held by the danish club "Ramblers", for a little dragracing and a lot of fun! I have a very dear friend, Allan, who has build a '29 tudor from frame up, and he had asked people driving stock blocked model A's to show up for the race down the half quartermile (201 meters).
I have for some time had a suspisious mind about the condition on the engine in Ole-Henry. "But as long as he goes, we'll go!", so along we went.
The meeting it self was fine, pre '55 american plus a single Norton, racing one round in each class friday and one again saturday. It was held in a wasteyard, which led to some funny smells from time to time, but good fun in good company - and real food for dinner! Thumbs up from my stomach!
In the race we were in the stock class, along with Allan in his '29 model A, Anders in his '29 model A roadster and a girl driving her boyfriends Chevy pick-up for the first time - nice to see a girl race, we like girls like that!!! With no suprise, Allan got first over the line. But on saturday I- with a lot of help from Allan, thanx!- actually managed to tune in my engine a lot better, and in order to eliminate the centrifugal limiter in the industrial magneto, we taped it, so it wouldn't short circket the curent.
So although Anders got of to a better start, I ended up beating him by a foot! We won a race, great!... Well, not really that great, since his '29 was stock and Ole-Henry runs the Scintilla magneto and a weber carb. A classic example on a well tuned stock can beat a hoped up!
After the saturdays race, all the model A's parked side by side:





When all classes were done, we tryed to get a rematch between Allan and me, but in stead the centrifugal limiter in the Scintilla bended and broke the rotor! So there was another offering to the goddes of speed:


Wrenching a lot more on the ignition, and finally it ran great again! But idjit-me forgot to tighten the magneto bracket, so only the bolt in the head held it, which didn't last long! On a trip to Brems' shop US Pitstop with a MC from Killerbobbers, it shook loose. Back at the meeting, I discovered, the taper on the forementioned bolt was flattened, so it couldn't hold the magneto. Off with the bracket and cut down the bolt to decent taper, setting the ignition after the mark on the camshaft wheel, and then the battery died trying to start it to ajust the ignition. Bended over the front fenders, von Loco discovered, that looking at Jeppes '37 Chevy with Ole's roofline from his '49 Chev would make a great kustom bizarro!











This was pretty late saturday night, so we finally gave up and went to listen to the great band, the Green Cryptonites.
Next morning we tryed starting it with jumper cables from a 12 volt car, which made the electric fuel pump run fast, but that wasn't enough to start up Ole-Henry. I then started to adjust the ignition backwards, and with the help from the forementioned Chevy pick-up with it's owner at the stering wheel and an old rope, we towed it around the waste yard to dragstart it. On the first and second pause, I backadjusted the magneto some more, and finally got it to ignite! A fine tuning of it resulted in, that it had to be turned around 30 degrees backwards from top dead center! I therefore suspect the 2 year old drive shaft from the oil pump to be broke.
Now up and running, we made a quick round of farewells and took off. After being fueled, Ole-Henry seemed quite okay. Then, going up the Storebæltsbro (the bridge between Fyn and Sjælland), he slowed down, which I took as a sign of the side wind. But at the toll booth, the infernal noice began: "Rakadakadakadaka!" I have never heard a noice like that, and stopping in on the other side, Loco and Pfifters concluded on my behalf, that a conecting rod bearing had broke!
I then got road help to drive Ole-Henry to my garage at my in-laws, which closes a chapter in my life. I no longer have a model A, which I relatively easy can get running to the next meet! An end of an era... but the beginning of a new!
I called Allan's girlfriend, asked if she had missed me for the last six hours, and asked to talk to Allan. He thinks, I maybe, just might be, able to get it running with just another conecting rod. This starts a new chapter in the relationship between Ole-Henry and me: Besides the head gasket (which blows out every now and again), I have neer opened his engine. But that is to change!
So I got home via public transport, and now my '54 DKW two-stroke bobber has become my only motorized means of transportation!

Keep 'em kruzin - and hopefully not breaking down!

Dannerr