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

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

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

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!

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

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

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