NICE.................
Cant wait to see it and hear it! :rocker:
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NICE.................
Cant wait to see it and hear it! :rocker:
Got the grill back from the chrome shop in Tucson this evening. Installed and it sure looks better than my polishing job did. Still have a few minor things to do to say this thing is done. Still have a problem with the electric fan temp switch, door sill on passenger side, small fuel leak at fuel pump, alignment of front end. I am sure there are a couple of other items that will pop up. But, it is getting closer to me driving it to one of our meetings. Yahooooooo. Larry
Larry,
So what am I seeing on the driver side between the fender and the headlight door? Is there a section missing there or is that yellow tape?
You're going to leave it all chrome or are you going to paint the black accents?
Just curious. Looks nice though.
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Looks great Larry.you should pat yourself on the back
Zoom in on the pic. That is a very good reflection of the paint off of the chrome. Beautiful job. Great work...
Here's what I'm seeing. I know you posted these two messages AFTER you posted about the grille coming back from chrome. Very odd. Maybe Patrick knows what is going on.
Yeah, I noticed they didn't go in the forum but they showed as being sent. Just thought it was a glitch some how. Larry
Got back from 3 months in Tucson. Sorry I missed the meeting on Wednesday but my health issues didn't improve at all in the heat of Arizona. Did enjoy 3 months with only one day of sprinkles though.
While down there I got my hood hinges chrome plated where my brother has taken all my other parts. Showed the owner pictures of my car and he now has a bunch of them posted on his wall in the office.
I originally powder coated the hinges and they looked Okay but decided to go with chrome and I think they look better.
Drilled out all the shoulder rivets, installed bolts, spacers, and nylon washers. Will re-install the hood later when I get some help lifting the hood.
Still got quite a bit to go to finish this car and finding out where the oil leak is coming from is my priority. Nice to be back and really looking forward to getting to the tech days and helping out with the club. Larry
Here are a couple pics of the hinges.
Those look awesome! That car is awesome. I can't wait to see it driving up the road at a show. :3g:
I want to see this in person also. When is the target "coming out" show?
Wish I knew. Been having as many as three of these head pain seizures a day so it limits the amount of time I get to work on this thing. I still am working on things that don't involve laying down so it takes time. Car is entered in Hot August Nights so it's imperative it's done and test driven enough to verify worthiness to drive in the parade. Sure wanted to be ready for the Everett show but, too late for that one. Oh well. Too many good things going on in life for me to keep whining about a few negatives. So many people out there that have it so much worse.
Finally got a little more work done. I finished the installation of the L/H Rocker Molding. Got the R/H door lower seal fitting holder trimmed to clear the sill plate. Got both sill plates and the carpet is all installed now.
Finalized the installation of the hood interior panels. I like the look but they are too heavy so I will be looking at something else for that area. But not now. I have to use a board to hold the trunk open. Can't live with that.
I plan on restoring my trunk this summer but nothing that fancy! Nice work. Should that trunk light be turned 180 degrees? I've got one under the hood and have the opening so you don't see it when it's open.
I have seen some pictures of Falcon trunks where a gas shock cylinder from a hatchback was installed to hold the lid open... Nice little bracket may look nice.
Kenny, about the light direction. I will have to check it again but I believe it has a device that turns it on when the trunk is open and if I remember correctly it didn't work the other way. I would rather it pointed down though so I will double check. Thanks and if you need help doing your trunk let me know.
Jeff, I have some of those support rods that I came off the storage doors of my motorhome. I thought about those but didn't want to screw around with drilling through the fiberglas. I also saw several cars in Reno last year that were using chrome plated expanding rods to hold their trunks open in the winds, so that was on my list also. Thanks guys.
Larry
Nice trunk work!!!!! Thats lots of bass!!!!! [BOW]
Larry - Are you sure you just don't have the torsion springs hooked to the hinges in their lowest (weakest) setting? I think you have 3 levels of tension you can set depending on what notches the torsion springs are placed.
Chances are they are not easy to get to right now - huh?
I double checked the torsion bars before I put the fiberglas panels in because I knew the trunk panels would weigh more. They were never very strong and I probably should have gone with the system that Jeff mentioned earlier. But, hindsight...........and now that the fiberglas system is all installed, and I am running short on time, I don't want to get into changing it. Maybe after Hot August Nights??? I can already think of a dozen changes that I can make to this car. Scary.
I just installed new hood hinges with spings in my early '63. You can have my old prop rod if you want a Ford solution.
Getting closer and closer. I drove the car in the cul-de-sac and kept hearing a clunking noise and after a few hours we decided it might be the posi-trac rear end making some noise so I put some additive for posi's that I didn't know was required. Drove it back around a few times and then around a few blocks. Started getting louder and felt like it might be towards the front. Babied it home and checked the front end. Don't laugh yet it gets better. I found three missing lug nuts on the L/H wheel with the other two on by one thread. Fixed that, drove it around and sounded Okay so took it down to Les Schwad and they did the alingment.
They drove it around for a while and then on my way home about three blocks away it ran out of gas (gauge shows 1/4). When the car was rolling to a stop I heard a clank clank noise and found the L/H rear wheel mag cap held on with just one screw banging against the wheel.
Pulled the car home, put in some gas, will get more screws and thanks to GOD all these things happened at the times and places they did. I was one thread away from the front end dropping on the pavement. If the car wouldn't have run out of gas I wouldn't have heard the wheel cap rattling and would have lost it and I was close to home when I ran out of gas.
Only a few small things left on my finishing list but after this day I know I need to do a lot more checking before I go very far or very fast. Larry
Took off the hood today and installed the liner. It was intended to be a one piece installation but after laying it in place I decided it would look better filling in the triangular areas of the hood instead with the yellow in between. I love the look and still have a little trimming to get it fine tuned. I thnk I will remove the fiberglas panels that I put on the trunk lid and install this same material back there. It will also save on weight.
I drove the car around today and the oil leak is fixed. Now I need to concentrate on a noise when I hit a bump. I noticed a dent in one of the shocks today and I will take that one out and see if the noise goes away. Gas gauge isn't working so have to decipher that little issue. But other than that it is running great, sounds good and have gotten a lot of thumbs up reactions just in the few miles I've driven it.
Now hopefully the weather cooperates so I can get it to the Maltby and Greenwood show. Registered for both. Larry
My friend/neighbor Randy welded my traction bars for me and I got them installed this morning. They are like the ones he used in drag racing and I like the looks. Just have to be careful with clearances now.
Enjoyed the Greenwood car show and watching people. Every kink imaginable in Seattle. Looking forward to the next show now. Larry
Very nice Larry. Yeah, watch those speed-bumps and raccoons.
Liked the term "kink" - that fits.
I think you all knew that I had trouble with my 64 when I took it to Reno for Hot August Nights. Even before I went I was having trouble with overheating so knew it would get worse when I got to the high hot country. It did. Made it back and forth from where we stayed at the KOA in Boomtown to Reno but just barely each time. Got pretty darn warm.
Talked to a lot of folks in Reno that had 347 stroker engines in there Fords and the recurring theme was "yep, we had to put in a better radiator". So, when I got back I purchased a four core aluminum radiator that is gauranteed to keep a high horsepower engine cool and instead of using the electric pusher fan I installed an engine fan. I made sure I have clearances between the radiator and the cutout structure then installed door trim protector around the metal edges. Hope that stuff doesn't melt away. Guess I'll find out soon enough.
I was sure, that was going to be a huge issue, since there wasn't any room for the radiator, fan, and clearances to the March pulley system I have. So, I cut out the frame at the front end, (as you can see from one of the pics). I'm not worried about structural issues since I have the crossmember added for the Heidts suspension system taking the load.
Then I installed the radiator inside that cutout area. Installed the fan with a two inch spacer for clearance from the pulleys and I have one inch of clearance between the radiator and the fan. MY great friend and neighbor is going to get me a hand made fan shroud built to protect my pinkies.
Started the car and ran it for awhile. Didn't drive it. Haven't been feeling too good so staying at home for awhile. But, when I ran the car before, it would just keep going up in temperature to around 230 degrees and then even got worse if I drove it. Now it went up to 190, and dropped back to 180 when the thermostat openned and stayed there at idle speed for about 6 minutes.
I will know more when I get it on the road, but I am at least feeling somewhat better about the temperatures. Couple of pics attached. Badbird AKA Larry
Have you thought about putting a fan shroud on? That would drop your temps even more.
Must have been scarey cutting into that new paint!! :NERVOUS: I like how the door protector trim looks. Hope it holds up with the heat.
Lookin' good and hopefully cooling much better now!
Yeah, I didn't like cutting, but took my time and didn't do much damage to surrounding areas and especially the wires that ran inside the frame. I wrapped the wires and they should be okay. About the fan shroud Doghows, I do believe the fan shroud will help some more. I mentioned it in the thread that my neighbor is getting me an aluminum fan shroud made. I will take some more pics after that and will keep you all informed on the cooling issues. Badbird AKA Larry
Well, I took the Yellow bird out for a drive this afternoon. Only went about ten miles but I did get into some of the Boeing traffic and I really really got on it hard a few times. Left some pretty good black stripes on 132nd street. It never went above 190 degrees. It stayed right at 180 while driving and got up to 190 sitting in traffic. That is not a full test yet, but before it would have gone above 230 doing that drive. So, I am happy for the time being.
Now to fix some of the things that need attention. I still have to figure out a better method to align my head lights. Gas sending unit in the tank is not showing correct levels. Couple of other little things bugging me but so far so good. Badbird AKA Larry
Sounds like you got it fixed, did you change the thermastat ? by the way there is a ford show at bickford ford on sunday in the rain ....jh:WHATTHE:
I tried the restrictor plates while in Reno with 1/2" to 3/4" holes to try that. I now have a 180 Degree thermostat installed. Looking forward to getting the shroud made and installed. Might try to make the Ford show at Bickford if the weather is okay. Badbird
I finished painting the front grill panel. I like it much better now. There are two pictures here. The first is the new paint, although I did take it all apart again and paint the side frames of the radiator. It looks even better after I did that.
The 2nd pic is the before look when it was yellow.
I like it much better black also. I'm gonna do the same to mine.
Very nice. Black was the right choice.
Thought I would add another picture to help explain about painting the radiator flanges. When I had the front of the car torn off to paint the front cowl black, figured I would make the fan shroud also. After all that was complete, put it back together and realized I didn't like the looks of the radiator outside flanges being shiny. So, took it back apart and painted those parts.
Here is a pic showing those painted now. Carol didn't want me to paint the radiator fins black, so being a pleasing person,:D left them alone.
I have the grill off awaiting some black vinyl decal material and will try and apply at the locations on the grill that usually get painted. But, since my grill is chromed and paint won't stick, I saw that some people have used the decal material with some success. Will soon see and if it works I will post pics of that also. Larry
I'm interested in the decal solution too. Seems my paint is peeling on my restored grill.
Pat, here is where I ordered the vinyl decal from. It was $6.00 and another $6.95 for shipping. If it works I will let you know if you want to wait and see? Superior Graphics & Signs Inc(help@edecals.com)