1928 Roadster project "Salt Shaker"
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Well have not had the car out very much due to a home landscape project over the last 2 months that have took over any free time but got it out again today for a spin into town to check out the Okotoks show and out to the Alderside truck scale to see how much it weighs. It 2500lbs with me and my son and a half tank of fuel. 60 miles So far and it’s running well never goes above 170F had it up to 60mph and it drives strait. Found the front fender brackets are rubbing the tires so they are coming off. Will need to decide if I want to keep the fenders and if so rebuild with more than 3/16” clearance
Sent the car into the chinook upholstery for an interior before it comes back apart for paint. They did a great job I tried to build the interior door panels and after few frustrating nights I gave up and figured it was better left to the experts. The guys turned the car around in one week. Looking forward to putting a few miles on it this weekend. The only problem is when it was at the shop for the week it gave me a chance to pull my Maverick down and get it cleaned up and I almost forgot how much I like driving that car.
That looks great…almost subdued. Now for the paint….
Hello everyone
For the last couple of months I have been pulling the car back apart getting ready to send it in for paint. I had it all ready to take it in on Monday but I decided I couldn’t live with my 3rd brake light set up
So today I was busy building a oak trim pice to wrap the rear of the cockpit. I will stain it dark and I’m thinking of a way to insert a thin brake light into the wood.
For the last couple of months I have been pulling the car back apart getting ready to send it in for paint. I had it all ready to take it in on Monday but I decided I couldn’t live with my 3rd brake light set up
So today I was busy building a oak trim pice to wrap the rear of the cockpit. I will stain it dark and I’m thinking of a way to insert a thin brake light into the wood.
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One other little side project with the engine out I wanted to take the leaking dip stick in the side of the pan. After 70 years the gasket was leaking on the riveted in adapter plate. So I was able to remove the sump of the oil pan and drill out the rivets and build a new plate to go behind it and tapped it for 10/32 screws. This way I was able to then make a new gasket and bolt the dip stick adapter to the oil pan
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Still making forward momentum on the car. With the car at the shop for paint I was able to rebuild the T5 transmission as it did not want to down shift into 2nd. I spent some time polishing up my Aluminum air cleaners
The body shop pulled the body off the frame so I picked up the frame and brought it back home so I’m starting on reassembling the drive train back into it
The body shop pulled the body off the frame so I picked up the frame and brought it back home so I’m starting on reassembling the drive train back into it
Nice work.
I have working away on the trim rings for the shifter and park brake boots. Started out with some 1/4 aluminum plate and cut out some basic shapes. Did a little bit of work with the lathe and then a bunch of shaping with a sanding disk. I then polished them up nice and shiny. I had originally planned to powder coat them black but I figured it is always easier to powder coat a shiny part if it doses not fit the look of the car one it’s back together
The body shop has made progress on the car with all the metal work completed and a skim coat of filler to get it straight. Into primer this week
The body shop has made progress on the car with all the metal work completed and a skim coat of filler to get it straight. Into primer this week
Ooh, progress. I like progress. Looks like you have done a good job on those trim rings. I like them.
John in Oz
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Great progress, good for you, it does look great what you have been doing there.
Starting to look the goods now. 