Projects Im getting Married! Project 46 ford begins!

[cactus1]

Nice Tim! The good ones are hard to come by!( girls that is) You've met mine ( at her shop when you guys came through KC.) That looks like a great project for you two.

I just met Jay at the drags last weekend and hope to go to the HAMB BQ in April as well. See you there!

Mike

[Tim]

Awesome mike, hopefully we both make it!

I made the first couple years and it was a blast Your girls shop was pretty cool btw. I had read an old thread about stuff to do in KC and saw it mentioned, we were just wandering around and there it was!


Any how spend a good three hours sweeping, gutting and... well more sweeping the inside of the car.

From what I can tell nothings ever lived in it and it was either not driven alot or who ever owned it realy took good care of it.

if there wasnt what looks to be a bullet hole above the driver~ going out non the less! i really dont think there be any rust at all. While cleaning I found that things i thought were rusted were actualy painted tan with dust on them, a THICK layer of dust on top of very much not rotted old floor insulation~the stuff that looks like tar/roofing paper?~ or in the case of the trunk floor just alot of clay red dust and dirt. So much shiney black paint to be found!

It sorta seems as if after the car got bumped from the back the weather seal on the trunk was funky or something didnt line up, add in maybe living on a dirt road and it makes enough since.

even what I thought was rust under the car, and then thought to be some sort of under-body coating is looking to be a thick layer of clayish mud peeling off reveling, yup, more shiney black.

i feel like if this wasnt my car id be disgusted with the amount of rust that isnt there.

After another eight 5 gallon pales full of dirt and scraps ill hopefully have it nice and clean and post up some after photos.

[Don's Hot Rods]

Congratulations on both the girl and the new ride. Sounds like you are very lucky on both counts.

We are also doing a 46 Tudor. I bought it a couple of years ago, realized I wasn't going to be able to do it justice, so I sold it to my Son, who has the means and desire to do it right. He's like you, wants to be able to jump in it and drive cross country, so it is getting a Chassis Eng. parallel leaf set up out back and MMII setup in front. Engine will be a sbf, with overdrive automatic, probably, and creature comforts like ac.

We will be following your build. Here is the one he is doing.



Don

[Tim]

awesome i dig the driving lights, i've always kinda had a thing for those yellow lensed bastards. haha

[Tim]

alright had a minute and posted a classifieds add for everything coming off it! its quite a bit of stuff so if your looking for 46 ford guts or flathead stuff in general check it out

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=621827

[breeder]

Way to go Tim! A gal that likes old cars! Ya scored bud! I met mine while driving my 70 amx! Been I'n storage now for 16 yrs! The car not the wife! Mn I can't wait for my kids to get old enough to make me some money! Lol
Congrats man!

[CHOPPED '46]

congrats with your project.
I also have a '46 tudor and I have much fun building it the way I want it.
I had to do some welding but not much.
see my topic

greetings from the netherlands
Jurgen

[raidmagic]

Awesome!! Even better you have a lady that "gets it". A touch of advise if I may though, go with either a 200R4 or 700R4 and get the overdrive if you are going to be driving the kinds of miles you are thinking.
Good luck with it.

[Tim]

put a good 15 hours in this week after work on the car so far, should have an update post saturday. im going to try and make it a weekly update. figure that should keep me hustling to make progress so my weekly update isnt 'i went and checked, its still there' haha

[Tim]

woo whoo! the motor is NOWHERE near stuck!

I went in tonight and put the car in neutral and EASILY turned the motor over sticking my hand down and grabing the crank pully. one hand, no effort, VERY smooth. It didnt dawn on me for a couple days that when i tried to do it before it was in gear haha.

If it wasnt missing the belts and starter I'd strap a battery to it and dump some gas down the carb to see if itd fire, other then some wasted points i bet it prolly would

thankfully it doesnt have a starter because the car waaaaaaaay has no brakes and you know id want to bomb around the farm yard if i got that flatty to crack off haha.

its still for sale btw

~the motor etc not the whole car of course

[Tim]

Labor Day weekend update:



So week one with the car, so far so good. Actually its been great, I've been working on the car after work until about 11 or 12 every night before heading in. Just enough time to get something done and feel accomplished before I pass out cold. You can see my uber deluxe working space above.



I dont want to hear any of you guys with lights actualy built into your shop complaining alright? haha. thats like a thousand watts of warm right there ha.



got these photos in my email from the future inlaws of the car being loaded up and thought I'd catch up and post them. yes. I am one of those guys with albums of every little build detail of all the cars hes greasy hands on haha.







yikes! tailgate much?

Anyhow, I spent the week trying to get the car cleaned up. I figure its a good place to start with any project. You get better acquainted with the car and learn its little flaws, and you end up with something clean to work on. i know wrenching on a car and emerging all greasy and dirty its the manly route to go, but i like to see what im doing.

I also wanted it to look sharp for this Labor day weekend when we would be having some engagement photos taken, or as i like to think realy nice before photos haha.

my awesome friend Clay Lomneth ~ http://claylomneth.wordpress.com/ & http://claylomneth.4ormat.com/ will get you there~ shot them for us and he will be visiting often to document the build also. so im excited to have some good working/build shots. that being said i wanted the car clean and i couldnt go to crazy the first week tearing out all the seats and pulling sheet metal off. It was actual a good thing becuase it let me focus on cleaning the car further, wear i found the car is waaaay nicer then i even thought, and gave me time to think about the time line of my build.

there are things that need done before it gets cold, things i cant do until i get the old motor out, things that i can do inside and will save for winter when i dont feel like cranking up our 35,000 + btu open flame heaters to take the edge off the -40 temps we get in the winter. So i got to take some time and realy think it out.

So what did i actualy get done? I got the back seats bottom out, the front seat gutted, the interior completely striped, the old tar/roofing paper floor insulation tore up<- reveiling nice painted floors! I also managed to clean the trunk out, wash the car, wash the windows and spend 5, yes 5, hours waxing it.

The car is so solid that i felt like cleaning and waxing it before starting in on it in earnest would be some good project "car-ma" and would keept it easier to clean up while working on it over this fall/ winter.

alright so some more pix...







i kept wondering if waxing cars wasnt an inspiration for people 'fish scaling' their customs..







Sarah washing windows



and catching some Z's while serving hood prop duty.



the underside of the hood, fenders, and floor look very similar to this. some sorta bleached out pink material peeling off to reveal shiny black paint.



though the flathead is pretty stinkin dirty. i figured i would feel the most honest trying to sell the motor showing what it actually looks like instead of doing some spray paint rebuild and have people think its more then it is. its not rusty past some little surface stuff that's to be expected but its suuuuper complete other then the starter and after realizing that the first time i tried to turn the motor over by hand it was in gear, i popped it into neutral and it rolled right over smooth as butter! awesome. hopefully itll find its was into a cool rod

this weeks plans include finishing up cleaning the inside of the car. It's got nice paint under all that dusty dirt and i want to see it!

I also want to pull the gas tank and see if itll still hold fluid, yank the front seat, yank the hood, and pull the motor/trans/radiator. i think thats a good goal for the week. if more gets done then that, im ok with that to

in between all of that we saw this rad 56? ford hard top chilling at the park.



it was pretty clean, we saw all sorts of neat cars out for labor day weekend and even got to take some shots for the engagement photos with some of the cars i feel in love with decades ago. Im way excited to see them and share them when we get them from clay.

hmmm, what else.. i ate this giant crazy tomato.



until next week, keep the shiney side up!

[Tim]

alright, decided to split up the drivetrain stuff for sale. new for sale post @

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/s...d.php?t=624081

should hopefully have some more visualy apparant updates in a week or so

[Tim]

so quick update, nothing to exciting happening just spending 3 or 4 hours a night pulling stuff that needs to come out. got the front and rear seats out to expose some nice shieny floors, phew!

and started to work on getting the gas tank and radiator out, we are pulling the motor and trans sunday morning so the radiator needs to come out. After its all out and the motor is on its way to nebraska and oldsboy's T project its time to get to work on the frame thus the gas tank coming out.

im trying to beat the clock with the cold weather looming in the future with this frame prep stuff. im going to wire brush the shit out of it and hit it with some of eastwoods products to seal it up all nice while its warm out and everything that bolts to it is off it.

so far so good other then a lot of nuts not wanting to come out, haha so far ive got 6 hours into getting the rad and gas tank out :S ha. oh well, trying to keep telling myself to work smarter not harder haha.

anyhow ill have some pix later once something more eventful happens and things are a bit more cleaned up so you can see before and after shots instead of sorta between shots.

but since updates are no fun with out photos here are a few of the engagement photos with the cars we had taken this weekend.







my good freind clay lomneth @ http://claylomneth.4ormat.com/

[Tim]

radiator is out! damn that thing weighed way more then id have thought it would haha. either way its out and the gas tank bolts are cracked lose waiting for me to pull it the rest of the way after we yank the motor and trans tomorrow afternoon.

gas tank was giving me some trouble but after i figured out via the hamb how the thing its mounted all weird it was much easier to make some head way. the tank just like the rest of the car seems to have been plastered with some possibly spray on insulation that looks pink to me. flaking it off and the tank is shiney bare steel underneath! i think there is maybe a 6X12 inch second that has some slight surface flash type rust and thats it, a decent sized ding and a drain plug that just wont come out for nuthin and thats about it. we'll see what dumps out of it and maybe ill get to keep it and use it and cross it off my 'to buy' list haha.

all the mounts and bolts i could reach are soaking in some kroil over night hopefully it makes the motor pull tomorrow easier then im expecting ill keep you all posted

[48FordFanatic]

Some suggestions... 350/700R4, 3:55 in a Ford Granada 8-inch. Dual master on firewall using GM pickup swing brake pedal. S-10 gas pedal. Fatman Mll with power rack. Sway bars front and rear.

[Tim]

any ideas on what to source the sway bar from? i dont think ive ever owned anything with a parallel spring rear with a sway bar before<--converting the 46 from the stock traverse set up.

[Tim]

man what a day! put 7 1/2 hours into it and the motor still sits in there smug as can be haha. got all but the trans and torque tube bolts off, spent most of our time fighting exhaust thatd been there for decades and having to exepectedly pull the toe board to get to the trans bolts.

tell you what for something thats just screwed in that thing was a bastard! haha, the heads of the screws were worn down to just about nothing. just took a little extra swearing and vice grips to get it out...well and a cut off wheel around the pedals. how are those pads held on the pedals anyways? they look like they are rivited on or something?

hopefully some pix later on when i pull them off the camera...even more hopefully some with the motor out!

[Tim]

and its out! big thanx to oldsboy's mad torch skills, it was a bit of a wrestle but the motor is out and on its was to his hot rod T sedan and the trans is sitting in the garage waiting for some one to buy it pix and a better update inthe nex few days when i can unload the camera

[Tim]

http://jalopyjournal.com/forum/showt...hlight=oldsboy

oldsboys build thread, that sedans going to be awesome to see gurgling down the street.

[JRussell]

congrats man!