Not much progress this weekend, moved the brake M/C hole over on the F1 cross member, had to take my life in my hands and use a hand drill to cut the large hole my rota broach lost all its teeth in the process. Also broke down and steam cleaned the banjo rear end in preparation to assemble the Q/C. Ordered a kings ransom worth of bearings seals and races hoping to get it together as parts arrive. Not super happy with how long the studs for the axle bells are, bottomed a few out and with nut and washer they still have close to 3/8" stick out.
Not much progress this past week or two. Bearings and seals have been arriving for the rear end, seems like everyone is sold out so I had to go through a few different suppliers. Going to get my trans case and gears boiled and assembled soon. While ive been waiting I spent some time working on my falcon pulled the glass knocked the roof down to bare metal and epoxy primed it.
Cool project, love early Falcons too. Had a quick read back but can't see what that gearbox is? Thanks for the updates
Finally something that looks like progress tonight. Bearings races and seals installed onto the bells, webbing clearanced for ring gear bolts. Tommorow evening I'm going to get the carrier cleaned up and ready to reassemble Pressed in new shackle bushings; hangers and spring. I've had so much trouble with this in the past. The difference has been my method of removal, instead of running a hacksaw through the bushing I cut down a Sawzall blade to fit though the old bushing. This made quick work cutting a relief that let the old bushing come right out with a cold chisel. On the hunt for a rear shackle after inspection it has a pretty good waist worn into it.Before it got dark I was able to get another coat of 2k primer on the falcon roof hoping to block out the tiger stripes and get some single stage white shot this week if we get a break from the 70% humidity.
We got a break from the 70% humidity by getting 90% humidity lol. Hope this afternoons storm cools us off for even a couple hours.
I'm gasping for oxygen, too, Tim. Guys, these A-bones seem like there's never an end to the projects. In a way, that's kinda a good thing. I did little things this morning, swapping out a hydraulic brake light switch, connecting the fuel tank and filler elbow, trying to troubleshoot a couple of electrical issues and screwing up the courage to fill the radiator with water, the fuel tank with gas, screw in the plugs, wire up the ignition and start up the engine for the first time. Chlsnk, nothing more frustrating to me than trying to pull apart shackles and get the bushings out. Nearly 60 years ago I had a '29 A standard coupe and an old neighbor of mine, a retired heavy truck mechanic, showed me how to use a short piece of 2-by-4 to go between the rear spring eye and the axle housing, then have someone jump on the rear end while the other guy shoves home the shackle. I'd wasted a couple of hours, most of my strength and all of my cuss words before he came over and helped me with that trick. Took less than a minute to put in the new shackle.
Hit a slight set back today. Sat down to assemble the rear-end, cleaned up the last of the used parts scrubbed off the shellac of dried grease and found that there was serious pitting in the area where the spider gear rides. Have a line on a replacement I'm going to check out tommorow. Guess that's life when dealing with 60-90 year old parts.
The pitting really suprised me, the axle was seemingly dry and rust free inside and out. I have a suspicion it was probably driven like this with the pitting for some time. No pitting is present on the spider gears which I found really strange.
those spiders are plenty hard-it's got 90 wt or heavier-not much weight OR horsepower-put it back together!
Not going to lie I definitely considered that. But I'm going to feel real dumb if that ends up damaging my quick change center section down the road.
The spider gears do very little rotating unless you like doing one wheel burnouts and that's not good for any spider gears but there are four not the usual two. JW
Yeah, I know the feeling. You ask yourself, "How hard will my cheapness/laziness bite me in the ass if I guess wrong?" I guess the new phrase is, "Fuck around, find out."
Not much progress recently but I am now a firm believer in evaporust. Dunked my door latches in a jar of the stuff and they came out beautifully in the white. Scrubbed them down pulled them apart completely for round 2 of clean up and re assembly. Pleased with how simple they are inside, looks like a hard ware store spring with a 1/4" ID will have them back in useable shape. Not sure how I want to treat them before putting them back together, maybe a coat of primer and grease the sliding latch?
Pulled the door locks apart and nickle plated them, I've never plated anything larger than nuts bolts and small gun parts so this was all a learning experience but I'm pleased with how it turned out.
Yes its the easiest way, pretty safe and simple. Low amperage/low voltage takes some time but good results can be achieved.
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