DAY:1

So in May i blew the engine in the coupe coming home from 'Track Days'. That means the complete rebuild of the chassis will start earlier than i thought. It starts NOW!! To the horror of a few people i will not be rebuilding the flathead, this was decided after a lot of help form two H.A.M.B members (one was 68 and the other was 71) who talked me into putting in a vintage 283 SBC into the coupe. I have realized that a flathead is just not for me. I am going to build a late 1950's high school hot rod, but with maybe a little 1960's drag/gasser feel thrown into the mix. i plan to photograph the whole build because that is what i enjoy seeing on these forums. (sorry for the crap photos forgot my camera the first day, had use a phone)

Hi James

Nice to see you start on your project, and we are looking forward to see your project pic. and description.

We are almost done with “Henry the 2'nd” a traditionally 1930 Ford A SportsCoupe in old rod style.

Give us a call if you need any help with your project or adwise .. know a lot of Ford people out there .. and we have all the metalskills, tyres and now sandblasting ..

See you

Pirate Kustomz Denmark

Brian & Tim

DAY 2:

So after a ton of sweat, WD40, and rusty nuts and bolts the body is finally off. both the frame and body and in pretty good shape, i think most of the work will be fixing the bad repairs made on the car. The car being from Mexico, we were imagining to find a bag of cocaine but instead just found a lot of lost washers. 

The body  is now where it should be……LOW….  “if sparks dont fly, your to high”….OK Gasser style is not bad either.   

Be cool to follow the build up James

uhmmm rust!

That frame shouldn´t e to hard to weld up. Are you going to do anything to the body?

Looking good there buddy…… it really does not look too shabby for a frame that old.

Hi James!

Holy Crap Two days and the whole damn car is complety apart! Shit that what I'm talking about! Not like my  buddy working on my panel! It took him 92 hours to take the engine out, front fenders of and the rear doors off!!!!!!!!!  Now you on the other hand know how to work!! Man looking good keep up the good work!

Klaus

DAY:5&6

So off to the sandblaster. HEY its cheaper than 3×34!!

Now that looks a little better, after a little paint the horror will be forgot.

Gearbox stripped, cleaned and ready for those LINCOLN gears!!!(if i ever get the money)

Jamesville,  you say that rebuilding the steering box wasn't too bad a job—

I've got to rebuild the steering box to my 37 Ford which is really stiff.  I was wondering what to use as a reference in rebuilding the box.   Did you have reference/source material on rebuilding your '36 steering box, or did you just wing it?  I know they can't be too complicated, but i'd hate to mess it up worse than it already is.l

Any suggestions on rebuild refernece materials would be appreciated.

- jack

You apparently didn't find too much messed up inside your steering box then, such as pitted or galled bearing races or worms, sector shafts or that kind of thing.  I suspect that because mine is so stiff, I'm going to find some rust and galling inside.   Guess I'll have too open it up and see what it looks like.

- jack