1940 Ford Jalopy rebuild

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mikec4193

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I picked this up from a craigslist ad a couple of months ago, I thought you guys might like it...was going to try and put it back on the road but it is pretty rough old heap...want to put it back to the way it was when it raced...
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from the craigslist ad...
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as it arrived at my place....
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I started looking at it and accessing exactly what I had and I did not have much....so for the last 2 months, I have been tearing it apart and repairing all the crunchy parts...
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After the first weekend, it looked like this...so we are now fixing all the rot and rust...have a fellow who after the racing season is going to try and replicate the old hodge-podge roll cage in it...
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I was going to street drive it but now I am thinking of getting so it runs and drives and the let someone else enjoy it...
I have always wanted one of these...one less thing to do for the bucket list now...
 
more pics
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standard issue beer keg
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standard issue truck rear end
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standard issue jacking bolts
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standard issue door chain
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I think the guy felt bad for me so he through in fenders for it...pretty rough but so it the whole car...
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down to the bones...sorta...
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down a little farther here...
 
I like the gantry you have to pull the body off. Looks like it could lift a Mack Truck.

Funny how cars could pass tech back then with things like chained together parts. Cool car, though.
 
My kind of project, where you can be messing around and knock something off and it's an improvement....[ddd:D[P
 
That's the way they were back in the day.
No one had tubing benders and they used what they had
Tech??? When I was 18, I dragged home a 34 Ford that was set up exactly the same way. It "disappeared" along with a couple others while I was off serving my country. :eek:
 
so we had to decide if we wanted to try and save the old truck rear end (it had no gears in it or any kind of brakes either)...one of the guys where I work says..."I gotta guy who has a barn full of 9" Fords"...I was on him for 6 weeks before we could finally make a date and go get one...found an early Ford Bronco one that would fit the bill...

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($300.00 later)

I thought it was gonna drop in place...not even close...

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had extra holes in the axle tube...

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we figured it out...did the old "build a bead bridge"...

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we also had to get rid of the "Hodge Podge" rear suspension too...good ole Pete and Jakes to the rescue...

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much more to come...
 
So I learn every day how little I really know...had the new to Pete and Jakes shock mounts all setup or so I thought...then I got to scratching my chin again...
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turn it around and then stuff starting looking correct...

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then I was waiting for the parts to show up and I had a full tank or Argon gas...so...

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before

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During

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and then all mounted back up on the frame rail it has been apart for since 1940...

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this was the passenger side...drivers side was even worse...

more to come...

MikeC
 

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