project blackburn(42 ford)

[Old Iron]

You're coming right along, window frame looks good.
Your tubing will be plenty heavy for the motor mounts.

 

[38fordtruck]

just so you guys know i aint dead lol the archery hunt started and id rather spend my time on the mountain right now

 

[Snake Farm]

Surely you're out of arrows by now
Anything happening on the truck?

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[38fordtruck]

yep im all out of arrows i have done a bit more welding on the cab soon i will weld the window frames on. im also saving up to buy a valve change over kit and some head gaskets to see if the old flattie will pop but i had one major blow to the project my buddy who use to work at the scrap yard quit so i will have a hard time finding cheap parts

i also have started a side project with my brother we are going to build a 73 lincoln derby car with a sbc i figured it would be a good way to practice my welding a little and possibly make some money i was going to start a build thread for it but i didnt know if you guys would like it or not

thanks for the reminder on my truck uncle snake farmer

 

[38fordtruck]

made progress on the window frame today

 

[38fordtruck]

a little closer[cl

heres a picture i took with a GOOD camera a while back

and here im sitting in it back when i had my blue mohawk

 

[Snake Farm]

Looking good! And I wouldn't mind seeing some of the derby car build [P[P

 

[38fordtruck]

did a little more work today. my girlfriends dad came down he seemed pretty impressed which makes me proud of my self because he used to be a HIGHLY respected auto body man if he would have wore a respirator he would still be doing it [cl

 

[38fordtruck]

well i haven't touched the rat this week but i have been working on getting a little side money to buy a valve kit and headgaskets so far im up to $95 and i threw in a couple hours over time tonight. this weekend i plan on retrieving some some copper wire ill update my work on that project

and i promise to start using my camera to take pictures instead of my phone

 

[38fordtruck]

got some welding done this weekend a little grinding too[

then i etched my back window my first time trying it. i think it turn out okay. im thinking i might etch some skulls in corners and ratrodsrule.com somewhere

since i had the camera out i figured i might as well snap some pics of my grandpa's cars

48 Pontiac

55 fairlane

 

[38fordtruck]

my favorite the 58 edsel and yes it was used to pull a trailer

 

[Snake Farm]

That top is looking better all the time [cl[cl And your Grandpa's Pontiac would make a sweet sled!

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[38fordtruck]

got the valves pulled (i ended up cutting all of them) i hope to get the seats done this week and order my valve kit

 

[38fordtruck]

ground the seats tonight i used my bosses seat grinder from 1940 something it worked great other than i had to let it cool after every seat i ground and i had let some of the factory smoke out of it lol then i realized i could just use a drill with a bolt on it the spin the disc thingy

heres pics

i also have this crazy idea about not painting the engine once i get it runing just cleaning the grease off and tossing on some chrome acorn nuts on the heads. i also have a plan about building a 2x2 high rise intake

 

[Snake Farm]

The "no paint" motor sounds cool

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[38fordtruck]

cleaned the engine a bit and ordered a valve change over kit from reds headers and head gaskets off of ebay

 

[38fordtruck]

well got the valves, got them installed. got headgaskets got them intalled and torqued down. slaped the intake and distributor but still wont fire on either so i pulled the cap looks like only one set of points is working so tomarow i will ajust the other set and see what happens wish me luck

on the plus side it seems to have compresion now i didnt put a gauge on it but it will blow my finger off the hole now also the oil pump still works

 

[Sam_Fear]

Keep pluggin away and you'll get it. Your family has some great rides!

 

[38fordtruck]

DOH!

well i was hoping to post a clip of the old flatie purring but like an idot i broke the distributor shaft so i tryed to weld the ear back on and it didnt work out so well

luckly i saved my other dizzy so pulled the shaft out of it but there is a tab rusted to it so its getting a coke bath as we speak i hope it works

thanks for the compliments sam and the support i need it right now im really tempted to sell this flathead and put my 460 in it

 

[38fordtruck]

this old gal really wants to start but olny one of the breaker points were working it sanded the other one down hopefully that does the trick