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Anybody know what a 1932 Ford torque tube looks like?

I was told this one might be from a 32!

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Oh yeah, I'm also thinking about having the two pipes merge as they exit the hole in the frame. Kinda like the front two tubes of this, but rotated flat.

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Flipper_1938 said:
Copy at your own risk. None of this has been proven to work....I'm making suff up as I go. ....seriously!
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That could be the disclaimer for the entire website! :rolleyes:

If you can easily manage to merge the tubes like that, do it, but don't get wrapped up in a lot of work - it'll look darn good as one tube too.
 
Sam_Fear said:
That could be the disclaimer for the entire website! :rolleyes:

If you can easily manage to merge the tubes like that, do it, but don't get wrapped up in a lot of work - it'll look darn good as one tube too.
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They have to get merged somewhere. The jag manifolds are split.
 
Flipper, I wish you'd quit your day job and work on this full time. I want to see it on four wheels next summer.[cl
 
i make everything up as i go along. it gives me plausible denyability when stuff dont line up right. :D
 
SERIOUSLY AWESOME BUILD! ive sat here at work today and for the past 2 hours all ive done was read this thread word for word! i noticed the pics of the wreck were in franklin ky. i live in portland and have family that live in franklin. maybe ill see this riding around there one day soon. keep the updates coming im def following
 
falconvan said:
Is he going to try and save this beast?
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Yeah. But it won't be restrored. It will be hot rodded. Something along the lines of this.

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The thought right now is to swap in something water cooled (run expressway speeds and have airconditioning).

If I found a drivetrain to swap in that used 5x100 bolt pattern wheels, I could use these 18" Halibrands that I bought for my wifes car (but she didn't like).

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He's owned this thing for 40+ years. He used it as a storage shed. When it was parked, it was in an open pasture.

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mrjangles said:
SERIOUSLY AWESOME BUILD! ive sat here at work today and for the past 2 hours all ive done was read this thread word for word! i noticed the pics of the wreck were in franklin ky. i live in portland and have family that live in franklin. maybe ill see this riding around there one day soon. keep the updates coming im def following
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Yep, thursday was the one year anniversary.
 
I've been waiting on cool weather to get back to work on this crazy thing and the past 3 weekends have been great, but I've had other commitments (mainly work) that have kept me out of dad's shop.

As of now, I have a four day weekend planned for next weekend! Hopefully there will be a substantial update to follow.
 
I went and played with it this past weekend. I think I forked up more than I fixed...but I enjoyed the time with my folks and I figured out/rembered what I wanted to do a year ago......

I needed to figure out the transmission tunnel before I could figure out the transmission mount

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I tried the jag tunnel again
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I didn't fit as snug as I wanted it to, so I sliced and diced it...

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I cut it a little more

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