Landman

A fairly good day in the shop today. Removed the fender from the car and touched up a weld in the rear lip. Gave the inside of the fender a good coat of POR 15. This can is more like semi gloss. The other one was very glossy. Received a paperstrip from the upholstery kit company asking me to mark my roof bows and headers as they can vary. They can do the headliner more accurately this way. While I was in the roof, I redid the dome light block with better dimensions and a hole to fit the cup more accurately.

We're all sitting here holding our breath. Looking forward to what I'm sure will be a great story. If you can't remember the chronological order of events, just do it by ststems i.e brakes, fuel, drivetrain etc.

Are you going to post yours? Here's a cpuple of photos pf a nice origimal Oakland. Is it a '29?

Scott, are you painting outside? No wind, bug or dust issues? I suppose they are not as critical with primer. It will all get sanded.

Hi Ian, Yes I decided to post it many years after I started. I started the thread in February 2011. I had picked the car off the farm in 2001. The work had started in 2005 with the wood. That was posting #18. Caught up to real time sometime in 2011 around posting #138. I realize the forum is for current projects but as long as it isn't finished, it must be still current even if you started 30 years ago. As far as expertise goes you are correct about Bernie, it looks like there isn't much he can't do. In my case it is my first time, so it isn't expertise yet, just a verrrry steep learning curve. There are several things I've done two and three times. By all means, you should post your project. The variety here is what makes it all worthwhile.

As I look at all the various crafts and trades being featured in these forums, it is the machining that I think I would have enjoyed doing the most. I remember being totally engrossed by Dean's work on the '29 Hupmobile and now this old engine. It seems to have almost endless possibilities.

I'm dreading the time when I'll have to crawl under the dash to connect all the wires in mine. It takes 15 minutes to get into position to find out you've got the wrong tool. And you have 10 years on me! I admire your work, your talent and your resilience.

Attacked the fender patch today. Put the patch on the fender to check shape. Cleaned it up, marked the perimeter, cut the hole, fiitted the plate. Bubble gummed it in place. Still not nice but better than it was. Following Ken Hupp20's method as outlined in Nameplate Refinish posting, did a couple of little Fisher Body plates.

I just came across a photograph of my dad taken around the time he owned my car. Look at the sliver of fender behind the guy on the left and compare it to the cropped photo of the same area on a '34 Master. Could it be....or am I imagining things? I attached the photo taken in 1979 which was the earliest I have to show that the bumper was attached by a plain bolt and not the medallion bolt. The one in the old photo has a plain bolt too.

Still available.

Here's one which is supposed to be good. Steering Wheel Repair Kit: Canada POR-15 Rust Preventive Coatings

Now where did you say that car wash was?

8 days means it would run for more than a week. You only wound it up once a week.

I wonder if he got this one? This photo was taken in Ste-Justine , Québec. That is near the Maine border.

Took a break from the fender. Did a template of a main sill for Tinus in South Africa. Started working on the oil pressure line. Cleaned up the old line, ran some brake cleaner through it with air pressure, pre-bent it close to its configuration and primed it. Cleaned up and painted the insulator and a couple of clips. Didn't quite abandon the fender. Marked up a potential patch panel to replace one of my original rough ones. This one would be a butt weld instead of a lap weld. Am I ready for that? That is the only useable (at least I think so) original fenders from the car.

I think it is called harmonic resonance when a part of the car picks up the frequency of another part like pontiac1953 explains above. I used to have a Model A which started "drumming" behind my head after reaching a certain speed. We ended up to have to insert a piece of foam rubber between the rear roof panel and the upholstery beside the rear window on the driver's side.

Thanks Ian. However there is a type of Moosehead here that an Aussie might enjoy. It comes in a long neck brown bottle.

Fired up the car, backed it out of the garage, turned it around and backed it in. Mounted the fender along with a tailpan to stabilize the skirt. Started picking & filing, Amazingly enough the roughest spots are the ones I attempted to repair. Go figure. It's got its shape back, there a a million little divots but they are in the order of 1/32". Except my old repairs of course. Gave it a shot of primer then a quick sanding in a few places. They are visible to the eye but barely discernable to the hand. Except my old repairs of course. Too bad Flop is so far away.

I'm going to finish the metalwork with the fender mounted on the car. For the paint prep it has to be off though as there is a 2" strip that goes inside the body.

That Mark IX is something else isn't it?

Just came back from the painter's. Showed them the fender. They figure it isn't that much worse than the other. They'll do it.Meanwhile I'm to massage it a bit more.

Thanks Ben & Scott. I know you guys have been there since the beginning. It's nice to know you are not alone in the shop. Continued pecking away at the fender. Finished stripping the outside. Did a bit of pick & filing . Stripped the inside. Discovered daylight in a few places (pinholes). Welded them shut. I had removed the gavel shields from all my fenders when I was looking for a good skirt to splice in. So when I got one out of the stash I was delighterd to find out it was the one that had been on this particular fender. Look at the little piece I had replaced which was stuck to the gravel shield. Cleaned up the gravel shield .Amazingly enough, there was still paint underneath all that surface rust. Bolted it in place.It looks at home there. LOL. While I was labouring away my neighbour came home with several hundred pounds of nice lean meat for the winter.

In post 53 on page 3 I had attempted to salvage one of the fenders which was on the car. It was the best of the four and is clearly visible in posts 1 & 5 on the first page. First I had patched a hole using a piece of another fender. Then I had tried to bring the bead back on the bottom skirt and was dissatisfied with it. I had then taken it to the panelbeater with instructions to fix it if it was feasible. He had elected to fix one from the parts car because it would be cheaper. Later on a wave of renewed confidence I had spliced in the bottom skirt of another fender with so so results. Today, I looked at it again and decided to try again to salvage it. I ground down my old welds and rewelded all cracks, pinholes etc. I even put in a little piece of bead where the old one was cracked. I am posting this here at the risk of being laughed at since all that work is soooo crude. However I started to strip it to bring to the painters to see what they think of it. It is likely too rough. It would be nice though if the car eventually sported one of its own fenders.

I just love his signs. All the same pattern with ads and actual or old photos. Nice job!!!