Mattml430

Does anybody know of or know anyone that is making the folding luggage rack. There is one on eBay at the moment but it’s not the victory six sports roadster type. I will attempt to make one if I can’t get one. Thanks guys. this is the picture of one that I’m after.

Do you put any adhesive on the shoes Teddy. I’ve never done my own shoes before, you’ve done a nice job of them.

Yer I’m using my dads old ones from when he was swinging of the end of spanners. 👍

That’s pretty cool he must of loved seeing it in the condition it’s in John.

Thanks for the tips mate I’ll definitely get some for it can’t hurt. She is definitely dripping in oil. you need an extra knuckle joint trying to put those little collets in.

Valves are in and piston rings all gapped. Received all my new rings and c clips today. They were going to take 2 weeks to sort the valves out to suit the collets so I ended up machining them myself. He told me that’s all he would be doing so I figured I could do that. I just did the identical to the originals. I’ve only got 2 pistons fitted so far and all is going well. Looks like I’ll be assembling my engine for Australia Day.

Looking great. I should be getting my master cylinder back this week I sent it away to get a stainless steel sleeve. My gas tank was totalled so I’m in the middle of making a new one. 👍👍

What colour are you going to paint the body Ted. Or is it already finished 😂🤣

Thanks Teddy , we have to except these sorts of problems with 90+ years old cars. I’ll get this engine together eventually. The 4 week Christmas break that the piston manufacturers had hasn’t helped much though. Your coupe is coming together so well it’s great to see.

Made a start back on my engine rebuild this morning with fitting my lifters and went to fit the valves, The brand new valves I bought to suit my engine have different valve collet mounts. So it all came to a grinding halt again. My new rings and c clips should be here on Monday. Seems people just sell shit saying it’s for our engines and cars without a hole lot of research. This is the third time I’ve been held up because of wrong parts. Never mind I guess. so I went on with my upper and lower radiator panels. These are tricky little things to make as simple as they look. After a couple of attempts I got them close enough to original I think. Not a perfect match but pretty close for what they are.

Welding them with stainless steel wire in a mig works well. Also good for any cast iron and then stick it in a bucket of sand to let it cool really slowly. V the cracks out at 45* either side of the crack and spot weld it slowly overlapping each weld slightly.

Looking fantastic.

I’ve already dropped the template into the glass guys. I’m getting beveled edges on it and then toughened. I just think the beveled edges look really nice. I might end up with 2 spares because they have a minimum charge for bevelling. They came out beautiful, thanks so much for them Ron your a bloody legend.

It’s on the wrong side Teddy. 🤣

Yes we are allowed to use conifer lines here , I probably should of gone that way. The copper was still in great condition after 92 years, I bet the steel won’t be as good after 50 years.

Ron “(the birthday boy today)” sent me some bloody beautiful brackets for my wind wings. With a little bit of adjustment they fit almost perfectly to my posts. I gave them a little polish and I’ll stick them in the Nickle plating tomorrow. I’ll order some glass for them and get it toughened and beveled edges on it.

Wow Teddy your flying along with this , it’s looking great. The steering wheel looks like it came out perfectly. What a difference from what it was. I actually also just finished all my brake lines this morning before work. Bit of a late start 😬 I have changed all mine to steel lines because they kind of frown on us over here with copper. You can get away with it but I don’t want any trouble when I go to register it. Keep up the great work and pics. I love your workshop I can only ever dream of keeping mine that neat and tidy.

You might need to post some pics , sizes and dimensions of what you need. Is the Buick engine similar to the dodge engine?

So I was laying in bed this morning at 4;30 thinking that what I’ve done with the breathers might be a mistake. It’s quite possibly going to let the oil airrate and turn into a froth ball coming out the top. I might get some 1/8 plugs just in case.

Shock’s are in and I’ll adjust the straps later on. I need to make some wedges for the bottom fixing. I think I’ll try make something that won’t fall out if they snap. The breather thing will be a good experiment to see how they go. If they leak badly I’ll try the rubber gasket idea Rich.

That would be perfect but the little knee action joint comes up into the space either side in that top plate. If I used a thin rubber gasket all the way across with a couple of holes that could work. It would then just push on the rubber 👍

I can really only mount it in the centre of the top cover. That will make it probably around 3/4 of an inch above the oil level if I go with Ron’s recommendation of having it about 1/4 below full. can only give it a go and if it doesn’t work I’ll just plug it. I put my diff breather in the same spot you did.

So I’m thinking of fitting a breather to the shocks as they are prone to leaking. I’m thinking of an air tool exhaust type breather because I imagine they get quite warm on a rough road. With nowhere to breathe as they are, the oil will come out the seal. I think I will loose a little bit of oil out the breather but hopefully not through the seal. this photo is a 1/8 breather I’m thinking of. what do you guys think ?

Great thanks Ron. I’ll get some of the penrite stuff we were talking about. you were correct also about the brake cylinder cups. They are all buggered so I’m replacing them also. I should of just left them dry in there. Nevermind it will give me the opportunity to use the pliers Rich bought for me 😂👍

Been playing with the top of the windscreen frame Fitted with a couple of dummy ends