41 New Yorker Coupe

Thanks Guys.

I went to hook up the steering shaft so I could move the car in and out of the garage and I finally lost it. I had so many u-joints to go around the motor mounts that there was a tight spot in the steering. I cut a chunk out of the mount for clearance. This allowed me to get rid of two u-joints and support bearings as well.

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I had to fab up some new mounts to go down and come up from below the steering shaft. They are alot beefier as I thought with the underslung mounting it would put more pressure on the mounts.



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Thanks for looking,

Fewer joints is always better, and some very nice looking mounts!! They should be plenty strong enough.

Those are sharp looking, Pugsy! Do you have your own CNC machine?

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Fewer joints is always better, and some very nice looking mounts!! They should be plenty strong enough.

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If I had fewer joints I wouldn't ache as bad >

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Fewer joints is always better, and some very nice looking mounts!! They should be plenty strong enough.

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Thanks Dave. The steering has definitely smooothed out with fewer joints.

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Originally Posted by falconvan

Those are sharp looking, Pugsy! Do you have your own CNC machine?

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Thanks falconvan. I don't have my own CNC laser cutter or mill. I just had to draw it out, get it put on CAD by our "guy" and send it for laser cutting.
It worked out cheaper doing this as I got almost 400 bucks for the parts I returned.

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Originally Posted by bluestang67

If I had fewer joints I wouldn't ache as bad >

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LOL. And if my brother in law had fewer joints , maybe I could understand what he's talking about. :eek:
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You have inflicted the desire to take a torch to all my metal working tools and melt them.

But I'm sure you didn't mean to.

Lovely work, very nice.

Thanks firebird77.

Appreciate the kind comments.

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Just dropping in to ask where are you at now pugsy ?? This is one hellion of a body change and the sheet metal work is on top of things .

Hey Bobby.

I've been working on the hood. I was going to save it for a Baileigh tech contest on Allmetalshaping.com but I couldn't finish in time so I will post some progress on that later.

Also been busy around the house and drawing up plans for a second story addition. If that happens it will be about a 2 year hot rod vacation for me.

This weekend, I'm hosting a metal shaping meet at my work place. We had 19 guys show up yesterday from 2 different web sites. A great bunch of guys. Hopefully we have a good turn out today.

Next week, I just need to plant some bushes and then the yard work will be done and hopefully back at it.

I did manage to tack in one of the new mounts before moving the car to the shop for the meet.

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Thanks,

Be great if we had a metal shaping class nearby that went into depth on what it really is . I have seen so much on it and restoration on parts that no longer exist . I have a good idea but would like to get my hands on with a master shaper .

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Be great if we had a metal shaping class nearby that went into depth on what it really is . I have seen so much on it and restoration on parts that no longer exist . I have a good idea but would like to get my hands on with a master shaper .

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Every fall, Metalmeet.com holds a week long metal meet in Oblong ,IL. Looks to be about 4 hours south of you. Last time I went, the cost was 100 bucks.

There is also Allmetalshaping.com. There are regional meets going on all the time. I just hosted one in Toronto a few weeks ago.

Check out these two sites and you can learn a lot.

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Thank You Pugsy will definitely look into them both .

I really appreciate the steps you have shown here, it makes me think I should try to learn this skill, too. Thanks.

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I really appreciate the steps you have shown here, it makes me think I should try to learn this skill, too. Thanks.

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Just join one or both of the sites mentioned above and I'm sure you'll find a meet not far from where you live.

Go to one and you'll be hooked.
I'll be driving 7 hours to get to my next meet in NY State in July.

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Great detail love the build keep up the great work very impressive