Thread: 1940 Ford Pickup

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Couple'a well placed gussets should make that a real stout piece!

lookin good Navy!

Looks very nice! Good Job.

Nice job, Navy!

That turned out great, very clean. You going to cut up a couple mandril bends to get up & over the rear as another suggested?
I'm terrible at communicating so please don't mistake my comments as being critical or negative.

Wow, that exhaust system has turned out fantastic and you succeeded in getting the mufflers up into the frame where you wanted them to be, well done and it looks very professional. I hope you can mange to work the tail pipes out to the rear too without to much trouble. You just put those walking shoes on again and start walking around and around that vehicle studying it like somebody mentioned and it will jump out at you, the solution of how to do it.

Great work!

Very Nice!!


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Little bit more to go yet but it's almost done. Made the hangers for the pipes today. 1st pic is my quick made fixture to bend the 1/2 rod that became the hangers. A little lathe work to make them accept the rubber hanging bushings. Still need to clean up the welds etc.

Oh yeah, I really like that tool. Great work. I just want to add that watching your progress has been motivating me to get mine in the shop as soon as my wife's excursion is done.

really nice work

Ditto all the above nice work, way to stick with it!

The finished exhaust, I think? I'll end up using clamps at the rear of the x-pipe or I'll never be able to remove the system from the truck if I weld it all. I had to run the pipes under the rear end because of limited space between the cross member and axle. The pipes are still above the shock mounts and the pumpkin with enough clearance to lift the truck by the frame.

Ok here's the next project on this truck, the battery box. Here's a pic of where its going. I'm wondering if I should just have it suspended from the outer frame rail vice both frame rail and inter tube frame. I thinking about frame twist and have some thing break if I box it up with a box. What do you think ?

I can't personally envision putting enough twist there to cause trouble, but if It's a concern then just mount to the outer frame and call it good.