Thread: Stude M5 build

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Your really making progress, I think it took 15 years for me to get where you are now.

Thanks, it's been about 3 1/2 years since I started. Not in any hurry to finish, enjoying the journey.

Yes on wire wheels being dangerous! I've caught my pants legs on them before. Surprising too! Also, the pieces of wire fly off of them Be sure to wear a face shield. perley

I was were brushing a part clamped in my vice and it caught my shirt and pulled the grinder out of my hands, it gave me an abrasion that looked like a piece of bacon on my chest. I felt very lucky it wasn't worse. Next time will definitely buy a grinder with the dead man type switch.

Those wire wheels are no good when they get near your skin!

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I made up a fuel line with chevy and ford quick connects. Now have a complete fuel system, ready for gas!

Also mounted up the explorer master and booster and bled the system and now have a firm pedal with actual working brakes! I totally struggled with the bleeding, spilled and sprayed fluid everywhere, lots of cussing. I've never had such a hard time bleeding brakes. Had to do a lot of dicking around with my diy power bleeder to make it work with the master cylinder too. Anyway, it's cleaned up and working so some progress was made.

Got my wipers working today, seem ok but noisy. I will have to do more fiddling to see if I can make them any quieter. This was a Autoloc setup from amazon, it was quite a bit of work to install. The tubing is the really hard part, I got some nicopp brake tubing that bent really nice after I filled it with sand, crimped the ends and bent it around a plastic bucket, then flared the ends to fit in the brackets. Theres a steel cable with a spring steel coil around and the cable slides back and forth in the tubing to move the gears for the wipers.20180608_181615.jpg

Looks like I've missed a lot of the updates on this project. It's looking great.

Thanks, it's inching along between other projects.

Looking good, I would be happy to have wipers that worked decent, I'm heavily reliant on Rain-X lol. Just curious but do you plan on putting an insulation pad on the inside of the firewall ?

Yes, not sure what kind yet but it will need something.

I didn't know if they offer it for a Studebaker, but for my 53 I bought the formed plastic one with the jute backing on the back of it. It fit pretty nice.

Chevys,fords you can get just about any kind of reproduction parts, 40's studes very little. The firewall insulation might be a thing though

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I couldn't live with the scratches I had put on the firewall when I dropped the cab on. I had further scratched it installing the braided fuel hose. So I slid the cab back, resprayed the firewall and clear coated it this time. I figured while I was at it I might as well spray the steering column too.

Looks awesome; should make a great long distance cruiser.