Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Interior may have to wait Brad. Time, plus I don't want to rush the upholstery guy, he already has Dons to do when it comes out of the paint shop. I also need to save up some money for it. I will put something in there, maybe Mexican blankets.

We worked on getting some of the little things done tonight on Don's T. He will be playing now through Saturday, so I can work on mine on those days. One of the things we needed to do was align every aspect of the suspension and make sure all four wheels were straight. Someone on here posted a neat system that the circle track guys use, and I used some ideas from that to do our alignment tonight.

I taped a perfectly square box shape on the garage floor, with another straight line going right down the center of the box. We triangulated it to make sure it was perfectly square, then positioned the car exactly in the center of it by careful measuring. We used a plumb bob on a string and first set the rear axle straight, and tightened down the radius rods for the final time.

The front end was a little tougher because we had to set caster, alignment, and toe in. We found the caster was at 10 degrees, which is too much, so we adjusted the radius rods and got it to 6 degrees. We then squared up the axle with the plumb bob, and when we measured from the rear axle to the kingpin we got exactly 97 inches on each side, so the two axles are now square to each other and to the frame. We also set the toe in at 1/16 as a starting point, and will go up or down once we drive the car.

Also got his transmission cooler mounted and swapped out the electric fuel pump. The brand new Holley pump was leaking a few drops internally, so we put one from Dans '29 on it, and Don will return the leaker to Summit for exchange.

Not a lot of progress, but the alignment took us a long time to do. Here is a picture of the car on the taped off grid after we aligned it.

Don