Thread: One way to build a '32 sedan

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Thank you all for the nice comments. I'm out of town, but thought I would check in and wow, you guys are actually looking at this thing!
Well, as usuall Don has it right, I think he's my brother from another mother
Here is how I came up with this design. I was adjusting the valves on my red roadster. I use a 1/2" drive long ratchet and stick it in the blower pulley to use to turn the motor over. It has so much leverage I don't even pull the plugs out. I just run it threw the firing order and adjust the valves. But if I got to for when I'm rotating it, I have to back it up, even though the belt is as tight as can be on the pull side when you back it up it has a bunch of play in it. So when I was thinking of doing this I knew it needed two idler's one for each direction, right turns and left turns. There is clearance between the chain and the sprocket, but as long as yopu are pulling in that one direction it's tight. So when this is installed I will find the neutral spot where it has the same clearance on both sides of the chain then push the idlers in to take out the clearance. That way I shouldn't have any play in my steering. Make sense?

Ken