Thread: My '27 T Sedan project

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I was gonna ask Don, did you wetsand yours after you painted or just leave it. I do have some sections with very slight orange peel but it should be out of site.

Sean

My rear sure got fat tonight!!!

I started putting things back together today, worked about 12 hours straight, this is for sure the fun part! Got my front end all put together and realized I didn't put any anti-seize on any of my four bars. I'm gonna change the Speedway bolts for grade eights anyways so I'll have to tag it and do it then.
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Mounted the M/C cause it was easy and then it was off to the rear. I went and bought about a hundred dollars worth of grade 8 bolts to do all my suspension with, it's funny how all the mock-up bolts go missing or change size . I drilled holes in my coil-overs and tapped in a locking screw but I still have to tighten them down once I make an adjuster wrench. I completely rebuilt my brakes, all hardware and cylinders etc...I want new drums but the store only had one so I have to go somewhere else cause he gave me the wrong pinion seal. I hate that!! Installed new Lokar e-brake cables while I was at it also.
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I've been waiting to put on my new wheels so this was the best part. I had to get some adapters cause I couldn't find the rims I wanted to fit my 9", so they sent me a Ford adapter with the Chevy lugs??? I had to cut the tops off my chrome Ford lugs to fit in the spacers. I was going to get new ones but I think they should still be okay, I'll think about that for a while. I stood back and looked at it with the new wheels and just started to giggle to myself, man is that wide, 84" in fact.

I was on a roll so I put my shiftkit in my tranny and bolted on my new extra capacity aluminum pan. Hope it works, I won't know for a while.
Today was really fun.

Sean

I guess I haven't been keeping up with this build thread. I got my engine completed and mounted in the car as well as the tranny. I don't have recent pics as I wrapped it up while I was doing body work. Here's before I put on all the acessaries.

Sean

Got the body blasted and started on doing all the little things that had to be finished up like chopping the windsheild and stuff. Like I said before I'm getting a 68" sliding rag-top to go in so I'm not touching the roof until I get that. I had some places that I couldn't get at to remove the rust so I coated them in POR15 and POR15 tie-coat primer then I sprayed the entire thing with epoxy primer. I used that 5star Xtreme that I had been asking about and it went on really nicely.

The first picture is the POR15 tie-coat primer.

Sean

As per the Lizard Skin rep I let that dry for 24 hours and then scuffed it up getting ready to apply the Lizard Skin sound control first. It comes really thick and is giving my 60gal 80cfm compressor a good workout. The quart container on the spray gun weighs about 10 pounds when it's full and luckily I have to hold it over my head 90% of the time .
The first coat goes on real thin while the next ones get a lot thicker. These pictures show up to a second coat. I thought it would spray kinda like paint but it's not even close. The pattern is about 2 inches wide, I'm gonna try to turn it up a bit and use more pressure for the third coat. So far what you see has only been about a third of the bucket and I still have the Ceramic bucket to do as well.....OOOHHHH MY ARMS .

Sean

I was reminded by Steve (Stovens) that I haven't been keeping up with my build thread so I thought I should post something to show what you guys have been helping me on:

I guess next I cut and fitted the rag top I bought off Craigslist in Florida. It needed a bunch of relief cuts to form to the roof and was the first time I welded aluminum, good thing for a grinder to finish off. I also had to shorten the frame so the canvass would fit. It's 68"x 34".

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Next was a lot of filler and sanding,

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Added some seam sealer

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And then finally primed it up and did a bunch of wetsanding

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A couple more:

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Then it was time for final color, I went with the Hot Rod Flatz Blood Red. I used this cause I don't know much about paint and it was pre mixed and came with a DVD. It sprayed on easily with no orange peel or anything, I kinda surprised myself and I love the look. It flattened out a bit to a satin finish a little more than shown:

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All I put on so far was the door latches to keep them from swinging and getting dinged.

Back to the chassis. As some of you might know by all my questions I decided to run the brake lines. I bought all the tools and decided to go with pre made lines cause I didn't want to work with coiled up tubing and these came in 72" sections that I could cut and flare one end. I got it all done except for my flex lines to my front calipers, the '49-54' Chev calipers have a flange that point the banjo forward right to the axle. I'm trying to find a steel AN3 male to female elbow or a 90 degree banjo before I grind the flange off. If anyone has ideas let me know.

I also made some studs for my body mounts to hold everything in place and line up the body. Has anyone ever used aluminum blocks for body mounts, I was thinking of making some on the lathe.

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Sean

I started tinkering with my axle, I guess I need a new crush sleeve and pinion seal as well I think I'll get the driveshaft made this week some time.

In the mean time I picked up a '32 Wescotts front grill shell, brand new for $100, that's about $50 US. I had to trim the lower lip to get it to fit as well I need to build a shroud to mount the fan to. I might actually cut the bottom off all together and just leave a strip along the bottom to hold the shape, you can't even see it on the car so I don't really think it's worth the effort to try and keep it.

Gotta go to work today so hopefully the body will be on this week.

Sean

Looking very good! Nice work...

Sean, Speedway sells the brake line adapter you need, got a couple of them myself last month...

Thanks 25T,

Dave is this the one I'd use instead of a banjo, mines 7/16":

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/AN-90-...pter,6473.html

Sean

Originally Posted by sgo70

Thanks 25T,

Dave is this the one I'd use instead of a banjo, mines 7/16":

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/AN-90-...pter,6473.html

Sean

Yuppers, that would be the one you want Sean....If you have the good -3 AN hoses, that's it. I used same thing, but 3/8-24 to -4AN for the front of my pickup, used their stainless brake hoses, too.

Thanks again Dave!!

Sean

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