T Modified on the cheap!

Come up with a design you like, trace it our on paper, thin cardboard




Trace it to your steel, I'm using 1 x 2 1/2 rec. tubing.




Whittle it out, using what ever you have bandsaw,cut off wheel, plasma cutter.. I used a 4" electric grinder and dressed it out with my belt sander.





Create a template for the foot of the bracket,set your angle, mine is set at 80 degree's., I also drew a bunch of circles on them triying to come up with a speed hole design I liked..Once i found a design i broke out the dial caliper's and measured, marked and started drilling....

Lookin' good. I dig the new rubber.

finish welding, grind and sand, ready for prime and paint




side angle





mounted on cowl, time to make a center bracket...Another day for that....

Glad to see some pics of the progress. Its looking good Ryan!

final mock up, then in to hair pin mounts and shock mounts..



More holes more measuring, but its done..



One more hole to drill on the passenger side, and a shot of the spring channel...anything to do, to make it lower I guess...

fuel10922 wrote:Glad to see some pics of the progress. Its looking good Ryan!

Oh I'm working on it everyday, its just stuff not really noticable, stuff or anything worth mentioning...Stuff you will never see, but I have more time than money.. I should have my front wheel's but next week, then I need to get my brake kit for the front axle then we will be a rolling chassis.....

Those windshield brackets kickass.

1/2done wrote:Those windshield brackets kickass.

Thank's.. My family think's I'm nuts, "you spend how many hours measuring and cutting, then you went and drilled a bunch of holes in them"....I hope to get back out there today and get the center one finished....Thank's for the kind word's....Ryan

Moving slow these days but I did find another cherry pair of 36 plymouth artilleries for the front, looks like I will be bead blasting and priming then of to get them mounted.. I hope to get some pic's of all my progress soon(NONE AT ALL).. Still looking for a steering box, its hell setting your mind on somthing and not settling..

LRS30 wrote:Moving slow these days but I did find another cherry pair of 36 plymouth artilleries for the front, looks like I will be bead blasting and priming then of to get them mounted.. I hope to get some pic's of all my progress soon(NONE AT ALL).. Still looking for a steering box, its hell setting your mind on somthing and not settling..

shit I wish I knew you needed you needed wheels I am looking at gettign rid of mine. they are what you needed I thought you had everything. Looks like Im gonna buy a different set so i can put wider tires on the rear.

Bill

RsvBill wrote:

LRS30 wrote:Moving slow these days but I did find another cherry pair of 36 plymouth artilleries for the front, looks like I will be bead blasting and priming then of to get them mounted.. I hope to get some pic's of all my progress soon(NONE AT ALL).. Still looking for a steering box, its hell setting your mind on somthing and not settling..

shit I wish I knew you needed you needed wheels I am looking at gettign rid of mine. they are what you needed I thought you had everything. Looks like Im gonna buy a different set so i can put wider tires on the rear.

Bill

Bolt pattern is different, I think yours is either 6 lug or a tiny 5 on 4 1/4" These are plymouth 5 on 4 1/2 but if your getting rid of them let me know I seem to collect old rims around here..

I've been waiting for some cool pics. You are killing me here... I've been by your house but figured you was working so I didn't call. What is she lookin' like???????

Same as last time a big pile of parts....
I did get the chrome front-end together (bolted together, by no means complete) and hope to get the front of the frame finished to mount it soon.. Maybe after x-mas I will have a roller, then I will roll itoutside for some pic's but nothing to see as of yet...

Just got back from getting my front tires mounted (yhea I know about time...) If I can find a few moments of free time this weekend after the father and son Chili Cook Off at School followed up with his basketball game tonight, and between the indoor soccer game and the Volleyball game and my beautiful wife's grandmothers Birthday on Sunday and the V-twin Dealer Expo on Saturday,I hope to get the front-end mounted up. All I have to do is move a dusty old Harley, about 4 or 5 Bicycles, a roll of insulation, a hardtop to my TOYO FJ-40, 3 doors to my brothers Fj-40 A roll of insulation 2 skateboards 3 dead batteries 2 small block chevys and assorted sizes of Plywood and what ever few odd's and ends have found home either on or around the T and then I can actually start back on it.. Pic's to follow...yhea right...

if u need a place for that 50fter it is still welcome at my home....

So you got two rolls of insulation? Be careful and lift with your legs or you'll be getting more drywall screws

Riggs the 50 footer is sitting on my brothers driveway with about 10"s of snow and ice on it still.. I quess once it all melts I might be able to find it.....

poor thing . you should be ashamed of treating such a beautifull car like that....

I can assure you that you anything I have done to that car is nothing that has'nt been done to it before in its life.. Except for maybe the beer fueled field donuts in the pouring rain at the Road Rocket Rumble year before last.. Besides its only a car... Right? And remember its a 50 footer.....

What ever happened with this one?

He sold it off piece by piece. I ended up with the chrome front axle. I put it under a 33 Dodge

I've been thinking about something like this but with a 4cyl, as a daily to drive to work.

I have had that thought for a long time. They still have some speed goodies for an Iron Duke floating around. Those little engine ran good for what they were and grabbed some really good MPG's

that's my thought process.....big motors done to death...