Hotrod Hotline ~ Young Rodders

DW Horton, with his Daughter Lily


	Part 35


	Well, we're finally making some visual progress. The body is off, and I'm starting to disassemble the frame. Friends come in to have a look and wonder how taking stuff off helps put it together. I tell them it's like marriage. Anyway, I spent some time on something very small, but I'm happy with the result.

On the right, you can see the stock bolts that came with the brake kit. While functional, they didn't do much to enhance the chrome spindles and steering arms and the polished calipers and caliper mounts. Since the caliper mounting bolts are 3/8" button heads, I thought I'd see what I could do to match the other bolts.

The black bolt is the original one. It's a flat head allen, with 1/2-20 threads. The stainless bolt is a 3/8-16 button head, but it's obviously too small for the hole. I machined threaded spacers to sit tight in the 1/2" hole in the spindle. The threaded cone mimics the taper on the original bolt, so it centers itself and sits flush with the outside of the caliper mounting plate. There's not much clearance between the plate and the rotor!

I took this photo before I trimmed the excess off the bolt - it's flush now.

Here's how the tranny cooler lines/ air conditioning hose clamp came out. The top tube runs headlight wires from the body to the grille shell.

For the ends of the stainless tube, I parted a -6 stainless joiner fitting in half, and tig welded them to the tubes. Leaving some hex on the fittings means I don't have to twist the tube to tighten the fitting.

We had the one side fixed, and now it's time to match the passenger side. Cam seems to be pretty happy we're finally mounting the tail pipes!

The emergency brake lines run right where the hangers would sit straight up. Instead of just moving it off to the side a little bit, we thought it would be better to go all the way. The hanger brackets and flanges are Welder Series parts, by the way.

I think we're going to keep the tips just as they are for now... milled perfectly square. We'll see - maybe they will get some turn-downs later.

Since the last "miscellaneous stuff" email, there hasn't been a whole lot going on with the '32, let alone much more miscellany. In highway terms, it's "driving on the shoulder". There are some items on the excuse sheet we've hung in the window, however. First, the space we use to work on the car has been seized by hundreds of odds and ends, all with pallets as magic carpets. The people who were renting the building where we were storing this "stuff" moved, so we had to take it all out. It's invaded our car building space; thus a chunk of the delay can be blamed away.

Second, the powder coaters had some electrical issues while they were trying to set up their oven. The story is a bit longer than that, but all that's important to me is I can't be help responsible :) We did get some powder coated parts yesterday though, and they look really great. We are doing most of the removable frame parts (bars, batwings, adjusters, brake pedal, etc.) in flat black. I have a thing for flat black. I would take a punch for flat black. So once we get the rest of the parts back in black (should be very soon), I'm able to start reassembling the frame! Now if it wasn't for all these odds and ends... I think I'm going to have an egarage sale. If you like, sign up for our newsletter and you'll be able to see what edds and onds we've got and how cheap you can get them.

Well, we're all powdered! Now the next step is to make the frame black too so we can start putting the pieces together.

I can't believe the clarity of the parts even after the powder coating. The welds aren't muddy looking, and the finish is very consistent. I hope it's as durable as it is good looking. I'll keep you posted on the frame painting process.


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