1929 Essex/Truck

[DozerII]

It's looking good. What's the grille, cut down 39 IH?

Thanks WB3, grill is from a 37 IHC, cut about 8 inches off the bottom that was destroyed anyhow.

 

[DozerII]

The weather here is absolutely incredible for this time of year. Almost all our snow is gone and we have temps in the plus double digits c. The sun was shinning and I had to push her out to clean the shop again, so a couple pictures with sunshine this time.

 

[DozerII]

And the door latch system. It is so tight in these doors even trying to do a bell-crank system was overwhelming, so after a couple wobbly pops and a couple nights of laying awake thinking, we have electric openers. The old Caprice gave up her electric door lock actuators. There will be a button on the dash as well as one on the fire wall on each side. One bonus with this system is when the master switch is off the doors are locked.
For handles I made aluminum escutcheons, and added a 1/2 inch wrench for the handle.







Here's a short video of the system working.

https://youtu.be/qWzyec9PXy4

 

[skull]

cool

nice[cl

l like the window to go up and down properly, makes it nice on those long drives.

Later

 

[soltz]

Good weather indeed [cl
Nice work on the door latches, i'll have to barrow the design for the sprint. [

 

[DozerII]

nice[cl

l like the window to go up and down properly, makes it nice on those long drives.

Later

Good weather indeed [cl
Nice work on the door latches, i'll have to barrow the design for the sprint. [

Thanks guys

 

[Old Iron]

I have to agree, that is pretty cool.

 

[smallfoot]

All the buttons will have people wondering for sure. I find it funny when people can't figure out how to open my doors...[cl

 

[DozerII]

Thanks a bunch guys

 

[bob w]

The truck looks great out doors where you can appreciate its proportions.

 

[oldmanb]

Really like those door poppers!

 

[NickFish]

doors are looking great. whats that truck cab in the background? next project?

 

[DozerII]

Thanks Guys,

Nick that one in the back ground is the 37 IHC 1 ton I bought for the grill and head lights for $50.

 

[NickFish]

I thought that looked familiar. I bought a pair of those trucks years ago. Got started on one of them but ended up selling them both to fund another project.

 

[Bamamav]

All the buttons will have people wondering for sure. I find it funny when people can't figure out how to open my doors...[cl

Only thing that worries me about not having a visible way to open the door is if the EMT's ever have to get me out after a crash. Even the factory push buttons on my Lincoln are confusing to people...

 

[DozerII]

Only thing that worries me about not having a visible way to open the door is if the EMT's ever have to get me out after a crash. Even the factory push buttons on my Lincoln are confusing to people...

I suppose that could be a problem, but they wouldn't wait too long to bust a window.

 

[smallfoot]

Windows?!? Tho I got em, they are rarely closed...

 

[soltz]

Only thing that worries me about not having a visible way to open the door is if the EMT's ever have to get me out after a crash. Even the factory push buttons on my Lincoln are confusing to people...

As a fire fighter i really don't like the name, to much hipe but "the jaws of life" will open most any door rather quickly [

 

[DozerII]

What ^^ said

Not too much happening, been real busy at work, got the transfer case installed in the GMC. Valve covers arrived and the intake will be here next week.
Went to pull the drums off on Sunday morning to see what is needed and found they still had the factory drum retaining clips!! front shoe on both sides was about 5thou from touching rivets, pretty cool seeing how the diff is from a 1970 LTD and still had original brakes

Off to Lethbridge for the family day weekend, so no progress again.

 

[DozerII]

Swap Meet was huge,3 pavilions stuffed with booths. Not too many RR's to look at.





This RR looks not bad from a distance, interior would be very uncomfortable.





My swap meet buys very good deals for up here.