'34 Dodge Brothers, double build.

[MercuryMac]

You know that old 'hotrod builders dance', one step forward and three steps back, then repeat. Well, --- I've had some negative progress lately, with no pictures to show on it, so, 'it didn't happen', right?
Raising the truck back up a few inches and hooking up the shocks, hasn't gone well, but I'm almost done now.
Pic one is the drivers side done.

 

[Old Iron]

That's a cool pic

 

[MercuryMac]

Thanks OI.
There was no progress today, because I got sidetracked, making a new piece for my lathe. Hopefully, I now can make snap-ring grooves in long shafts.

 

[MercuryMac]

The first picture is the gizmo that I made for the tail pedestal on my lathe. Now I will be able to work on the end of shafts, especially installing snap-ring grooves.
On the old truck, I got the passenger-side spring bolted to the rear-end, [pic two].
[pic three] is a brake line fitted in.
[pic four] is the back end fitting of the same brake line. This was a way more tricky than it appears, because one end had to fit 1/4" female and the other end is 3/16" female tube fittings. I was able to find a 3/16" ID male fitting with a 1/4" OD, so I cut the end off of the 3/16" line, slid the small male fitting off, slid the new weird bigger fitting on and re-flared the end.