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This shows how the frame is bolted to the chassis.
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This is of the damaged section of the front panel I cut it off and made a new piece and welded,ground and metal finished.
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Great idea. Do I see flanged nuts welded into the frame?
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Of course you you do! haha we have been doing this for sometime now makes it very easy to mount things and if you strip it out grind the weld and replace it.
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Ok guys I am changing gears a bit and will be showing my steering wheel. it will be hand made first using a 1" steel hoop and connecting rods so here go's...
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This is another view of the rods after notching..
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This is the first view of the hoop with the rods..
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This is the disk we cut out so I can drill out the holes in the hoop..
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Here is a degree locator (Dad ran this off for me on the Cad system) this will help keep all the holes the same spacing (I HOPE!!)
Till next time... Mark... |
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That is amazing !! Keep up the great work.
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Thanks for the kind words..
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Very nice build!!
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Yeah Jim clued me in on the flanged nuts for my project. Great idea that I am making use of. Thanks again Jim.
Steering wheel is a very cool direction...looking forward to see how you build the rest of it. |
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That's cool. What's the diameter of your steering wheel? about 12 inches?
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It is actually 15 " due to the connecting rods and the look I was after
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Back to the wheel..
here is a shot of 1/8" holes being drilled they go all the through. |
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This is a shot after all holes were drilled and counter sunk. (some of the holes did not come out perfect)
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Here is the stock G.M. column adapter it will be removed from a stock G.M. wheel. to do this there are spot welds on the flange simply drill out the welds and the adapter comes right off..
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This is the adapter removed (you can see the spots i drilled)
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In this pic it shows the space between the adapter and rods so I will need to make a plate to take up the gap.
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Nice, very nice!!
Are you keeping it all steel? |
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Thanks Kees.. To answer your ? No.. the wheel,pedals,shifter arm and interior panels will be painted wrinkle black..the theme I'm going with will tie them together,(more on that later)
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This is the plate i made to take up the gap between the rods..
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These are a side view and fitting the plate and adapter..
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These are of spacing the plate/adp. to wheel and final weld of the pieces..
Mark... |
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As you can see from this pic I have button head cap screws installed (i drilled all holes and tapped them) this will give a little grip
to the wheel.. |
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Here it shows the wheel after it was blasted and final welding. will start to smooth it out next..
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wheel all smoothed out
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Very cool Mark. Really like the button heads. The remaining holes are for looks / grip too?
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Thanks A.D. and yes they are once it is all painted with wrinkle black the holes will be re worked to show the metal then clear over them to prevent rust.
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This is going to be the idea I had for the center cap I'm using a cone for a wheel so here go's
the first pic is of the mounting spots i drilled and tapped holes and trimmed washers.. |
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This is the "U" I made this will be welded to the washers so it can be removed. The screw coming up is for the cone..
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"U plate " and cap
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The final product..
so how it works is the U plate is bolted to the wheel then the cone gets screwed on and that's it.. next up I will be working on my door latch Idea.. Mark |
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Ok, those of you that have seen these latches from
trique mfg. know they are pretty salty in price so..I have decided to make my own.. Mark... |
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So after some study of pics and trial and error I finally came up with the final design. using poster board for my templates I got them mostly figured out of how they need to work and transferred them to steel. the latches I'm using are a single catch style (it seems they don't need as much adjusting as dual) and are quieter as well. one company is (Rocky hinge) mine are U.S. made and are very well made. (do not use autoloc hinges they are junk) I paid 50.00 for them at a street rod nats in springfield.
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This is what the arm looks like after drilling and bending into shape..
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O.E. hole for handle
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These are the plate I made of the O.E. hole before they were welded in and final look after metal finish..
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Nice work.....Like your do it yourself attitude. Keep up the good work.
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