Thanks for letting us follow along. Will enjoy the next update when it happens.
Thanks for letting us follow along. Will enjoy the next update when it happens.
The adapter to use the '32-36 V8 water pump arrived. I thought the four hole flange (same as a Model A water pump) would be the same as the four stud water pump mount on the Miller head.
I was wrong. As nice as this casting is, it won't fit. Time to make one that fits.
I traced the water pump to some 1/2" plate.
I roughed it into shape on my horizontal bandsaw.
Then I started on the four hole part and was happy the holes lined up first try. I measured three times and drilled once.
After more drilling and some time on the belt sander, I had some nice flanges. They'll be connected with 2" tube.
The test fit confirmed this should work and give clearance for a fan. Welding and a fan mount come next.
I never get tired of the bolt holes lining up.
More progress on the cooling and charging systems.
Jack tacked, test fit, and finish welded the water pump adapter, then faced off the flanges to be sure they'd be parallel. I think we had about 8 hours in the adapter between the two of us.
I was going to use studs to mount the water pump to the adapter, but then I thought they'd rust and maybe break off in the future if someone isn't careful. So I decided to use bolts. However, there isn't room to get bolts that are long enough in from either direction. The current bolts have about 2 threads holding the nuts. I guess we'll be using studs after all, but with nuts on both sides instead of threaded into the adapter. Noting this mistake for future me.
During the test fits, we found the generator was still a little too low and there wasn't quite enough room for the lower radiator hose to fit well. I made up this riser to get some more clearance.
The generator is actually a PowerGen alternator, and it arrived a couple of days ago. Everything seems to be fitting. Just need to find a fan and make an adapter for that.
Dang. Can I get a shop tour? Lol. Kinda jelly on the coolness.
In reply to Ranger50 :
Any time! I keep thinking about hosting a GRM meetup sometime.
In reply to Carl Heideman :
You need to get some close up shots of those air cleaners. They are SPECTACULAR. I think you mentioned they are one-offs.
Carl Heideman said:In reply to Ranger50 :
Any time! I keep thinking about hosting a GRM meetup sometime.
This. 100% this.
Please host one. Would love to come hang out 😉
We've gone from the Thanksgiving Thrash to 15 minutes here or there. So I spent a little time getting the hoses done.
I made a pattern for the upper hose from some welding rod, then went to NAPA to find a hose with the right diameter and shape that had a profile to cut down to the pattern. This hose did the trick.
I was a little worried about fan clearance, but with the angle of this hose, there is plenty of room for a 17"(ish) fan. We recently upgraded to a better used (new to us) lathe, so I'm waiting to make the fan adapter until we've put the new lathe into service.
For the lower hose, a stock Model A setup fits well. And it only took four trips to the store to get the right size belt.
Indy - Guy said:Carl Heideman said:In reply to Ranger50 :
Any time! I keep thinking about hosting a GRM meetup sometime.
This. 100% this.
Please host one. Would love to come hang out 😉
We'll host one--maybe February or so--we're 3 hours from Detroit and Chicago and about 3.5 from Indy, so I'm thinking a Saturday late-morning/early afternoon if anyone wants to come from that far away. I'll probably post something on the main board sometime after Christmas to nail down dates.
Carl Heideman said:Indy - Guy said:Carl Heideman said:In reply to Ranger50 :
Any time! I keep thinking about hosting a GRM meetup sometime.
This. 100% this.
Please host one. Would love to come hang out 😉
We'll host one--maybe February or so--we're 3 hours from Detroit and Chicago and about 3.5 from Indy, so I'm thinking a Saturday late-morning/early afternoon if anyone wants to come from that far away. I'll probably post something on the main board sometime after Christmas to nail down dates.
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Same here! East side road trip and I'll drive.
We're not doing a big thrash over Christmas, but we are going to make some progress.
We really wanted to run twice pipes all the way to the back and have them exit on the passenger side. We found very little room between the frame and the rear spring on the vertical and almost less room between the fender and the gas tank on the horizontal. Nonetheless, we pressed on.
We decided we needed about 1/4" spacing between the pipes, so we had to make custom clamps/hangars for such a close fit.
Here they are midway through. We threaded them 1/4-20 and will eventually drill them for split pins and castle nuts to make them look more Ford-like.
Here's one in situ, along with a bracket that bolts in where the houdaille shock used to be. We'll also make these brackets look more Ford-like when everything is fitted.
Jack's a little disappointed because the spacing isn't consistent front to back. Nick and I both think it looks cool, and it would be hard to keep it consistent anyway due to the width of the mufflers.
The kink was required to get around the frame rail. Jack will finish weld the pipes and I'll finish making all the hangers and clamps.
In reply to Carl Heideman :
This pipefitter approves of those hangers Carl. That's some pretty work right there! Such a cool project.
Jack finished welding the pipes, now I need to finish the mounts. But I needed to spend some time cleaning/rearranging at Eclectic as we're putting in our own dyno in 2025. And while I was at it, I took the heads and other goodies off of the V8.
The cylinder that had water in it now has a holed piston. That explains why that plug fowled so quickly and it was smoking so much more.
The top of the piston was probably thinned from the water damage (pitting in the cylinder walls is as much as .125"), plus I wire-wheeled it to clean it when the head was off, plus more compression with the new heads.
So I've answered some questions from pages 1+2.
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