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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Dude, that's very slick! Great job!
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Cool project, incredible fab skills. I'm subscribed.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Kim, computors been in the shop a couple day, no posting, love the brackets.....Jim
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Looks very good. You always have the coolest ideas. Really like looking at your build.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
So, how many pairs of eye glasses does it take to build a truck???!! Just kidding, I need them too!
Nice work by the way!
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Makes it easy to find a pair near by. Kim |
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Thanks Cal.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
WOW gr8 craftsmenship on the hardware.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
I have the readers all over the shop too, means I am aged well... Cant wait to see more.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Well I got a little more done on the hood.
I'm using 3/8" steel rod for the runners. I made a jig to bend the runners that the hood will ride on. It's basically a bolt the same size as the roller with another to hold it in place. I heated it cherry red with a map gas torch and just bent it around the bolt. I also set up a jig for the other bends and did the same with them. Kim |
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
A few more pics of the runners.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
I've decided to use spherical rod ends for my tilt on the hood.
The first thing I had to do was come up with a way to attach them to the hood. Here's what I came up with. I used some 3/4x1/2 DOM and cut it to fit around my support rods. A couple of threaded inserts welded in and a home made gusset and it should work just fine. Kim |
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Awesome build
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
You....are awesome my man!!!!
Great work!!! I love looking at what you are going to be doing next....as always top notch work.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
always excellent work sir !
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Looking good as always Kim. Great job.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Kim, looks real good....Jim
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Thanks for the kind words guys. I do appreciate them.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Nice fab work,liked your rod bending jig.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Incredible...can I ask what your background is? Engineer, fabricator, welder, all the above. Very gifted.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Awesome work, keep it coming.
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Re: My 57 Pro Street
Again, a great mind at work. One thing to to look at, when bringing the hood foward from the closed position ,my rails did not have enough lift causing the corners of the hood to scrape the top of the fender. Also make sure you have enough roller depth on the rail and the rail straight because it can come off when rolling the hood back. When making this stuff it all trial and error, I can't wait to see it finished, then I'll have to redo mine.
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