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09-04-2015, 09:12 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Cool! Got to get me one too!
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09-05-2015, 09:01 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Both of the third frame rails are tacked in! Now for the fun of concocting all the filler pieces top and bottom to tie it all together.
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09-07-2015, 03:36 PM
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Lucky Teter at the wheel
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Hand making all of these little parts is no fun.....
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09-07-2015, 10:11 PM
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Lucky Teter at the wheel
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I've been on it all Labor Day - no lake for me.
I hosed the insides or the frame rails with rust proofing paint from Eastwood, made cardboard templates, and cut out the top caps with the plasma. Tack welded the passenger one on, bending it on the frame rails as a buck as I went along. I was actually standing on the top plate to bend it around.
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09-08-2015, 08:57 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Looks good...Jim
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09-08-2015, 12:42 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Lookin' good!
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09-10-2015, 12:40 AM
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Lucky Teter at the wheel
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Hey guys, Biz here - Pops gave me my first welding lesson tonight on a top part of the frame that won't ever be seen. Wait - what are you saying Pops!?!?
It went well with just some simple plug welds - just draw a circle inside the hole about 5 times and its full. Easy! 
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09-10-2015, 05:25 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
 Nice work. Looks a lot cleaner than my first welds ever did!
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09-10-2015, 11:09 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Quote:
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09-12-2015, 11:48 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Saturday night picture time.
Not much to report tonight unfortunately, working on my lower control arms since they hit into my frame. I ended up cutting a relief and angling them to the inside. I'll weld on some overlaid pieces to re-attach and strengthen. Next we will make a mount to attach them to on the frame. They use 1 large bolt and a large circular cup for centering. The cup is actually part of the unibody I chopped off of the Jag.
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09-14-2015, 11:20 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Just about finished up welding the lower control arms. Tomorrow on to making their frame mounts.
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09-14-2015, 11:21 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
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09-10-2015, 08:51 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Nice work Biz! The frame section is looking really good.
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09-10-2015, 09:06 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Moving along nicely!
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09-10-2015, 12:09 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Well done!
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09-10-2015, 06:01 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Nice work ,Biz.
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09-10-2015, 08:57 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Nice work Drew and Biz!
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09-20-2015, 11:13 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Bracket design looks good, will you be adding additional bracing...Jim
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09-20-2015, 11:26 PM
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Lucky Teter at the wheel
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Yes! 2 from underneath and 1 on top. But the main forces are front to rear push pull on acceleration and braking. Keeping the whole assembly from rotating around.
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09-20-2015, 11:43 PM
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Lucky Teter at the wheel
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
To finish up for tonight, I have tacked in the mounts and the mounting cups from the Jag body. I disconnected the coil-overs so I could cycle the suspension fully up and down and check for clearance issues with the LCAs. Everything looks good so far. Now I am ready to drop the rear suspension assembly to get to the undersides of the frame rails for more welding and grinding. Also I'll need to work out the 6 brackets on my new LCA mounts.
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09-21-2015, 08:37 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I found a couple of pics of my 1947 CJ 2A I built about 20 years ago. It was my first hybrid - a 47 front clip mated to a 1980 CJ 5 tub and chassis. It had a 304 V8 and 4 speed combo and was smokin fast. I had to remake the flat fenders 4 inches lunger and get 2 hoods and extend the hood 4 inches also by welding them together. The firewall was also a bear since it was so much narrower, I had to move the pedals over some and relocate the fuse block to the inside of the steering column. Overall it was pretty easy and looked awesome.
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09-21-2015, 11:52 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Looks great....Can't wait for more progress updates.
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09-21-2015, 11:41 PM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
Sweet jeep!
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09-28-2015, 11:32 AM
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Re: Bride of Young Frankenstein - 1957 Buick Super
I thought you would appreciate this, Drew. I wonder how many of these suspensions are sitting in people's garages?
http://orlando.craigslist.org/pts/5235622563.html
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