chevy2
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He tries to keep himself busy, thats why his better half Sue normally makes the tea when i visit.Langy, you are an artist. I am a little inspired by you now.
He tries to keep himself busy, thats why his better half Sue normally makes the tea when i visit.Langy, you are an artist. I am a little inspired by you now.
I don't often comment on your threads Langy, simply because I have little to add but at the beginning of a new year please let me say thanks for sharing your great threads and all the best to you and family for 2015.
Cheers!
Langy, you are an artist. I am a little inspired by you now.
An artist eh ??? You didn't mention what type of artist Probably pi$$ artist
The 3/8" aluminium was drilled & tapped for some 1/4" countersunk socket cap screws, these act as studs for the hinge to bolt too, the holes were drilled oversize to allow some adjustment.
Do you only use imperial-sized fasteners on builds like this Langy?
How do you stop the bonnet (hood) chafing on the front panel/fenders when it's closed?.
Its been a bit chilly here this week so looked for a job to do that could be done in the nice warm workshop Spotted the dash on the wall so decided to plan the layout, I'm using a set of Dolphin 3 3/8" quad gauges with a electronic speedo run off a Cyberdyne GPS sender because I stock them and want to use stuff on this project that I sell, I usually like white or black faced gauges on my own cars but thought I would have a change so have gone with a Tan face, it will look good against the final colour and be a bit different.
Heres the proposed dash layout
Hi Langy.
Slightly off topic, do you know where I could get a right angled radiator filler neck with cap
Dug my 3 3/8" holesaw out and viola the 2 main gauges was in !!!
Next I got to thinking about switches & warning lights, I had a set of really nice old warning lights from a Warbird but wanted to keep them for another project, luckily they have been reproduced but unfortunately not in the original stainless steel, these ones are chromed but I just love the look of the jeweled lens. My plan is to use mostly Red but one Blue for high beam as i'm not keen on lots of different coloured lights on the dash.
Moving on to switches I rummaged around my stock shelves and found a universal ignition switch and a selection of push pull switches, I like the push pull switch as it suits old cars better in my opinion, the Headlight switch also solves the problem of the dipswitch being on the floor which always looks looks untidy to me, this one has side, dipped beam and high beam all in one switch so nice & neat, the knob$ I will replace with custom made jobbies.
While searching around I remembered I have some of these Classic instruments Rocket tachs so will fit one either on the column or on the dash, decision to make, don't like the mount so will make a stainless mount later.
Thats it for today as we are now off to The annual Hotrodders ball for a few beers
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