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ghost28

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #255 on: March 01, 2015, 08:17:14 PM »
Sammons you're busting through it pretty good. Nice

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #256 on: March 02, 2015, 11:32:50 AM »
Thanks guys, but chopper i'm probably about a quarter of the way done with this door. :-\  Still have more tubing to go, cutting glass template to mount glass channels and fab up an inner panel, inner door handel latch and rods and straighten the outside yet. Damn I got a lot left.

As 62131 said, a lot of time is needed to get this right. Hopefully the second one will go much faster, I won't have to think (just copy)

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #257 on: March 02, 2015, 03:07:15 PM »
Yikes!! I don't have much more metal than that in my doors, maybe I need to take another look at mine.
Tighten it up til it strips, then back it off a quarter turn

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #258 on: March 02, 2015, 04:35:57 PM »
Nah chopper, your probably just fine. I'm just overkill, too many years in collision work. I always look at them and say to myself" if it had a bar there it wouldn't have came in there like that" .  Just overkill. ;D

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #259 on: March 02, 2015, 08:25:02 PM »
Yikes!! I don't have much more metal than that in my doors, maybe I need to take another look at mine.
It might be over kill but safety is a big concern for everyone we don't want to anybody hurt.

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #260 on: March 03, 2015, 08:47:27 AM »
Yup! Maybe one wide horizontal bar across the door ::) I'll probably be happier.
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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #261 on: March 03, 2015, 09:43:23 AM »
Chopper, if you can find some of this it will help alot. This stuff came out of a livestock trailer, they ran this inside the side walls(to stiffen up) and where the window opening was.  Due to our skinny doors, there is not alot of room to clear door glass/regulators. If I had a roadster, I would run regular roll bar tubing in it (no glass to dodge).

It's made from 1/16" stamped steel, 3 3/4" wide, 1/2" thick. Production cars started puting them in the late '70s, in either a similar or tube crash bar. I placed  mine at rib height. (I've repaired cars that broke arms and ribs when the center of the door was pushed in.)

If I can get another run of this stuff against the outside I will. Then some cross bars toward the door panel side. I'm not building a light weight drag car, so a few extra lbs.gives me piece of mind.

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #262 on: March 03, 2015, 08:15:26 PM »
Thanks, Sammons, that looks like good stuff for the job. I'll keep an eye out for something like that.
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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #263 on: March 07, 2015, 08:15:07 PM »
Slowly plug'n along on the door yet. I got the glass channels and regulator mounted. I did have room to put a second crash bar in just below the first, and stitch welded them together, but on trial with the glass template the reg slightly rubbed on the last rib on the lower crash bar, so I notched it. I bent up another piece of 1/2" conduit under the inside the lower window opening.

Then on to bending up the upper window inner (where the wood reinforcement went). I had to make it in three pieces as my metal break will only break up to 38". The lower part i bent a second 90°for the wisker strip to mount . Then i made and welded two more small corner extentions so that the bottom was straight across. I may weld a smooth channel piece across it so that the door panel will slip into it (like the cheap '67-72 Chevy p.u.door panels did.)

Here are some pics, and of course inspector #3 overseeing.

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #264 on: March 07, 2015, 08:16:32 PM »
I think I had better wait on welding it in until I get my garnish mldgs in, just to make sure they fit. :-\
And a few more....
« Last Edit: March 07, 2015, 08:25:04 PM by sammons »

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #265 on: March 07, 2015, 08:19:37 PM »
Did your work meet Inspector #3's high standards?
Spending time with my grandkids gets in the way of finishing my car but I don't regret it!

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #266 on: March 07, 2015, 08:26:02 PM »
Haha, he seemed to be pleased ;D  or he was really anxious to go pee ;)

Was cleaning up the garage this morning,  opened up the doors to blow all the grinding dust out of the cab and he jumped in behind the wheel. I guess he was checking out seat placement. Good thing I didn't chop the top, he would have a head clearance issue!
« Last Edit: March 08, 2015, 01:32:44 PM by sammons »

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #267 on: March 07, 2015, 09:51:57 PM »
That looks great, you're a regular Jedi Master!! ;D
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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #268 on: March 09, 2015, 05:07:42 PM »
Sammons the doors are looking great, oh you might want to let inspector #3 out to pee :D

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Re: '35 standard 3w build: hopefully
« Reply #269 on: March 11, 2015, 08:49:32 AM »
That's a good looking dog, oh and the car don't look so bad, you are moving along with it.

 


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