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  1. Steve-L
    Here’s mine
  2. Steve-L
    Love the motorized cowl vent. Excellent find.
  3. Steve-L
    That’s great news, I was hoping your project would continue. Nice 4 link work.
  4. Steve-L
    Nice progress, great pics.
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    Ahhh… that explains the radio silence on this thread. Sorry to hear about the troubles with your project. If it were me, I’d collect the parts from the shop then determine what still needs to be completed. Formulate a plan and move forward. the only time it is to late is when we’re looking up at the daisies.
  6. Steve-L
    Nice mounting, that bracket makes a great heat sink
  7. Steve-L
    For those that want to try a little more advanced ckt calc’s. To use, decide what you want to solve for, inner circle. Then pick the pie wedge in that quadrant that you have all the values for. Plug the values in, do the math and bob’s your uncle. always wanted to say that. ?
  8. Steve-L
    maybe the answer isn’t a rear ended/trans swap. Check out the thread on adding an overdrive. Laycock J-type Overdrive
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    The stuff you learn watching/reading others progress on their projects. So I thought I’d look at the dash in my 52 B3B to see if it was the same. i.e. black in color. Forgetting that my 52 is/was black, but as you can see. These days it has very little black on the outside. i just realized that the panel you’re talking about is to the left of the steering column, where my truck has nothing. I haven’t looked to closely but maybe my heater controls are in the panel just below the speaker.
  10. Steve-L
    You might look at DCM classics. I got my replacement tailgate there. My only association with DCM is with my credit card on several occasions. ? I’m totally satisfied with their products. https://dcmclassics.com/body-parts/484-bp-214-dodge-script-tailgate.html?search_query=Tailgate+&results=19#/year-1936_1938/style-standard_sm_bracket
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    A couple of thoughts, maybe something as simple as a dzus fastener would do the trick. Or possibly a Triumph Spitfire hood latch, but they are much larger. Don’t know what would be needed to make either of them work. I'm absolutely enjoying your progress and the pic’s.
  12. Steve-L
    Very cool. How are you preventing the back lower corner of the wheel arch that mates up next to the cab from vibrating or flaring out?
  13. Steve-L
    It’s interesting the bits of info you can get from a pic that was taken for another reason entirely. Glad it helped.
  14. Steve-L
    Nice find.
  15. Steve-L
    My 52 B3B is marinating in the shed but here’s a couple of pics. Hope it helps.
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    Here’s a better pic of cowl lights. also a pic of a spot light. the spot light was typically mounted through the A pillar. I have one on my 38, which was used as a dog catcher’s truck. So I’m guessing it helped the dog catcher locate dogs in dark areas. after some web searching, it seems the “what are cowl lights for?” Question is a common one. Unfortunately there is no common answer. Some possible answers are: A hold over from horse and carriage days First attempt at parking lights Peripheral lighting of street sides
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    I’m watching the movie Highwaymen. It’s about the manhunt for Bonnie and Clyde. anyway lots of great old cars. Which are the stars IMO ? Anyway I noticed some of the cars had cowl lights. Which got me wondering what their purpose was. I mean if you want to see the hood of your car at night, I guess they’d do that for you. Thoughts?
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    Definitely a what not todo. they took it for a test drive after completing the “mod”. A cruise over RR tracks, some hard cornering stuff like that. They commented that the handling sucked, and a smooth ride was non-existent. Even the littlest bumps were felt. They discussed the possibility of metal fatigue at the heated junctions. they then did a full suspension upgrade with products that lowered the stance while preserving ride and handling.
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    Yes, it’s listed for GM’s, I’d drop them a note asking for dimensions, length, width, distance between holes. I’m betting that part is more a universal part used across all manufacturers.
  20. Steve-L
    I totally get that. It would be an awesome look not seeing a straight seam interrupting the flow of the side view.
  21. Steve-L
    I didn’t realize what I was looking at when I first saw it. It wasn’t until I was watching one of the many car shows. Where the host demonstrated torching both the front coils and the rear leafs like above. That’s when I realize what had been done to my truck.
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    ??
  23. Steve-L
    During the disassembly of my 38 I found this. It’s the no $ way to lower the rear of your pickup. Just fire up the ol’ torch and heat the rear leaf spring until it sags down. Same thing for the front coil springs. Backyard engineering at its finest ?
  24. Steve-L
    My thought would be to square off the intersection of the two doors. Otherwise when you open the rear suicide door, the top corner will sport the curved part creating a potential head banger of a protrusion. I’m sure you’ve thought of that, just thought I’d mention it. Great work!
  25. Steve-L
    Good to know, thanks
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