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Nice work, thanks for posting. My rotary latch works but only sometimes so I'm thinking of doing this. I can't have the gas strut push the lid closed though because I have installed an electric solenoid to release the catch and the pop up spring I'm using has just enough strength to lift the lid now.

count me in too.

Here's the pictures. The pan is about 3/4" deep and 18 1/2" long by 8" wide and rolls up into the vent opening so that any water that gets past the seal is channeled into the pan and out the drain hose. you can see the extra lip in the last picture taken from the outside.

I'll try to snap a picture today and post it for you.

Mine has a pan that catches any water that gets by the gasket and channels it to that tube that goes through the firewall. Is that what you think you're missing?

Wonder how many broken bones were earned before he got it right:eek: He makes it look so easy it almost makes you want to go and try it. Thanks for posting

I have used a damp towel between welds and have also used compressed air to cool the welds, both worked pretty well air is less messy. The point is to go slow and keep thing from moving too much. It's easier to do small welds and correct the sheet metal as you go than to run a cotinuous weld and try to straighten the sheetmetal after. I used bondo to smooth a seam on the beltline on my 51 chevy pickup and even though you wouldn't think there would be much flex there it cracked. A flexible seam sealer my work better because it stays fairly flexible but it wouldn't be very good for filling the hood for the smooth look I think your looking for. I'm not trying to rain on your parade but if you want it to last, carfully welding it solid and using a thin layer of filler will probably give you the best results. Good luck

I feel you pain, we have the same thing to go through. The house my grandfather built has been empty for about 10 years and is starting to fall down and we are planning in the spring to remove it. We started this fall by removing the old woodshed and as much as I hated that woodshed when I was growing up I was sad to see it go. I'm not looking forward to taking the house down too many memories

X2 If you decide to weld the hood go slow welding in small sections first and letting them cool. It's quite easy to warp a hood.

My 1st car was my 51 chevy pickup that dad gave me in '91. However it took too long to restore (almost 8 years) so in the mean time to get back and forth to school I got a loan and bought an 84 daytona turbo z. It was a quick car and a money pit, everything the lemonaid used car buyers guide said would go wrong did, I cursed that car and the day I bought it....and now I miss it and wished I'd never sold it.

Had to resize the pics.

Sometimes it sure seems as if I like to take the hard way. Lately I've been working on the front sheet metal on the 40 getting it ready to be put back together and adjusted before body work is started and one of the tasks involved getting the grill bars sorted out. This should be a relatively simple task however due to the fact that my plymouth came with only 5 of the bars and I made a bad transaction on ebay difficulty insued. In hind sight I probably should have placed an ad for the grill bars I was missing here on the forum (If you have some for sale please don't tell me:o)but instead I purchased a set "listed" on ebay as 40 plymouth grill bars only to find out after they arrived that they were 1941. To make matters worse and much to the dimay of my wife I paid too much ($100) got riped off on the shipping (the seller said he made a miss calculation on the shipping and charged $20 more) and to top it all off when the package arrived it had been sent COD. Total cost $170 for 20 1941 plymouth grill bars 3 bent beyond use. This was quite awhile ago and I've cooled off since but I never had the guts to tell my wife that the grill bars that I spent way too much money on(that we didn't really have) don't fit. So for the last week I've been trying to make lemonade out of the lemons I bought. The nice thing about the 41 bars is they are made out of lighter stainless than the 40 which made bending them to fit the contour of the 40 front end easier. I started by trimming the hook end of the bar bending them to shape. The problem with the 41 bars is the end is left unfinished where as the 40 ends are capped (I'm assuming that the 41 ends are hidden under the grill surround) Once the contours were right and the bar sitting well I marked the ends to lenght and cut them. The hard part was folding the ends to cap them off, this required a jig and also chewed up the unusable grill bars (I used them to fit the jig and to experiment on where to cut them and how to hammer them) The end result is the the grill bars now fit, I don't ever have to tell my wife and I have modified my car in another way that very few people will ever notice.

#8 looks like a 53-54 olds

looks really good! What paint did you use for the firewall?

Very nice!!!

The grass always looks greener... I'm a farmer a few monthes over 37 and work outside in the wind, rain, sun and worse yet snow and trust me this time of year there are days where I would love to work in a building with no windows:D

I saw it during the summer with the kids. Lots of humour that goes right over the kids head. It seemed more geared for adults than the first, but everyone in my family enjoyed it.

As with most things, a good part of it was an educated guess and the rest was luck but we couldn't have been happier with the result. Our automated grain feeder building was only 2' to the right of the silo and it only had a little scuff in the wall from a wayward chunk of tile.

That was my job on weekends and holidays...I sure liked school back then:D

Hey guys a great weight has been lifted. We finally took down the old stave silo that my dad built in 1974 and has sat unused for the past 15 years. It has been starting to lean for the last year or so and I've been worried that it would fall so we decided it was best to take it down. For the last week we have been rigging the cables and preparing the area and in that time I think I may have slept only a few hours, most of my time was spent lying awake thinking about how it would go. We hired a crane truck to lift me up in the manbasket to take down the ladder and fill pipe as well as string the cables. Then the next day we smashed a hole in it with sledge hammer to run a cable around the section of the undercut that would stay till last and once that was tied to the tractor we hit an under cut in it with a sledge. We used one tractor to pull the middle section of undercut out and another to pull the silo over. It was sad to see it go as my dad worked really hard to put it up but happy not to have to worry about it anymore. I'm trying something new so I hope it works here's the link to the video. I apologise for my sister and our helpers commentary at the end you can watch with the volume off:o

Looking good. What's the seat out of?

Let me know if they become available with a winch option I know someone around here who could use it and christmas is comming:D

Thanks for posting. It's neat to see how they built them. I wonder how many hands touched the car during the building back then as opposed to now.

Don it's a leonard, national electrical service made by nothern electric company. I'm not sure what year it's from but it looks a lot like your's inside except I removed the freezer part and put in shelves. I use it to hold all my paint cans and painting supplies. I've got the dial inside permenatly set to vacation:D

Here's the most recent version of my 40 sedan.