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Jeem
Jeem
Glendale, AZ, USA

Joined: 11/30/2007

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Ford Pickup "37peecup"

'37 Pee Cup build
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dateline; January 1, 2008
  To this point, I've taken the truck back down to it's smallest, nut, bolt and washer. I've retained the Magnum axle and reversed leaf packs (reversed by Dutch in A.J.).  I split the wishbone and added a PnJ split bone tranny mount.  The 8" rear came from my buddy Duggy and I stripped it down to bare metal and, as of a couple'a months ago, tacked on the PnJ ladder bar brackets and rear leaf hangers.  Next, I'll make a couple of boxing plates to utilize the ladder bar mount crossmember and tack that in it's appropriate spot.  A couple of weeks back, I reassembled everything I could and had a roller again, now I'm able to do the ladder bar mount and then find a friend that will be willing to weld up the things I've tacked together.  Sure looks sweet with it's wheels and tires...  The rear leaf pack is all cleaned and painted and ready for assembly, the front one need the same (damn messy job), I'll have to play with which leaves to keep or not, no sweat, it's part of the fun.  I'm retaing the rebuilt '40 brakes up front but had Don Marks change the bolt pattern to 4 and a half on 5 insteada 5 on 5.  The 8" rear brakes stay too.  No tailgating anything with this setup!  Another goodie from Doug is the Walker rad. as well as a chrome vega style box from F.R. (should stand out like a sore thumb, HA!)  Pete and Jakes to the rescue again, for the box to frame mount.[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Jeem/the%2037%20pee%20cup/proofyl.jpg[/IMG]  My plan, at this stage, is to paint the frame with Squeeg's red oxide epoxy prime and the front axle will be either powdercoated "powder-chrome" or clear.  The front bones will be the cheap chrome as well as the ladder bars.  I'm going to paint the rear axle gloss black, maybe silver....we'll see.  SBC and TH350 (yep, yawn) with all the finned aluminum go-fast goodies to dress it up as a 60's style high school hot rod mill.  The exhaust will consist of block huggers from the Way Bros. (thanks) and run into a couple of glass pack tube mufflers and resolve in trumpet quad tips (two tips on either side under the tailgate).[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Jeem/the%2037%20pee%20cup/chassside.jpg[/IMG]  Well, that's it for now, I'll update any progress and thoughts as they come.  This will serve, if nothing else, as my build log for my '37. 
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