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1935 Ford "Dearborn" C.O.E ,Bogie Drive Car Hauler.


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Hey Guys.

I did not finish the post last night, I literally fell asleep mid upload. Anyway getting back to where I left off last night, here is what I did yesterday.

I turned my attention to the other cab to try and get it the same as this one. To do this I built up the lower windscreen area.

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Now onto today. The firewall has had me stumped on this one so I pulled the interior bucket out of the box and shoved it inside the cab. I then test fitted the hood only to realise it would not fit. So to solve that problem I trimmed about a millimetre off the front edge. I am starting to get an idea of how the firewall will look, based on the leading edge of the interior bucket.

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Hey Guys.

Just a quick update, sorry for the lack of photo's but there is not much to show. I have been continuing reinforcing around the front fenders. I have also started to rebuild the chassis as well. I am in the process of adding new cross members because thew old ones were very untidy. The new cross members will allow the fenders to sit very squarely. All will be revealed tomorrow.

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Hey Guys.

I have been working on upgrading the chassis. The rails were not deep enough so I added box tubing to the top. This will raise the fenders and cab another 2mm or so to give the engine more clearance. Another thing I have been doing is creating the new cross members.

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Hey Guys.

I have decided to focus solely on the chassis at the moment because there is so much to do on it.

After using two lengths of box tubing to deepen the rails I filled in all the gaps with body filler, sanded it back and undercoated it. With the rails done i will focus back on completing the cross members which will be my next task.

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Hey Guys.

Its been nearly two months since I posted anything so I decided to get back into the build properly. I did not stop working on the truck all together, instead I focussed on the chassis. The chassis has been reinforced with 1mm by 1mm box tubing on the inside rails to make it a C frame. New cross members were also been added. The reinforced rails definitely leave no doubts as to this being a truck chassis.

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Another thing I did was fill in the right hand windscreen pillar to the same thickness as the left one and then put another undercoat on to check how flush the hood and the cab sit. The next task will be to finish the radiator grill surround on the hood and then finish off the hood itself.

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Hi, Robert. That's coming along nicely. I notice the drip rails at the top of the door line look a bit thin. When I built my '38 COE I sanded them right off and after all of the cab work was done I glued on a strip of 020x030 stock in the same place and then scribed out the top to form a new gutter. It comes out very clean that way.

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Hey Guys.

I have not posted anything up about the build since November last year. How time flies, the good news is I have not stopped working on it, I have just had a lot of hurdles. I was never really happy with how the chassis looked so I was lucky enough to find some Google images of the same type as mine. Once I saw the images, I realised everything on mine was wrong so I had to start again. Only the original rails remain, everything else is new and scratch built as well. Even the front leaf spring cross member.

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The cross member that sits to the in line with the front edge of the rear leaf springs had a very complex shape. The front and rear walls bow out in the centre and the flange at the bottom is pointed rather than arch shaped. You will notice the mounting brackets at the top of the cross member are in the process of being marked out for studs as well.

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