Shackled!

By work, civic and social obligations (noblesse oblige, of course, dear), but also with the car! While work and personal life (yes, I do have a life outside of the garage - somewhat) have been crazy busy lately, I did get in the garage last Saturday. (I spent all Sunday washing and detailing my pickup; to get it ready for today's rain, apparently). While I did not get much done in visuals, it was a lot of satisfying work. Also picked up from another friend a pair of '27 T windshield posts, one chopped and laid back, the other stock (but bent). The ones you've seen on there up to this point are Chevy posts that have been carefully massaged to fit the T's cowl. You can see the chopped post in the new 3/4-view photo above, BTW. I like it!

I worked on the shackle studs (shackles are part of the suspension; they hold the springs to the axles) to drill the ends for castellated nuts like the Ford originals. I didn't have enough originals, so I had to order some repops; they're nice copies (metal and rubber construction like original) but they use modern nuts on the ends. So I spent the better part of the afternoon, after visiting with a friend who stopped by (the guy I bought the RPU from), standing at the drill press lining up an original and the new shackle studs, to drill the holes correctly.

I got them right better than half the time. Which means the other half the bit drifted, causing a hole that did not go straight through: it wandered. That's OK, I just drilled a better hole perpendicular to the first. You can see a little bit of my work below.-30-