Adventures in soldering: The Rat Rod Wrecker

[chukw]

Get out of town, Randy- that can't be for real!! I've recently fallen in love with soldering- and you're now officially a hero to me. Picking that Mad Max brute for a subject is pretty ballsy- you are Da Man!

chuk

 

[Leopard2]

WOW, WOW, WOW...this is just amazing work you are doing. Hats off to you

Joe

 

[mlp]

:woohoo: :woohoo: WOW - just great!

 

[randy_ditton]

Kevin, Thank you for commenting

MP, Appreicate the support!

Thanks Tim!

Erik, Glad you are liken it

Tony , I cann't even figure out how to bolt the wheels on and you want me to be worried about steering geometry

Jeff, Keep me on the path please!

Thak you mlp

Hi Joe, Thanks for the kind words!

Hi Chuk, Thank you for that , the only reason I choose this guy is I can screw up the paint job and nobody could tell!! Jeff and Mike probably use 1000 grit paper and know what the hell todo with polishing compound

Got to confess I had a lousy modelling day, took me forever to accomplish squadush?


Coilovers and the mounting brackets for that rather large rear axel..

X bracing the frame....

Mocking up some headlights..

Like I said , not much but hopefully better progress over the weekend!

Randy

 

[panzerace007]

WoW !! This just flat out ROX ! Those shox are Bitchin' Dude !! "That thing got a Hemi ?"

 

[Cheyenne]

Inspirational , educational , institutional , ......... Werner Von Braun stuff !!!!

I love it man , learning something new everyday here !!!

You using flux core solder ? , .......... or are you wax on then solder ?

 

[MrT]

:huh: hmy: HOLY COW!!!!

Terry

 

[Ken Abrams]

There's modeling and then there's modeling...


and then there's THIS!



Speechless really, excellent stuff Randy.

 

[mlp]

as Ken said - this makes me speechless - just great!

 

[Sherman 18]

Your coil overs shocks look very nice.

You are on the right track! Looking good

 

[Iron Mike]

Most excellent, Randy!! Have you started the chop yet??

 

[rob ferreira]

Speechless

Rob
www.scratchmod.com

 

[randy_ditton]

Hi Folks,

Belated thanks..


Erik, Thanks Dude!!! No hemi but my favorite big block Mopar, the 440

Glenn, thank you my friend! Just some really old paste fluw and silver solder.

Thanks Terry!!!

Ken, Appreciate the kind words!

Mlp, Glad you still like it!

Thanks Jeff, gotta a question for you, my mopar 440 distributor has what I believe is a vacum advance line(?) that runs from it to the ? Carb or manifold maybe??

Hey Mike, To scared to start on that part yet, never done one!

Thank you for commenting Rob Going to be using your posts as reference for the finish!


Not going as fast as planned but here is an update...


Finally got the four coil over shocks and brackets for the rear done....

Test fit...

Building up the four link and additional bracing for the big a## rear end...

A Couple of small brackets to hold the radiator..

Working on a steering box.....

Going with working steering, the bevel gears and pillow block are some castings from the rr sparesbox....

The steering box is a little over scale when you compare it to the real thing but part will be tucked up into the firewall so I think it will look okay.

It does work smoothly, so far without the tires on.
That is all for now,


Randy

 

[panzerace007]

Most excellent, Randy!! Have you started the chop yet??

Oh ! Chopped & Sectioned 'Ol School !! ??

I keep comin' back to this. Excuse MY French.... This is F'n Awesome work !! hmy: :dude


ERIK

 

[mlp]

it's just awesome .... still speechless - keep it up

 

[Iron Mike]

The mad scientist is definitely on a roll, continue raising the bar, Randy! Jaw dropping, it is!

 

[moon puppy]

I'm totally disappointed that you didn't scratch build the steering wheel....

This is fantastic Randy! Are you working off any plans, drawings?

 

[Sherman 18]

Thanks Jeff, gotta a question for you, my mopar 440 distributor has what I believe is a vacum advance line(?) that runs from it to the ? Carb or manifold maybe??

Randy the vacuum line will run from the distributor to the carb base. I'll look for a photo or two for ya.

BTW you are doing AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sherman 18]

Here are some photos.

First, the carb on the right has a vacuum port on the base plate

Second, is a carb with a vacuum port in the front meter plate (right side)

Third, is a vacuum diogram for a stock small block Ford.

 

[Kevin]

This just blows me away! Incredible work Randy.