Car on rotisserie and new floor

[hiball3985]

Longevity wasn't a top priority by automotive engineers or bean counters, you can't make money that way    They would rather have you want a new one every few years..

[57AGIN]

Jeff:

Here are a few photos of that fix Rick Crawford came up with for my 57's cowl drain setup.  Everything now drains to the outside of the fenderwell through a copper tube, then down to the ground.

Bob
57 AGIN

[Jerry Box]

I love the pictures, that is what I am going to do on my car.

[57AGIN]

Jerry:

Since we are on the subject of ideas for correcting factory design problems on our 57's, since they definitely weren't designed to last over 50 years.  Here is another idea for saving the front fender up in the headlight area.  After I had the Paxton-Novi supercharger installed, I found that the air cleaner needed to be relocated away from the headers.  It is now located just behind the driver side front headlight, but that is not the subject of this thread.  The subject is protecting the headlight area from water, road grime, mud, etc.  and the rusting issues that many of our 57's have suffered. My air filter had to be protected from these hazards, as I also believe the upper front portion of the fender could use some protection.  It is cheap and easy to do.  Get some cardboard to make a pattern, some light sheet metal to make a shield and some molded rubber to make a gasket to keep this area from collecting debris.  The attached photos show how easy it is and without having to do a cutout for the fresh air ducting it should be pretty easy.  Something to think about for the guys that still drive their 57's when it is wet out.

Bob
57 AGIN

[gasman826]

Since the shields are usually shot and hard to find, this design might be the repop part upgrade.

[Jerry Box]

That looks great and cleans up the engine compartment at the same time I will have to do that to.

[petew]

Nice job, lots of satisfaction in doing a mod like that...And it looks good too

[Ford Blue blood]

Since the shields are usually shot and hard to find, this design might be the repop part upgrade.

Randy Conner is re-poping the shields.....

[jumping jack flash]

I'm jealous. I need both, since I moved. The rotisserie and the concrete floor....someday soon.

[RICH MUISE]

The shields that Bob added go alot further to protect the fender nose...the original shields didn't do a thing to protect the headlight area..just became another place for road crap to pile up on....and another part to rust repair/replace

[Jerry Box]

Here is an up date of how far I have gotten on my car.

[Jerry Box]

More pic's

[RICH MUISE]

Jerry.....A few major steps completed..got to be a good feeling. You're doing a great job on a not-to-glamourous portion of a build...the undercarriage. You're never going to have that "wish I had taken that extra step" feeling when the car is done. I'll bet you're like me...you're at a car show, you walk up to an awesome looking car and start looking at the details. That's when you start seeing the old paint, original hardware, some old road rash down in the cracks and creavases...etc., etc. You start wondering why they did such a beatiful job on the top and didn't bother with the rest. That really kills a car for me.
In post #70, the last pic..is the flat black the final paint or was that a paintable undercoating?
Ha...after I typed the above, I went back and looked at the beginning of this thread because I couldn't remember what you were working on....man if anybody knows what I was saying it's gotta be you! Were you able to get all that underside work done without damaging the outer body/paint?

[Jerry Box]

Yes I know just what you are saying. The bottom of the car is done with truck bed liner. I am hoping it help sound proof the floor. The rocker panels and fire wall  are the body paint I need so far. But if I can save $$$$ to redo the the body I will time will tell.

[suede57ford]

I was wonder about the possibility of the car being a police car.  What is the engine code or first letter of the vin.

On the cowl drains, we have been panel bonding adhesive a small piece of pipe slide over the original drain tube pipe of the inner cowl, instead of reusing the rubber seals/boots, the tube will never go bad glued on.   You do have to use part of the repo rubber boot to seal around the tube, or make a nice metal bezel to totally seal it.

It's already been 20 years since I changed the rubber set out on my black sedan, so it's possible the rubber may go bad sometime during my ownership.  My dad changed the ones his retractable over 40+ years ago, Hopefully we will still have both those cars 30 years from now.  I wonder what the rubber will look like then?