Canuck 289 scratch build

[old willy]

Just a quickie, wink, wink, nudge, nudge…….

Alright time for part 2 of one step forward two steps back.

I would say there may also be steps to the side and…….. Ok I don’t know what it all means either, I hate redoing things but it was bound to happen and I am sure it may happen again before this is over.

I think I have some real trust issues now, and I find myself rechecking a lot of things, but moving on…..

With the body back off I am left with some major reworking but also some nice new frame work I can finish weld and such.




I then turned my attention to the pedal box issue. I cut the old mounting free and jigged it up a bit so I could move things around and check the location until I was happier with things. I so wished I had not finished welded this area, I figured it was all correct based on the drawings but…….. Oh, well



I believe I mentioned before there was an error of about 1 ½ inches fore and aft and a bit side to side too. I ended up moving it forward the 1 ½ inches and settled on moving it out 1 ½ inches too, it is a bit more than Chuck said it was out but I liked the idea of a bit more room between the gas and brake pedals.

So knowing those measurements I went ahead and braced the cowl tube with some angle iron and cut out the lower section, arrrrggghhh!



I set up my old 105 bender again and using a new drawing bent new lower sections to fit it.



I also needed to make new lower gussets and increased their length by 1 ½ inches as well. I welded it all in and braced, cut and replaced the driver’s side too.




This time with the pedal box in what I hope is the correct location.

Time to recheck the fit with my cardboard footbox mock up.




Looks much better now , I guess I am happy?? with that, however it still would have been better not to do it at all but….

Now I need to move on to something else but what?

I wanted to deal with the floor supports but they need to fit the seat rails and without the seats in hand (that’s another story) so I really don’t want to commit to a location yet.

That’s OK, I have lots of other things to keep me busy so I will move on to some of those…….

Till next time, have fun, enjoy the sun,

Hudson





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