My Half A$$ Studebaker Rebuild

[Topper2011]

Roland, you will love using the gas with the MIG. It makes sooooo much cleaner welds!

I'm looking forward to that and getting closer to it.

[Topper2011]

Weather was good enough to do some work on the car.



Right side is only slightly better than the left side.



Stripped the bed frame of the cross bars and mounted it to the work bench.



Glad I didn't get 16ga.







Glad this mess is going to be covered in bedliner material, Dynamat, and carpet.

[Topper2011]

Went to the local Studebaker Zone meet last night.

[Topper2011]

[Topper2011]

[Topper2011]

I had been thinking of joining them since I'm already a national member. We had pizza and saw some people I knew there. We watched some cool old videos transferred from 16mm to DVDs To preserve the originals. I learned Studebaker did a lot more than build odd, but cool cars. They did military applications like the weasel, worked in aerospace heat shielding, Clarke flooring machines, Gravely lawn equipment and even imported Mercedes Benz.

[Topper2011]

Lat night worked perfectly. I picked this up at the meet from a CJMC club member.



Met with and invited the president of the CJMC to the meet as he's interested in history and also the vice president of the Lincoln Highway association and even owns a rare, aluminum 6 cylinder Rambler.

[RadioRoy]

Wow, that looks like a great old drill press. Probably much more accurate than my Chinese one.

[Mrs K Corbin]

that's a neat way to bend the metal.. did you just hammer that down after the clamping?

[Topper2011]

that's a neat way to bend the metal.. did you just hammer that down after the clamping?

Yes, I just hammered a little at a time to prevent kinking it. I had thought of screwing everything down in the middle of the frames to get a crisper bend in the center, but then I'd have to weld up any holes I added. I did use more clamps there though.

[Topper2011]

Not much progress this weekend. Too much work and not enough on the Hawk.



I got these in the mail for free as they are samples.



Hose protection installed. These actually have grooves installed for cable ties. Pretty cool and the price was right.

[52-fan]

Not much progress this weekend. Too much work and not enough on the Hawk.
Hose protection installed. These actually have grooves installed for cable ties. Pretty cool and the price was right.

I am not familiar with those. What do they do exactly?

[Topper2011]

I am not familiar with those. What do they do exactly?

Due to the new aluminum radiator, the lower hose contacted the frame, resulting in needing some abrasion protection. These are listed as hose protection and requesting a couple samples from a company, they sent both of those to me. Can't beat the price.

[bensherb]

Is that the lower hose laying against the front crossmember?

On our '53 the crossmember has a factory dent in it for lower hose clearance, my '62 has that same dent, but it's about 4" too close to center to be of any help with the '62 lower hose. The stock '62 radiator outlet was high enough to just clear the crossmember but it was lower on my aluminum radiator too.

Here's what I did: I fixed it just as the factory did for the '53. My radiator hose now runs through the new dent and my transmission cooler lines run through the factory one.

[Topper2011]

Is that the lower hose laying against the front crossmember?

On our '53 the crossmember has a factory dent in it for lower hose clearance, my '62 has that same dent, but it's about 4" too close to center to be of any help with the '62 lower hose. The stock '62 radiator outlet was high enough to just clear the crossmember but it was lower on my aluminum radiator too.

Here's what I did: I fixed it just as the factory did for the '53. My radiator hose now runs through the new dent and my transmission cooler lines run through the factory one.

Yes, it rubs the crossmember. I've gone through several lengths of lower hose and finally settled on this one which does rub the frame. This little shield is made for hose protection, but next time I've got the hose off, I'll modify the frame for clearance.