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Posted By Discussion Topic: I need help with early Ford front hubs -- page: 1 2     willys36 03-16-2013 @ 5:37 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 12 Joined: Aug 2012 Agreed if function were the criteria. However I am reproducing a 60s show car so I couldn't care less about function; it is the look I must have. willys36 08-24-2012 @ 7:34 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 12 Joined: Aug 2012 I found a pair! willys36 08-19-2012 @ 10:55 AM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 12 Joined: Aug 2012 I am very familiar with Dave's car and it is a magnificent jewel. In fact I was in contact with him during construction and advized him on a couple parts he was having trouble with. However his car has some pretty major deviations in form from the original. The bubble is a lot different, the rear wheels are new aluminum Raders instead of the steel/aluminum originals, the front pod is totally different in shape, the front wheels have slots that are a lot different. My goal is to come as close as humanly possible to the original. And it has always been a dream to build one so I probably would even if the original was still around. Dave's car is strictly for display, I don't think the engines are full of parts. Ed ran the original at shows early in it's very short career via remote start to impress the crowd, but he had to take the guts out of the engines and trannys in an effort to cut weight and eliminate frame breakage. It didin't work. You can see the radiator cap bhurried in the fur at the bottom of this picture. It was next to the driver's shouldere, probably had electric fan. I plan on driving my version so the driver's engine will run. The passenger side engine will be hollowed out and an alternator and AC compressor will be inside run by a stub shaft in turn run by a belt from the running engine. My radiator will be next to the driver like Ed's was. Old Henry 08-19-2012 @ 8:35 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 738 Joined: Apr 2010 Here's Dave's replica: http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/featuredvehicles/0601rc_ed_roth_custom_hot_rod/ Great story about his rebuild. What I can't figure out is where is the radiator(s) for those two honking engines? Or, was this car just a trailer queen not meant to really be driven? Old Henry (The older I get, the better old looks.) This message was edited by Old Henry on 8-19-12 @ 8:36 AM Stroker 08-19-2012 @ 7:45 AM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 1460 Joined: Oct 2009 Have you seen Dave Shuten's replica of the Mysterion? willys36 08-18-2012 @ 6:54 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 12 Joined: Aug 2012 I only hope Rat Fink would approve! Here is a better picture Stroker 08-18-2012 @ 4:56 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 1460 Joined: Oct 2009 willys36: Rat Fink would be proud of you! willys36 08-18-2012 @ 4:40 PM reply profile send p.m. Member Posts: 12 Joined: Aug 2012 Already have an ebaY search logged in! I am a power user and I have too gotten a lot of rare stuff being patient. I also realize the 5X5 Ford hub is standard for decades. However since I am reproducing a specific car, I have to match the hubs as closely as possible. That's why I can't use the red hubs I have (1/2" doo small OD), reproduction hubs etc. I need those iron '40 hubs for authenticity. Here is the car I am reproducing. As you can see, the hubs play a starring role. This message was edited by willys36 on 8-18-12 @ 4:41 PM Stroker 08-18-2012 @ 4:06 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 1460 Joined: Oct 2009 Willys: It would help a great deal if you revealed a little more about your project. Your sample hub is a 5-on-5-1/2" standard Ford hub. This lug bolt pattern with the same bearing bore was used from 1928-1935,and again from 1940-1948 or a total of 15 years. I'd guess your sample is of 1940 vintage, but could be much later. I have a pair of hubs machined out of 6061-T6 Aluminum that are dimensionally correct. These are not for sale, and I am only mentioning them due to the fact that this combination of bearing size and bolt pattern has been used for over seventy five years as a standard front hub in competition (oval track, dirt track racing, drag racing, land speed racing, ect.. Therefore to this old-timer, I don't see the compelling need of finding something of similar part number, given the long production of stock Ford pieces, and the 3/4 century use of similarly-dimensioned aftermarket racing parts. Functionally, the're all the same! Old Henry 08-18-2012 @ 12:25 PM reply profile send p.m. Senior Posts: 738 Joined: Apr 2010 Do a search on ebay for it and if nothing comes up save the search and you'll get an email as soon as one is listed. I've got a lot of rare stuff that way. Waited months sometimes until someone listed what I was looking for. Old Henry (The older I get, the better old looks.)

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