Beautiful day to venture over to Terry's place to knock off a couple of jobs before they got worse and caused a real problem.
The first was his immaculate 29 sedan.
This needed a washer on each axle at the hub just to tighten things up a bit. Terry picked this up as the 29 hubcaps, yes that's hub caps on a vintage Chev, were a bit loose, and had it not have been picked up would have chewed up his axle key ways. Simple fix.
The next patient was Matilda the 28 Chev Tourer.
This old girl needed some work on the wooden spoke wheels.
The front driver's side just required drilling, and glueing in timber dowels to expand the spoke where it passes through the fellow.
The driver's rear was a bit more involved, as the spokes themselves were in pretty good condition, but the hub was loose, allowing the spokes to move around, creating a noise in the short term, and if left untreated, would have caused some drama down the track.
The brake drum was removed, the area of the spokes that contacts the hubs and brake drums was sanded and treated with Chair -Loc to expand and fill the grain.
Shim material was wrapped around the hub to ensure a tight fit, the hub re-fitted, and left to soak in some chair loc while the pit crew ventured out for supplies and brunch.
After about four hours both wheels were drilled, re-dowelled, glued and were as tight as a drum, making a metallic ringing sound when tapped with a hammer.
The re-dowelling process was identical to what I did on the Red Chev in 2010 and Chris's 1926 Chev in 2014. Pleased to say both cars are still going very well, wheel wise. Some library pictures below from the Red Chev wheel restoration.
A few pictures taken by Terry of the driver's rear being assembled.
Spring washers were fitted to replace loctite that a previous owner / mechanic had used on the hub bolts and nuts. They were never going to come loose, but not as effective as spring washers.
The passenger side wheels still need to be looked at at some later stage, but suspect if anything will just need either a bolt re-tighten or at most drilling, dowelling and glueing.
Always good to catch up with Terry and Josie.
