26 Roadster question

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Model T Ford Forum: Forum 2014: 26 Roadster question
Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William M Brown on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 01:37 pm:

Hi,
I want to know if the rear cross member of my early '26 roadster is supposed to be straight from side to side or does it have a slight curve to it?
.26 cross member


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William M Brown on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 04:12 pm:

Also when I put the turtle deck on to see how it fits, the bottom of it sticks out from that rear cross member about 3/8". Is this a a feature of some of the early 26 roadsters? I have seen others where others where the turtle deck is flush with that cross member and they were on '27 roadsters.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace, North FL on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 04:42 pm:

The rear deck lower panel should be straight, no real curve by design. The body parts fit perhaps varied, the Ford isn't a Lincoln :-)

Here is a very original runabout, seen at a meet, with good parts fit.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eric Sole - Castelldefels (Spain) on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 04:48 pm:

My '27 runabout has some curve to the rear cross member, probably from an impact to the spare tire carrier!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dan Treace, North FL on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 05:07 pm:

That panel is just sheet metal, the rear reinforcement for the subrail is a bit apart from the panel. The panel can take some abuse !


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By William M Brown on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 12:01 pm:

Dan-thank you for posting this. I can't see if the rear fenders are mounted to the body using welting or not on the original. It looks like there is no welting. I can see that it is a '26.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 02:26 pm:

No welting between body and fender, but there was welting between the turtle deck and the body on the 26/27 runabouts.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eric Sole - Castelldefels (Spain) on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 07:09 pm:

Roger, I have welting between the turtle deck and body on my 27 runabout, but everything I could find said that originally there was NO welting on a T.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roger Karlsson, southern Sweden on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 01:18 am:

General rules often has one exeption, '26 and '27 runabouts are the welting exceptions among T's. See this thread for a picture of a NOS or early take off turtle deck with the welting still attached:
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/411944/435622.html?1396583969


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Eric Sole - Castelldefels (Spain) on Saturday, September 27, 2014 - 02:11 am:

Thanks Roger, I had missed that thread.

Does welting go all the way back to the end of the body? The replaced welt on my car ends just behind the front edge of the rear fender.

Does anyone sell the correct welt?


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