Thursday, August 30, 2012

they don't exist

I am convinced I will not find any suitable replacement headlight buckets for the Diamond T.  I *thought* I had found some that were close, and I got a killer deal sniping on Ebay 2 seconds before the bidding ended, but they got here and they aren't nearly as cool as the originals......

Here is one of the 'new' headlight buckets.  Pretty cool.......


But not *nearly* as cool as the originals...........
Here they are side by side.......
The originals are over 12'' deep and I think the 'new' ones are just over 9'' deep.  We definitely need the deep ones, right?!!!
I tried to find a pic where you could see the headlight bucket good, here is the best I could find that shows the profile of the bucket.......

We need THOSE headlights.  I wish the originals weren't so rotten..........

We have made some progress - the air tank is installed now and the air suspension working!  We just need a compressor for it now, but that can wait until the truck is running......

The frame has been sitting bare for so long, we decided to do a little mock-up to keep the motivation.....

This week we've been working on the front crossmember, will post pics when it's done!




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