Recent content by 41woodie

Is Ed Clarke's business still active or has it shut down at his passing?

Brian, do the 35-36 washers have the "teeth" around the inside hole?

I need about 5-6 of these special washers. They are used on the two rear passenger door hinges to seat the special clipped head 5/16th" hinge machine screws. I've sourced new hinge machine screws and they are excellent products but the replacement washers are too deep to seat properly in the...

You are correct, there was no tension at the time I had simply laid the pieces together for the photo. I reassembled the good latch this afternoon with all of the springs in the proper place and it still works just fine. Now to find the little dohickey to fix the other latch

So I bit the bullet and disassembled my rear passenger door latch trying to determine what was broken. It appears that the springs are intact but had managed to flip around past their correct resting spot so that they no longer produced resistance. I put everything back into place and all is...

You seem to have stirred up a lot of good information but nothing to the point of your question. I'm in the process of refinishing my 41 woodie using Interlux Schooner 96, so far I'm very pleased with the outcome. I'm not a fan of the plastic look that sprayed on clear coat produces but it's...

There would be a lot more brackets and screws to deal with and it appears that the vertical pillars are mortised into the roof structure, so no nothing slipped right off other than that bracket

Maybe I'm being too optimistic but for a piece of bare metal that has been hanging around for nearly 80 years I didn't think it was that rusty, no flaking etc.

Yep, it appears to be inserted from the outside and screwed into a threaded boss cast into the bracket. Not a big deal if the top covering is removed but kind of a hassle like this

Ok for future reference it appears that although 46-48 woodies don't have a hidden screw that secures the top B pillar bracket, 41s do have one. I was unable/unwilling to remove the soft top to access the fastener and simply cut it off from the inside for now. I'm attaching a photo that shows...

Thanks to all for the tips, tomorrow morning it's me and a rubber mallet.

I'm repairing and refinishing the wood on my 41. In doing so I'm trying to remove the metal brackets that secure the roof to the B,C, and D pillars. I've removed all of the machine and wood screws visible from inside the car from the B pillar bracket but it doesn't want to come off. I'm...

46, that would be fantastic, the spring that is broken is the one that controls the locking lever. From what I can tell online the 41 latch looks different than 42-48 but the springs may be the same. I'm attaching a photo of the latch in question, the broken spring is at about the 5:00...

Broken spring in rear/side door latch. Does anyone know of a repair or rebuilder for Ford door latches?

The eBay listing mentioned is the car that sparked the question. I was pretty certain that the Crestliners were not produced as a convertible but wanted to check with folks more knowledgeable about the year in question. I did a google image search and did find two other convertibles sporting...