Radiator Mounting Holes

CaceyB

CaceyB

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The front cross member of a frame has slotted holes to mount the radiator. Is this normal for a certain year or such? If it matters, the slot runs parallel to the cross member.

Cacey
 
CaceyB said:
The front cross member of a frame has slotted holes to mount the radiator. Is this normal for a certain year or such? If it matters, the slot runs parallel to the cross member.

Cacey
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isn't that the 30-31 frame?
 
As best I can tell from this picture it is a 30-31 cross member, but I never knew anything about slotted holes on it or any other.
 

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I think I remember something about round holes being 1928-29 and slotted being 30-31. Also 28-29 holes sit lower than the rest of the cross member where 30-31 are flat.
 
CaceyB said:
As best I can tell from this picture it is a 30-31 cross member, but I never knew anything about slotted holes on it or any other.
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I do not recall any type of slotted type holes in any of the Model A/AA Front cross members unless it was very late in the production scheme of things.

What is the engine/frame number on the frame by chance?

Pluck
 
I looked at four frames I have, April '30, Feb '31, Mar '31, and Mar '32, they all have
the slotted holes.

Bob
 
Puck -- It's not getting old, It's just the distractions that a beautiful new wife offers! :D
 
Steve Plucker said:
GOD IT IS HELL GETTING OLD!...:(:(:(:(:(:(

Thanks guys...Guess I have to eat crow on this one!

Pluck
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here is how you can make it up for it LOL. How do '28-'29 restorers, particularly open car owners, possibly adjust hood gaps without slotted holes? Do they hog out the holes?
 
ericr said:
here is how you can make it up for it LOL. How do '28-'29 restorers, particularly open car owners, possibly adjust hood gaps without slotted holes? Do they hog out the holes?
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If everything is stright, the adjusting of the hood on 28-29's should just fall into place...No need to "hog out the holes"...Guess the 30-31's were...well I better not go there as I will never hear the end of it!:D

Interesting...I wonder just when the slotted holes came into effect on the front crossmember. Any early 30's out there? Even with the early 30 crossmember on the late 29's...were the holes slotted on those crossmembers.

Pluck
 
Correct, the slotted holes were for later years. I just had this conversation with my local Model A bone yard after buying a front crossmember from So-Cal. Incidentally, despite what their counter guy says, their front crossmember does not work in a stock, unboxed frame even though they have the 3-hole mounting flanges.
 
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