Passenger Bus Work Day 10/24/2019

Prior to the October 24th Model AA Passenger Bus workday a few of our members were busy with prepping parts. This bus project is so fortunate to have many great people to donate hard to find parts (Thank you Bill, Ken, Steve to name a few).  Also the remanufactured parts are greatly appreciated. The front springs were donated by Model 'A' Springs (please click on the link) and many parts have been donated by Bratton's Antique Auto Parts and Snyder's Antique Auto Parts. This project is truly a Model A community effort and we all thank you for the cash donations and the purchase of the Raffle Tickets.


Below is a little repair to one of the U-Joint covers.
As you can see one of the mounting holes has been clipped.

The old cover from the Bus was damaged and was used as a donor.

This little piece was welded together to make the U-Joint cover complete.

The next series of images show the emergency cross shaft mounted back on the Bus Frame.

You will notice that we beefed up this third cross member by adding some welded flanges. The condition of this cross member showed us that the cross member was weak and we chose to strengthen it versus keeping it original. After all this bus will be used and put into service.

The following images depict the final assembly of the donated front spring. As many of you know new springs need to be primed and painted, then greased and assembled.

The Wishbone and Front Axle were powdered coated for the utmost durability and a little paint had to be removed for proper fitting.

Next we assemble the new front spring (all greased up).

And peened the end of the bolt. 

Getting ready to lift the whole assembly to the chassis for installation.

Then we installed the spindles.

And a picture of the front axle all assembled.

Next we start the reassembly of the rear springs to the chassis that had been already reconditioned by Ken Ehrenhofer prior to us receiving the chassis.

And a few other 'doo-dads'

And we have refurbished the "Helper Springs" that will be assembled later on the chassis.

Our next goal is to assemble the rear end, torque tube and drive shafts, all the backing brake plates and brake cross shaft. The wheels are currently being worked on taking out all the rust pits for final painting. We are in need of some better split locking rings for the wheels if anyone knows of a source please let us know. (I know ..... everyone needs better split locking rings! ....but I had to ask!)