Well this week, as the primer was curing the body and the seats, I decided I would go aead and bring the running gear back in to the shop and pre-fit this body to the undercarriage, just to make sure everything lines up before I get in to the painting process. So, to bring that in I need to get this International mower out of the way, kind of do some jockeying, and rearrange the shop so I can fit this undercarriage back in the shop that fits this buggy. So, I did this undercarriage, oh, quite a while back. It's the first video in the playlist on this restoration project. And it's been something that's been kind of nagging at me, sticking out. Something that just didn't seem quite right about this whole project. When I introduced this project, I introduced it as a Democrat style buggy restoration. And that is so, kind of. The body is a typical Democrat style body, but the undercarriage is not a traditional, typical style Democrat undercarriage. It is more of a mountain wagon, or spring wagon style undercarriage. Now, somehow, somewhere, I don't know just how this happened. This is part of history that has j just disappeared. How these two different style buggies got married together, somewhere, somehow, I just don't know. You know, I've watched a number of different collector shows, you know, and they're going through their collectable cars, and this is a 40's, and that's a 30's, and yada, yada, yada. But often times what is on the outside body-wise, is not true to form when you get to looking under the hood or in the chassis. Often times these old vintage cars have modern transmissions, engines, hydraulic brakes, all these types of things. So, you know, it isn't always a try e to form, traditional, authentic, old style car. Well, these old buggies can tend to be that way also. Things happen in life. Something gets wrecked, you know, there's a roll over, you know, who knows what happens, and a couple different parts of different buggies get put together. And I kind of have that suspicion of, maybe that's something that has happened with this buggy. You know, we'll get into this and when i start to fit the body on to the bolsters of the springs, it begins to show up that I don't think this body was ever really on this undercarriage and you'll see why here in a minute. You know, when I'm fitting these front springs bolsters on to the framework of this body, this is not how a Democrat style bolster would attach. It would actually attach right in the center of the bolster where the bolsters are attached tot he springs. Whereas a typical spring wagon style undercarriage would bolt out on the ends. And so you see, it's really close to the interfering with the framework on this body. But I can make it work. Now, but when you get in to the side springs, we see ewe have a problem here. The style of this Democrat buggy has an internal framework and you've noticed it has these frame braces also, with a bolt going through framework of each brace. Well, two of these bolts, or braces, interfere with the side spring bolsters. Now, if t his had a typical end-spring on the front, and a 3/4 platform spring in the back, which would be a correct Democrat style buggy, this would not be a problem. But here, I need to countersink these nuts up in to the framework that will allow these side spring bolsters to set flush up against the framework. Well, as you can see, we're gonna make this fit. Now, another thing that we have changed on this undercarriage, from the old style axles, we've converted them to roller bearings. And they used to have steel tires, and we have converted them to rubber tires. Well, when they were steel tires, you would just have a solid iron rub bar for the wheels to rub up against in an extreme right-left turn. When you have rubber tires, you need a roller on the side to allow these wheels to spin, otherwise the wheels will grab that solid pieced of iron and actually tip you right over. So I'm gonna change these solid iron rub irons to a roller rub iron. So in hanging the break assembly on this buggy, well, a few little things kind of show up, but I think it will work on here. We're going to go ahead and mount this brake bar and get all these kind of predrilled. I'm not going to set the bolts quite yet. I'm gonna take them back out when I do the painting, but again, I wan this kind of a dry-fit. All the handling now while it's in primer, before Ido all the finish paint work. So anyway, we can see this is all gonna fit. It may not have been the way it was designed originally, but it's adaptable. We're gonna make it work. So I've gotta do some break blocks and a few other odds and ends, and we'll get into that next week. Once again, thanks for following along. Thanks for watching!
