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Old 01-19-2020, 02:08 PM   #1
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Default Help Re-Wooding the inside of 29 Tudor

Need help I am currently working on a 1929 Model A Series 55A. The wood placement is about to cause me to start drinking.

Anyone out there have tips and tricks on the interior wood placement (Not the roof)

Again I am not wooding the roof its the interior side placement. I bought a wood kit. Is it normal to have to trim pieces for them to fit?

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Old 01-21-2020, 01:50 AM   #2
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You might title this as "Need help re wooding 1929 tudor" to get help and maybe say which pieces of wood you are needing help with. You could also google "Model A two door wood"
This might help if you are looking for where the pieces go;
https://fordwood.com/images/tudor28new.jpg
The trick is that most ALL replacement wood needs to be fitted, it's not plug and play.
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Old 01-21-2020, 08:36 AM   #3
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If it was a fordor you would be stonecold drunk by now. If the wood is still good enough to hold its shape, probably best to just cut your own. If its too far gone buy one of the kits available and then fit the pieces one at a time. Think jigsaw puzzle that you have to trim each piece to fit.
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If it was a fordor you would be stonecold drunk by now.

Maybe that's why it took me so long when I did it
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Hello,The Model A Ford mechanics handbook,Vol.2 by Les Andrews has a lot of information that you may be looking for ,has a large section dealing with 28 29 Tudor top wood.
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The Murray and Briggs bodies are definitely the high difficulty projects. The Tudors, Coupes, & Pickups mostly use the wood to hold the trim in place and less for structural like the Fordor & Cabriolet cars.

This is a link to one that B Terry's shop did with photos. http://www.model-a-ford.com/proj_8.shtml

It has a few photos of the wood placement.
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Default Re: 1929 Model A-Wood

Thanks for the input.

Im not having trouble with the roof its the body interior wood. Thanks for the suggestions
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Thank you that is helpful
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Thank you very helpful
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In How to Restore Your Model A vol 4 ,there is a extensive article about rewooding a 31 Victoria , may have some useful information although yours is a Tudor. Apparently none of the wood kits just simply fit but requires much hand fitting.Good luck on your car,hope some of this information is useful.
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I initially did what everyone else did and commented about top wood. I did not do body wood, but I do know that the rear window wood is all held in by nails, so you have to remove the rear window and somehow lift the nails out I don't suspect that would be an easy task. The vertical piece behind the rear quarter window is also held in by a screw that is covered by the body sheet metal, so that would probably be a real chore to get out. Vertical pieces in the B pillar may be the same. When it comes to fit, the kit suppliers intentionally over-size to accommodate all possibilities of body variances out there. I think if you do a bunch of searches on this and the other Model A forum, you will find pieces of information.

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When the cars were being built as new, were all the wood pieces cut to the same sizes? Or was every car a custom as far as the wood?
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When the cars were being built as new, were all the wood pieces cut to the same sizes? Or was every car a custom as far as the wood?
To my knowledge all wood parts were made to be identical. Maybe once in a while a part needed to be custom fit but I imagine it didn't happen often. The closest practical tolerance for woodworking is +/-0.010 and that is what I think Ford specified on the prints.
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With the Iron Mountain facility, Ford had the means to fabricate any wood parts that were necessary. Parts were likely shipped out to Dearborn and branch plants that had the capability to assemble bodies. Manufacturing near a million vehicles a year required all the parts to be interchangeable and easily assembled.

Restoration of cars that have had a long service history with who knows how many bumps along the way, required the parts for restoration to be a bit more adaptable to any situation that might arise.
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When I gutted my Tudor in 2000 for re-upholstery, most of the wood was good. I had already replaced the windshield header years before.
Only one wood supplier would sell individual pieces and EVERY piece had to be modified in some way.
Final result was excellent.
Watched a friend install wood in a Briggs Fordor he bought -completely without wood and there was mo way I could have done that.
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I spent a lot of time using my big sander/grinder with a 36 grit disk on it whittling the wood to fit. Most everything needed some heavy sanding to fit. The good news was 1) it created a nice odor, and 2) most of my pieces were oversized and I could grind to fit things. If the wood had been too small, it would have been a much bigger problem. I remember taking a 1/4" off the top of the header over the windshield. It took much effort...
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