Yet another rumble lid problem....

[Beecher]

Ive spent the last couple weeks assembling my 28 A Roadster body, the cowl and doors are original, the deck lid, quarters and braces are brookville. Spent all yesterday getting the rear rumble braces installed, so I could mount the lid. The triangle pieces and the rear braces had two holes that lined up, and near as I could tell from looking at lots of pics on here, was that those two holes should be riveted together (well the lower one also threw the sub frame), problem is, I did that, and today I went to install the lid, but the pivot point for the hinge is about an inch forward of where the mount point is on the brace, both sides. There is no way to get them lined up with he deck lid closed, the rear of the lid would have to be outside the body, and the front way down inside.

I did manage to put them together, with the lid about 3/4 open, but then you could neither open it the last quarter, or close it past about a half shut.

I then lined up the lid the best i could, and marked on the brace where the two mounting holes for the other part of the brace would be. And this is where it got really strange, if i clamped the bracket on there, I could then place the other little "L" brace on it, to the bottom of the rain butter perfectly, instead of have to shorten it to fit.

Does anyone have any ideas what I have done wrong, since the braces all seem to only install one way in one spot, how is the mount for the rumble hinge so far off?

You can see in the pic the two circles where I think the holes should go.

Any thoughts? Suggestions? HELP???? lol

Thanks guys!

[62pan]

Not sure if this helps but here are two photos of my 31. It is also a mix of brookville and ford.

[ericr]

is that the correct vertical brace for a '28? I just looked at the brace on my '29 roadster, which has rumble area problems of its own, but yours is shaped differently than mine.

[Beecher]

i got it from brookville?? If its wrong, someone please tell me!!!

I see it is different from the one in the other pic above as well, but other wise, mine looks similar to it.

[Dennis Pereira]

Is this the bracket you need the photo of ? This is a 29 coupe .

[Beecher]

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that one looks like mine, looks like most I have seen in a roadster as well, now just to figure out why its 3/4 too far back (or why the hinges are 3/4 too far forward). I guess it all gets covered, I can make an extension to move the pivot forward, but trying to figure out what went wrong!

[Dennis Pereira]

Here's another view I hope . Looks to be a difference in the triangular corner bracket ? I can take a new photo if you need it . Your up right bracket appears to be at an angle ?

[ericr]

I don't know that this is much help but Vince's Ford Garage site discusses how he found the triangular part, and the vertical brace, to require re-working to make things fit correctly. I don't know what era of reproductions he was dealing with and his pics relate to a later coupe but you still might want to look at his site.

Your three holes on the vertical brace are not straight up-and-down, so something is out of whack, as you already know.

I just noticed that the guy who did my bodywork had to elongate the holes on the right-hand side vertical brace to make the rumble hinge bracket align, so something ain't Hoyle with the repros.

[Beecher]

I was just out pondering, and my brackets are not nearly as angled as they look in the pic, they are nearly straight up and down. Too busy this week to go play with it tho!

[Bruce Newbery]

I bought my rumble lid from Snyders and the hinges would not line up with the rumble lid. The catalogue says to buy the repro hinges to fit the lid they sell I bought the hinges and it all fit. I do not know where snyders supplier is but you could have a similar problem.

[d.j. moordigian]

I don't think the vertical brace is correct, I think 62pan's is. I can look at / photo
my 28 Roadster tonight, if you want.
Also, the lid stop, is wrong. It looks like the short one for Coupe's with the short
panel, below the lid on the body.