1929 Chevrolet International - 4 Door Sedan Project by BearsFan315

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also got my Headlamp Bar back from paint last night !!
getting ready for assembly just need validation of assembly of the parts for the actual headlamp noted above

got the carrier back from paint and looking good !!  i am happy with the results, now to start assembly and installation on car

front side

rear side

close up of the newly welded on nut after clean up and paint, looks almost factory

close up of top rear

close up of front

here are a few shots of the buckets as well, they were painted black in the paint batch...

Back of headlamp bucket

closeup of the mounting and connection

inside of the bucket

inside closeup

got the apron back from paint today as well... nice sharp black !!
now to install the chrome strips using my specially created hardware above, then i can install it on the car !!

front radiator splash apron with fresh paint

closeup left side

close up center, i have a NEW center cover tunnel

closeup right side

another top view

as part of my restoration I am building 2 tail and stop lamp fixtures
1-will be completely stock configuration and set up, as original as i can get. housing, bulbs, connection, etc...
2-will be the LED conversion I got from TFS, going to use a stock housing that has been gutted for the LED kit, however I will use the standard connection coming into the housing vs hard wiring. this way i can swap back and forth or such if i do a show or what have you.
I did a test fit of the LED kit in the housing and made sure everything would work and fit BEFORE tearing it apart, then blasted the housings and sent off to paint.

here are a few of the housings blasted and the guts removed from the LED housing

this was a rough blast, they will be reblasted and cleaned up before going to paint

Housings after they were rough blasted then sitting around in humidity, both are exact same housing
Left will be for LED MOD and Right will be rebuild as stock

back side of the housings

this is the hardware removed from the housing and the original 1929 Glass lens

a picture of the NEW Lens kit and lens Kit Hardware, did NOT realize there were two different sizes of lens until i went to order from Gary Wallace...

had to go measure my existing glass (it is chipped) to figure out which one i needed for the housings. luckily both housing are the same lens, so ordered 2 kits, this is jsut a picture of 1 kit, as they are identical !!

here are some pictures of the housing back from paint, they look nice and shiny black...

mask tape is still on part, will remove that when i go to assemble them.

looking sharp and clean, ready for guts.  on the original one, i may try to clean up and get a nice reflective coating on the reflector portion, hopefully this will REFLECT the light outwards vs absorbing it. the small incandescent bulbs do not put out a lot of light, so they need all the help they can get !!

a few more picts of the housings...

the LED housing looks kind of rough on the inside, but it is still a NICE SOLID piece, and not really concerned about the inside looks at this point.

next I will start to rebuild the housings
when i am done goal is to have both of them look exactly alike on the outside so that you can NOT tell the difference by just looking at them, only when they LIGHT up :)

sent out the wiper motor to paint with the rest of my parts and it is back ready for install along with the bracket

ok, i ended up getting a set of 1929 dust covers from a fellow VCCA member in great shape :)

i blasted the covers and then sent off to paint with all my other parts...
all nice and black now, ready for install

ok so looking at GROUNDING headlamps
the socket housings are ground for the bulbs
they are grounded to the reflectors via contact 7 spring clips that hold them in place against back of housing
reflector contacts the housing via contact & clamp ring
housing is grounded to the headlight cross bar via contact (threaded stud into nut)
cross bar is grounded to the fender via contact and hardware (nuts n bolts)
Fenders grounded to frame via contact & hardware (nuts & bolts)

do stanchions provide grounding via contact to fenders & then to frame ??

if you use rubber pads under the crossbars does it reduce the grounding to fenders or about the same due to paint ??

is this about right or am i missing something, as there is no ground wire to the headlamps only metal chassis ground