Taking Delivery

Peter Drouin · February 26, 2018, 08:53:32 PM

That one looks good with the red same as the truck.

Magicman · February 26, 2018, 09:26:09 PM

Yup, you nailed it.

Roxie · February 27, 2018, 05:42:12 AM

Quote from: Don P on February 26, 2018, 07:52:25 PM
Not sure what would happen, what if you pick up some of the red from the body... maybe in the strips, dunno?

I'm with him.

WDH · February 27, 2018, 07:21:47 AM

I have about had it with nails

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stumpy · February 27, 2018, 07:42:04 AM

Definitely the Black diamond plate with red(the last pic)

Hilltop366 · February 27, 2018, 08:08:43 AM

That last one looks fine.

paul case · February 27, 2018, 09:55:02 AM

I like all the step plates you have shown.

When you first posted about it you said they were to protest the wood running boards and I got ticked. who is protesting that I think the wood running boards are awesome!

PC

WDH · February 27, 2018, 04:16:12 PM

I would not protest those running boards.

Brad_bb · March 22, 2018, 01:08:22 PM

Great thread. Can't believe I never saw it until now!

As for the running boards step plates, I would definitely prefer a more vintage look like this

I think the M.R. Truck font and straight lines are too modern. What about an old script font for M.R. Truck? What does old Dodge brothers script look like?

Jeff · March 22, 2018, 01:59:58 PM

Dodge didn't use a script like that back then. They were block letters. Like what is on the hood.

Brad_bb · March 23, 2018, 12:01:05 AM

It's your truck and you should do what you like. I'm just making suggestions. I'm talking about an older dodge script like this

You can add that to the center of the diamond cut running board that I show above, or more complicated but equally cool,

Don P · March 23, 2018, 08:43:37 AM

Don P · March 23, 2018, 08:56:00 AM

I had to look back, I thought I'd posted that emblem, it was back on pg 27. That script emblem is from very early I believe. My wings are from a '35 by then they were block letters. I guess they earned
the title stodgie dodgie. Henry Ford was kind of an amateur Egyptologist back in the day and an early logo was the scarab beetle, until someone told him the common name, dung beetle, he went to the script logo pretty much immediately

. There was another story about DB pulling that star but I can't bring it to mind.

Jeff · March 25, 2018, 06:35:58 PM

Nice day today above freezing, so I started to get busy on Mr. Truck's King Pin job. Front axle is out and I am done after all that crawling around in a cold cement floor.

samandothers · March 25, 2018, 07:35:54 PM

Ah but done with a sense of accomplishment! Good job. Now time for vitamin I.

Jeff · March 25, 2018, 09:18:57 PM

I'm going to take it to a shop tomorrow to get the old pins out and put the new ones in as it will need to be line bored and I don't have the ability to do that.

Ljohnsaw · March 25, 2018, 10:03:44 PM

Please educate me. Line boring, to me, means making sure all the bearings are in the same plane, like in an engine block. What needs to be line bored on your axle?

Jeff · March 25, 2018, 10:09:13 PM

Once the new bushings are pressed in place they need to be line bored to align the top and bottom for the new king pin.

Ljohnsaw · March 25, 2018, 10:16:02 PM

Ah! Thanks. I was thinking the spindles (horizontal) not the bushings (vertical).

Jeff · April 12, 2018, 07:49:25 PM

Yesterday I was out fiddling with M.R. Truck. I was noticing the old marred up shift knob wondering if it would come off. I thought I could clean it up. I got a rag for protection and some channel locks for grip and it broke loose and turned off. I looked it over then sat it on the bench and went in the house.

Fast forward to this morning. I was having trouble with my computer mouse. Tried a new battery, no good. Then I remembered I had another mouse in the bottom drawer of my filing cabinet. I opened the drawer, and there it was. No, not the mouse, but something else that had been given to me several years ago by my cousin who now owns the old farm where my dad was born, and his dad built in 1904.

It was the old antique doorknob off the old farm house. I had not seen it or thought about it since the day it was given to me those years ago, yet there it was, like it was bring handed to me by my dad and my grandad and they were saying, "Here, use this!" So i went out to the barn, cut off the stem, drilled and tapped it, (seems to be porcelain over a lead alloy).

It is now my shifter knob, and you know who I'll be thinking of each time I shift that old truck.