Taking Delivery

[Darrel]

Easy fix, put a drivers side door on both sides.   ;D

And mount the one on the right like a suicide door.

[grouch]

Or, put in an AM radio, which requires an antenna for the parking lot delinquents to bend, and ...

fly that banner!

[Jeff]

Today's progress. Mounted the coil in the firewall and painted my dash. I'm going with flat black paint and I'm going to make diamond plate door panels.


  

  

 

[Don P]

Sort of off topic, but that sort of describes life  ;D I enjoy the little connections along the way.
One of the guys went to use the lift gate on the back of the farmers market truck and it threw sparks. I took a look and smoke was coming from the switch that runs the hydraulic pump under there. So I crawled under and pulled the switch loose and started scratching my head. The electric over hydraulic pump is driven by a starter motor and as I looked at this switch, well I've been following this thread and things sort of clicked, I realized the switch is an old floor mounted starter switch that they had fabricated a lever linkage to depress. I got on Ebay and started poking around. It arrived today and I got the lift working again this evening. The switch was NOS from a '42 Studebaker, bolted right up in 5 minutes with no modification what a hoot  :D.

[Jeff]

Awesome. 

I'm really enjoying learning about my truck as I work on it.    I'll have been over every inch of it externally soon. Hopefully there will be no need for internal discoveries. (engine, tranny)

[Bruno of NH]

I like the old truck and I'm glad you are running the motor that it came with.
History 

[paul case]

My first truck was/is a 47 chevy 3/4 ton pickup. My grandad traded 1/2 a hog butchered for it from a neighbor forever ago. He had to pull the motor out of his car to put in it so he could have a truck. It was pop's first truck too.

The motor was wore out when I got it, but it was pretty much bullet proof. They over made those drive trains back then. Keep oil in it and coolant and you will probably be good to go for a long time.

PC

[Jeff]

Breaking a rule. Administrative privilege. ;)

I cleaned my phone out and backed up my truck photos on my Google account and saving the link in here.  Didn't realize how much I'd actually accomplished the last two months since finding the dodge until going over the photos.
https://goo.gl/photos/YUnmJYtEujNVT1f48

[Magicman]

I have heard of being a "hard tail", but using a sack of QuikCrete for a seat cushion is a bit over the top!      :D

[fishpharmer]

Boss man, you have done alot! 

[Jeff]

Today's flea market find.


  

 

[thecfarm]

I don't believe it!!!!  It's in perfect shape.  8)
I found the license plate my Father had for the tractor in the stone wall,1956, not in the best of shape,like yours.

[Jeff]

I had to give twenty bucks for it, but it's gotta be worth it. It'll be the nicest thing on the truck!  :D

[thecfarm]

More I don't believe it. $20!!!!! What a find.

[Darrel]

Wow! What a find!!!

[TKehl]

WOW!  NOS?

In MO if you have a plate from the year of manufacture on an antique vehicle, you can use that as the plate for actual registration.  Same in MI?

[Jeff]

I think so. I'll have to research it for sure.

[Dave Shepard]

MA does something like that, too.

[Jeff]

I now wish I had some welding skill. Several things I need to do but have zero confidence in attempting them myself for fear of potentially ruining parts that are irreplaceable.

[coxy]

I think its the same in NY also for the plates    if I lived closer to you jeff I would do it for you in a heart beat or teach you how to do it its not bad  the only thing I cant do is weld with a buzz box those things are junk but that's jmop 

[Hilltop366]

Practice on scraps that are similar to what you want to weld and set them up in the positions you need to weld in, also watch some instructional videos of welding in those positions then you will know if you want to try it on the real stuff.

[thecfarm]

What's the thinkness you welding? I would wonder about my welding skills on a frame,driving down the road at 40mph. But think nothing about it on my tractor. Those migs are easy,and I do mean easy. Get one that runs off 220 and it has suited me fine for what I need around here on The Farm.
Must be someone you know will teach ya.

[Jeff]

Today is teach myself how to make double flare brakeline day.


 

[sandhills]

Well you got me beat boss a few weeks ago I made a perfect hydraulic line for dad's tractor, shaped kind of in a kinky U shape I guess, but I matched the OEM one perfect!  It was then I realized I didn't put the fittings back on before making the bends.  My puffed out chest deflated rather quickly  smiley_dunce.  Enjoying watching your progress. 

[paul case]

I am not sure that is a journey that a midget Dr. should embark on. Let us know how it turns out .

PC