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And here it is...

On it's way to my house now

I used Steele's and it was perfect. First time I have ever installed automotive glass in my life and it went in dead easy

LPG is very common here in Australia. It is less than half the price per litre here as compared to standard unleaded fuel. My Pilothouse runs straight LPG, although unfortunately, his flathead is long gone. It's a great fuel, around 105 octane from memory. Loves high compression, also loves advanced timing. You can run a lot more timing without detonation as compared to unleaded petrol/gasoline too. Short term problems are really limited to cold starting, which can easily be solved by wiring up a primer circuit to shoot a tiny bit of LPG under the diaphragm, straight into the manifold. Long term problems tend to be valve and valve seat related due to the drier fuel. Stainless valves and stellite seats seem to be what gets used on rebuilds here to combat that. There is also "valve saver" kits out there that trickle a tiny bit of lead or graphite based lube into the head. They seem to work OK on OHV engines, a flathead engine might be an interesting experiment.

I did this and I'm still not completely sold on it. I think the bumper really does add to the overall look of the front of these trucks.

Head room = plenty. Leg room = not so much

In Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US), the scene where Max is driving the Semi back into the camp and all the bad guys rush to their cars to give chase, the flat black truck that falls off the stands and crushes the guy's legs is a 51-53

Cool, thanks for that. All the other glass in my truck is marked "Armourfloat Safety Glass" but the corner windows are definitely not marked at all. Actually, my drivers window is marked "Armourfloat Safety Glass - Antisun" and has a slight green tint to it, which is interesting.

Cool, thanks. I'll give him a call when I am ready to get the rest of the rubber down the track. It was only the windscreen I needed to do urgently.

I emailed both Roberts and Steeles about a windscreen gasket a week or so ago. Got a reply back from Steeles straight away with a quote, the deal was done, and the gasket posted within an hour. Haven't heard back from Roberts yet

Thanks! Rough kind of before/after photos are below. I'd like to find one in better shape and do a proper restoration, but this wasn't really suitable for that. Seized engine, snapped and stretched chassis, ruined front axle, cracked steering box, completely rat-eaten interior, etc. I did think it was pretty much rust-free until I pulled it apart and cleaned it, then I found it was rotted out everywhere It's turned out to be a nice, comfortable, reliable, old-looking truck that drives real nice and keeps people guessing. Couldn't ask for more

Cool. Thanks heaps for that. Always good to hear straight from the source. The engineer is more than happy with the glass if it has security film applied to the inside face. The problem is going to be if the RTA accept it, but it's been done before and passed, so I should be OK. I'm in Canberra. The truck is far from standard, unfortunately the only original Dodge left is the body. Thanks.

There's a couple of niceties about our system here which make it worth persevering with. The first is that there is no inspections after the first one. If I register it interstate I have to get it inspected every 12 months. The second is that we don't have to have continual registration. I can register it for 3 or 6 months at a time. So if I don't want to drive it over winter, or need to pull it off the road for an engine rebuild for example, I don't have to pay to keep it registered while it's not being driven.

Thanks all for your comments. Sorry, I should stop using the word toughened, it's just local vernacular for tempered. Same thing As for all the questions on why it is a problem registering it when there are others in Aus registered, I live in the Australian Capital Territory, the city is basically set up around being somewhere for the government to operate, it's like it's own little country (think Vatican City LOL). Everything here is way more difficult and beauracratic than it needs to be. On the upside there's always plenty of work for a tradesman like myself, because all those politicians and public servants make and spend a lot of cash. And yes, the car was originally sold in Australia, but it came from interstate and from a completely different set of rules. The problem I had is that they won't accept that the glass is tempered without a label on it like the rest of the glass has. However, I've now been told that I can apply a security film to the inside face of those windows and I'm all good. Ridiculous but true. Thanks.

Interesting. Thanks. I might have to get some new rubber so I can pop them out and have a look...