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Jim G

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    West Central Saskatchewan
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    1949 Fargo

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    Just a small town boy, been a gear head all my life
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    Blacksmith

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    old trucks

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  1. Why not? Not being confrontational, it's your truck do with it what you want it's none of my business, but am curious to the advantage. For myself, the stomp starter is part of the 'fun', of driving one of these old trucks. (along with vapour lock, having to double clutch when down shifting, vacuum wipers that don't work when going up hill, parallel parking with armstrong steering, etc. . . )
  2. Only my opinion, but I think you'd need to figure a way to add black to the front as well to make it look balanced. All red with black running borads would be sharp,
  3. Life rule 16-a stupid question is easier to answer than a stupid mistake is to fix.
  4. I'd probably use the one with the vacuum advance, for no other reason than the original engine had it. I'm assuming because it is in a halfton they used a vacuum advance to give it a bit more 'zip' in acceleration. My 49 oneton does not have a vacuum advance but they weren't too concerned at how fast it could take off with a 100 bushels of wheat in it . . . Just my uneducated opinion
  5. I think it does . . . (not the best picture they have faded a bit in the last 20 years . . .)
  6. According to my late father, (who was a garage mechanic starting in the mid 1930s) all Dodge and Fargo wheels were red. This little bit of information came about when I was deciding what colour to paint the wheels on my Fargo. Dad said "Red, the number of them I beat the tires off and they were all red. I hated coming into work in the morning and seeing that red, not the best start of the day knowing that was my first job of the day." Now please remember this is all anecdotal and I have no documentation other than every tire I've taken off has had remnants of red paint inside.
  7. Go back to a 3/16th line? Why no fire? You assuming because it's flooded? Have you confirmed it has spark? Good luck!
  8. No, now is when the fun starts Basics, every engine needs Spark, fuel, and compression to run. You said a wire was grounded wrong. Did it burn something out in the ignition system? Do you have a good strong spark? Did you change points and condenser when you did wires and plugs? Are the plugs gapped correct? Are you certain you have a good strong spark? You said you put oil in the cylinders, did you spin it over with the new plugs in after? did the oil foul the plugs? Sometimes if the ignition system is weak, the spark will look good enough when the plug is out, but won't spark when under compression. And then . . . sometimes, these old beasts just don't like waking up after a nap, before I parked my Fargo, if it sat over winter it was hard starting in the spring, either had to zap it with 12 volts (not recommended unless you know what you're doing) or give it a tug. Fuel pump not pumping is a separate issue, is it drawing from the tank? is the tank or supply line sludged up? is it sucking air from somewhere, is it priming? is it just worn out and not working? Keep at it, and don't give up. WHEN you get this thing running the face splitting grin you get will be worth it.
  9. He replaced them with a regular battery cable.
  10. What are the advantages/disadvantages to using one of those flat braided ground straps? I have a 1949 Fargo one ton that still has the 6 volt system. My Dad was a garage mechanic starting in the 1930s, and he never liked those straps, he always got rid of them, and he's no longer around to ask why. once the snow is gone one of the first things I'm going to do in my long list of things to do to get the Fargo to fire is replace the battery cables, they are in very poor shape and even with a topped up battery it turns over a bit too slow. Thankyou in advance
  11. The guys at my local parts dealer (an independent affilate of Aklands) ordered this in for me for $10, I've seen similar ones on Ebay, you just figure the lenght needed, cut, crimp the end on, and put in the orginal housing. (save the old cable, cut and the end frayed it is handy in a drill for cleaning out the inside of cruddy pipes)
  12. I hope you don't either, you'll know soon enough if the compression seems low etc. Don't worry about it till you have too, was just a heads up of something to watch for.
  13. Yup, sometimes they just rust out, I had one let go on the way home from a highway trip, shut it off right away, but over heated the engine and softened the rings, Dad and I replaced them, and then shortly after the higher compression took out the bearings (should have done the entire engine at the time but cash money was a bit of an issue at the time) I hope you don't have the same issue!
  14. works for me as documentation it's an 'official' term. Thankyou.
  15. Is 'Pilot House' an official term, or just one that people started to use? I never heard the term before I joined this forum, (of course there are lots of things I've never heard . . .) but I do come from a mopar family, in what once was a mopar town, (when I was a kid at least half the cars were some sort of mopar)
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