ChrisCoccia

I just read your post- but if you havent found any parts yet I hae a couple fenders, hood and front grille that a coumpetent bodyman could finesse the "character" out of. I am 2 hrs south of nashville just off I 65. If you are interested they are yours for the asking.

Cool truck! I haven't seen that color on it before but it looks great!

That paint will probably buff out with rubbing compound and lots of elbow grease!

We were hit, but the damage was mostly due to trees falling. My wife bruised her left shoulder right after when she walked into the tree limb that went through the roof of the carport right next to her car. My son got a bump on the head when the cellar door tried to suck him out with it, but he didn't drop his gameboy. All in all we are very fortunate-a lot of people lost their lives, especially down around Tuscaloosa.

Thanks!

I have a vintage step bumper to put on my '48 B1D. The truck is red with the black box as stock. Anybody have any idea back in the day would it most likely be painted silver or black?

Nice work! Those old ones were hardly even a pattern!

My truck in it's current state of assembly. Still needs an interior, weatherstripping, finishing pieces, etc.. Chris

I have towed my 48 B1D a lot with my wife's Yukon XL, no trouble at all. The biggest thing I have towed with it was one of those small tracked excavators. It pulled that just fine but it was a bit of a challenge on braking. Nice looking truck!

Does anybody know if a 6 volt electric fuel pump is available?

I found a shop in Birmingham that says they can do that. Thanks for the good advice.

There is a bolt there, but it doesn't seem to be enough to hold it down. I had the new set of pins put in by the local machine shop, and he told me and showed me the play was in the axle , not the steering knuckle/spindle ends. I was thinking of taking the axle to a bigger shop in Birmingham to see if they could drill it out and use a set of the 0.8xxxx kingpins instead. Either that or maybe they could ream it out to 7/8", press in a piece of round stock, then drill that out to the 0.76xxx size. Any machinists out there know if that is doable?

Sorry, I meant to say the balbearing part goes between the axle and the bottom ring of the spindle.

Mine is a '48 1 ton, it has the smallest size pins, like 0.768etc.. The only bushings that came with the pins gets pushed into the spindle. it has a ball bearing type spacer/bushing between the bottom of the axle and the pin.

I am having trouble with my king pins. I have 2 front axles. On the best one the the hole where the pin goes through the axle on the driver's side is wallowed out, so it wobbles even with new pins. On the other axle both sides are like that. I am not a machinist, but it seems to me there must be a way to either put a sleeve in there, or use a bigger king pin and drill it out. Has anybody tackled this problem?