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  1. Merle Coggins
    The water pump probably isn’t going to be very good at drawing water up from your bucket. Might be better connect a garden hose to the lower inlet hose to push water through the system.
  2. Merle Coggins
    I don’t know what that is. It doesn’t look right. That‘s usually a standard 1/8” pipe thread fitting to connect to the oil filter feed line. Oil pressure gauge line is usually connected to one of the other ports along the oil pressure gallery. Some are connected to the port behind the starter. Mine connects to the port behind the fill pipe.
  3. Merle Coggins
    The dipstick hole in the block gets plugged with a small cup plug like this.
  4. Merle Coggins
    Yup... common failure on newer replacement pumps. It happened to me once. The pump that I rebuilt with a kit from Antique Auto Parts Cellar has been in service ever since then without issue. The "failed" pump was rebuilt with another kit from them, and is kept for a spare... just in case... Haven't needed it in over 10 years.
  5. Merle Coggins
    No picture for me either. Not on my computer or on my iPad.
  6. Merle Coggins
    Too cool! Not the greatest forward visibility. Seems that the chute blocks a lot of view.
  7. Merle Coggins
    The only way to truly address this would be to pull the manifolds off and thoroughly clean them. If it were mine I'd ignore it and fire it up, unless it's heavy rust flakes. You could always spray it with a little penetrating oil and wipe out what you can reach, but I don't believe it'll do any noticeable damage.
  8. Merle Coggins
    He didn’t say it, but...
  9. Merle Coggins
    NICE!! Is there a steering pump driven off the engine belt drive? Sounded like a dry pump to me.
  10. Merle Coggins
    I agree that 75 psi of compression should be enough to get it running. After a heat cycle or two that number may improve. Double check the ignition timing and open up the throttle slightly while cranking. If you have spark and gas it should run, as long as the spark comes at the right time.
  11. Merle Coggins
    According to https://www.t137.com/registry/help/decode.php it's a 1950 B-2-C made in Detroit
  12. Merle Coggins
    A little fine tuning, including a little lube on all of the throttle linkage pivot points, and you'll be ready to drive him down to Tim's BBQ. ?
  13. Merle Coggins
    The heat riser flap is below the intake runner. If you could see it from that vantage point your intake would be junk. I don’t believe that to be the case. Just a bit of moisture that sat in there a bit. Once you get it running it’ll work itself clean with the flow of air/gas mix.
  14. Merle Coggins
    Why pull the engine? It sounds like it cranks over and has decent compression. Get some spark and fuel to it and it’ll run.
  15. Merle Coggins
    As Tooljunkie said, find an older floor shift 3 speed, or go to a 4 speed, if your bell housing is drilled for it. (They have a different bolt pattern)
  16. Merle Coggins
    Mine had a grain door too when I first got it. If you end up swapping out yours you could always donate the old one to Mark for his collection. ? As for the nice looking bed wood and strips. I agree that it is out of place with the rest of the truck. I would probably scuff it all down and painted it black as it would have been originally. Maybe a flat, or satin black so it doesn’t stand out so much from the rest of the patina. Then use it “like a truck” to give it a well used look.
  17. Merle Coggins
    Is the pitman shaft horizontal on your truck? I remember that the steering setup was considerably different on the earlier trucks, but I don’t recall exactly how it is.
  18. Merle Coggins
    When you try to restart it hot, hold the throttle partially open while cranking. Often times the gas in the float bowl will expand from heat soak and flood the engine slightly. Opening the throttle allows more wire in to offset the extra gas in the manifold and it’ll fire right up.
  19. Merle Coggins
    I would think the pitman shaft seal would be the leaker.
  20. Merle Coggins
    Did you get the rears all back together?
  21. Merle Coggins
    What kind of smoker do you have? I recently got into smoking meat. It started off with a purchase of a pellet grill/smoker last spring. Then I build a drum smoker over the summer. I’m enjoying this new hobby. I smoked a whole chicken on the drum last weekend. Quail would be similar, but a little smaller.
  22. Merle Coggins
    @wagoneer This truck appears to be altered... When Dodge/Fargo upgraded to the column shift, in 1950, it was only for the 3 speed transmission. The 4 speed still used the floor shift. If you look at this picture you can see the pull handle for the park brake under the dash and the hole in the trans cover, for the park brake handle, appears to have been cut with a torch. I’m guessing that someone swapped in an older trans at some point, using the brake handle, and needed to make a hole for it. The brake handle under the dash isn’t angled correctly either. It looks like they just moved it over to get out of the way of the floor lever.
  23. Merle Coggins
    I’ve always trusted Schumacher battery chargers.
  24. Merle Coggins
    '49 X- model is a '50 B2 wannabe... ?
  25. Merle Coggins
    WOW... That's a whole lot of spacer block.
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