Scruffy49

Piece of cake. I'm 35 miles NE of Graceland (Memphis TN). Have one in the soybean field edge that was parked during WW2 and never moved again. Once the leaves drop and the honeysuckle gets enough frost to die back I'll get some pics of it. Was an illegal cardroom during the war, has also been used as a still site by the neighborhood's late bootlegger. Would roll fine with new drums and tires. It has air brakes, the shoes and hardware look flawless. Landing gear is the old style double steel wheels on each crank down support. Single axle, wooden decking on 2 levels. Think modern beer trailer, w/o roll up side doors. It has horse trailer type side openings, can't remember if the rear has doors or is solid. Needs a LOT of work, but... if someone was desperate for a vintage semi trailer, the framework and upper deck are in great shape.

You need brake routing pics? If I'm up at a civilized hour and get my deer early (muzzle loader opener), I'll try and get a few. The entire dog house is still off the 49 B1B.

1966, the NVA gave him some mortar fragments for his 21st birthday. Sub-unit? No idea, he was with the 25th out of Schofield Barracks, by 68 he was at Schenectady (spelling ?) NY. His best friend was a KIA corpman with the 25th at CuChi, they grew up together in Puyallup WA. If there was a bunch of Olympia Beer related "junk" floating around CuChi still when you were there, thank those 2. The same 2 that kept "borrowing" duece and a halfs and swiping gravel from the engineers.

I'm FROM the mountains in WA, winter 2010 it was -14F. Last night's low 30s was quite sufficient these days. At least the cold snap will bring on the pecan harvest. Good hard frost on the ground before midnight, will finish splitting the nut husks. Now I remember why Lisa still wants me to fix BOTH 1/2 ton Dodges, the Sweptline heater will roast you out of the cab... So back to wrenching on the flatties and welding on the Swepty. Need to get "patina Paul" to come down here and make me some new rockers and graft a Ranger floor pan into one of the Dodge cabs...

Haing owned a 1958 D300 with a 315, it too has the lifter cover and the "spider" looking 2bbl intake. Literally paid $5 for the truck, added the hot battery out of my 77 F100, and fired it up. Had been sitting on the Gulf Coast for years, came out of Georgia in the 70s. Neighbor had taken the time to keep the engine lubricated and the clutch from sticking to the flywheel.

It's winter, and at least in my 49, the heater is a farce. I'm still trying to thaw out from last night, so cold in Memphis that the engine in my daily driver 94 Ranger needed more than 40 miles to come up to temp.

So you're at Fort "Screw This"... grew up in Spanaway/Graham...

Oh man that would go nicely with my deer blind... a pre WW2 semi trailer. That I would love to drag out of the bean field tre line and restore. So, guess I need to find a PH tractor as well as a B1D-126, my cute little B1B-108 loks more and more like a Chevron toy every tme somebody posts a 1 ton or larger PH. Great find. Welcome to the family.

Paul, drain it and find a real radiator shop that still does real repairs. They can boil it out, acid dip it, properly solder any pinholes and then bake in a good liner that is ethanol fuel blend proof. I do that pretty frequently with vintage outboard and motorcycle tanks. Worth every penny for hard to replace tanks.

Me: Brother: Dad: Uncle: Uncle x2: Uncle: Uncle(d): USN NMCB133 USN CVN72 USA 25th Infantry USMC Force Recon USN USAF USMC BUCN (E3) SH3 Spec 4 personnel/E.O.D. RVN RVN RVN RVN 94-96 93-98 Cu Chi RVN Father in law: Wife's grandfather(d): Wife's grandfather(d): Brother in law (d): USN LST pilot USN USMC USN AE3 QM2 WW1 WW1 RVN 1943-46 Between the batch there are 15 Purple Hearts and 2 Bronze Stars. (d) is deceased.Most of us have some form of service connected disability.

I think the stock tank on mine is rotted out along the main seam. Too many decades of cattle "effluent" on it when Grandpa retired the truck in 1974. Follwed by 20 years of exposure to cats, skunks, squirrels, rotten potatos (truck bed was filled with sawdust and he stored milk crates of spuds in it), etc while it was in his dirt floored barn. Even if the tank was flawless marine grade stainles steel or aluminum, it would be getting moved. I don't like in cab/under cab fuel tanks.

No pics. It is 2500 miles away in western WA. My brother sold it out from under me ($400) a few years ago and the buyer turned it into a push truck. All it needed was a new front bumper and a seat cover, the rest of the truck was in cherry condition. Used to see it at the track out there from time to time before I moved back to TN in 4/2011. Still passed emissions like a brand new vehicle, and had never had an overhaul. Wish ANY manufacturer still made their trucks that well. It's sad, Dodge went out of the truck game end of model year 1971 (except for the LRE and Warlock Utilines), Ford in 1977, GM in 1987.

Here is as close to stone stock as you're likely to find in a working truck. Engine has been in place since 1958 or so... Soft line to the pump was replaced around 1994 and then again a few years ago. Could not find the oem type with screw on fittings. I do have a heat shield for that fuel pump floating around here somewhere. And that is an AC filter unit at the carb. I found a Willys Overland one in the garage that would look neater on that carb. Lisa still wants to keep the 69 D100, so now I have to figure out how to make a hot air choke carb and a cable choke carb work off the hot air circuit...on whichever L6 block I end up using. Old crusty in the truck is a blown 218, old crusty outside the truck is a stuck 230.

I used sintered oilite bronze on my last set. The pins mic'd out perfect, the bushings on the other hand were worn through. 19 years later, still working fine. 1973 F100 with a big block and C6.

And people wonder why the bomb under the seat is going to the melt yard... I'm putting a poly tank in the spare tire well if I can't get the 92 Ranger tank to fit with some crossmember clearancing. Last thing I want under my seat is a 64 year old piece of tin full of gasoline. Same offer with the other stuff I'm not reusing, whoever needs a stock tank can come get it. Scrap is only 7cents a pound here, so I won't be out all that much.

Platinum blonde has cellulite... think I'll pass on her.

I made some for a Falcon Ranchero I used to own. Purple fishing worm tube-o-goo, double cavity mold cast of Duro epoxy. Ugly but functional. Only color of rubber I could find locally when I needed to make some no longer available at the time parts.

Make a mold and start casting them. Easy to do.

What kind of wood? My next set will likely also be mahogany, I have a bunch of instrument grade blocks for fiddle necks, and I'm tone deaf... Been working on one fiddle for probably 5 years now. Oh, VW Super Beetle armrests are pretty close... cover the factory mounts and for a driver truck, say good enough.

I made mine out of mahogany and aluminum angle scrap from a job at Jefferson Davis' home in Biloxi MS. Didn't use a good enough glue, so I need to redo them. Plan to scale them down to stock size, as the long set was originally going in my 58 D300 flatbed. Sure wish I still had the 315/4spd that were in the 58... Door shown is a 49.

Rear... Source unkown, rolled c-channel with welded hitch plate, the whole mess direct welded to the truck frame. Needs to be cut off, narrowed, and plated in towards the rear fenders with some extra bracing added for strength. Front... Stock bumper and guards. The engine sitting in the rails does have the hand crank friendly crankshaft pulley nut installed. And I do have the hand crank set for the truck. Which was slated for a 318/727 conversion, but my wife is still in love with our rotting away 69 D100 that was going to donate its running gear... So making one L6 out of 2 cores is apparently back on the table. Oh, the big white cable is multistrand 6g. Have enough left to make 1, maybe 2, more if you are running a stock 6v set up.

He got a premium for it based on my area. Even 2 doors and trucks sell for low numbers around here. West TN is not overly Mopar friendly though. A same era GM or Ford would have gone for that in rough shape, double that if drivable.

It did, and thanks. Bought it brand new in Feb 1998, safety switches started failing in March or April 1998. Stepson laid it over in 2005, holed the stock tank, twisted the stock rear fender. So... decided to retro it out. And yes, that is a functional front drum. Off a late 60s or early 70s Titan, with a twin leading shoe brake plate, most likely off a Black Bomber (Honda CB450 with torsion bar valve adjusters). What can I say other than, stock sucks and I'm a bit odd...

Geez, if that dressed up L6 had been red I'd reconsider scrapping my 230... that's a nice truck. And it looked like a rather decent day overall. My wife would enjoy going to that, thank you for the incentive to keep fixing up the fossilized truck.

Depends on your prep work. Rough cast or smoothed out? Primed or bare metal? How deep do you want the color? This little bitty toy engine and 2 brake drums used one can of Duplicolor semi-gloss high heat black. Without primer... 40 cubic inch single cylinder 4 valve Hemi head.