Scruffy49

I've got a spare rebuilt external bypass waterpump, WITH brass/aluminum heater shutoff valve. How bad do you want it?

I'm sticking with points, but going with a V8/slushomatic in my Pilot House. Flatheads are cute, and while almost anvil reliable, are in fact unfortunately slower than mud flowing UP Mt Everest in January... Top speed on my truck, gas pedal mashed through the floorboard, was 53 miles per hour, unloaded, brand new.

I'll see what I can find. Thanks for the pointers on the trans choices. I know somebody will want the built 727 for their tow rig.

Yep, same heap. Got the 69 running fine, but now you open the door and the cab sags. The only selling of that body will be to the shred yard, both doors, both rockers and the entire floor pan are junk. Even the bed end caps rotted off. Use what I have. A 318/727 in a PH will get double what is does in the wheeled cinder block known as a Sweptline. Especially since my PH is a lowrider... even less drag. Even with a V8 swap, it isn't going to be seeing much more than cruise in use. At most. And only on the weekends, my work schedule has me on the job during the weeknight cruise ins.

Surprisingly enough, stone stock. Route Vans were THE cool truck.

Anything besides the factory aluminum paint is a good choice. I'm partial to Chrysler Industrial Red with semi-gloss black and cast alloy accent pieces. Which is what my L6s were being done up in before I decided this week to scrap them and go 318/727/8.75 with 3.55 rear gears. Yep, gutting my D100 to make the PH usable.

The bumpers were only available for panels and Route Vans from the factory. The pickups with bumpers are running dealer or aftermarket vendor sourced units, usually just rolled c-channel. Like so... Any decent steel shop can roll you one. I'm thinking about slicing that one off since it is bent and running a roll pan until I have a chance to get my bumper straightened, shoertened and plated in so it has step running to the fenders. Unless I stick with throwing away the stock boring rear fenders and running 39-47 versions. Grandpa traded his Terraplane in on this truck new in 49. I'd honestly rather have the Hudson, so the 39-47 fenders give the PH a touch of that look.

Keeping the truck, it was my grandfather's. Right now it has the original 3 on the floor transmission, a 1948 P15 sourced 218 with a few broken piston rings, and a spare 1956 or 57 Savoy sourced 230 that ran but has set around and is now stuck tight. Broke a 4 foot long breaker bar trying to turn the engine over, so the engine is scrap iron. Originally bought the 69 D100 as a parts donor for the 49, and since the 69 has new brakes, a freshly redone 318 and a good 727 slushomatic wasting away in a body with tinworm and mouse damage... The 69 is being turned into a static farm stand, ought as well put its good parts in the 49s decent to good body. Freeing up the L6s and related for somebody else to use if they want to try and bring the cores back to life. Literally can't GIVE the complete from drum to drum, including lug bolts, rear axle assembly away... Price on the transmission? I don't know, couple cases of decent beer?

That's the first thing to go on my street motorcycles, the red switch. Followed by the clutch and kickstand interlock switches. A set of cutter/strippers and a few wire nuts later... no stranded in the back side of nowhere w/o cell service at midnight in a downpour. I miss points and kick starters. I've decided I hate my 1998 built, can't be retrofit with either major missing component street bike. And my dual point kick only Honda is beyond repair, the bottom end ought as well be welded up solid, NOTHING moves in that engine/gearbox unit...

I've got AC Delco, John Deere, Moline and a few other sediment bowl inline filters floating around... How many do you want? My L6s are getting scrapped, don't need any of the filters these days.

Exactly the same transmission as used in your truck. The engine and gear box didn't change until 1950 for trucks, when they went to the less than user friendly 3 on the tree car format. I may be scrapping out the 218, 230 and the truck 3spd from my 49. No time to try and bring an L6 back from the dead. Plan to yank the 318 (hate it but it runs) and 727 out of my likely will never see a butt in its cab again 69 D100. The field mice really did a number on the 69, too disgusted to even think about putting it back in service. .

The Sweptline they butchered is already deceased. Half-a$$ed build quality would be a major step up. Great discussion about that truck on the relevant internet boards. The build quality was so bad that it unsafe to operate.

Unless it is an older Vespa, other older European make, or Honda (not Spree) made out of real metal, it isn't worth the headaches. If your friend just has to have it fixed up, troubleshoot it like any other chainsaw engine, assuming it is a 2 stroke... If it is a four stoke, treat it like a late model OHV Kohler engine. If the engine is turning over with the plug out, and will blow your thumb off the plug hole, you most likely have a dead coil. And unless it is a rare model that is being rebuilt for show, a Kohler coil works fine, as does a Kohler regulator/rectifier assembly. Go to http://www.dotheton.com/forum/index.php?board=76.0 Lots of info on updating motorcycle/scooter electrical systems.

Looks like one originally out of North Carolina that was in Car Kulture Deluxe or Old School Rods a few years ago... except for the chop top and the grille. Otherwise the car is identical, black with a brown dash and heater delete. I wouldn't mind having that around here.

I'm sure it will end up on air bags, with a scrap yard GM sourced V8 and 4 speed slushomatic, sporting an atrocious "patina" paint job, disgusting to the point it would make Helen Keller nauseous interior... Sorry, but that batch of idiots needs to be taken out and shot.

Needs a battery, a tune up and the dash put back together. Generator croaked and I think was swapped out with a late model version. Most of the exterior lighting around the roof line is missing. It is under cover, has always had a pole shed over it. I was going to salvage the gauges, cable shifter, engine and tranmsission to use in my 69 D100 and junk the rest of it. Don't need it. Have a vacation home on the MS coast less than an hour from New Orleans. RV is too big for our fishing camp on the Spring River in AR. Father in law bought it in 1975, used, and paid $13500 for it. In 1999 he sunk another $10K into having every major system overhauled, engine, brakes, transmission, rebuilt the rear end, replaced a lot of the plumbing and electrical parts. Hauled out of mothballs after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 while working on the coast house, back into mothball status in 2006. He keeps talking about using it, so I've disabled it. He'll be 88 in 5 days, he has NO business trying to drive a 4 wheel drum equipped bus.

Kind of hard to fathom... it's over 170 years old. And is the "new" manor house, built circa 1841 (hand hewn floor timber is branded 1841) to replace the original one that burned down in 1836. I still turn up hand made brick from the first house and the log barn in the gardens. And there is an even older cabin pad that predates both manor houses. This has been a working farm since this was still part of North Carolina, TN became a full fledged state in 1796. Lot of ghosts on this place if you are suceptible to that belief.

Our place scares the local blacks... It was a working plantation before the war, a field hospital during. The war era road that runs through it is lined with sinkholes that are pretty convincing graves... The fossil that lives in the old manor house looks like HE is left over from back then. And has a dog named Sambeaux (Sambo)...

Retro camper? We have an Ungers Commander motorhome rotting away behind the garage. 413/727, D400 based, they called it an M400 chassis for motorhome use, but it is pretty much the same as a D400 single axle dumptruck frame and running gear. Even has an 8 track player in it. It is one of 800 built over a 10 year production run. Hand laid fiberglass solid body. Has not been licensed since 2006. Just a storage shed these days... Even has a front bumper rack for our 1971 Honda Scrambler motorcycle. Which is decoration in the barn rafters...

No kids. Not even the pack of little demons across the road came over. The dead motorcycles, and the generally dilapidated "haunted plantation" look tend to keep people away... That's a good thing. We are in fact pagan, and the usurpation of a holy day by commercial entities doesn't sit very well with me.

Want to learn the old way? Come on over to west TN, coal forge and pure borax as flux... no rods, no wires, just heat and hammers... anything I can't handle with the forge and anvils, or a 110 flux core, I just tack up and send out to the local welding shop. Grew up with a neighbor that was big into restoring horse drawn equipment. I've been forge welding for 31 years.

I tow a lot of stuff around with a dolly. Make sure if it has bearing buddy grease caps that you pump in enough grease that the ends are flush. You'll see what I mean... Use the supplied straps. And then add a chain. Or two. Do not, under any circumstances, trust the nylon straps on their own to do the job. I'll go so far as to use the wheel straps, and a chain, and add a couple 10K pound ratchet straps from the chassis of the towed vehicle to the dolly anchor points. Don't forget that dolly decks have a central pivot pin. You can NOT back them up, I have a Class A commercial drivers license and can't back a center pivot tow dolly.I can back a 53' trailer in a tight lot in the dark w/o resorting to braille... but a bumper pull tow dolly? Forget it. U-haul dolly?

So you've been to my farm? Except my "toys" aren't all Mopar... 72 VW Super beetle lowrider, 49 Dodge truck lowrider, 69 Dodge truck pasture art, 87 Chevy C60, 85 Chevy C10 short wide box, 92 and 94 Ford rangers, 68ish D400 based motorhome (M400 chassis), 63 and 71 Honda Scrambler motorcycles, 1937 Schwinn Henderson bicycle... Some of them even live in the barn...

I wore out the Campbell Hausfeld version Lisa bought me in 1998. It gave up the ghost in 2011. Have a Tractor Supply Company sourced Hobart as its replacement. Both were/are good units, flux core only. They've worked perfectly for motorcycle frames, repairing cracked/rotten truck panels, fixing heavy duty farm implements, etc. Just expect a lot, and I mean a LOT, of spatter and resulting clean up. 110v buzz boxes work fine, but are extremely messy.

Interesting choices. Phone up the Armada/NATO base in Rota Andalucia... there was a quite decent American vehicle salvage yard on the base when I was stationed there in the mid 90s. Everything from little CB350 Honda motorcycles through Kenworth tractor trailers. Good luck.