Young Ed

The nut is a common thread but normally comes about twice as thick. Atleast for the 39-47 trucks its the same nut as the one that holds the flex brake lines in place.

Granted I get a discount at Napa but the lines don't seem to be very high priced to me. The last ones I bought for my dakota were the more expensive plastic coated ones and it was under 10 bucks for 2 pieces to go across each side of the rear axle. Roberts or Bernbaum should have those OEM springs. I bought some for my coupe.

Are you trying to remove the hinge from the door or the body? Not sure what little cover you are talking about either. Maybe the dodge doors are different but mine just bolt to the door. You can see the 2 hinges just above the column and then towards the floor.

Ya its www.quietride.com They don't give the stuff away so I'm glad to hear first hand that someone likes their product. BTW there demonstration truck cab is a bright green 39-47 dodge like mine.

Glad to hear you like the quiet ride product. I've 99% sure I'm buying their headliner kit for my 46. I already have a firewall pad and the rest of the interior. Please post a picture and your likes dislikes of the product.

I might have a dakota chassis available shortly if someone is interested in trying that.

Mike my email is lionseye@att.net Yes the red one is a 46 and would look identical to a 47. The 41-42 dodges were very similar with some extra stainless on the grill similar to the yellow pickup. The yellow one is a 41 plymouth. Thats the last year for plymouth pickups. They started them in 37.

Rodney you might want to inquire about the 54 plymouth in front of your stude. I can see the fins that Tim is looking for and it may have an OD.

Mike is it possible to get a picture of it? I'm looking for a few parts to build a second pickup like that.

Bill there should be a bunch of headed down there from MN. You could pickup our group on the way down I would think. I'm planning on taking the 48 whether it gets painted or not.

The early 40s one should look like these two. If the headlights are lower towards the grill thats a 39-40. If it looks like my red one but has stainless bars on the lower grill its 41-45 and with no bars 46-47.

We've always had good luck with liquid wrench. Deep creep works too but its like 5times the price of liquid wrench.

Here's one of those race cars sitting in the local junkyard. I've wondered a few times what they'd want for it.....

Good job on the colorization David now do you have her in blond?

Christmas was good. New years got kinda snowed out. Oh well. I've only been waiting to see that 45 for what 5 years now? Better hurry up or my 40 plymouth will beat yours to the road. Your putting the poly 318 in yours right?

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I'm not sure what that grill is from. The grill on my dakota is plastic so I'm not sure one could cut it apart and get it back to one piece again.

Not sure what you are getting at but a ford OD will not swap into a mopar. Little OD history- The 3 musketeers at Chrysler engineering invented the idea. Walter said the tooling was too expensive so sell the idea to Warner gear. So they did and Borg Warner made OD units for many makes of cars. I've heard some of the electrics on the stude units are similar enough to swap too but otherwise I think they are all make specific.

My friend Bob was a WD20 with those 20" wheels too. He's also got 7 of them. It does make his truck really tall and tough looking.

Tim my trailer had spun wheel bearings in it and I did that exact same thing. Its made a trip to Madison WI and a few to the cabin with no issues. Oh and I put 2000lbs of gravel in it when I redid my steps.

Thanks Paul it does. How's your WC coming along?

The bell housing is a little different then a car but my truck flathead/tranny is supposed to weigh 850. Interesting to see that front bumper part. When I first got my car I bought one of those at a swap before realizing we had parked at the far other end of the fair grounds. Dad and I had to carry it a few miles back to the truck!

Ok you can't see it very well but I think its a cool pic so I put it in here anyways. Eastwood has a steering wheel resto kit and I think POR15 does too. Plus guys on here have fixed them with bondo or glazing putty and then repainted.

Frank What do you mean by large mopar bolt pattern? The 62 in the pic has aftermarket wheels and if it were mine I'd want to put stock wheels back on it. Its also a CA car so it should be quite solid.

And that right there is a good example of why all the manufacturers went to a standard pattern. FWIW some of the buses where my dad works have push buttons again.