TrampSteer

Every time I go there I come home with more woodworking hand tools. Haven't gotten a truck part yet. Before I had my truck running, and Tim was working on a frame section for me, I saw a '52 1-ton there for sale. It was $8000 also.

Thank goodness it's not in April. My parts aren't here yet. I don't want it to be like last year where 48Dodger was working on it for me - unless he's putting in a Diplomat front clip ...

What they said ...

That is the crux of the problem if you want to get on radials - same problem on either side of the pond. I'm looking at new rims because I don't want to pay $300-400 for radials on these ( I will never be on the concourse with Jay Leno). My rears are 5" and I can only find specialty radial tires for it. You can barely find radials with 5.5 wide rims and my tire guy is trying to get me to buy new steel 6" wide or greater because then he feels he can service my needs for many decades to come. I appreciate your information Dave, as my adventure with junkyard rims turned out to be 1/8" (3.175mm) smaller in the center so I could not use them. I am in fact back to square one, minus 60 dollars.

You wouldn't happen to have a picture of that would you? I'm thinking about doing the same.

15? Really? You're killing me.

Be careful to mate the band and that anchor bolt you are looking for to the transmission. I had three of those bands but only one actually fit.

I went through the parts book addendum's I could find and you could not get one for a '53 as far as I could tell.

I've never seen a "Job-Rated" badge painted like that.

Any pictures of 53's are good ..

I wonder now if the mechanical action of the fan, moving forward at 60mph+headwind, got to a spot where it stopped acting like a fan.

How about maybe you got a bad fill-up? Something in the last tank of gas? But it may just be the truck is at it's edge of operation and the wind pushed it over. I disconnected the heater hose (just fed it back to the engine) in mine two weeks ago because I have no controls yet and in CA the cab gets pretty hot pretty quick. When I took it out for a drive, it was the first time I could see the heat gauge move. In fact, I could basically use it as a speedometer because at 50 it was one setting and at 55 another. That heater was cooling it quite a bit.

From what I've been told no. You have to use the key on the passenger side. I don't know for sure because my key doesn't fit

My carb poured a lot of fuel too. Acceleration pump jet was stuck open. A rebuild made it all better. Others that I have read about had the same issue with stuck floats. Love the truck.

I like that. Boil the gas, lean the engine, runs hot, snowballs from there.

And Mr. Peabody's dog Sherman ... Edit - LOL, Getting old. Got it backwards... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owB6zFSZbng

Nice find. All the parts there but the air cleaner.

We had to use the air-grease gun to force anything in my king pins, and replace a forever closed zerk. Neglect. Since then, it is much more controllable. Most of my initial issue with jumping around was binding and not loose joints. It would stick and stick and stick and then, let go - causing a jump in direction. The shackle we just replaced. Tim has a good You-Tube video on how to man-handle them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlbxUaTYEWE

People with blue eyes have built-in micrometers I think. My brother can do that. Drives me crazy.

Had a set for the wife's '67 International when we still had it. Put them on once to make sure they fit. Never used them in the 20 years we had it. My Dad used chains every year however. Put them on the tractor loosely to plow the farm road in Winter. I remember the jingle it made, like sleigh bells.

These seem to be rather specific to the transmission they were on. I had one handbrake drum that came with my truck in a parts box, one from a donor transmission and one I got off a "saved from the trash" tranny. All three were different in some way - anchor bolt location, offset, the reach of the opening for mounting it up. Only one would work.

LOL - the dirt tracker? He would have won had he not almost spun out. Trophy goes to Tim, but I think he had a head start.

Saw his twin brother ...