John Rogers

Wow, that truck is so cool ! John

My B1B is pretty much my daily driver all year long unless I have to go to Tucson or farther on the Interstate. The '49 is dead nuts reliable but gas mileage would kill me so I take my '94 Mazda truck. I pretty much always stay local so I drive my '49. Getting behind the wheel and driving it never fails to put a huge smile on my face. John

That looks and sounds fantastic. What a cool build , great job ! John

Im so glad that things turned out good and that there was no flooding. I cant even imagine having evac orders all the time. I got a warning to be prepared to evac a few weeks ago for a wildfire in the Dragoon Mtns. because some idiot decided to burn weeds with 25 mph winds in a grassy field. Luckily for us it was miles away so it didnt affect us here in town but I felt bad for the folks that did have to evac for the 2nd time in 7 months because of wildfires. Luckily this time around no one lost their life or homes. I feel so bad for yall in CA. You suffer thru so many wildfires then the mudslides that result from them, terrible !!! John

Wow, that looks great !

I think your referring to Acme thread bolts. I've been looking for a few myself to replace some that are missing but I have not found a source yet.I cant remember who it was, but a member here posted a photo of some hardware that he had just purchased and there were 3 bright and shiny new Acme thread bolts among them. If I remember right he said he got it from a Ace Hardware. Even though I had already checked, after I saw his post I checked all the local Ace stores again with no luck. John

Thanks for posting the measurements and photos of your carriers, that will help me a lot. The owner of the carrier that I was looking at and I were talking about what he wanted for it yesterday and I got lucky...... believe it or not he wanted to trade it for a old 34" glass pack muffler that I have. I was actually going to throw it away a few weeks ago but I forgot to. I'm glad that I did now . I'm going to bring it to him this morning and do the swap. Thank you I really appreciate it. John

You got yourself a sweet truck there. Congratulations ! John

What a cool find, congratulations ! John

Howdy all, I have a question. I have a chance to pick up a really nice spare tire carrier off of a '57 D100. I know it is a bit of a different design as the one that came on my B1B but is the overall length and bolt hole locations the same to I can use it on my '49 ? The one I'm looking looks just like the one pictured. The photo is not the actual one I am looking at, it is a photo I saved a while back from a Ebay auction for reference purposes Thanks, John

That is a really great truck. I love how original it is, it looks awesome. John

That is one sweet truck !

Is this the piece your referring to? This is on my B1B located behind the rear fender. John

Thats awesome. I gotta try that, I have a lot of little pieces / parts that could use plating . That will be a fun project for me to tinker with

Depending on the weight of the load to be secured and the condition of floor of the bed one could utilize a flush mount arrangement or some sort. With strategic placement of the loop or hook in relation to the cross members and or bed mounting bolts and possibly some reinforcement on the underside as well this would work really well. I used something very similar to this when I raced motocross to tie down my bikes into the back of my truck. Possibly something similar to this could be used . John

I sincerely feel for all of you, thats so cold !! We have been 75 with a low of 44. Man am I ever glad I live in Arizona . John

I couldn't help but this of Frogger when I read this John

I would love to have a nice 802 radio and speaker even though we dont get any good AM stations anymore .... no english speaking music that I know of. Some news talk but mostly Mexican stations since I live about 30 miles as the crow flies from the US/Mexico border. However, I would still love to have one eventually. I do want to get a rear bumper for it. Eventually a tachometer would be really nice to have when I can afford it. 12v ones are easy to find but the 6v are pricey so that will have to wait. John

One thing I did was replace the clevis pin that secures the gas pedal rod to the bell crank with a bolt that has a machined shaft that I got at Ace hardware. It fits perfect and eliminates all the side to side slop in the gas pedal.I tried a new clevis pin but the fit was still a tad sloppy so I went with the bolt . The only other thing I can think of is the PO installed a 3:54 pumpkin in the stock housing which is great because pretty much all we have where I live is wide open level desert roads, mostly hwy with few to no real hills. I love it.

Yup, thats what I used. I had a few laying around so I put them to work I've never done any plating but I have thought trying it. I have a friend thats done some here and there on small parts. Hey did you get the set screw loose? Its so annoying to have one little thing like that hold everything up.

Merry Christmas everyone ! John

Welcome to the forum.Thats a really beautiful car you have there. John

Or in the case of my ex "the antichrist" it would be rabid foam and the smell of sulphur John

Getting into my truck if I were to get lock out would be easy. The drivers door locks from the inside as it should but as it turns out the mechanism has just enough wear in it so that if I work the outside handle lightly 9 or 10 times just like I was going to open it normally it will unlock by itself. At first it drove me crazy. I always keep it locked... always ! Then every once in a while over a week or two I would check it out of habit and it would be unlocked. After a while I put two and two together and figured out that I was only finding it unlocked after I had been working some high spots and doing the bodywork the roof , left and right fender . So I did some light tapping on the door with the large smooth face body hammer as I watched and after a bit, little by little the inside door handle dropped from its locked position. Sure enough the blows of the hammer were unlocking it after a while. For while I thought I was losing my mind or it might have been possessed Anyway, You might give it a try, it couldn't hurt. John

Welcome Tim , John