Roberts Motor Parts Park Lamp Lenses

[55 Fargo]

Hey all, picked up my Roberts parcel today at Pembina ND, parts of the order was new lenses for my park lights. Much to my surprise, very nice fitting glass replacements, 22 buck$ each. very nice repro.

Ordered the round side mirrors, there okay, seem lighter duty than my old originals.

I also ordered some Moog tie rod ends from Rock Auto for the 55 Fargo, again to my surprise, made in the USA, hope they fit, will install tomorrow...

[HanksB3B]

Clear Glass Parking Light Lenses were one of the more difficult items to find for my 51.  I ran with amber plastic lenses for quite a long time.  I finally found some NOS ones at about twice the price. Are the ones you have on your 54 the same as what they used from 51-53 ? Nice find!  I don't think I've ever seen the difference between original round mirrors and the ones we got from Gary. If you can, please post a side by side photo.

 

Thanks,

 

Hank   

[Jeff Balazs]

Yes Roberts clear glass lenses fit the 51-53 parking lights perfectly.

I retrofitted dual element bulbs in my parking lights and used silicone to fit amber pill bottles to the inside of the lenses.

Now I have amber running lights and turn signals and still retain the original look. Works really well.

 

Jeff

[fargorat]

I also just received my parking lenses for my 53 Fargo from Roberts yesterday amongst other things. I  tried them in the housings and they fit perfectly. the one pic is of original with the new one beside it, and the other pic shows it in the housing. Very pleased with this. The # from Roberts says T242 PARKING LIGHT LENSE 51-56 and they were $22.50 each.

 

Don

[55 Fargo]

My sockets are dual filament to, my truck isa 55/56, is 12 volts too.

Here are the pics, hey you Southern Guys, went fora ride too, installed new tie rod ends, much tighter steering now. It was below 0f when I took this ride, very toasty inside. PS truck stays in heated building, was 40f in the building where I did the tie rod job, still need an alignment... PSS winter is on now...............LOL

[Jeff Balazs]

Good looking truck!

Brrr is right. My blood is way too thin for that sort of climate. I can't even imagine.

 

I would really like to get out of Southern California.....weather is great but it's way too crowded. The wide open space in your photos is very appealing.......but I think I am going to have to find it in Arizona.

 

Jeff

[55 Fargo]

Good looking truck!

Brrr is right. My blood is way too thin for that sort of climate. I can't even imagine.

 

I would really like to get out of Southern California.....weather is great but it's way too crowded. The wide open space in your photos is very appealing.......but I think I am going to have to find it in Arizona.

 

Jeff

How about parts of Idaho or Washington State.Won't be Arizona climate, but very beautiful country, New Mexico, has some appeal to me too...

The kind of wide open spaces is a very small part of this province, 60% of Manitoba is boreal forest, and the southern tip is much like Kansas and Nebraska, or North Dakota and Minnesota.

[TodFitch]

I would really like to get out of Southern California.....weather is great but it's way too crowded. The wide open space in your photos is very appealing.......but I think I am going to have to find it in Arizona. . .

Having been raised in Arizona and still visiting family there several times a year I can say that a whole lot of those "wide open spaces" that existed when I was a child have been "developed" over. Indian reservations and military training grounds are still pretty wide open but they are off limits to the average person buying land.

 

I guess it all depends on how "wide open" your definition of "wide open spaces" is.

[Jeff Balazs]

Well perhaps my choice of words wasn't quite appropriate.

Wide open in the context I was meaning to convey.......translates to sparsely populated. If you can't tell I am pretty burnt out living elbow to elbow like it has become here. I've had 58 years of this and it is time for a change. Forests are just fine with me. Just so long as it isn't frozen half the year. That I know I couldn't handle. I have heard good things about the Payson Arizona area.......that is one I need to check out. Manitoba......and no offense intended....but not so much.

 

One of the things about being in this group is we get to see glimpses of how things are in other areas. There seems to be a high percentage of the truck owners that live out in the country as opposed to urban sprawl.   Every time I see photos like the ones above it just makes me more determined to get out of this area.

 

Jeff

[HanksB3B]

I also just received my parking lenses for my 53 Fargo from Roberts yesterday amongst other things. I  tried them in the housings and they fit perfectly. the one pic is of original with the new one beside it, and the other pic shows it in the housing. Very pleased with this. The # from Roberts says T242 PARKING LIGHT LENSE 51-56 and they were $22.50 each.

 

Don

 

Kudos to Gary Roberts !  

 

Hank 

[55 Fargo]

Well perhaps my choice of words wasn't quite appropriate.

Wide open in the context I was meaning to convey.......translates to sparsely populated. If you can't tell I am pretty burnt out living elbow to elbow like it has become here. I've had 58 years of this and it is time for a change. Forests are just fine with me. Just so long as it isn't frozen half the year. That I know I couldn't handle. I have heard good things about the Payson Arizona area.......that is one I need to check out. Manitoba......and no offense intended....but not so much.

 

One of the things about being in this group is we get to see glimpses of how things are in other areas. There seems to be a high percentage of the truck owners that live out in the country as opposed to urban sprawl.   Every time I see photos like the ones above it just makes me more determined to get out of this area.

 

Jeff

How about Devils Lake North Dakota, or Hibbings Minnestoa, now there is some real wide open spaces in those areas, and planty of fresh cold air..............LOL

I hear yah on the Californisplosion, but been that way since WW2, hasn't it?

I figure some of those orange groves and strawberry fields I saw near Disneyland in Anaheim in 1973, do not exist anymore.

Hey what ever happened to that bumper sticker slogan, Welcome to California now go HOME. Was there not a huge exodus to the Seattle area from all points including California, where there population has exploded too.

I could handle Juneau Alaska, beautiful, and on the balmy side for a northern place, gotta like long days of summer and shorter days of winter I suppose.

Pictured is Winnipeg Manitoba pop 800000 or so, not exactly New York, but not Bugtussle Tenn either. A very rough city in some ways, loads of core are street gang activity, well it is my Hometown, live 18 miles north of the city limits

Edited November 23, 2013 by Fargos-Go-Far

[TodFitch]

. . . Just so long as it isn't frozen half the year. That I know I couldn't handle. I have heard good things about the Payson Arizona area.......that is one I need to check out. . .

 

You will  have winter there with snow. There are lots of places on and around the Mogollon Rim area that are nice. A bunch of it is Apache reservation or national forest so I'm not sure how easy it is to buy land though. Alpine, almost at the New Mexico border, was a very nice place. Haven't been through there a long, long time but I suspect it would still be nice. About 1/3 of the state of Arizona is actually forested, but that 1/3 is part of the higher elevations where you will have a real winter.

 

I was thinking more about the Phoenix and Tucson areas. Phoenix is trying its hardest to be a desert version of LA complete with a similar urban freeway system. Tucson is not far behind except that they've did not spend the money on freeways so all the surface streets are jammed with traffic. I was raised on what was at the time the far north edge of the Tucson metro area. The far north edge is now many, many miles further north.

[Jeff Balazs]

Yes it has been going on here for a long..long time. For a long time south Orange county was tolerable. But it is far too crowded now. And pretty much all the groves and farms have been gone quite a while. Replaced by multi-story high density housing and all the people and congestion associated with it.

 

Tod.....we used to go to Tucson quite a bit back in the 60's. It was real nice back then.....a bit on the hot side but I can handle that. It has changed too much now. I have an acquaintance that moved from here to Payson about 6 years ago. He likes it a lot. Says the cold periods don't last too long and the town and surrounding area has had next to zero growth in the last 10 years. My concern if I have one is the drought. Otherwise houses and property is pretty affordable. I need to go and take a closer look.

 

Jeff

[Dodgeb4ya]

Talk about explosion of people and endless housing developements=Phoenix. Not for me. I  would like to leave the expensive and crowded Seattle area. Seattle has changed so much in the last 25 years. I'd like to move somewhere down south and warm where not many others have fled to. Where is that do you suppose?

Edited November 24, 2013 by Dodgeb4ya

[55 Fargo]

Talk about explosion of people and endless housing developements=Phoenix. Not for me. I  would like to leave the expensive and crowded Seattle area. Seattle has changed so much in the last 25 years. I'd like to move somewhere down south and warm where not many others have fled to. Where is that do you suppose?

Belize, Venezuela, Paraguay  or how about the Gulf States,  maybe Truth or Consequences New Mexico. Montana or Wyoming, nice Big Sky, open land, fresh air, sparsely populated... 

[DJ194950]

Actually read that Belize isn't to bad for retireing. On the Gulf side attached to east side of Mexico, speak english, fairly cheap.

Doug

[The Oil Soup]

Hey Jeff, come on over to Arizona, plenty of great weather and we don't believe in that goofy daylight savings time.

[Don Coatney]

Talk about explosion of people and endless housing developements=Phoenix. Not for me. I  would like to leave the expensive and crowded Seattle area. Seattle has changed so much in the last 25 years. I'd like to move somewhere down south and warm where not many others have fled to. Where is that do you suppose?

Bob;

Your place is buried so remotely in the forest that unless someone drives down your driveway nobody knows you are there. I dont think you will find a place like that anywhere where "down south and warm where others have fled to". Plus it would take a railroad to move your fleet

[pflaming]

Try south eastern Oklahoma. It's wooded and compared to Seattle, warm. May be a bit humid though.