Guest aglpml12 Posted October 30, 2007 Report Posted October 30, 2007 Hi All I've been lurking here for a while and gotten some great info. Just got this running this weekend and it moved under its own power for the first time in 20+ years. This truck has been in the family since 1965. I had to flush the tank and clean the pick up line out. Someone suggested old speedometer cable which worked perfectly in a drill chuck and we rotorooted it. Cleaned out the carburetor which was a very simple design stamped Carter Ball and Ball. The flathead six started right up and idled smoothly. I rebuilt the master cylinder and bled the wheel cylinders and got a pedal up. Scary thing was the brake master cylinder to distribution block line is copper with compression fittings on it! Don't know how long it was driven on the road like that. The only history I have on the engine is that it's a rebuilt exchange back in the early 70s, but my dad said that the "wrong displacement" was swapped out and its a car engine, not the original truck engine. I was running out of daylight and didn't clean off the left front to get the engine serial number. I remember riding in the back of this truck as a kid. here it is in 1974 and now Quote
Merle Coggins Posted October 30, 2007 Report Posted October 30, 2007 ATTABOY!!!! Good lookin' truck. Might it have been an Express body originally? It has the longer running boards that would go back to rear fenders on an Express (pickup bed) body. Every flatbed truck I've seen has running boards that end at the back of the cab. Merle Quote
Reg Evans Posted October 30, 2007 Report Posted October 30, 2007 Great looking truck. How neat to know most of the trucks history. Is there an engine number on the block? If the number hasn't been ground off and it's a car engine the number will probably start with a D for Dodge or P for Plymouth. If the number is there post it here and I'll tell you how many cubes it has. From the length of the running boards it appears that your truck started out as a long bed 1 ton pickup. Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted October 31, 2007 Report Posted October 31, 2007 You could give someone a good push with that front bumper. What was the truck used for back in it's heyday? Should look good when you get it rejuvenated. Quote
Guest aglpml12 Posted November 3, 2007 Report Posted November 3, 2007 Don't have much history with the vehicle before 1965. It was used as a horse hauler for years and the back of this photo states "wood floor rotted from horse..." He took a lot of photos in 1969 when the new box was being put on: Quote
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