Not if you hear one

 

Your hooked and definitely going to get addicted. Welcome, you came to the right place here. I'm doing a 49 f1 also. All the advice above is good even the guys with out 'bonus builts' have great ideas...but they call our trucks 'Monkey Faces", I don't know why though.

 

Dan Carpenter is not part of Dennis Carpenter in Charlotte, but he supplies beds and bed parts to a number of 50's parts dealers. Since he is only about 100 miles from you I figured that you could save a lot on the shipping.

 

Welcome to the curse, congrats on what looks to be a great project. There's nuthin time and MONEY can't cure. Just having the wife interested in it is worth what you paid for it !

There's tons of opinions on this site, some hard learned experience as well. Ask all the questions you need to and take pics, we love pics of old trucks.

Good luck with it

Tom

 

Today was spent building dollies for the truck and cutting what remained of the rusted bolts holding the running boards on. Slow progress is better than no progress.

 

I wanted at least to say welcome! I am getting ready to be on the road for work down at lake of the ozarks. but i have a 49 with alot of NOT original stuff. I got more to say but gotta get off for tonight!

 

Yesterday we had some time to work on the truck.

I ripped out what was left of the wiring harness that critters have been gnawing for years.

Was able to get the motor to spin with a bit of PB Blaster and some encouragement.

And then Liz, my wife, helped me gut the interior to see exactly what we are working with. As expected the floor will need to be replaced. The most interesting part is the date on the back of the speedometer, Jan 17 1950, which conflicts with the vin number that states it is a 49. My only thought is the gauge cluster was replaced at some point, but all the gauges were properly hooked up, and the chrome trim is covered is the same rattle can red spray paint as the rest of the truck.

I'll post some pictures when I get them off the camera.

 

My apologies! We were discussing this when the thread got moved and I never went back to edit or correct my post. Since both 49 and 50 used the same 9 prefix number, we can only go by the serial number. When I plugged your serial number 270xxx into my data base it came up as a very early 50 which would square with the gauges. I'd say the speedometer is original to your truck.

 

Over the past weekend, during an unusual lull of house projects and chores, I found some time to make progress on the deconstruction of the F-1. A couple of friends even came by to have a few cold ones and lend a much appreciated hand.

The good news is the motor isn't stuck. In fact it spins freely without any noise or drama, the culprit was a seized water pump. Next up, get the motor and transmission out and get the rest of the front sheetmetal apart, nut splitters are a beautiful thing.

Quick side story, While in Lowe's I asked one of the employees in 'Tool World' if they had any Nut Splitters in stock. His reply, "What is this some sort of Joke? Am I on camera?" I simply said thank you and walked away. Stopped by Northern Tool on the way home and found what I needed immediately. Northern Tool 1, Lowe's 0.

Link to some of the photos thus far.

https://picasaweb.google.com/1020545...74/RustyBucket

 

Knowing my luck, if I had walked into Lowes and asked a guy if he knew where a nut splitter was, he would have kicked me square in the nuts and said "is that what you were looking for?".

Man, based on that one picture, that wiring harness looks better than the one that is in my 49 right now. Good luck on your project. They come apart easy. Putting them back together someday is the hard part. Pay attention to your radiator support when you remove it. It should be in the 2 front holes on the crossmember (as opposed to the 2 rear holes for the 8 cylinders).

 

Welcome to the circus!! It's cool that your wife is so involved with you in this.

Another source for the bed and/or bed parts is Mar-K out of OKC.

P.S. Love the picture of the barefoot guy with gloves helping lift the front clip.

 

I am worried about the going back together part, bagging bolts and using tupperware containers as much as i can (those cheap plastic containers that sandwich meat come in are great). I am extremely lucky that Liz (my wife) is supportive.

For some reason the friends that come over to help are all barefooted or in sandals, maybe its the heat. I have teamed up with that particular barefooted friend's wife in an attempt to convince him to pull his wife's grandfathers 53-56 (he cant remember what year and i've only heard stories) f1 out of the barn. She remembers riding around on their farm as a kid in it. I'll gladly help him trailer it back from western NC. Supposedly they are going to get some good pictures of it this weekend while they are visiting.

I'll have to get pictures of the other friends' truck, (guy in the white shirt standing to the left of the motor in the picture where we are trying to start it) 66 F100 that was built in highschool, 460 with original cobra jet heads off his father's 70 cyclone spoiler. Fun truck...

 

If you don't have a good hardware store or fastener supply store close by you should make plans now to move before the truck gets too far disassembled!!