Well I'm back from my trip and want to start working on installing my radio in my truck... Well I doesn't have the hole radio... but I have just the front section, no tubes... I do not have the cage either... what I need to know is how far from the face of the radio to the mounting brackets suppost to be? Below is a few pic of the Mercury radio I bought from ebay

 

Found this floating around out there

Looking up




Bracket drawings

 

The images and the schematic above are thanks to Bob (bobj49f2).

 

The way they mounted the radio and it came through the dash are pretty crude but that's how a stock installation looks.

 

I've saved those drawings myself, but my problem is I do not have the back half of the radio (not even the housing), so I can't measure from the rear. Does anyone know if the cage from a 51/52 truck radio have the same outside dimensions? I have a housing for one of them. Can someone check the mounting from the front where the nose plate is mounted to.

 

Moe,

I no longer have the radio installed in the truck. Best thing to do is guestimate using the picture posted. I think, but not sure, the case from the later radio should work, or at least made to work.

Look at it this way, a radio in a '48-50 truck is so rare that if you don't get it exactly where it is suppose to be no one will ever be able to tell. Get it close.

 

Moe, I am in the other boat right now as I am trying to figure out how to REMOVE my radio!

I just received my shop manual in the mail and it isn't very clear as to what I need to do.

 

Jeff,

If you have a '48-50 all you should have to remove are the four bolts holding the side flanges to the two braces on either side that's in the dashboard. I don't think there's anything else holding it in. It's been a while since I've removed or installed one of my radios.

 

Here is a CAD Drawing of a '48-50 Ford Mercury radio

 

I was just going to pm you that I pulled out my radio and was going to see if you wanted to buy it...

They are only 4 bolts behind the speaker grille that holds them in.

I can measure this thing if need be

 

dibs, DIBS!

Ok seriously - Moe was first in (here and another thread), and I'd be happy to let him have first shot, but he and I are both looking for the same thing a placeholder for the dash instead of the delete panel or hole.

Send me a PM with asking price, I'd be happy to let you measure, measure myself, or even let Moe receive 1st and then forward on or swap out / give me whichever is the leftover.

 

Desert Patina'd..haha

 

Chuck sent you a PM

 

Moe, I put in the dual 12v electric wiper - I had to remove the support brackets... so for my purpose, it is 100% imagination and fab work to support a radio face. I really don't need the brackets or the back half, etc - just some steel to bite into and run new supports from. After you and Chuck settle up, let me know what you have leftover if you will please.

 

Sure thing