Congratulations on your retirement! Now every day is Saturday!

Nice work on the truck. That's looking really nice.

 

Thanks Abe and Jolly Roger Joe

 

Jim the truck looks great!! Congrats on your work so far! It shouldn't be too much longer now that your retired and have the time!!

 

Thanks Keith. I'm still learning about paint work. It has been quite an education.

 

Wow Jim
That is impressive!! Thanks for sharing the pics, you're truck is truly a work of art.


Congrats on the retirement
Bobby

 

Thanks Bobby. It is coming along. I am having a great time working on it.
As all of you guys already know, there is always a challenge of time and money, Hope to get the hose racks done today and mounted tomorrow.

 

Very nice. The backup bell is pretty cool.
I also like the way you tested your sender unit. Dummy me didn't think about doing that. I haven't tested mine yet, so I will need to hook it up like that before running all the wires.

You are making great progress, keep moving forward and showing us pictures.

 

Thanks Harrier. going out now to paint the hose racks. Still in the low 30's here. I'll pull the truck out then turn on the heat for the shop. Should have a good day working inside.

 

Awesome build. Don't know how I have missed it.
It's like Christmas when I find one of these threads.
Looking great.

 

Thank you Artic Y Block

 

Hi gang. All is good here. We set the cab Sunday while my sons were here. Pictures will follow soon, but I have a slight issue with the rear connections. I put new hard rubber spacers in the rear, odd shape, that sits actually on top of the swing arm. Now when I lowered the cab, the swing arm is pressing against the new rubber piece and I can not leverage it enough to get the bolt through. Is there a special trick to help me get this swing arm to compress enough to get my bolt through. If you need pictures, let me know and I will try to see what I can take. Its is a little crowded in there now.


thanks all. Lots of progress last few weeks. i'll post as soon as I can

 

Jim,
I remember you saying that your boys were going to be around on Easter and you were going to get the cab mounted. I'm glad you were able to muscle it on there.


As for the dog bones and rubber snubbers......well, its a fight. The 48-52 mounts are similar, they look a bit different but they work the same. I recently rebuild my dog bones and added new bushings. I didn't replace the rubber snubbers but I remember having to really fight it to get the bolts back in place. I can imagine that with new snubbers it could be a real pain.
You should be able to get one side in without too much of a hassle as you can raise the opposite cab corner to help align things. Its a bit harder with the second side. I think I had to use a variety of center punches, smaller bolts, prybars etc to stick through the holes and try to pry them into alignment.
Keep at it, try to jack up the other side a bit, with some persistence you'll get the bolts in


Bobby

 

Bobby, Thanks for the input. You described it so well, almost sounds as if you were watching. What I did for the time being was put a block of wood in between the frame and cab so nothing gets out of alignment while I put the truck away. Hope to get to it this week end, something came up this week. I'll post pics as soon as I get a little time, but the actual placement of the cab went very well.

 

At least on the newer trucks you can see what you are doing. On the 48-50 trucks the running boards have an extra horizontal piece that run from the top of the running board and bolts to the frame with only a small access hole to get to the cab mount.


Who knows, maybe next weekend you'll have better luck with it.


Bobby

 

Painted the Hose racks and Hard Suction hoes ends. More pics to come of hoses mounted