can anybody tell me what the parts are supposed to look like
under the horn button.I think iam missing a spring or something
tnx Ron

 

What year is your truck? If it's a 48-52, I can send you a pic of how it goes together from the parts book. I may even have a few extra pieces here.

Barry

50 F-1

 

tnxs Barry it is a 48 merc pickup I forgot to say that when I
entered the thread. email rwmoor@telus.net
tnxs Ron

 

If possible, I would like to see the pic of the horn as well.

 

Cory-

Email me at clussy38(No Email Addresses In Posts!) and I'll email it to you.

Barry

 

you got any pics of your merc...would love to see them. I have a 49.

as far as the horn goes the plate is a round metal disc that is concave. the contact button and wire go through the middle of it ad the horm button over it. To remove th horm button, you have to twist it counter-clockwise

If you have no return pressure on it chances are that the disc has flattened out.

Diagram at: https://www.johnsf100.com/4856shop/cat47.htm

 

thanks Larry I dont have a scanner to enter any pictures in the computor.your truck sure looks nice .looks like you need the mercury name plate for the front and the strips for the front fenders.i need the fender strips next to impossible to find,I think

Ron

 

Unfortunantly, when I took the pictures I didnt have the hood latch or name plates on. There on now but no camera.

Strips for the front fenders? I had no idea there where any...those I dont have or have ever seen.

 

Larry there is a metel strip that goes from the back of the fender
to the front also the parking lights are on the front fenders.the strip is i believe 3/4 inch thick the same as the hood strips.Only the mercs had them not the fords.I believe 1948 thru 1950.
Ron

 

thanks ron. i cannot believe that after all these years I never saw these. lastnight I went back to the owners manual and sure as day there they where above the parking lights.

I think your right, that were dead trying to find them. They would have to be custom made or fashioned from the hoods rails. Off the cuff another alternative would be to use side molding from another vehicle that would match the hood rails.

The parking lights where left out becasue I just didnt like the way they looked, the rails on the other hand look very cool.

 

Hi Larry do you still have the parking lites.I would be interested
in buying them if you want to sell them,I dont have the glass lens for mine, let me know tnxs Ron

 

Unfortunantly no. The lenses where missing and the cases where rusted through.

Dennis carpenter has them for under $10 at www.dennis-carpenter.com

 

thanks anyways Larry .somebody told me that the 1946 ford car parking lens is the same.Do you have any history on your merc
by the look of the palm trees in your pictures you must be down south.How did that little canadian truck get so far from the border.
Ron

 

Miami....Like idiots we drove it down here from billington, canada...north of seattle...through the cascades, desert, etc.... Actually became very familiar with the braking system on the mountains.

We stayed at a friends farm up there and found the truck sitting in the barn covered in hay and tools. Learned it was his fathers for around the farm. Some where around 1965/70 he came down with cadaracs and quit driving it. They also had a knuckle head harley that our other buddy bought and returned with us in the bed.