well like the title says im picking up a 1948 ford f-1 tonight i will post pictures later its a pretty decent truck minimal rust through and it has a straight 6 by the way which i intend to leave

 

Congrats. on the '48. I too have a straight six in my '50 F-1 which I plan to use, for now anyway. Looking forward to some pics.

Gil

 

Good luck, my truck has the 223 inline 6 and it moves it as fast I ever need to go. Congrats on your new truck.

 

congrats! Looking forward to seeing some pics of another '48

 

Cool, my '48 also has a straight 6. If yours is green they are long lost brothers.

 

well the truck is home and its hard to say what color it is originally it looks like it was repainted blueish gray but i belive it was originally black but i dont know yet i will have pictures up tomorrow night i do have a couple ebay pics that i will put in my gallery but there arent the best

 

oh and it has a Eureka Heater in it and i would like to know more about it

 

It's an after market unit. Many of these old truck came without factory heaters. Yours could have come from many different sources, Montgomery Wards or Sears, were popular at the time.

 

what else do they have hidden behind that garage?? dick r.

 

nothing the guy bought it and sold it right away because he needed the money

 

oh and by the way will a v-8 starter work on this truck we seem to think one will but i didnt dig one out yet to find out for sure

 

I've found Ford used different starters for different years. The starter on the six in my F-2 went out a couple of years ago, the fields burned up. I went down in back to a parts truck and pulled the starter but something wouldn't fit so I ended up pulling the guts from the parts starter and installing them into the old starter and it worked. I don't remember exactly what was different, I just remember having to switch parts.

As for six cylinder starter versus eight, I am pretty sure they are the same. Just a little difference between the years.

Also, remember that the two bolts holding the starter to the bellhousing are also holding the starter together so if you're not careful the starter will full apart when you take it out. It's a lot of fun trying to put it back together although it's not that hard if you pull the brush springs out of the case, along with the brushes, and hang the on the side of the case. After installing the armature install the brushes, then the springs.

 

thanks for the info we think they are the same to i found a parts diagram and they have the same model number for 1949 1002 for six and eight and i rooted around real quick today and found an 1001 that didnt fit ofcourse so i will have to dig around somemore in the old flathead parts shed

 

oh and if anyone has a starter or oil pump for this motor (226 h series straight six flathead) i will buy it i need them bad altohugh i may have found a company to rebuild and put a new drive gear on my oil pump because the brass gear is shot

 

You can try this guy for the oil pump gear:

Bob Selzam
166 Toms River Rd Jackson, NJ 08527
732-928-9421

One of the members on the BB site, who's also a member here, got one from Bob last year.

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