awesome read, I think I just changed my mind.....

 

hello im David, Good info, just got my 48 panel a few weeks ago and ready to start working on her.

 

Great Info...Thanks, Joe

 

Hi group. I'm a newbie so bear with me. This am I was reading a post about someone looking for a kingpin set for his F-500. I just sold my 56 F-500 dump that was made for the US Army. The P O ,which was destroyed by the wind, stated for it to be built with all heavy duty running gear & chassis. I had this truck since 1988 & hauled many many loads of dirt & gravel over 4 yards @ a load. I had side boards higher than the cab. Anyway I drove it from the cal coast to the eastern oregon high desert without a problem. This was over 10 years ago. I have been carrying a NOS kingpin set around for almost as long as I had the truck . The truck had a wheel shimmy at certain speed & a truck shop said I need a kingpin set which I bought from them. It turns out when I went to have the front wheels balanced by a differant shop they discovered a bent rim. We changed the wheel & by magic the shimmy disappeared so I have been hanging onto the set. If anyone knows this poster will they have him E-mail me rdiegan@gmail.com
Thanks,
B-O-B

 

Welcome to FTE and the easiest way to reach someone (if their box is not full) is to click on their name and send them a PM or private message. Some also have set up to receive email. I do not know this person, as I have only been on the forum since January.

Good Luck - Keli

 

Thank you John! I have gotten my 12 year old son interested in my hobby and we both enjoyed the information in the article.
Thanks for sharing!
Bill

 

John, thanks for this article. I wish I'd read it before I started on my Wife's inherited '49 F1 Stakebed. Trailered it to San Diego from north of Sacramento in August of 2014. Done quite a bit on getting it running and am getting to the little things like gauges and speedometer. Has a 350 from a '72 El Camino and 700R4 from craigsList. Want to put in new retro gauge cluster. Any advice would be appreciated.

 

Ok. For the life of me, and my new to me F1, I can NOT get this link to open the article. Is this still a valid link or is it just not iPad friendly?

jim

 

Try this

https://www.fordtruckzone.com/thread...part-i.654895/

 

Bingo!!! That worked, now I have some very interesting reading do tonight. Thanks

 

Happy to help..

 

Hello all. The link didn’t work on my iPad. Problem with my iPad, or problem with the forum/link?

 

What link..? this one..?
https://www.fordtruckzone.com/thread...part-i.654895/

 

13 years??? wow

here's part 2

https://www.fordtruckzone.com/thread...art-ii.654896/

 

This one, as referred to in the ‘newbie’ intro,,,

https://www.ford-trucks.com/article/...ord_Truck.html