Help with windshield frame
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From: Burbank, WA
This particular donor cab is your basic anomoly, where only the very tip top isn't worth saving (it's worse than it looks in the pic, birds could drown in the water the roof holds, o<ACRONYM title="Page Ranking"><ACRONYM title="Page Ranking"><ACRONYM title="Page Ranking">r</ACRONYM></ACRONYM></ACRONYM> become olympic swimmers), but the rest will make great donor parts. The windshield opening, cab back and floor are all in good condition. Bob is getting the piece he needs.
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From: Poway, Ca.
That's also an "Extra" cab and has the highly coveted drivers side door lock, inside door panels, frames, arm rests, and probably a glove box door lock.
I wonder if it has a Magic Aire Heater, or the electric wipers?
It might be worth transplanting a new crown (or straightening the roof) on this cab rather than cutting it up to fix another one!
I wonder if it has a Magic Aire Heater, or the electric wipers?
It might be worth transplanting a new crown (or straightening the roof) on this cab rather than cutting it up to fix another one!
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From: Burbank, WA
That's also an "Extra" cab and has the highly coveted drivers side door lock, inside door panels, frames, arm rests, and probably a glove box door lock.
I wonder if it has a Magic Aire Heater, or the electric wipers?
It might be worth transplanting a new crown (or straightening the roof) on this cab rather than cutting it up to fix another one!
I wonder if it has a Magic Aire Heater, or the electric wipers?
It might be worth transplanting a new crown (or straightening the roof) on this cab rather than cutting it up to fix another one!
Too late about the cutting up. The windshield opening corner is on it's way to Alabama as we speak. And while one could have straightened the roof with enough work, these cabs aren't exactly rare, and hard to give away in most cases even when decent. I've got a really nice one from the blue truck if someone has a need. This one will be great as patch panels to help out many of us old truck nuts.
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From: Utah
Both F-6's had electric wipers, interestingly enough. But unless you've got a high-amp voltage drop handy, they're only useful to people keeping the 6V system. I don't suppose you have a magic remedy to convert a 6V electric motor to 12V, do you?
these cabs aren't exactly rare, and hard to give away in most cases even when decent.
these cabs aren't exactly rare, and hard to give away in most cases even when decent.
Ditto on the hard to get rid of these cabs, I had 2 pretty nice cabs this year, that I had to get rid of because of lack of space to store them, pretty much had to give them away. Wonder how much $ someone would be willing to spend to ship one Down Under?
Speaking of Roof sections, I saved a good roof from a 52 truck at the tear apart. the bottom half of the cab was rusted really badly but didn't want to see the top or any other useable parts go to china, that and I was going to use it for my F-6 until I found an almost perfect cab. so it's available if anyone needs it??
Are you saying if I use a High Amp voltage drop I can still use 6v electric wiper motor on 12 volts? I don't really want to use the vacum wipers as I'll need all the power the flathead can give just to drive it around
Cheers
Josh
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From: Oxford, Indiana
The original 6V wipers on the '51-'52 trucks aren't that great. The biggest thing that bothers me about them is the lack of a dynamic braking circuit within the wiring. On any newer system, the wiring through the switch is set up so that when you turn the wipers off, they continue to run until they hit the park switch in the motor and then the dynamic braking circuit makes the motor stop instantly. There is a park switch on these old units, but no dynamic braking circuit. When you shut them off, they will continue to run until they hit the park switch, but the switch only cuts the power to the motor. They will coast a bit farther due to the inertia of the spinning motor. Instead of stopping at full down like you would want and expect, they often end up farther up on the windshield. There are solid state voltage drops widely and inexpensively available that can handle the current draw of the motor, but there's not much you can do to bandaid the 60-year-old technology. There's no point in investing in a voltage reducer for a lackluster antique wiper system. The restorers will pay good money for them on eBay, though!
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From: Poway, Ca.
I know all about the extra cab parts. They're all there. No magic air heater, though, but it does have electric wipers. Both F-6's had electric wipers, interestingly enough. But unless you've got a high-amp voltage drop handy, they're only useful to people keeping the 6V system, and that's not going to be me. I don't suppose you have a magic remedy to convert a 6V electric motor to 12V, do you?
But, back in the late 50s in order to handle this kind of thing folks either used to install two 6 volt batteries in series and tap one for the 6 volt stuff, or they used to actually drill a hole and insert a stud in the #3 battery cell to draw 6 volts off a 12 volt battery.
I used a Vol-ta-drop on mine for 2 years and it worked ok until I converted to 12 volt. Bad news is they get hot, and they aren't being made anymore. I think the Newport system with the delay switch is much more desireable anyway.
Good news is one of the 6 volt electric wiper units just sold on e-bay for about $85 (Last time I looked)
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From: Burbank, WA
That is too cool, Bob! Nice job! You don't happen to have a pic of my part just tacked in place, prior to the finish work, do you? I just think i'd be fun to see that little piece of sheet metal 3000 miles from home. ;-)
