C & G Ford Parts, Sacramento Vintage Ford, Bob Drake, Dennis Carpenter, Howell's Sheet metal.

Good websites are: here, The Ford Barn, Classic Trucks magazine

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Thanks for that dude!! Will check them out!!

The frame has gone off to be blasted, it'll be back next week!!

 

So the frame arrived back today, all sand blasted and zinc etch primed to pretext it from the elements whilst in transit -



Then within an hour, I had it looking like this -



Now the build up can begin!! Just waiting on a large order from MACS!!

 

Lookin' Good!

Mine used to look good like that, then I put a truck on it!

 

Yours look awesome buddy! Watching your build like a hawk!

Just had a call from UK customs, my parts plate over this side of the pond!!

 

THEY ARRIVED!



They left macs on Wednesday, Pennsylvania on thursday morning and arrived this afternoon!! I was like a kid at Christmas!! Now the real work starts!!

More detailed pics on Monday!!

 

The rebuild has begun!

Today has been primarily spent using wire brushes and the wire wheel to clean the **** off the old parts in preparation for paint! If you look back through the thread, you'll notice that everything was brown!! NOT ANYMORE!!

Radiator mount with new rubber pad I made -



Fitted with original parts, all cleaned and painted up -





Brake/clutch pedal assembly -



Polished foot plates and bolted to the chassis -



New brake parts -



Master cylinder fitted -



New transmission mount fitted -



Started on the rear leaf springs too! Will have the fitted by the end of the week!

 

Great progress. You got to love those payed for care packages. Like Christmas in the spring . Keep pushing on.

 

Looking great !!!! I can't wait to see it finished

 

Cleaned up and painted some rear suspension components this morning! Will have more progress later!!

 

So I done more today! It's been a looooong day of cleaning and painting!

All the suspension pivot pins were a bit shabby, so I cleaned and polished them up,

Before
During
After



Cleaned up and sprayed some small suspension parts -



While all this was happening, the leaf springs were in a bath of oil!

Then when all the paint was dry, I set to installing new suspension bushes, theyre brass on this, knocked in and out pretty easy, then installed the polished pins and locking pins along with the oil bathed leaf springs -





And tomorrow's challenge -



It's gotta be stripped, cleaned painted and re assembled with new handbrake cables, wheel cylinders and brake lines! And it's covered in 70 year old grease, it's gone solid!!

 

I got more for y'all!!

Set to work on the rear axle, stripped all the parts and then had at it with an angle grinder with wire wheel attatchment! What a beast of a tool!!



Then cleaned it with solvents and painted it black of course!!



Did the same with the brake back plates -



Hanging up -



Tomorrow I'll hopefully get it on the chassis, to form an over sized extremely heavy ford wheel barrow!!

 

And the axle met the chassis again -



Resprayed back plates, new wheel cylinders and handbrake cables -



And the rear brake system cleaned, polished and re built! -

 

Very NICE!!!

 

This week was a bit of a bummer!

I wanted to get started on the front end -



Ended up in the emergency room with this -



Picture doesn't show it too well, but I've got 5 stitches and just missed nerves/tendons and muscles!

It was a 7/8" spanner by the way!!

This meant I can't drive, so I sent my dad to collect some parts that I had found!

Carb -



New wheels and oil bath air filter -



Hubcaps -



Trim rings - they were an optional extra back in the day apparently



New brake unions and wheel nuts -



Spark plugs -



Turn signal switch (ours is missing)



Dad also ordered more stuff! So I should hopefully be able to go get it in the next week or so!!