Hot damn!!! The Rescue 8 is definately the icing in this awesome cake! Luv it!!!!
Two thumbs up on your tilt-0-matic winch setup by the way. Very nice job.
Capt'n

 

It's midnight. Been on the mainland all day hauling beams. Got Home at 11 and wife was asleep so I took advantage of the rain and scrubbed some of the grunge off the sides. Found a really nice f100 hood spear on the floor. Sure hope I find the other one tomorrow. Best thing about tonight is I discovered everything that makes a panel a panel is in good shape. Very nice wheel arches, rear doors and sill etc. I have a really nice front clip on my f350 parts truck. I think the doors are better too. The hood on the parts truck is excellent and has a cool hood ornament and to top it off, an amazing chrome grille. Oh, and I bought 4 ford truck 15" wheels that match and two 265 75 15 tires at a junk yard while my wife was christmas shopping.......

 

Yesterday after work I scrubbed more on the exterior, pulled the plugs and squirted marvel mystery oil in the cyls. Than attacked the rear half of the interior. Bed wood is perfect, metal down the sides is decent, no rust through. Found the other hood spear and lots of parts like the old water pump in a new box etc. The rotor and condensor were missing, and the points look awful, so I thought about a box I found on a shelf about 2 years ago while visiting my sister , who now lives in the house where the family lived when I was in High school. It was a red Sorenson ignition parts box with a rotor, cap, condensor and points I had pulled from my 240 cu in six in my very first truck. A '65 f100. I put it in my suitcase and brought it back. According to a package on a new cap I found in the panel, all 6 cyl ign parts are the same from '56 for about 15 years. Still another good reason to never throw anything away. You young guys take note. This stuff sat for 42 years. Now it's gonna save me 20 bucks

 

Subscribing. I can't believe I missed this thread Gary. So cool.

 

Got some stuff done.... Had a seized starter in the back and one that was fairly good just sitting under the hood. I made one good one out of two and stuck it in. Hot wired it to a good battery, and engine cranks nicely. Threaded in a mechanical oil pressure gauge first and watched it while I was cranking. After what seemed like an eternity, the op came on all at once to about 42 lbs. Has compression (using thumb test) in all cylinders. Maybe #5 is kinda weak yet, but was a bad angle on the thumb. Actually both of my thumbs are numb from tablesaw accidents over the years. I pulled the distributor and will clean it up and get it ready tomorrow. Carb seems complete, but I'll probably dissassemble it on my workbench (tailgate of my f350) and just take a gander at the inner workings. Maybe Monday I will try for the first start up in over 20 years. Not sure why I get possessed with getting this junk running. It's just that after that they are 'alive'. Sort of. Anyways, getting an old truck running has always been my favorite part of the journey. Gotta admit I really like doing brakes too, and that will be next. It's all quite accessible and you get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing it's all new down there. Oh, an I'll need to alter the driveline as it was in the back, the PO had installed a reportedly 'rebuilt' 4 speed and never got past the drive shaft modifications required. There is an output shaft in the junk box from the back, not sure if it's the one from the 3 spd or 4 spd. I have a driveline from my extra f350 so maybe I just cut tham both and weld them up with a piece of pipe around them. I mean, what's the wort that could happen? Can't find my camera after that late night of scrubbing and merriment. This stuff really did happen! Here's an old pic already on my computer to illustrate tonights installment.

 

Gary- What a nice day of "discovery"! Turns over, oil pressure, compression?
What more could a guy ask for? What is it about bringing life back into these neglected hulks that makes us happy?
I'm just a few steps ahead of where you are on my "field find" '59. Got it running, and am now deep into the rear brakes. New lines and shoes, rebuilt the wheel cyls. De-rusted and painted inside of backing plates, etc.
Keep up the updates, this panel is a great find!

 

Man Gary the finger are freakin nasty. The nails ever grow back.
Now I gotta make meat loaf for dinner thank you very much.

 

Yeah, the barn finds, field finds and alongside the road finds are really fun!I'll try to have a better picture for you guys tomorrow. Now go sit down and have that meat loaf! And yes, looks pretty normal now, but when my hands get cold it's very painful.

 

The meatloaf was great. Even if it looked like your fingers.

 

She fired a few times, but the set-up was marginal at best. Two of the spark plugs had broken off porcelain from removal, and no carb at all. Carb looks pretty bad so I just shot ether into the manifold. I did find a carb on a shelf with a pb blaster cap taped on it and it said 223 with a sharpie. I'm thinking it was from the 223 I pulled when I dieselized my f350. I sold the engine to a guy in Texas, but looks like I kept the carb. Off to Napa for a carb kit and six plugs........And yes we did the Christmas tree already today ...

 

Napa???!!! Whats with the never nothing new and use what ya got or make it Gary?


Just kidding Bud. But I do like the old skool way ya do things.
Reminds me of me not to long ago.

Ahh!! only if I had a shop again and a place to stock pile rigs like I used to.
Life aint bad now, But that was great.
I got the boys, But they don't modify or Fordify like and old truck. Although
I have chased them down with a big wrench a time or to. I just cant catch em
anymore.

 

Sure wish I was there leaning over the fender while this thing roars to life! It all seems kind of familiar.

 

It burps and farts!?!? Hot diggity damn!! A few bits and pieces from the National Auto Parts Association (NAPA for the un-informed) and you'll be good to go. At least til you swap out the drive line into a 4x4. Cosco runs will never be the same huh?
Capt'n

 

I am so jealous.

Merry Christmas Gary
You have earned it after
seeing your table saw fingers.
Enjoy.
Ya never did say if the finger nail
ever came back. What's it look like
today?

 

Grease under my new fingernails! Was gonna get some cleaned out panel photos in the morning. Still haven't found my camera, but I have ressurected an old one that needs to be banged against something hard for the lense to expand out. I'll take an after picture of my fingers. This happened when my wife's son was working for me and he called his mom, who works at the medical center and told her "we're bringing Gary in again". I think the time before that was when I got burned. Anyway, that's how I met my wife. Her son and my other employee suggested I ask her on a date. And btw, Napa didn't have a carb kit so I dug deeper and found 2 other holleys that look the same. One looks really good. It was a spare from a jeep m715 military truck that was given to me when a local landloard was cleaning up junk after a tenant had died. Unfortunately after I had it clean and running, some yuppie kid shows up with a signed title for it. Turns out the old man had "given it to him and he hadn't bothered to pick it up yet".That's my stepson helping me haul it home. He ain't no yuppie, he does logging and tree topping with a local contractor. and as for the spark plugs, it broke my heart to buy new 'store-bought' plugs, but this needs all the help it can get. Maybe I try it with a carb on it and the funky plugs and I can return the new ones. OK, so my employee I have now just said he'd be coming in about 11 tomorrow morning. Maybe I have the time to fire this thing off in between Ravin leaving for work at 8, and before he gets here... Spur, how soon can you get here?