40 tonner panel build
Tuned
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From: Webster, NY
I am constantly amazed by the endeavors shown on FTE. I was excited by my own meager effort to install a new door check stop rubber in the passenger door to prevent further contact between the door and fender. Persevere WB.
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Post Fiend
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From: Black Hills of SD
Ok, enough sniveling, just get after it. I got the running board off, not too tough to sawzall the brackets so they will be easy to weld back on. Rear fender off and the bulging side was an easy fix. Seems there were only 3 rivets holding the side to the floor angle iron piece, one was gone, one completely wollered out and one loose. Clamp it up and drill/bolt it back up.
This is progress???
The side that's pulled back in.
The side that's not.
Cracks on the inner wheel well that will need fixed to stiffen the whole rear side back up. This poor old truck went through hell on those rough Montana dirt 2 track roads.
Piles of smurfyness growing all over my yard.
This is progress???
The side that's pulled back in.
The side that's not.
Cracks on the inner wheel well that will need fixed to stiffen the whole rear side back up. This poor old truck went through hell on those rough Montana dirt 2 track roads.
Piles of smurfyness growing all over my yard.
Lead Driver
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From: Orcas Island Wa.
Glad to see you bit the bullet and are going in deep. Are the current axles ok? Maybe you should just use them and some kind of cool engine and tranny. They look to fit well. Too slow for the wide open spaces? My employee called in sick (translation: hungover because the Seahawks won yesterday), so I decided to work on the woody. From what we have seen on repairing these panels I am trying to engineer things so it comes apart for repair a little better.
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From: Orcas Island Wa.
Maybe I should just go for the Marmon Herrington clone look.
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I measured my DD T-100 toyota 4x4 single cab. Same width and wheelbase as the '42-'47 tonner. Exactly 122" and it has 33 x 9.90 x 15s. Tall skinny and just an inch shorter than the 7.50 x 17s. It would be gutless, but everything I own is. Probably never happen anyhow.......
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Post Fiend
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From: Black Hills of SD
The front axle under it doesn't fit the hangers. It's just cobbled in there with 2 bolts and some chains. Steering is wrong, from a newer truck and plus my steering box is froze up solid. I don't think it will take much at all to mount the Scout axle and springs under it and make a bracket for the steering box. I might be able to used the rear springs as is but those hangers are worn out too. I'm thinking hangers and all from the scout rear. I might even be able to fit the scout gas tank between my rear frame rails.
Got a touch of flu and strep, better not lay on the ground any more today so I welded up the worn outside door handle shafts from the 40 and replaced the cream 47s with some purdy stainless ones. Set nice and straight too, no drooping (hate that droop, so easy to fix, took all of 20 minutes to do both)
Got a touch of flu and strep, better not lay on the ground any more today so I welded up the worn outside door handle shafts from the 40 and replaced the cream 47s with some purdy stainless ones. Set nice and straight too, no drooping (hate that droop, so easy to fix, took all of 20 minutes to do both)
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Post Fiend
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From: Black Hills of SD
The old panel tried to make a run for it while I was in the house. I went out and it was clear off the slab and in the circle drive. I guess the jack leaked down and it tipped off the jack stand. I got her lassoed and back where she belongs.
Fleet Mechanic
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From: East Wenatchee
Here is a '41 Panel delivery with a roof rack and 8 lug wheels.
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
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Post Fiend
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From: Black Hills of SD
Here is a '41 Panel delivery with a roof rack and 8 lug wheels.
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
Lead Driver
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From: Orcas Island Wa.
Here is a '41 Panel delivery with a roof rack and 8 lug wheels.
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
http://rasmuscatalog.com/cgi-bin/mnl...smus1972/10675
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Post Fiend
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From: Black Hills of SD
Yeah, pretty sure it's a 122. I have considered a roof rack for mine too. Great place to strap on fenders and such when hitting swap meets or picking. It's a long way up there though, would need a ladder too.
I would have called mine rust free too, until I started tearing it apart. It really has no cancer but there is a lot of metal that isn't as thick as it once was.
It still bugs me that they just painted over all the lug nuts and hubs. How much work is it to pull the wheels to paint them? Little things like that are a huge red flag to me on what kind of other lazy-a**ed stuff they did when building it. Might be why it only brought half of what it seems like it should. I shouldn't nitpick something that looks better than mine ever will but it wouldn't have taken much to make the interior a lot nicer. Like kick panels, something besides an old household carpet remnant and JC whitney seat covers. If you pick a level a car is going to be finished to, the whole vehicle needs to be finished to that level.
I would have called mine rust free too, until I started tearing it apart. It really has no cancer but there is a lot of metal that isn't as thick as it once was.
It still bugs me that they just painted over all the lug nuts and hubs. How much work is it to pull the wheels to paint them? Little things like that are a huge red flag to me on what kind of other lazy-a**ed stuff they did when building it. Might be why it only brought half of what it seems like it should. I shouldn't nitpick something that looks better than mine ever will but it wouldn't have taken much to make the interior a lot nicer. Like kick panels, something besides an old household carpet remnant and JC whitney seat covers. If you pick a level a car is going to be finished to, the whole vehicle needs to be finished to that level.
Cargo Master
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i want to remove most of the dents in my roof, my budget doesn,t plan for a interior liner (for a while, maybe never). so i want a nice roof inside and out. seems like they must of used alot of bondo the inside looks kind of rough. nice looking panel thought!
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From: Orcas Island Wa.
Lead Driver
Joined: Jan 2005
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From: Orcas Island Wa.
I can't imagine how one could suppose anything else. There's the inside, there's the outside. I once knew a 'woodworker' who filled all his bad joints and low spots with wood dough. We nick-named the guy ' Legends in Putty'. Maybe this was his brother 'Legends in Bondo'.....