My first medium duty truck. Will need a bit of work but it runs and drives, stopping not so much.

 

Welcome to FTE!

That truck looks to be in pretty good shape. Get those brakes fixed and drive the heck out of it.

It'll tell you what else it needs.

 

Welcome to FTE, the best Ford truck forum on the World Wide Web. Congrats on the truck and thanks for the pics.

We are glad another 53-56 truck has been saved. Just a trivial note here. An F700 was not considered a medium duty truck by Ford back in the day. They were considered Heavy Duty. Your hood side emblems say 'Big Job' don'they?

Please keep us posted of your progress with lots of pictures.

 

Yep Big Job

 

I'll need a Master cylinder and anybody have info on the vacuum brake booster setup

 

Welcome to FTE Mark. Good to see another person from MN taking on a great project. Making sure your truck will stop is a good idea. I have used two different routes on finding various parts. You can go online, send for catalogs (Dennis Carpenter, Mid-fifties, & others), or my preferred method is to go to stores/shops & salvage yards. You may be surprised what you can find at a NAPA store. If you come down to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area you can check out Brake & Equipment warehouse in Minneapolis and Little Dearborn, close to the TCF stadium (or their web sites). There are a couple of salvage yards that I have founds parts in too. Good luck.


Grant

 

Just got a new master cyl. from Napa. Two styles I forget which is which but one
is a three bolt mount the other is two bolts that go throught the master body. I thought it was cheap enough at $124 bucks. You need to know piston bore ,mine was ordered for a 1953 F900 (its not for a truck but a 2yd loader) Wagnor Lockhead sam

 

Used to live in Delano
French Lake auto parts is awesome, been going there since the late 70s.
100 acres of old cars and trucks.

 

Lined up a equipment trailer for sunday. Can't wait to get it home.
150 miles one way, it will be a long day!!!

 

Hope the trip goes great. Be safe! The weather forecast for Sunday looks good so that should help. Are you planning on keeping it stock? The yard at French Lake is fun to go to & look around.

 

While you are there take some pictures of this yard ....please, it's nice to see there is still lots of old iron out there.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO8j...ature=youtu.be

French lake auto video on u tube

 

Looks like a pretty big yard, too bad the pictures were taken in the winter, might not have been so many duplicate pictures. Thanks for the link.

 

I have seen better u tube videos of French lake auto parts
just google it for u tube videos you will find more.

 

Will do, wish it were closer, I like walking through yards like that.