Made an offer. We'll see. This has been relisted twice so far as I know.
Thanks.

 

I got it! Arrived today. Thank you!

 

Looks in great shape!

 

That will polish up real nice and those small dents shouldn't be that hard to remove..congrats at winning the bid..

 

Thanks guys. Yeah, the steel is in surprisingly great condition. Just surface rust. Anyone know if the headlamp bucket gaskets are available?

 

Yep, gaskets pretty cheap and available, Carpenter, c&g, 3-4 bucks each

 

Excellent! Thanks.

 

Great looking grill, Bob. Would that have been from an F7-F8 truck since it has no crank hole?
Mark

 

Plus it is wider, isn't it?

 

Abe, The F7-F8 and COEs share the same wider grill. I read somewhere years ago that the F7-F8 trucks didn't always have crank holes in the grill. The COE should have a crank hole since it uses the same engines as the conventional trucks F1-F6.
Mark

 

The crank hole is there, it's just covered by the stainless trim.

 

I consulted my book of words and numbers and couldn't find p/n 8204 for the Q and QH trucks, so speculation prevails imo. However, it does for all other trucks, and all have the crank hole. Only Number Dummy knows for sure.

 

All COE's with stainless moldings came with the crank hole in bottom molding. That grille came from an F-7 or F-8, because they used an intermediate bar to cover the hole. I guess once the bars became optional in the middle of '48, Ford decided it wasn't that important to hide the hole on Big Job installations, even though the hole was only for COE's.
Chuck

 

1954 Big Job chassis parts catalog shows Grille Assembly 7Q 8204B, less mouldings. 7Q 8334 Intermediate moulding (4 required) is also listed. The 8345 bottom mldg is not shown in this printing of the Big Job catalog, but is referenced in the standard CPC for the COE's as 7W 8345.