'48 F4 assembly
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'48 F4 assembly
All,
When I bought my truck it was already in pieces. I'm trying to put the front body together and trying to figure out how it goes. It looks like the inner fender panels bolt to the cab and the radiator support? Then the grill, fenders hook to them? I don't have the radiator support so I'm trying to figure out what I need to buy.
Anyone happen to have a picture of the front end of the truck put together so I can see how it looks?
thanks
david
When I bought my truck it was already in pieces. I'm trying to put the front body together and trying to figure out how it goes. It looks like the inner fender panels bolt to the cab and the radiator support? Then the grill, fenders hook to them? I don't have the radiator support so I'm trying to figure out what I need to buy.
Anyone happen to have a picture of the front end of the truck put together so I can see how it looks?
thanks
david
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You may want to reference the first two PDFs on this site for exploded diagrams and parts: https://charpindustries.com/diagrams/
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It's my belief that on the 48-50 trucks they used some form of voodoo magic on the assembly line to hold up the grill assembly in space and then bolt all of the parts to it.
From what I remember the rear of the inner fenders bolt to the frame. This tab is usually torn or cracked from the inner fender. The whole body is designed to flex a bit but then they bolted that inner fender hard to the frame. I eliminated the tab between the inner fender and the frame and instead put a self drilling screw through the inner fender and into the body seam on the cab.
Bobby
From what I remember the rear of the inner fenders bolt to the frame. This tab is usually torn or cracked from the inner fender. The whole body is designed to flex a bit but then they bolted that inner fender hard to the frame. I eliminated the tab between the inner fender and the frame and instead put a self drilling screw through the inner fender and into the body seam on the cab.
Bobby
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Not to mention mutant guys with 2 wrists and 3 elbows on each arm to reach all the nuts and bolts in impossible places.
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