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So, my dad found a decent looking 1953 f100 on a local online only estate auction. He somewhat jokingly put a few bids in and ended up winning it for $3500. I wasn't sure what the plan was for it until he brought it home and said he wanted to put it in my son's name for his first truck. My son already loves it, and it hard to get him away from it when we take him up to see it.
The truck itself is in pretty nice shape. It must have been kept inside after it was parked. The last documents we see show it was last insured in 2007, last inspected in 2001. It has a flathead v8, and a homemade wooden flat bed and running boards. There is some bondo in the normal rust spots, but looks fairly minimal for the northeast. The motor turns over by hand easily. I tried hooking up a new battery, but get nothing with the key/ starter button. The interior dome light does turn on though, so it's getting power. We will have to trace the wires and see what we're missing.
Before you get too far and smoke things, these were orignally 6V positive ground. It also helps to remove the engine from the bed and put it under the hood :-P
Before you get too far and smoke things, these were orignally 6V positive ground. It also helps to remove the engine from the bed and put it under the hood :-P
Yes that would help right? It came with a spare flathead. It is still 6 volt, and I connected the new 6 volt battery correctly when trying to see if it would attempt to turn over.
Good grounds, good grounds, good grounds. And fat cables, fat cables, fat cables (ideally 00).
Also, don't do what I did one spring... Try to start my truck forgetting I had removed and rebuilt the starter over winter, but hadn't gotten around to reinstalling it when the weather broke. Took me embarrassingly long to figure that one out!
[QUOTE=Gicknordon;21262086]So, my dad found a decent looking 1953 f100 on a local online only estate auction. He somewhat jokingly put a few bids in and ended up winning it for $3500. I wasn't sure what the plan was for it until he brought it home and said he wanted to put it in my son's name for his first truck. My son already loves it, and it hard to get him away from it when we take him up to see it.
The truck itself is in pretty nice shape. It must have been kept inside after it was parked. The last documents we see show it was last insured in 2007, last inspected in 2001. It has a flathead v8, and a homemade wooden flat bed and running boards. There is some bondo in the normal rust spots, but looks fairly minimal for the northeast. The motor turns over by hand easily. I tried hooking up a new battery, but get nothing with the key/ starter button. The interior dome light does turn on though, so it's getting power. We will have to trace the wires and see what we're missing. [./QUOTE].
That is just awesome!!
Thanks guys! Right now the plan is just to get it running and start taking inventory on what it needs. It'll stay stock for now until he gets old enough to start choosing what he likes. Will probably at least get fron disc brakes in the future.
The three of us, me, my dad, and my son took a brief look at the electrical system on saturday morning before it got too scorching. It definitely seems to be a grounding issue. The frame has a lot of surface rust where the ground cable bolts on. My meter shows good continuity through the cable, but barely anything to the frame. We will have to clean that off. We also attempted to jump the battery directly to the starter. It turned slightly but then stopped. A new starter may be in our future as well.
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Yes that would help right? It came with a spare flathead. It is still 6 volt, and I connected the new 6 volt battery correctly when trying to see if it would attempt to turn over.
This is awesome!
