Finding original color
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Look for traces of the color in places that rarely get painted. A good place is under the gas tank, under the door access panel (most never remove to paint). Chances are the truck will have been a dark green color, as the huge majority of these trucks were. Most 46's are painted what is called Greenfield Green with Tacoma Cream trim.
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Thanks for the info on my 46, Im sure I'll have alot more questions. Im also building a 48 F1 with a flathead V8. This is my first flathead that I'll be working on, so I hope you'll have answers for me on that also.
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bed problems
NEED HELP!!!!! How hard is it to change the the stake pockets on my 46 truck beb? 3 are bad on mine but I'm going to change all 4. If anyone has done this or has seen it done please give me a idea how to do it.
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They should be held on with spot welds. You can get a tool to remove the spot welds from places like Eastwood. Replacement pockets are easy to get, and you just need to weld them back on.
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Thanks for the info on the bed pockets. I was worried about how to get them off. I didn't want to mess the bed side up. Another question, on my 48 F1 truck there is a tag on the rearend that says .0411 or .411 (its one of the two). does this mean it is a 411 gear. Is that what the tag is for. B/c some peaple say these trucks had a 373 gear in them. Just wanted to see if you was familiar with this tag or not.
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I'm not familiar with that tag. I have a '46 chassis that right now has a '48 rear in it, the tag on that one had the axle ratio in fraction form. Try posting this over in the '48-'60 forum (the one right above this forum) they can probably give you better help with this question.
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You were right about the fraction form, the tag has a W then 41/11, do you know what that means? Is it the gear ratio or not? I found the tool I need on Eastwood. That will make it alot easier...Thanks!
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I posted this on the 48 to 60 forum also and got the same answer you gave me. They also asked me if my rearend has a removable cover. Did some come without removable covers, or did some 48s come with rearends like in the 46 and 47 trucks?
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I'm not totally sure, the 48's and up aren't my speciality. I do know that the '48 rear on that '46 chassis I have has a removable rear cover, kind of reminds me of the GM 10 & 12 bolt rears and the Ford 8.8 rear.
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No tag on the '46 rears. They should be stamped with the ratio. Common in a 1/2 ton was 3.78 and 4.11, and 3.54's also available. The '46 rear is what is called a banjo style rear with the axle tubes being bolted on to the center section.
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thanks 46fordtruck. Could you tell me where they are stamped at. By the way our 46 has a flathead 226 in it. Drove it some in front of the house today, and seem to act like it would do pretty good running with traffic here in our little town. Plan on keeping all original running gears in the truck. Do you think it would be hard on it to run it 55 to 60 on the road. Back in 46 they didn't plan on running them like that b/c a truck was made to work. Just wanted to see if the old running gears would take it or not.