1956 Panel Truck Question
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1956 Panel Truck Question
My 1956 f100 panel truck sits on a 1954 pickup chassis and I have to fabricate some body mounts to accommodate the differences. First, the cab front mounts near the door posts are the same as the pickup. Second, there are mount holes in the metal floor just outside the frame rails where it meets the wood floor bed area. The pickup frame has no mounts here so I plan to fabricate a pair and remove the pickup cab arm type mounts. Finally, inside the rear panel doors is where I need some advice. There are two body mount holes on the rear door body panel which are in the channel for the wood floor. The frame ends about 4 ½ inches short of this body mount and I would appreciate it if one of you panel guys would let me know what this frame to body mount looks like. This body panel currently sits about 1 ½ inches lower than the top of the frame and I don’t know if I should fabricate a mount to make this sit level with the frame or if this position is correct. I have a roll pan on the rear of the panel so I have no bumper mount hardware to use as an example. I plan to pull my body off the frame this weekend and want to address the body mounts before I reinstall it. Thanks for the help.
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I can't really help too much with the rear part of your frame question. I think there might have been a extention piece there on the panel, I don't know. I have a '48 mounted on a '50 PU frame. These years the frame is the same for the panel and PU except I had to remove the last set of running board brackets. As for the rear bumper, the bumper brackets for my panel dip down so the rear bumper align with the slots in the roll pan. The pickup bumper brackets have less of a dip and are shorter. Again, this is on a '48-52 panel so I don't know if this is the same as the later models.
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i have built many panels and have a 56 panel daily driver right now,there was an extension piece which fit into the frame and stuck out enough to pickup the rear body mount hole,it was inside the frame so it was slightly lower than the top of the frame,just the thickness of the frame
