Got one with 45,000 orginal miles. grandfather bought it new to hull grain has no heavy rusty, got a carburator rebuild kit on way she got gumed up up other day never had a problem before that. Got some pics i want to put on this site. Shes repainted forest green, with white grill its a really nice truck would like to see how much she would be worth. From what ive heard it a pretty hard to find truck.

 

Welcome aboard....maybe some pics and more info needed for assecement (sp) and you can put this in the swap meet section....and hope you the best. Also,where are you located? I think it would be a sweet ole truck....Good luck

 

If your grandpa bought it new, then why would you want to sell it? I have a hard time thinking about parting ways with things that have been in the family for decades. If you ran new gas through it, then that is going to gum it up. The new "ethanol" blends clean the crap out of fuel tanks wuicker than $%#@. The first month it was mandatory, we had every cop car in town i our shop getting new fuel pumps because the ethanol crap gummed em up. Get some sea-foam. Wait on rebuilding the carb, until you've cleared the system out of teh old yucky stuff, or you'll be tearing it off again. Run it, burn the crap out of it. Use the sea-foam. Get a couple sets of spark plugs. Run a set while you clean it out, and just clean that set up for continuing the cleaning out stage, then run the new ones after you have it all cleaned out, and the carb rebuilt. Use some good carb cleaner in the spray can. That is what we use at work instead of starting fluid. Run the truck, and open the throttle part way and spray it good with carb cleaner. Keep an extinguisher handy incase it pops back. That is the only problem with doing this. Run about 5-10 gallons of fresh gas through it with the sea foam, and that should pretty well clear you out. That is the process I did after my fire truck came to me from iowa, before I rebuilt the carb, and it made all the difference in the world. The truck ran like a swiss watch after that.

 

Eastern Shore Maryland, No dont plan to sell it

 

Sounds like a good acquisition whether you keep or sell it. Have fun.

 

Wouldnt happen to know where i could find a front bumper do ya,already looked on dennis carpenter site.

 

I don't know if the 57 bumper is the same as the 56, but I have a good one off of a 56 F600 that we could work a deal on. I have looked at pics of the 57 F100 vrs 56 and they look the same , so I am assuming similar for the F600's too. Maybe someone could verify this. If true and you are interested, I can provide pics.

 

The '57-'60 bumpers are the same for the F/M-100/350 & then the Big Jobs all use the same bumper.

Contact me as I've a Big Job bumper I'd be willing to let go for the right price.

 

The '56-'57 only share some of the same mechanical parts, but don't share any external ones the last I looked it up in my books.
The '56-'57 Truck Parts Catalog' to be specific.

 

The F-600 is not a Big Job. Big Jobs are F-700 and Larger. But I agree that the F-350 bumper is different from the F-600, as are the differences for model year.

 

The last I looked, any designation above F/M-350, uses the same Oversized Fenders, Valances, Grilles & Bumpers.
So I hope you'll excuse me if I use the "Big Job" terminology because of the features that they share.

Thank'ee for the Back-Up on the Bumper & Year differences!
I've one each of those types of Bumpers sitting side-by-side in my Garage & they are so different size wise, it's not even funny.
Wider, Taller & Thicker.

 

The F-700 and larger trucks (Big Jobs), do not share fenders with any smaller brethren. However, all F-100 and larger trucks, share front valance, cab, hood, air deflectors, etc., etc. The Big Jobs, are only F-700 and larger in series, until around '60 (or whenever it was) that they became the Super Duty series, which included trucks like the F-1000, and such. The Big Jobs, are much wider in the front than any smaller trucks, and so the bumper, is also about a foot wider than the smaller sized trucks. Over all, the Big Jobs front fenders exend 8 + inches beyond the width of a F-100 through F-600 truck. The F-100 thru F-600 are the same width, but the wheel opening is larger. You may actually have a Big Job, and non Big Job bumpers. The Big Job bumpers are taller, thicker, and longer than the smaller trucks. Now, you and i get along great, so please understand that, even though you cannot see my expression, or understand emphasis where it is being placed, but I am in no way trying to insult you, or talk you down, or counter anything that you may have read....actually, that makes it sound even worse......I hate typing over the net. things cannot be said in context format, they are just words on a screen......

 

Yes we Do get along rather well & I completely understand your frustration about communicating over the 'Net.
Though You've got me Mystified.
All my Literature for the '57-'60 F/M-100/350 series trucks shows & Lists them w/ the Normal style Fenders, Grille, Valance & Bumper & does not list the afore mentioned for use on the models above those.
Everything above that, the Literature shows & lists the Oversized Fenders, Grille, Valance & Bumpers.
My original '58 MERCURY Truck Owners Manual, shows a Picture of an M-600 w/ those same Oversized Fenders, Grille, Valance & Bumpers on the Front Cover.
My original '57, '58', '59, '60 Ford Truck Parts & Accessories Catalogs shows an F-100 (w/ normal fenders, grille, valance & bumper) next to an F-600 (w/ oversized fenders, grille, valance & bumper).
Now you see why I'm Mystified, I hope.

 

HMMMM. Interesting. So, then in '57, the F-600 got big old fatty front fenders. Now that just seems odd. They're showing the same all the way up to the 900s? Wow, I guess Ford decided to pinch pennies and just make all the big truks big. I'm certain I've seen bigger trucks with really really big front fenders in that vintage, even bigger than the wide F-600s. They're absolute monsters of a fender.

 

Hello,
I do not know much about the 57s, but since they are the same body style as the 1960, and I have both F100 and F600s that are 1960, here is what I have to throw in.

The bumpers on the F100 and F600 are about the same length, but are different. The F600 bumper has a flat front face while the F100 is contoured. The ends are a bit different too. The F600 mounting is reinforced with gussets also.
You probably could adapt the F100 bumper to fit the F600.

The only difference in the fenders is that the F600 has a larger wheel opening arch than the F100. I think the break point on this was the F100 thru F350 with single rears used the smaller wheel opening, and the F350 dual rear thru F600 use the larger wheel opening. The F700 and up use a wider (flared) fender, and a longer bumper to go along with the increased width of the truck.

Hope this is helpful