Not much to see. It's sitting in his garage while he's on a 2 week California vacation in his VW bus. Summer's coming so we'd better get it buttoned up though. I'll update when some actual work gets done.
1936 Ford Pickup Refresh
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My brother came by this morning so we could finish up a couple things. We reinstalled the aOOgah horn inside the bottom of the grill shell pointed to the right. Scares the holy hell out of hipsters on fixies. :evil:
We also installed the CableX speedo drive under the seat and measured for a custom speedometer cable. The last thing we did was try to pinpoint the source of a vibration in the rear. Looks like he has a bent axle on the driver's side. Now we're thinking about some suspension work. Given the list of needs; new brake lines, master cylinder, front pads, kingpins, rear brakes, and a replacement axle -- it almost makes more sense to upgrade than repair. Seriously considering Mustang II up front and Jag in the rear. Likely bagging it too. We'll see.
Anyway, he's put quite a few miles on it his summer. So far the only hiccups have been a bad U-joint and some suspicious RR tire wear.
We also installed the CableX speedo drive under the seat and measured for a custom speedometer cable. The last thing we did was try to pinpoint the source of a vibration in the rear. Looks like he has a bent axle on the driver's side. Now we're thinking about some suspension work. Given the list of needs; new brake lines, master cylinder, front pads, kingpins, rear brakes, and a replacement axle -- it almost makes more sense to upgrade than repair. Seriously considering Mustang II up front and Jag in the rear. Likely bagging it too. We'll see.
Anyway, he's put quite a few miles on it his summer. So far the only hiccups have been a bad U-joint and some suspicious RR tire wear.
Have you ever looked at the most recent crown vic set ups? They are pretty sweet to say the least.
There's a lot of things that the Crown Vic swap would be great in but I don't think this is one of them :lol: . There's an 11" difference in track width. You might appreciate this though; for a while there was a kit available to put Pacer IFS under the '35-'40 Fords. When I was about 14 we had another '36 pickup that I cut my teeth on. We picked up a Pacer to use as a donor but ended up selling the truck before it got that far. The Pacer went back to the wrecking yard. Stock for stock, I think the AMC would be a better option than a Mustang II.
lol, the pacer was quite the interesting unit for its era. Funny though, much of amc's suspension designs, were ford based.
Well, it's officially restarted. My brother has been driving this thing for most of probably about 8 months and we finally decided that we needed to address the rearend related issues. Actually it was decided for him when another bad Ujoint pitched the driveline as he entered the freeway a couple weeks ago. They flat towed it from my brother's house a couple nights ago. Then the old 9" miraculously got uninstalled by our dad while he was in town earlier this week. I guess he gets bored while we're at work.
And this was the best 8.8 of the bunch so I snagged it for this project.
And this was the best 8.8 of the bunch so I snagged it for this project.
I dragged the 8.8 into the middle of the floor and cut the old mounts off. My nephew was with my brother so we put him to work. Truck will probably be his someday.
We set it up in place, set the angles, tacked the mounts, measured for the new driveline, and dropped it back out. Then welded the mounts on solid. Set it up on sawhorses for a coat of good primer/sealer.
Then he knocked the rust off of the old springs for a fresh coat of paint.
Then we set it back in place and hung the rotors and calipers. Now we wait for the driveline to be finished. He also needs to get longer U-bolts since he's running 2" lowering blocks.
We set it up in place, set the angles, tacked the mounts, measured for the new driveline, and dropped it back out. Then welded the mounts on solid. Set it up on sawhorses for a coat of good primer/sealer.
Then he knocked the rust off of the old springs for a fresh coat of paint.
Then we set it back in place and hung the rotors and calipers. Now we wait for the driveline to be finished. He also needs to get longer U-bolts since he's running 2" lowering blocks.
Thanks, man. More of it here https://gbodyforum.com/threads/projects-from-the-compound.35069/ if you haven't seen it yet.
That is going to be a great piece of history when your done. That truck was built when designers had a pencil and paper and the people who built those trucks were true craftsman. It's nice seeing your young nephew working with a tool instead of a keyboard like most kids are these days.
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