1936 Ford Pickup Refresh

[DRIVEN]

Different trucks but very similar. Mine is the '35 and his is the '36. Both black. Mine has all the Corvette stuff. His is/was stock buggy spring front suspension with one of those Explorer rearends I was flipping a couple years ago. Mine is 283/4spd, his is LT-1 4L60e.

 

[Longroof79]

The new boxed frame with the Mustang II setup should be a vast improvement. We'll keep an eye out for updates. Love those trucks.

 

[DRIVEN]

Lifted the frame off last night and laid out some of the parts. It'll be a project, for sure.
Also, it does run for the moment. He drove it on and off the trailer and pulled it in and out of the shop a couple times so we could shuffle things around. Still sounds great.

 

[Turbo Zach]

I am glad to see you back at it! I enjoy your builds.

 

[DRIVEN]

Thanks, man. We really haven't done anything yet. The three of us just unloaded and did inventory so far. My work schedule is kind of spastic so there probably won't be really regular updates.

 

[DRIVEN]

My brother split for home early this morning so my dad and I put in about 4 hours to get the ball rolling. Got the wiring all disconnected from the peripherals. Drained the fuel tank. Hacked off the super old exhaust. Removed the shocks. Fought rusty bolts on the running board, fenders and bed. Dismounted (unmounted?) the fuel pump and filter as well as the transmission cooler from the bottom of the bed. Then used the engine joist to lift the bed off.
Once we were done with disassembly we put the bed on jackstands and set the canopy back on so that we would have a storage unit.










I've got work out of town for a couple days so my dad may chip away at it. Otherwise, we'll probably do some more on Thursday.

 

[ssn696]

I really dig the mechanic's camper shell. Did you have that custom-made?

 

[DRIVEN]

Our dad did back in the very early 80s. One of my earliest memories was of him meeting with the guy in our garage when he took all the measurements. I remember a few camping trips where my brother and I rode on a platform he had built in the back. Not at all comfortable on the Sunday afternoon ride home with a wicked bad lake reflection sunburn.

It was a pretty interesting disassembly today. According to my dad, he'd never had any of the body apart before. When he bought it in the early 70s it was orange. He painted it burgundy shortly before I was born. The paintjob didn't come out very well because of some problem with shrinkback. He had a body shop shoot it black and that's the color I've always known it.
It was flathead powered when he got it and he put a 283 in it with a bellhousing adapter. I still have that part. Later, he had a fledgling hotrod shop install a TH350 and 9". I was looking at some of the welds today. The guy was pretty competent with the oyyacetyle welder.

 

[DRIVEN]

Progress marches on without me. I'm in Carson City right now but I guess my dad got the tank and fuel lines removed, yanked the steering column, as well as getting all the cab mount bolts off.

 

[1evilregal]

glad to see you back at it after the stress of construction! looking forward to seeing the progress on this and the reaper!