46 Ford Truck Build

This is my 1946 ford truck build, thought I would drop a few pics of my progress.

Ya have a good stance on it [cl

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Torchie

Lookin' good..... any build pic's?

Ya done good.[cl

I'll be watching this one as I'm a real fan of this era of trucks.

Thanks guys. I'm running a Dodge 440/727 trans with Ford explorer 8.8 rear with 3.73 gears.
2600 lb air bags with 22" wheels. The frame was built by me with 18" z in the rear and 4" in the front.

The 4" in the front,whats the proper way to weld that?I`m fairly sure you weld the seam between the two pieces and cap the ends.The plate would run with the two cut ends?

This is my first attempt at building a frame so i am in know way an expert. The frame is made of 2x4x1/4" square tubing and cut the ends at a 45 degree angle. I laid the two peices on top of each other and over lapped about 8" welded them together, capped the ends and plated both sides of the joint with a 4"x6" plate.

I should have been more clear in my question.I was thinking the plate would be the same size as the over lap and be welded to the cut ends.The rest of the plate would need to be welded,but I`ve always heard that welding a line across the solid portion would create a weak point.This question is for anybody reading this.

46fword said:

This is my first attempt at building a frame so i am in know way an expert. The frame is made of 2x4x1/4" square tubing and cut the ends at a 45 degree angle. I laid the two peices on top of each other and over lapped about 8" welded them together, capped the ends and plated both sides of the joint with a 4"x6" plate.

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This is the correct way to weld the z together and positioning of the plates.
As far as welding across the rails go, it's acceptable to do this on this frame because of two things.
1. The thickness of the tubing walls.
2. The vehicle isn't heavy enough to flex the frame enough to crack it.
I repair a lot of semi car haulers and in this instance, you absolutely do not weld across the frame because of what rvreddog mentioned. It hardens the metal and will crack.
We actually use body seam sealer at the cross section of the frame plates to keep moisture and road grime out as much as possible and only weld the length of the rails.
I personally like to use internal plates and rosette weld them, merely for aesthetic purposes.

Thats what I`m looking for,thank you.[cl

front fender reuse

Here's what my son did with the front fenders off our 46. he used then for a nose for his 22 dodge lakester

good looking project... of course I'm a little partial to 46 ford trucks myself


and how your son saw a lakester grille in 46 ford fenders is super cool

TIMOTHALE said:

Here's what my son did with the front fenders off our 46. he used then for a nose for his 22 dodge lakester

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Now you got my wheels turning in my rusty old thought machine. I have some spare 51 Plymouth fenders that are currently acting as a home for blackberry vines. I'll have to do some staring... [S

TIMOTHALE said:

Here's what my son did with the front fenders off our 46. he used then for a nose for his 22 dodge lakester

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I like the nose piece your son built, I've been thinking I might build a rat rod style desk out of my front clip eventually.

Our 46

The truck was given to our local dismantler. the builder was in his 80's when he passed and his kids did not want it. It has a lincoln Y block, 3/4 ton drive train. It was in good shape when we first saw it , but got the front end banged up by forklifts in the snow. My son helped the guy crush cars and got a lot of stuff, saving things from the crusher. 41 chevy PU, 46 international, the 46 ford, the drive train from 3 "grandma" cars. low milage chevy v8 4 door sedans. 401 buick drive train with 15 minutes run time after rebuild. I am claiming the 401 for my 32 roadster parts pile

You must be a very generous person to have such good fortune. Sounds like a fine pole of projects.