gold03
He lives in an "Altered State"!
I thought I should start a build thread before it got so far ahead of me I couldn't catch up.
My plan is to build a 1949 Ford 2 1/2 ton into a bobber. I bought the truck running and driving. It was sanded to bare metal when I bought it. I don't have much use for a grain truck so the box and hydraulics are coming off. Front and rear axles are being replaced.
Front axle will be a 47 Ford with split wish bones and disc brakes. The rear axle is going to be a toyota axle with 4:10 gears. nice and narrow axle with lots of rim options as it takes six bolt Chevy rims.
The truck has a perfectly running flat head that staying with the project. Not sure about the transmission yet. The one int he truck works fine, but its huge, and hangs low.
I don't want this real low in the weeds because of where and how I drive. next year I am going to try and get the roof chop done. The goal for this year is to trans form the truck from a grain truck into a rolling chassis rat rod.
I have built a frame table for mocking up my suspension and hanging the axles.
Here is a link to video of what I bought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_GU_S1Lvk&feature=related
Video of the engine running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZshL03h9Y&feature=related
Here is video of what I did to the 1947 front end so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHY8Yqpp_V4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
and a picture of what the axle looked like when it came out of the farmers field...
My plan is to build a 1949 Ford 2 1/2 ton into a bobber. I bought the truck running and driving. It was sanded to bare metal when I bought it. I don't have much use for a grain truck so the box and hydraulics are coming off. Front and rear axles are being replaced.
Front axle will be a 47 Ford with split wish bones and disc brakes. The rear axle is going to be a toyota axle with 4:10 gears. nice and narrow axle with lots of rim options as it takes six bolt Chevy rims.
The truck has a perfectly running flat head that staying with the project. Not sure about the transmission yet. The one int he truck works fine, but its huge, and hangs low.
I don't want this real low in the weeds because of where and how I drive. next year I am going to try and get the roof chop done. The goal for this year is to trans form the truck from a grain truck into a rolling chassis rat rod.
I have built a frame table for mocking up my suspension and hanging the axles.
Here is a link to video of what I bought.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql_GU_S1Lvk&feature=related
Video of the engine running.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZshL03h9Y&feature=related
Here is video of what I did to the 1947 front end so far.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHY8Yqpp_V4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
and a picture of what the axle looked like when it came out of the farmers field...