1949 ford pickup

[earthman]

fat juicy foto click on them DR to get a selection of sizes to snag

 

[earthman]

Just awesome stuff! [cl Wish the GGs here had a quarter of that. i will post some in the RR foto thread. Thanks so much for sharing these.

 

[gold03]

Nice job. I like it.

What steering box did you use? I am at the point of decision for mine and I like what you did.

gold03

 

[saleenme1]

I thought you would like the pics Dirtyrat.

 

[saleenme1]

gold i used a vega box cross steer,made the steering column out of 1 3/4 exhaust pipe and hardware store bearings.with the vega box you have to have a pan hard bar if you go cross steer.

 

[Dirtyrat]

I thought you would like the pics Dirtyrat.

Oh I did, great pics for sure I went through all of them! [cl

 

[gold03]

".with the vega box you have to have a pan hard bar if you go cross steer."

I dont get it. Why a panhard?

Gold03

 

[gold03]

Forget it... I figured it out. Has to do with transverse spring and shackles swinging the axle sideways under steering loads. Sheesh!!! Another thing to fit in there.

Gold03

 

[saleenme1]

Gold all i did was make a short panhard bar about 12 inches long, and made the spring perch one of the mounts and made a bracket welded to the top of the Axel, just make sure the panhard is level at ride height.

 

[saleenme1]

close up picks of pan hard bar

her is a pic of my front suspension .

 

[saleenme1]

engine picks

pic of my engine ,i have about 700 miles on it so far no problems been driving it every day.

 

[gold03]

I will have to figure out how to attach a panhard bar to a 1947 Ford axle... Which gets me thinking... It came with a transverse leaf spring and I don't remember a panhard. I need to go back and look at that. The spring was mounted in front of the axle originally though. Must have offset the forces[S

Gold03

 

[gold03]

Nice job on the engine bay!

Gold03

 

[saleenme1]

thanks Gold i believe the panhard on a 47 was attached to the wish bone end by the spring mount.I made windows (lexan) and hubcaps last night,getting ready for the Frog Folly's in Evansville Indiana next week end.

 

[Snake Farm]

I made it to the nationals without any major problems.the truck is pretty good on gas,and geared great for the interstate 4.10s with a 33 inch tire and overdrive. here is a link to the pics of louisville 2012, http://www.flickr.com/photos/cris3025/page51/

Wow, now that's a nice bunch of rides! Would love to find out all about this little truck. [dr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cris3025/7753433732/

And your truck turned out fantastic by the way. [cl[cl Love the paint and love it that you drive it everyday!

 

[saleenme1]

i have 1045 miles on it since 8-7.

 

[saleenme1]

3000 miles since 8-7. drive the truck every day rain or shine, rat rods are the best i haul car parts from the junk yard go to car shows in the same day

 

[saleenme1]

air ride

Hi all been a wile a little up date on the truck .i just finished installing air ride on the rear of the truck, i will let you know how it works in a few days . the truck has about 10,000 miles on it now

 

[saleenme1]

swapped the truck to a 65 cobra .

 

[christcrusader13]

swapped the truck to a 65 cobra .

what????