36 Ford truck on Ranger

[DozerII]

That's a whole lot of tinkering around MM. [P[P

 

[joedoh]

perty stuff![cl[cl

 

[MercuryMac]

A bunch of tinkering happened today. The first pic is just the intake with carbs set in place, lined up and the bolts started. They got torqued down. I took out all of the sparkplugs and cleaned them. Putting the alternator and fan on a flathead while it's in the vehicle is quite a chore. Anyhow, pic two is the motor almost ready to test-drive, almost, hopefully. Oh ya, you'll see in the second picture that I made a blue hairpin mount for the fuel log to keep it away from the head. Hopefully, that will keep the gas cooler.

 

[DozerII]

Here's hoping you got the bugs out now. [cl[cl[P[P

 

[Old Iron]

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[I-R-POPS]

Good looking set up. Hopefully it will run with out any more problems.
I know you are tired of chasing the issues.

 

[Torchie]

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Torchie

 

[MercuryMac]

I had a set-back today. The power steering mounting bracket still needed to be installed, but I couldn't start a weird bolt that screws into the big nut that holds the alternator and the fan brackets on. I eventually lost the bolt down the front of the motor behind the fan. It's pretty tight in there. I couldn't find it with the trouble light and a magnet or crawling underneath and running my fingers everywhere. So I had to make a new one, a 9/16, fine threaded, short bolt. It took me a while to find a suitable candidate.
Then the three deuce, progressive linkage had to be re-figured out and re-installed.
A few fuel lines had to be installed and then pressure checked.
Here's the finished product, ready to test-drive.

 

[Skip]

"Ready to test drive" is a great line. [cl

 

[MercuryMac]

Thanks for the good vibes, guys. Today, it started right up, I found the bolt that I had lost yesterday, then I fixed another gas leak,. I checked the timing and it's at less than 1* advanced at an idle. I set out for our nearest town to get gas and test the power. -------- Everything went well.
So I brought it home, swept out the shop,, and then put the truck away in the back of the shop.

 

[Torchie]

Torchie

 

[dutch]

nice! [cl

 

[DozerII]

Well that's good news, did you put stabilizer in the gas so it doesn't undo all your fine work? [cl[cl

 

[Old Iron]

Right on [cl

 

[BillM]

Well done MM, all that perseverance paid off.

 

[smallfoot]

Let it sit??? what, no heater???

 

[MercuryMac]

Thank you Guys.
Dozer, whooa, I never even thought about stabilizer.
Small, yes it has a heater that worked nicely yesterday, but I got the truck a little bit salty from the pavement and I don't want to add even more tin worm to it.

 

[kenny c]

Good to hear you got it going.[cl[cl Wise move to keep it away from the salt.

 

[MercuryMac]

I finally got the trail to the '36 truck cleared so I could wiggle it out of the back of the shop.

 

[kenny c]

Your truck is just too cool.[cl[cl