36 Ford truck on Ranger

[Old Stuff]

The plot thickens.... Standing by.....

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[MercuryMac]

This story is not THE thirty-six Ford truck and it isn't even about building.
But it is about a thirty-six Ford truck and it will be built.
I'm still friends with the guy I bought my '36 from twenty five years ago and he said he always liked those thirty-sixes, so I told him "Have I got a deal for you". "You can have all of my leftovers". He took the deal. Today he came out to the farm and we loaded a bunch of stuff up. there were two cabs, [a '36 and a '37], a really rough box, pretty good front fenders, headlights, rough rear fenders, and a box of small stuff like gauges, speedo, and door latches. A windshield and two mediocre grilles.

 

[soltz]

The plot just got thicker [cl
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[Old Iron]

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[zzrodder]

Nice to know it was worth it to save that stuff and that someone will make use of it. Good for your karma [cl

 

[MercuryMac]

I've noticed that about me, ZZ. The thought of some of my inventory coming alive again is very gratifying, even if someone else is the builder. AND I'm finally realizing that I can't finish all of my dreams; I better stick to a few dreams and make them come true.

 

[MercuryMac]

My buyer client sent me some pictures last night. He has found an appropriate Ranger pick-up, stripped it down, and moched-up a 36 Ford on it.
I've spent an hour now getting these pictures into the computer and I can't get them onto this forum. Sorry.

 

[05snopro440]

My buyer client sent me some pictures last night. He has found an appropriate Ranger pick-up, stripped it down, and moched-up a 36 Ford on it.
I've spent an hour now getting these pictures into the computer and I can't get them onto this forum. Sorry.

Awesome!

 

[MercuryMac]

After a lot of weirdness and jumping through computer generated hoops, I have got some moch-up pictures for you, [I hope].

Notice his nice dove grey '46 Mercury in the background in the shed.

 

[Old Iron]

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[soltz]

Good job [cl

Nice looking starter truck

 

[MercuryMac]

I may have misled you guys a wee bit. I still have some '36 truck stuff.

 

[05snopro440]

I may have misled you guys a wee bit. I still have some '36 truck stuff.

When can I come to pick it up?

 

[MercuryMac]

I told you that I also sold a pair of Mercurys. A '48 Monarch coupe and a '47 Merc sedan. Well here is the last of them leaving the yard.

 

[bob w]

What prompted the thinning of the herd, Mac?

 

[MercuryMac]

Bob, I'm starting to acknowledge my age, I've counted up my future projects, and I have to make some room in my machine shed for the finished projects. My age is actually creeping up on me. I have 14 or 15 possible 'ten year' projects ahead of me, which is logically 'undoable'. There are two projects nearing completion and I have no more room in the big shed, so something had to go. I will keep the top five or six vehicles to build.

 

[Couper]

The speedometer cable had to bend fairly sharply before, to get around the brake booster, so now that the driven gear housing is sticking out quite a bit further, the speedo cable has to kink even more. One solution would be to mount a corner drive in the speedo cable. It just so happens that I bought two of those angle-drives at the big swap-meet. One of them was for a big truck, so not for this application, but the other was pretty good except for one mounting position, [where you should screw on the cable nut]. The seller had lathed down the male threads and mounted a brass bushing on that end. It didn't work for him and it certainly wouldn't work for me. I robbed the male threads out of another old speedo drive and made it fit this corner drive and pressed it together. [pic one]
[pic two] is the corner drive installed.
[pic three] is most of the truck put back together, like the crossmember, exhaust and driveshaft.

Is that a right angle dangle? LOL Coming along nicely Merc!

 

[Torchie]

Bob, I'm starting to acknowledge my age, I've counted up my future projects, and I have to make some room in my machine shed for the finished projects. My age is actually creeping up on me. I have 14 or 15 possible 'ten year' projects ahead of me, which is logically 'undoable'. There are two projects nearing completion and I have no more room in the big shed, so something had to go. I will keep the top five or six vehicles to build.

Smart move, Mac.
What ever you build you know we will all be watching.[P [P
Torchie

 

[MercuryMac]

Today I fired up the '36 truck after it's long holiday. I remembered that the engine ran funny at most speeds but nicely at an idle, so I took the main carb apart ---again, and found a little wee air vent plugged off so I cleaned it out and while I had the carb apart, I changed the power valve from a 3.5 to a 4.5.. [pic one]. [pic two] is the carb all back together again and everything ready for a test-drive.
The test-drive went well.

 

[Old Iron]

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