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Lahti35 last won the day on December 13 2023

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  1. Agreed! So nice to NOT see a red interior or vinyl tuck and roll.
  2. A change of plan! I ended up sending the steering box off to a rebuilder after talking with them some. They'll replace both bushings and bore the bottom of the housing out for a roller bearing as well as install all new seals and gaskets. The price would have come out similar to the machine shop with the added benefit that it will be ready to install and comes with a 12 month warranty. Turn around should be fairly quick, it was in the 50's here today so I decided to spruce up it's home. Grime and gunk... Degreased with all manner of scrapers, pointy tools, and thinner. I'm always amazed at how much junk accumulates on even a small chassis area over a period of decades...
  3. These big, slow, mostly impractical trucks on any of today's main roads all seem to be wanting big paydays in the last few years... I've noticed asking prices seem to have taken a sharp jump in my neck of the woods, even for Ford AA's. Are we at the era when these vehicles are passing to new owners who are high on glue?
  4. True dat! These auto's just scream out for a more flattering color combo.
  5. That looks like a lot of fun. Do it up as WWII era something or other cut down to get more gas rations and bum around town.
  6. Looks like a nice one! I've always wanted a early 60's corvair but never found one in good enough shape here in the rust belt.
  7. The weather is unseasonably warm up here with temps in the 50's and sunny! My other project stalled so I took the chance to jump ahead a month and pull the steering box out of the Ford. It's made by Bendix and it lives down here: Removal wasn't too bad, it came out the bottom in an hour. Removing the pitman arm took the most time, the nut was on there really good for some reason and I had to heat it to be able to back it off. So the deal is the thing was leaking, it's pretty filthy down there. This was Ford's early power steering box and it was kind of "meh" when new. Age has not done it any favors. The Bendix box was prone to overheating and leaking, Ford replaced it with a better unit a few years later. The problem is today that these Bendix units are rare and parts are rarer. There are two places that rebuild them but they need your core and prices start at $700 and go up. These boxes have no bushings in them and the shaft just rubs against the cast iron bore doing nothing good, until things get out of round allowing shaft play and start leaking past seals. You can buy a reseal kit but unless you make things round again it will just leak some more. I basically have 3 choices here: 1. Send it out for a $700+ rebuild and squeeze my wallet until it cries. 2. Take it to a machine shop and have them install bushings in the housing, buy a seal kit and assemble myself. 3. Install a later Ford unit that requires the steering column and shaft be cut down as the later unit is taller. I chose #2, because #2 is what I'm used to dealing with anyway so why go changin'. Here you can see the shaft and the housing bore it goes into. Here's some of the wear on the shaft at the bottom end. It's not severe but you can see where things have been touching. I put a mic on the three spots it contacts the housing and it's just ever so slightly out of round. There was heavy oil in the power steering system when I took it apart. I'm guessing it was an attempt to slow the leaks as the PS system of this model/year calls for Ford type F transmission fluid. I sent a letter off to the the machine shop tonight along with pics, hopefully he'll take on the project as he's been good about helping me with other cars in the past. If not... we'll cross that bridge we have to!
  8. No problem man! I'm always learning and forgetting, but mostly forgetting... Stay cool Jack, we're all in this together!
  9. My grandfather had a special saying for these occasions... "If I was going to give it away, I'd give it to somebody I liked!" I give these buyers the boot these days, It's not worth the hassle.
  10. Oh man, that would be a surprise when you opened up your brand new parts! Yikes!
  11. No offense taken, it's great to learn! However in this case it's not a proportioning valve... This is the "brake pressure differential valve" and while it may look similar to a proportioning valve it has nothing to do with restricting fluid flow to any wheel cylinder, front or rear. The orifices are all the same size, only a drop in pressure on any one leg will allow the piston to move in that direction activating the dash lamp. https://www.fordification.com/tech/propvalve101.htm I probably should have used the exact term for this valve but I must have been lazy that evening! To make matters confusing Ford made these valves and proportioning valves look very similar, there's even a combination valve! It's an often misunderstood part and there is a lot of internet speculation out there perpetuating false info... Most of these things that look like proportioning valves are proportioning valves but there are some old Fords where that brass valve may look like a duck but doesn't quack like one.😄
  12. I think I recognize her! Vargas calendar, December 1945...
  13. If the fenders are original to the truck I would say its a later Speedwagon, I recall that the earlier fenders were riveted together and the rivets plainly visible. This looks more similar to the 1924 Speedwagon I had years ago than one from the teens...
  14. I think it's all pretty relative... What you grow up with never seems to be a "real" antique even though time marches on. I would never have considered my '82 Plymouth Gran Fury an antique but it would be 44 if it was still around!
  15. I'll have to try out that Greased Lightening stuff, I like the fact it comes out of a squirt bottle instead of a spray can like my go to oven cleaner... Great work, keep it up!
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