36 Ford truck on Ranger

[MercuryMac]

Hi guys. More test results. I went about 15 miles to the nearest town to get gas and on the way back the truck quit on me. I naively thought I would make the run without incident so left my tools at home. Dumb,Dumb,Dumb. I popped open the distributer and the points looked white and fuzzy, not good. I had my jackknife so I scraped and scraped the points and it started up and drove home. When in town the next day I was surprized at finding two sets of points, so I bought them both, and then took the burnt points to a professional for his opinion. He said 'you are running twelve volts through these aren't you'. I came home, installed the new points and unplugged the wire that jumped across my resistor and plugged it in right, and 'voila' it started up and ran nicely, so I went to A&W and showed off.

[Dvapteam]

Nothing better then a cool old American steel and a cool Roootbeer float....I just read threw this thread...you have a new fan...great build you have.

[MercuryMac]

Thanks Dvap. It feels good to have a fan, possibly a professional in our profession. This is the first vehicle that I've done much body work on, so I'm becoming a more rounded builder. It does feels good.

[MercuryMac]

Hi guys. tonight I crawled underneath and did a hillbilly experiment, but did not test drive the change as it is muddy as heck here. Remember when I said my clutch seemed to not quite disengage properly, well I lumped that clue together with another one. This transmission has that old Ford truck whine to it whether I'm pulling or slacking off. I don't remember a whine in it when the transmission was in my daughter's Mustang. I began to think that my homemade transmission adapter was too thin and my measuring was faulty, so the input shaft is jammed up into the pilot hole in the flywheel so hard that the clutch shaft bearing has side thrust on it, causing a whine, and the flywheel is turning the input shaft just with friction. Anyhow, I shimmed the transmission back about 30 thousands of an inch. We'll see on the next test drive.

[I-R-POPS]

Sweet ride! It's the little things that will drive you nuts isn't it?
Enjoy your efforts and keep cruisin .

[Bamamav]

That truck has turned out great! One of my favorites here at RRR!

[MercuryMac]

Thank You Pops and Bama, of course, you know that I'm already bustin' my buttons with pride on this dang truck and you guys are just feeding my ego even more.
I took her out for another test drive tonight and the clutch and whine are a wee bit better but not cured. I think I will have to live with an old Ford truck sounding like an old Ford truck.

[MercuryMac]

Hi guys. I took my truck to a local shop that I've dealt with a bit for many years, to get my 'out of province' mechanical inspection done. It passed. So while I was on a roll I went to the local registry office [different town than the first few weeks of license getting] and asked about getting plates. When the lady said 'Oh, it was last registered out of province', I immediately told her the truth. It was not registered anywhere for seventy years and I did not steal this truck out of a different province. She gave me the governmental look that said don't be lying to me. It finally clicked on me to shut-up and let them think whatever they wanted to think, just give me the plates. So I shut-up and smiled as sincere a smile as I could fake, -----and she gave me my plates. I learned a valuable lesson, late in life.

[MercuryMac]

I forgot the important picture in the last post.

[MercuryMac]

I was so proud of getting the license plates, finally, that I didn't even focus on them for the picture in the last post. Here's a better pic with the plate clearly shown.