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Looks great, Bill. The transmission tunnel is pretty cool. It ought to be stout enough to withstand a small nuclear explosion in your trans. Project is coming together nicely. I think your truck looks great with or without the hood. Makes for a nice option of being able to change the look of...

OK Bill, lets see some updates!

That thing has a far better chance of running than you may think. On a typical small 2 stroke engine the fuel / air mixture takes a path that is different than a naturally aspirated 4 stroke. The air is drawn in through the carb and into the crankcase by vacuum created by the piston travelling...

When started laying things out on my '49 F5 I had hoped to use the original cab and go fenderless. The more I looked at it I just couldn't see the proportions coming out the way I wanted them. After working on the cab & a pile of rusted steel ending up on the floor every time I bumped it I...

I'll have to use shims as I haven't set my running ride height yet. Here's a drawing of where I was thinking I'd go with this truck a year ago: http://www.ratrodsrule.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=30622&d=1252378071 Here's what I'm thinking at the moment...

I'm planning on running singles in the rear. I haven't decided what I'm going to stick with as far as wheels. I'd like to put a different set of rims on my rear centers so I can run 10.00-20's on the rear. I'll probably stick with 7.00 or 7.50-20's on the front.

We're cut/broke apart the cab today. Got a couple more things to unhook & we'll get the cowl off.

Good to hear from you, Bill. Where is the Springfield swap held? We are taking Levi down to Troy next weekend where he'll be staying for the next 9 months. He's going to be going to school at Hobart. Maybe I can stop in since I'll shouldn't be too far from the swap meet.

I also decided to see if the headlights I bought would look OK by the Chevy radiator. After standing and staring I'm feeling a little more excited about getting going on making a body. This week I also got the engine and transmission about ready to pull. Amazingly every bolt broke loose. On...

I decided to do some measuring and staring so I pulled out one of the items I wanted to use. When my parents bought the house my mother still lives in, 40 some years ago, there was an old Chevy radiator up in one of the sheds. We've kept it around & it looks like if I make my own cab I can make...

Last week we pulled the rear axle & loaded it up on the trailer. I took it to a friend of mine that has a big impact wrench and a Budd socket. I found a couple of the wheels I got from Bill and stuck the axle back under the truck with singles on the rear. After pulling it into the barn to...

I've already posted some stuff on various thoughts of how to lay out the front suspension in another thread: http://www.ratrodsrule.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5789 When cold weather hits I get distracted by snowmobiles, so not much of anything happened last winter. When spring hit there seemed...

The next step was to start to figure out what kind of suspension we were going to use. I like the idea of a different looking, odd suspension. This truck will never be a high-speed, long distance touring machine. We're building it for the fun of building something. To back up a little bit...

Since the barn is already full of other junk we moved the truck around to a concrete pad on the end of the barn. Worked out pretty nice as it had been used to raise fair pigs on and we came to the end of doing that in 2007. It was handy to have a level solid spot to work on that I didn't have to...

After we got the truck home the dis assembly began. Since my has a '49 F-3 he was able to see a few parts I wouldn't need that would go on his truck.

A couple years ago at a local antique tractor event my son and I happened across a Model A tudor hot rod/rat rod. After looking at it a few minutes we came to the conclusion that we could build one too. After some web searching through the various rat rod sites and some indecision about what...

I really like the lowered trailer!

Last ones: And you guys should recognize this one:

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