Spring is here - back to the shed.

[pmccarthy]

First day on the truck project since last summer!

 

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, pmccarthy said:

the truck project

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[pmccarthy]

OK... Grandpa's truck, '32 Chev, got it ten years ago. (He has been gone more than 60 years) I have been working on it since as one of my projects. All the wood was stuffed. Haven't started the engine yet, but it is rebuilt.

 

 

 

[facthunter]

I was going to say  33  if the engine has sat, overfill the oil so the dippers go in it to ensure oils is available till the Pump is proven working. The oil pressure is only about  10 lbs and feeds the mains and camshaft and maybe the rockers.. Smooth motor. Put a cover over the radiator to get it hot enough without driving. Cast iron Pistons are standard till about 1952.. I might have some NOS new valves. Small head long stems..  Nev

[onetrack]

It's interesting that the '32 Chev truck used the '31 car bonnet. The '32 car bonnet has 4 small hinged doors in the side panels, not louvres. Those Twilite headlights need the reflectors resilvered.

 

It looks very nice, wooden framed cabs and bodies are a pain to rebuild. They built the wooden frame, then took the panels and hammered them into place over the frame.

 

Every panel was a different size, you can't take a door off one wooden bodied vehicle and fit it to another, they're made to fit the particular body they came off.

 

Everyone thinks the factories were really particular on their choice of wood, but that's rubbish. The factories used any wood that would do the job, and when wood supplies got tight, they'd gather up fallen dead timber, and saw that up.

[pmccarthy]

I used several types of cabinet timber for the frames. Sort of a cheap job lot, and I wasn't building an aeroplane.

[onetrack]

If you ever smash one of those Twilite glass lenses, contact me, I have several of them that I collected many decades ago. The Americans ask around US$65 each for them, and the postage cost is about the same amount.

[pmccarthy]

One of mine is a half inch too small in diameter. I put it in with hot glue so you can’t tell with the rim on. I will send you the measurement in case you can help. There were different sizes in different years, and I think the 32 truck was unique.

[onetrack]

Is there a part number on the correct one? GM parts nearly always have the part number cast, embossed or stamped into them. I'll have to dig out my old 1930's Chevy master parts book and see what I can find by way of numbering.

Yes, there's always a staggering range of parts differences in GM/GMH vehicles, even though you think they should be the same part.

 

But GM always swapped parts between models and makes, and often, after the part had become "obsolete" on the initial model. Not many people know that FE/FC Holden interior door handles, are the same as the '57 Chev cars interior door handles.

The late 1950's Bedford trucks used the same cabin as the late 1940's/early 1950's Chev trucks.

And I've seen an example where a stainless steel door trim was used on the upper door of one GM model (can't recall if it was Oldsmobile or Pontiac), and a couple of years later, the same trim was used as a lower door trim on the opposite side of the Chevy.

 

I've read where doors, glass and boot lids can also be interchangeable between GM/GMH models. A Slav-ancestry mate is a crazy, obsessive hot-rodder, and he has a 1950 Oldsmobile hot rod. He found an EJ Holden front seat was a perfect fit for the rear seat in the Oldsmobile!

[old man emu]

Isn't that what globalisation has done to a lot of consumer product manufacturing? Smaller companies produce a few components which another manufacturer uses to assemble a bigger component which then goes to the major assembler to be put into the final product. Just think of vehicle electrical components. Remember Lucas, Bosch and AC?

 

The biggest differences between similar products from different manufacturers can simply be the name badge. Take power tools for instance. In many cases the "skin" is the same general form, with changes to the colour of the plastic, but the internals are basically the same. The only difference with the internals is that the cheaper versions for DIY use might have nylon gears while the ones for professional use have metal ones. 

[facthunter]

Add Delco Remy and Autolite to that list. GM and Ford respectively.  Nev

[old man emu]

Here's an example of what globalisation has done to a lot of consumer product manufacturing.

 

 

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