The 52 Project

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Or as Jeff would say "what ADOR has been spending his toughbucks on" lol

I have had this truck I have been working on and off since about Mid year 2011. 1952 Ford F1. I am getting very close to firing the engine off right now. So here is the progress in pictures for it.









This is from the day after I got it home

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A few trips to the junk yard and I found 4 48 -52 ford trucks. Two half tons and two BIG trucks. I have gotten various parts off of them. One of the half tons were bought after I got what parts I needed off of it. Mainly grill parts as my front clip for years had been stored nose first on the ground and was rusted out. Between two trucks I had found enough parts to replace them all.

The original flathead was long gone, but the transmission was still there. Since I couldn't find a flathead that wasn't locked up from setting up unused or full of water I started work and looked for another engine.


Work starts, stripped to the Cab and Frame.

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Slow got it all together and started test fitting different engine I had. First was the 250 six with 3 speed. That one would of took a ton of fab work to relocate the shifter and make shifting linkage.

Next was a 1957 292 Y block, backed by a 1954 big truck 4 speed. It fit good and even the original trans mount would of worked. I didn't use it as the big truck 4 speed wouldn't been good for just basic driving. I tried to find another Y block tranny that would work but nothing could be found that didn't need to be rebuilt.

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http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5069/586 ... 8d97_z.jpg

The truck had a crappy single high back bucket from a ???? I trashed it, it didn't look good anyway, lol.

I found a bench seat frame that wasn't totally rusted out in the junk yard out of one of the bean trucks and got it, rebuilt it. I had to weld a 1" x 1" square tube to the top because the original holes were tore out getting it apart, I got the slide back working. The seat frame originally was all springs. I kept just the outer frame, welded in tabs and put in ply wood. Then I went back to the junkyard and pulled a lower seat foam from a late 70's to early 80's dodge pickup. They are solid foam with a good heavyduty seat cover so I know the foam would still be good. The 1980-95 ford truck rear seat back is solid foam also. These foams are longer than needed so I cut the foam and reshaped them. Got a half ass cover on it right now. Will be doing a better cover, maybe a Mexican blanket type cover later on.

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Y block test fitting



Current combo test fitting 302 v8 / FMX. Originally was going to go with a 3 speed manual, but too much linkage to work out or I would of just made mounts for the 250 six.

[mklym]

Great job. It is looking good. Some nice work going on. Toughbucks well spent.

[ADOR]

Disk brake conversion kit. Changed from stock drums to 11.75" disks on the front.

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/1948-1956 ... ,4621.html

Not the kit I went with, but very similar. Mine keeps the factory wheel bolt pattern and has a bigger disk.

Test fitting cross members.



The 1988 Lincoln Town car 5.0/302 and FMX. The fuel injection was low performance on this model, but it is set up with a roller cam. Same cam they put in the 93 up trucks. Made for making low end torque to push heavy cars/trucks. The restrictive intake has been replaced by a aluminum dual plane intake and a Edelbrock carb. I had to use the one year only 1986 ford mustang with carb distributer because it is the newer style for this block and I started with a mismatched set of exhaust manifolds because all standard manifolds hit the steering box. Finally found one for a 1963 falcon that would clear the steering on the driver side. It was wide open on the passenger side.

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The brake upgrade started.