Ok, so a few weeks ago, right around April 1st, 2007, I purchased a 1952 Ford F6. It was in pretty good shape from the looks of it, but there was no battery and I had no idea what to really expect.
I did some looking, as well as asking of some older family and friends, and found out the truck would have been a 6Volt truck unless converted, and since I found the 6volt regulator on the firewall I decided to find a battery to see what we had. I found a battery at a local farm supply store, installed it, and found that all the lights worked. I could turn the motor by hand so I knew the engine was not locked up, so it would have to wait till next weekend but I would try to get it to run.
The following weekend I used the tractor to move the truck to the garage, and started to work. I first found out that I had no spark at all. I then found that I had no signal coming from the distributor telling the ignition coil to fire anyway! I decided to replace the points, condenser, distributor cap, and rotor. Upon completion I had spark! I then needed fuel to get the concoction known as fire. I removed the fuel tank, found it contained very very old gasoline and a fair amount of sludge. I used the air compressor to check the fuel line, hmm blocked. I turned up the pressure and at least got a little air through. I decided to fill the line with carb cleaner, then hit it with the air hose. I did that probably four times and finally the line was clean. I decided to take the carburetor off and clean it, and gave it a quick rebuild. I then cranked the engine over a little and what do you know, the fuel pump worked and the carburetor was working like it should. The following day I needed to move the truck back out of the garage and my brother-in-law wanted to see if we could push start the truck, so of course we tried..... And failed.
That brings us to this past weekend. I pushed the truck into the garage Saturday and proceeded to replace the spark plugs, new custom plug wires, and my brother-in-law changed the oil. I then had him turn the key on, and hit the starter button, and what would you know, it started right up. We then decided to see if it could move under its own power. Hmm no clutch. Well lets jam it into gear, and it backed right up. Then I jam it right into first and drive down the driveway. The next problem I have is no gear other than first seams to work, oh and no brakes. My wife and I decide to work on the truck a little that night and she is directing me while I drive it into the garage. Can you see the problem here yet!?! I stop and she says pull up a little farther. I pop it into first, pull up a little and try to pull it out of gear real quick, and what do you know, I find second and run into the riding lawn mower, as she just kind of steps out of the way like she expected that. So we proceed to work on cleaning more, and trying to polish it up a bit. The following day I work a little on trying to figure out the issue with the clutch. I don't get very far due to family needing assistance with various things. Then its time to head back home, so I back it back out of the garage, and decide to run down the driveway again, ahh, but this time I manage to grab second, and even third, haha still no clutch, and still no brakes. I go ahead and park it and we head home. I have since gotten some additional information about the clutch and I will work on it come next weekend. More updates to follow!
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Interesting to know.
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