1948 power wagon project

[Todd M]

Orange PW finally made some noise today. I will hopefully have the bed on tomorrow.

Will hopefully be able to get in the upholstery queue in the near future.

[53Crusher]

Wow!

[Todd M]

Good day getting the bed on today and securing the bed floor downs - 20 man hours. Still need to get several longer bolts - polish them and then finalize the inside edge.

Best benefit was the young help to get under and up in the bed multiple times an hour.

Will look like it is finished once we get the fenders on but still a million little things to complete.

[Todd M]

Before putting the bed in at the shop I asked a favor from a machinist. Mill down the original spacer that I received from VPW from 5/8 thickness to .4” or put 4 holes in the disk that I purchased and possibly mill down from 4” to 3”. He took the original and had it cut down in what seemed like a minute. Big thanks to him.

Fan has been installed, radiator hooked up, brakes bleed, fuel pushed to the pump (used compressed air through the filler neck was quicker than I thought) and on to getting the truck to run so the power steering could be bleed.

We were unable to get the engine to start so hopefully tomorrow once I have a timing light to ensure that I have the distributor correctly installed.

Not to loose the day I went to installing the mud/splash panel that attach to frames bottom. Passenger side went well. Then the drivers side had me modify something because of the power steering addition - the 3 bolts under the brakes master cylinder and power steering were unable to have bolts placed in them so I tapped them to thread them in like the front two. Will be easier to remove in the future if needed.

The radiator extension for the the orange PW had its unwanted logo removed and polished.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and if they worked on their truck all went well.

[TK064]

Beautiful work. What axles are you using.

[texcwa]

Unbelievable work Tod. I hope to have a chance to see it in person when finished.

[Todd M]

Beautiful work. What axles are you using.

The engine and majority of the drivetrain including the axles came from a 2006 Ram 2500 HD donor truck.

Tisdale Coachworks mounted engine/drivetrain and the cab I stretched on a one of their custom frames for me before coming back to get the thousand minutia items done.

[TK064]

Thanks. Just tore down the carryall (again) and working with my nephew (future recipient on his 40th) and trying to decide on any running gear upgrades to future proof it.

Inspirational work for sure.