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Dan, yes I already have about a week ago. I guess it's time to post the menu though.

Friday evening will be a heart stopper!
Deep fried fish, hush puppies, fried cheeze triangles and sweet tator fries.

Saturday around noon will be a lot easier.
Smoked pulled pork on buns, smoked/grilled BBQ chicken legs and loaded baked beans. Also, whatever is left over from Friday evening?
Side dishes for lunch are welcome.

Don't know yet if Vicki is going to bake cookies for the event?
Don

I just edited my post above and added the LINK. I didn't think to do that - Thanks Dan!

Price dropped to $3,500

Price dropped to $9,800

Updated as "Sale Pending"

Price dropped to $3,600

Jim - PM sent. Hope I'm not too late.

Reading the full ad it seems this fellow has lots of new repair parts to go with the truck. Says he had a stroke and can no longer work on it so it needs to find a new home.

Coukld be a really good deal.

CuzzFuzz - John's '46 setup is the same as your '41. Check out my reply post in John's DITY that contains the part number info for those springs.

Both are the same GM# 368244 and a few can be found on ebay currently, as well as repops from Chev's of the 40's and The Filling Station.

Craig - No pictures???

Glad you got so many great responses on your excursion and had such a great day!

But you know

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1670527150676819
478 GMC V6 and 2 702 GMC V12 engines. 478 turns freely,
Not my ad. Posted for your consideration.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1419127426802887
super solid and well built 55.1 five window chevy truck..s10 swap
Not my ad. Posted for your convenience.

Lots of good info on that site.....THANK YOU.

Will be missed.

Wrenches down today. Up to the gun club and a stop at the hardware store for a piece of trim. Glad to talk with some old truck enthusiasts in the parking lot. Light duty today. Happy Labor Day!

Too bad we can't get the old lacquer paint anymore, it was cheap and easy to spray. It didn't really matter how you sprayed it, just sand it out, spray some clear and polish it out. This new stuff is expensive and dangerous to be around, I don't think I will ever paint a whole vehicle again.

Seats and dash. Heater pull cable and vent pull cable. Lower left.

How about $40 each plus shipping?

I have a recovery tank mounted down by my motor mount on my 250, fluid comes in the top through a tube that reaches the bottom of the tank, the over flow tube is just inside the tank and dumps on the ground if the tank ever fills up all the way. I used a 12" piece of 3" exhaust pipe, some 3/8" brake line. and some sheet metal caps. Its all welded together so I can't really see how much is in it, as long as it doesn't dump any out I'm happy. I do check the radiator every now and then. I don't believe it matters where you mount the overflow, thermo expansion and contraction should move fluid where it needs to go, though most are mounted level or just below the top tank. Our 2026 school buses have the tanks above the radiators, Ford trucks are level with the tops, and most of the commercial mowers we have are close to level with the top radiator tank.

If this (pic) is what you're looking for, it has to match the gear that's on the transmission mainshaft or it'll be eaten up when you start driving. This page and the following have information on what speedometer drive gear and shaft housing (shown in the picture) are used on various vehicles. In order to get your speedometer close to correct, since you have a 3.55 rear axle gear set, you'd get closest with a speedometer gear set out of a passenger car transmission which have faster rear axle ratios than trucks (3.72 vs 4.11 for instance.) Either that or you'd need an adapter that goes on the speedometer driven gear between the transmission and speedo cable. With the info out of the parts book and some math you might be able to determine the speedometer drive and driven gear set that would work without a ratio adapter. But finding that combination would be difficult, as would be finding a ratio adapter.

Also be advised that the housing has a straight thread, and putting a pipe (tapered thread) plug in it won't work. I don't think the thread size matches any readily available bolt which might be used with a gasket, as the thread is fairly fine pitch, likely not a standard SAE fine thread.

Picture

The 1958 dealer pamphlet that Dan posted above also shows a tractor/trailer rig with just 2 headlights.

Hallelujah !! bushing is out. I used several successive drill bits up to 3/4" to accommodate the slide hammer tool. Took several strokes, but it came out. I really !!! appreciate the recommendations.

7 SEPTEMBER 2026 PAINTED MIDDLE SEAT FRAME AND STARTED MIDDLE SEAT BOTTOM SEAT SPRINGS REFURBISHMENT

I checked my receipts from 2012 and I had bought the middle and last full width seat frames and the seat spring sets with delivery from MI to Greyhound Baltimore for $2217.00. A lot of suburban's are missing those original seats.
See pics of work completed thus far.

Thanks Phil! Guess I didn't see that before.

Any interest? The exhaust heat damper works well. Make me an offer I can’t refuse!