Ok guys, yesterday it was about 50 degrees or so, so I started up the 235 and let it run a little bit. I started getting some oil to the rockers, so I'm good there. Only thing that seemed funny is it only pushed oil up there when the engine was above idle. Just idling the oil wouldn't show, but rev it up a little and oil would start to drizzle out.
Next question....what all years of trucks will the radiators interchange? I took the radiator (never leaked or anything) out of this 2-ton to a shop to get it cleaned up and gone through. The guy said the radiator wasn't worth cleaning, because of some deposit buildup at the bottom of the core. He said if he cleaned it, it'd leak. He said the best thing to do would be just back flush it with water, and reinstall it if it wasn't leaking before. I may do that, OR I have a radiator out of a parts truck out at my grandpa's place. It's 110 miles away, so I don't have ready access to it, but it's out of an older 2-ton truck. The truck was scrapped years ago, but some parts were saved out of it. Its radiator looks good (a lot better than this one) but I'm not sure it would fit. I don't know what year the truck was, but it was a 2-ton, no vent windows in the doors, but it had the vent on the driver side cowl that my '51 doesn't. I saw the radiator hanging in the barn a while back, and the only distinct difference I remember was the location of the fill neck. It was off to one side, where as the one that came out of this '51 has it closer to the center, yet still off center a bit.
So to sum that up, across what year range will radiators in 2-ton trucks interchange? Thanks! Edit: After doing an internet search, I'm thinking the parts truck may have been a late '49 or '50. It did have the "6400" designation on the sides of the hood. Think the radiator should swap into a '51?
