TGP, Sweepleader, 78buckshot,3B, Edpruss

First and foremost I hope you all had a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving. The weather in Ohio was spring like until Sunday.

Thank you all for responding to my inquary with good sound advice.

I will try to get some pics posted so you all can see what we are dealing with.

That being said, I did not get a chance to inspect the truck rims any further over the holiday.

I like the idea of retaining the two speed rear axle for a coulple of reason: Capacity, Resto-Cost and maintaining original components.

As far as keeping the 235. I actualy have not started the engine yet. Motor is free but carb. was pretty messed up, so I am rebuilding before making the attempt to start.

Keeping that in mind - I have a friend that told me about a 63’ Chevy dump truck that he has. The truck has been sitting in a field for the past 20 years. He has agreed to donate any part off the truck I need except for the dump bed. The truck is to supposed to have a 292 inline 6 w/carter carb, 4 speed on
floor, single speed rear axle with 4.10 gear and 8-17.5 modern steel rims. He said when he parked it, it ran and was able to achieve a top speed of 70mph.

I will need to do some further investigating to see what capacity the 63’dump truck is and if it actually has the above referenced equipment. The big if will be if the motor/block is still good and not siezed or cracked.

The plan would be to pull the trcuk from the field and trailer it to a location where we can look over things in detail and decide what is salvagable from the truck.

I really do like the thought of putting a 292 in the 51’.
I did run a hypothetical scenario with using a online RPM calculator.

I looked up the specs for the 1951 Two speed rear axle. Looks like the gear ratio I should have is 6.13:1 (H) & 8.10:1 (L)

I used a on line RPM calculator to see what kind of RPM I would push at 60mph, w/ 40” tires with a 4-speed manual transmission, it looks like around 3,090 RPM’s. I looked up the specs on the 292, Net HP 153@3600RPM & Net Torquelb-ft 255@2400RPM. Sio I don’t know if running at 3,000- 3200RPMS for any lenght of time would kill the 292 or not.

Not to worried about achieving HW-Speeds, but we do have some roads that are 50-55 and would like to be able to run those without backing up traffic.

I know I will need to pull some serial numbers and get you all some more information. I don’t want to get ahead of myself but any thoughts in regards to possibilties with equipment from the 63’

Let me know your thoughts

Thanks again for taking the time to get involved.