Busy weekend for truck attention. The fuel tank had a leak from an old puncture "repair". I was able to weld that up and remount the tank. It held perfectly under a little air pressure and soap test. Now to run a fuel line to my fuel pump. I also put a temporary carb set up on and replaced the choke cable which fixed my pour gas down the carb, crank forever, and then start issue. I'm going to rebuild the BV carb that was on it, but for now I'm using an offshore upper carb assembly. It's only temporary because I won't use offshore parts on my WW2 era truck if I can help it. Next I fixed the driver door lock and installed some new to me hardware. I couldn't open the driver door from the outside so I pulled the lock assembly. I had to use my heat wrench to bend a piece of steel that was misshapen. It was fun pulling the lock apart. I still need to fashion some anti droop springs which will be easy. No way I'm spending what they want for replacement purpose built ones. Last thing was dealing with the 6400 chasis I picked up. My youngest son and I pulled the engine and trans and removed the hydroboost set up. I'm storing the rest outback in the woods until I can decide what to do with it. I also stripped the ancillary parts off the 261 so I could see the base motor and know what I'm dealing with. It's going to work perfectly. I have a bunch of spare parts now like a car, fuel pump, manifolds etc. Spares are good when you're working on a 75 yo truck. Now for the pics... Feel free to ask questions, comment etc.
