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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,061 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,061 | Hy Dieseldude03, you should be very proud, you have done a wonderful job! Any chance of some engine compartment pic's? | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,144 | | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 | I love the way that turned out!  And if you tip your head a little, the license plate looks fine too!  | | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,159 | Congrats on the truck!! NICE!! I LIKE the M.F. theme. What are your plans for the bus/hauler? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,518 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,518 | Congrats on a well done big bolt. Amazing job.
1953 Chevrolet 3100261 cu inch, sm420, 3.55 rear, torque tube still,omaha orange, still 6 volt, RPO green glass, side carrier spare, all done In the DITY GalleryVideo of the 261 running1964 GMC 1000305 Big Block V6, sm420, the next cab off restoration
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,544 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,544 | | | | | | Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 170 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2012 Posts: 170 | Dieseldude, absolutely awesome!..nice MIG work also. | | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2005 Posts: 323 | | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Thanks for the kind words everyone. I wasn't sure I'd ever get it to this point. With the fiasco concerning the title, to working by Mother Nature's schedule (too big to fit in garage and welding, cutting and grinding can be rough on a wooden barn!), it wasn't exactly smooth sailing! I snapped a few pics under the hood (back to the cell phone for those, sorry). I'm still trying to find a creative way of hiding the wiring, especially that ugly, rusted armored ignition wire coming from the original switch and getting everything else looking respectable. Right now, the easiest way seems to be by leaving the hood shut! The last I heard, the bus/hauler is up for sale. It took Roy all of about 10 minutes to get it fired up! If anyone is interested, I'll get the official word from him. PICS BELOW Engine 1 Engine 2
Last edited by Dieseldude03; 07/17/2013 10:01 AM.
| | | | | Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2012 Posts: 574 | i hope someday my truck will look as good as yours does. great job!!! Indy 
1949 Dodge Coronet 1955 2nd Chevy 4400 1.5 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1955 2nd Chevy 3100 1/2 ton 1957 Chevy 5400 LCF 2 ton 1966 Dodge D100 Sweptline 1968 Chevy P20 stepvan 1969 GMC LWB pickup 1972 GMC Sprint 1974 CP30 shorty bus There are three things that I've learned never discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.----Linus Van Pelt Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9  | | | | | Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 603 | Beautiful Job. I'm jealous. Doubt my 57 GMC LCF will ever look that good. One question: what is the hole in the bed over rear wheels for?
57 GMC LCF 370 55 John Deere 40-W 59 John Deere 430-W 2000 GMC 4x4 56 John Deere 420-W Pix on Photobucket | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | That hole was there as part of a grain unloading chute. You can see the chute HERE. I have no idea if the chute was an original part of the bed, which is a grain body made by the Perfection Steel Body Company from Galion, Ohio, or an old farmer add-on. I ended up removing the chute and filling the hole with a piece of native white oak from my old barn. It was nearly a perfect match for the original boards on the bed. There is also a 6-inch square hole approx 2 feet in front of the axle, just to the passenger side of the drive shaft with a sliding steel plate underneath it. I was told it was for dropping grain into a portable auger pit or tub where it would be elevated into a storage bin. I kept that operational, you know, just in case I wanted to haul a couple hundred bushel to the local elevator.
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| | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 980 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 980 | Beautiful job! You can just see the love poured into your truck! Really nice.
Victor
~ Victor 1941 3/4-Ton Pickup (in process). Read about it in the DITY Gallery1955 Grumman Kurbside "Doughboy" 235/3 on tree w/ OD 1957 3100 - moved on 1959 C4500 Short Bus "Magic Bus" - moved on 1959 G3800 1 Ton Dually "Chief" - moved on 1958 C4400 Viking "Thor" ~ moved on to fellow Bolter | | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 2,946 | I had never seen or heard of a side unloading chute like that, or the trap door in the floor. I'm assuming the truck did not have a hoist? I suppose that's how they must have dumped them before hydraulic hoists came along. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Nope. No hoist under it when I got and no signs that it ever had one. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 111 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 111 | Beautiful Truck!
You did an Awesome Job on it.
Love the M/F theme
Tom | | | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 446 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 446 | Great job! It's one of those trucks I like to just sit here and stare at  | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Thanks a lot everyone for the complements! I had plenty of people looking at me like I was crazy when I first drug it home! I even asked myself several times while crawling around in the slush and snow and rain and mud for 2 years "what in the world are you even gonna do with a 2-ton farm truck IF you get it done?". I still don't really have a "purpose" for it yet. At least my wife decided "that old truck" really didn't turn out too bad and that she could actually allow herself to be SEEN IN PUBLIC riding around in it! Though she's still not a fan of the 2-ton ride quality. I've decided one thing I'd like to do now is find an old 2 or 3-bottom 3-point Ferguson plow, blast and paint it MF red and grey and semi-permanatly chain it on the bed. A vintage MF tractor up there would look great but they don't give those away and I really don't need to get an extra 4500 lbs stopped at a cruise-in. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Found this neat little site . Takes all of 2 minutes and it's free! I like it! Check out the effects below: Original CARTOONIZED
Last edited by Dieseldude03; 07/27/2013 12:46 AM.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | I finished making some simple side boards for the bed of the '46. I'm no wood worker by any stretch of the imagination so simple is good! The boards are 120 year-old 1x12 siding we salvaged off my Dad's old barn a decade ago, slathered in several coats of spar varnish. Yes, I very well may have totally ruined some very expensive wood (didn't cost me a dime though). but I didn't want new lumber on my old truck. At least I didn't have to strap down my cooler and chairs for the first awarded car show it lumbered to over the weekend, and I even got to haul a little something back home with me! What do you folks think? Keep the sides or ditch them? New sides New sides 2 New sides 3 Shelby Cruise In Results
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 12,029 | looks good, and you got the 'gas pump' to prove it Bill | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | looks great,might straighten the license plate a little...lol
how do you tell it is a 2 ton
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Several things led me to the conclusion that it is a 2-ton.
1) The axle gearing, which is 6.17:1. Lighter trucks had 5.43:1 and higher (numerically lower) gear ratios.
2) The fish-plates rivited to the sides of the frame rails for stiffening.
3) The prop shaft parking brake.
4) The missing chassis tag I found under the fuel tank inside the cab. LOL | | | | | Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 56 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2013 Posts: 56 | Keep them, they look great! Pat
1966 Chevy C 30 1 ton truck
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | I decided it was time to put the old 46 away for the winter, but not before the engine decided to cash in all it's chips last month! Long story short, I ended up pulling the engine, diagnosing the problem, scrapping that engine, sourcing out another engine, freshening it up and getting it back in the truck inside of roughly 3 weeks. The "new" engine, another 250, this time from a 1971 Nova, runs like new and should hopefully live happily ever after! The weather finally cooperated well enough to get roughly 40 miles in yesterday, including a couple minutes in the evening for a pic or two. Not Again! New Engine On The Road Again On The Road Again 2 | | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,538 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,538 | 2 ton trucks have a gvw of 16000lb.,on the vehicle ID/VIN tag. A 1 1/2 ton truck would be 14000lb, gvw rating. | | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | Mine actually says 15,000LB. I may be way off base but I'm thinking maybe the 2-tons didn't get the 16,000lb rating until 47?
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2010 Posts: 91 | It's been a while since I've been on here. I just wanted to post one more pic in order to put me back on the radar and to let everyone know that I've decided to sell this truck. Too many other projects... one of which may show up here again! The official "for sale" post can be seen HERE | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 2 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: May 2016 Posts: 2 | Love your '46 truck and have been looking at it for days and was finally going to reach out to you today and the official for sale post has been deleted... has it sold, a change of circumstance or still available? Thanks! Josh | | | | | Joined: May 2016 Posts: 2 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: May 2016 Posts: 2 | Love your '46 truck and have been looking at it for days and was finally going to reach out to you today and the official for sale post has been deleted... has it sold, a change of circumstance or still available? Thanks! Josh | | | | | Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 Authorized Pest | | Authorized Pest Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,139 | If you do end up selling it, see if the new owner will check in here so that we can continue the history of this awesome truck!
Just think how much the new owner will already know from all you have already told us and all the blood, sweat and tears we have seen!
She sure does look great.
Peg
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~ Peggy M 1949 Chevrolet 3804"Charlie" - The Stovebolt FlagshipIn the Gallery || In the Gallery Forum"I didn't see this one coming. I don't see much of anything coming. :-O" | | |
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