The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area General Truck Talk Need help identifying these parts

I'm getting toward the end of my restoration, and I have these matching pieces left over. I suspect they're either for the doors, or somewhere up under the dash. Does anyone recognize them?

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff77/stovebolt48/

Throw them in the doors panels, the rattles make you feel needed.

They're for the center strip for the windshield. They go on the inside.

I don't think they are for the windshield divider. But then, I am not sure what they are.

I think the hold a weatherstrip on the lower door opening,
Scott

I think Pablos is right, looks like the windshield strips.

By windshield strips, do you mean the inside center strip? I have that, and it's a lot larger. The holes don't match up to the ones in the rubber or the outside chrome strip, either. And why would there be two of them, anyway?

Also, once again I failed to mention that the truck is a '48 half ton.

Gazim might have the right idea, but I'm sure I'll have plenty of stuff rattling around without these strips banging around in the bottom of the door.

Tom R:
Be a helper (usta work with pre-schoolers) and load up a bunch of pictures as you put that 48 together.
Many of us will be doing the same before long and those images will help us put the puzzle together.

Those are the rear headliner support strips.
They mount between the middle & rear headliner bows & they keep the headliner from drooping.

I agree w/ truck master

Headliner supports makes sense. I haven't put them in yet. Where, exactly, do they go, and how do they attach to the headliner?

As for pictures, I have a ton of them from over the past three years. I'll try to post them to PhotoBucket at some point and post a link.

I just looked in my '48 5-window. I can't see anything connected with the headliner that looks like that. You would need more holes in them to be used in the windshield divider.

Do you have a perverse friend who slipped some bogus items in your parts pile?

I have a lot of perverse friends, but they haven't slipped me any bogus parts.

I figure their use will become evidenet as the assembly continues. A possibility is that they're part of the glove compartment, or something like that. Or maybe some kind of stiffners up under the dash.

They look like the rails the window regulator rides in. Your windows won't roll up without them. Just a guess.

Tom R,
I agree with Robert door window guides
Brad

Tom, the parts in question are not windshield garnish mouldings. If they were they would have a holes approx' 1 1/2 from each end. It is hard to tell from the pics but if they have chanels running along each side for their full length they may be window regulator tracks.

• 50 3100
• 51 3100
• 72 short bed

Hmmmm,

I don't remember headliner supports and regulator channels are at least 19" long and the edges are more curled. Let's keep guessing........

The regulators are the channels the windows roll up and down in, right? I have those, and they bolt into the doors at the top and bottom, and are a lot longer. Possible clues...I haven't put the door windows in yet, and much of the dash is unfinished. The bed is done, as is the front end (with the exception of the hood alignment). I haven't put in the headliner yet, either. I checked yesterday, and I don't see the parts being connected in any way to the glove compartment.

The seat is in, but I haven't put the cardboard on the back of it yet (I can't get the seat to move forward to do it). Maybe they're some kind of stiffeners for that?

They do look like an interior part of some sort because rust is minimal and alot of paint is still present, Still thinking........

just throw them out, then sure as shoot'in you'll need them and figure out where they really go. mystery solved!
as the saying goes "when in doubt, throw'em out!"

cheers

I know they don't match your interior center front windsheild trim, but it is coincidental that that peice is identical in length, width, and shap as the one on my 50 3600. Only differce is mine has four screw holes not two. This item is to small to be used for anytype of structual support which is why I am quessing it must be a interior trim piece.

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.

Some 1947 & 1948 trucks used those strips between the rear & center headliner bows to keep the headliner from drooping.

These strips were secured to the headliner by 2 brass button ties.
The strips are not flat but rather they have a bow in them to match the contour of the headliner.
These strips were eliminated in late 1948.
If you are installing a new headliner they really are not needed.
http://shutter13.pictures.aol.com/d...uRwFk6TwEQPkRw2BvKZHHzG+ensscfD50300.jpg

BINGO, we have a winner.

Truckmaster5150, you da man!!! I found a set of pictures I took of the truck back in 1990 when I bought it, and one of them showed those buttons in the rear headliner piece!

http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff77/stovebolt48/?action=view&current=Notes020.jpg

The pieces are even bowed like you said. I was going to straighten them.

AND, you even answered my next question before I asked it - whether I needed to put in those braces with the new headliner piece. I was a little worried about how to get everything lined up for cutting the holes, but now I don't have to worry about it. Thanks!

I can drink now, having been properly led and having had my head dunked in the water.