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Lounge / Bounce
Testing out my dirty old man Avitar.
Stole it from another board.
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Lounge / Old Dodge
My son-in-law's Grandfather sold the family farm. My son-in-law rescued a 1950 Dodge pickup from one of the barns and deposited it in my garage. He has no place to keep it.
He says it belonged to his Great Grandfather and he wants to restore it. Looks like a pretty ambitious undertaking to me. He will probably have to dismantle it down to the frame and sand blast everything to get the rust off.

I was able to get a shop manual and a owners' manual on the internet.

I had a '37 Dodge when I was a senior in HS in '49 and I bought a '50 Plymouth when I got out of the service in '54.

My memory of Chrysler products of that era is as rusty as this truck.
But some of it is starting to come back.

Getting the wheels off would be a real aggravation if you did not know the lug bolts (not nuts) on the left side of the vehicle are left hand thread and on the right side, right hand thread.

The 6 volt electrical system is positive to ground.

No starter solinoid. A pedal above the gas pedal manualy operates the yoke that engages the starter gear with the flywheel gear and manualy makes the contactor that connects the battery to the starter.

6.00 x 16 tube type tires. Three of them are still holding air after three weeks. Thats pretty amazing the truck hasn't been used for 35 or 40 years.

I hope it doesn't have to stay in my garage that long.