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1949 Ford F-1 Frame Restoration
This is a restoration of a stock 1949 Ford F-1 truck frame with plans to put a stock flathead engine in its original place.
This is a fairly condensed video with only a short amount of time spent on various details. Hopefully, it shows that it is possible to get an old truck frame back into a reasonable condition to get it on the road again.
This is a fairly condensed video with only a short amount of time spent on various details. Hopefully, it shows that it is possible to get an old truck frame back into a reasonable condition to get it on the road again.
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1949 Ford F-1 Teardown
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The project continues. Since the engine is in bad shape, we are pulling everything off so we can ship of for rebuild and get the frame ready for repairs.
1970 Ford 351 Windsor Intake Manifold Gaskets
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The 1953 Ford F-100 is running with a 1970 Ford 351 Windsor. We're going to run through the steps needed to remove and reinstall the manifold in an effort to eliminate oil leaks around the valley seals.
1949 Ford F-1 Revival Part 3 - First Start
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We are going to see if we can get the 226 Flathead 6 running. However, there is a significant unwelcome surprise lurking under the hood that will likely upend our plans.
1949 Ford F-1 Revival Part 2 - Steering Gear Rebuild
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We will go through the process of rebuilding the steering gear and related components for the 1949 Ford F-1. This video builds on the revival part 1 video where we pull all of these pieces of in order to fix a potential death wobble in the steering (czcams.com/video/JszDh1pwyhc/video.html)
1949 Ford F-1 Revival Part 1
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I started with a plan to gets the brakes in working order. After getting in a little ways, I found the issues ran a little deeper. This video covers the early progress associated with the brakes, suspension, and steering. Up Next: Steering Gear Rebuild (czcams.com/video/m78NACv_wkc/video.html)
Unrestored 1949 Ford F-1 First Look
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This is the new project truck just as it arrived. This is a long term project vehicle which will be covered as time permits. I hope you enjoy the journey. Up Next: Runaway Brake Job (czcams.com/video/JszDh1pwyhc/video.html)
1953 Ford F-100 Door Repair
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With a cracked driver side window, an anti-rattle kit that has turned to dust, and a door handle that is pitted and sticky from an old gasket, it is time to pull everything apart and replace what is worn or rotten with some new parts.
1953 F-100 Restore some sparkle
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In this video we will attempt to revert some of the ravages of time and get the truck to look more like it could have in the 1950s.
1953 F 100 Disc Brake Conversion
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After many years getting challenged by other motorists for a position a stop lights, we are going to give the old truck a better ability to come to a stop with a Wilwood brake conversion.
Lexus IS250 Navigation System Repair
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We are going to cover the process of removing the navigation system to replace the touch screen. Supplies needed Capacitive Touch Screen: www.ebay.com/itm/193589657451 Opening Picks: www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/iFixit-Opening-Picks-Set-of-6/IF145-123?o=2 Spudger: www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Spudger/IF145-002?o=4 Philips head screw driver
1953 Ford F-100 Water Pump Replacement
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This is an abbreviated story of how I dealt with a water pump leak in my old 1953 F-100. This truck is equipped with a Ford 351 Windsor from a 1970 Ford LTD. If you were expecting to see the original Flathead V8, I am sorry to disappoint you. In the hot summers of south Georgia where this truck spent most of its life, those blocks kept cracking.
Miata Radiator Replacement Part 3 Hoses and Radiator
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This video is about Miata Radiator Hose Installation
1996 Miata Radiator Replacement Part 2 Thermostat Replacement
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In this continuation of radiator replacement for the 1996 Miata, we take time to replace the thermostat while the radiator and rigid air hose are conveniently out of the way. We are using the following Mazda OEM parts for this replacement: Coolant Thermostat: 8AB8-15-171-9U Coolant Thermostat Gasket: B621-15-173
1996 Miata Radiator Replacement Part 1
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1996 Miata Radiator Replacement Part 1
I'm actually in the same process currently with my 51 frame. the brackets you mentioned i have not seen yet at swap meets or Ebay, so going to fabricate them. they are 1/8 steel that I cut yesterday. Making the radius first around a steel tube I have ( the center piece of bracket). The other sides are basically flat with a 90 in the center and then fill in the sides. That's the plan, we shall see. Thanks for sharing your process!
Looking good I’ve got 52 f-1 I’ve been working on
They are fun projects to work on. I just wish I had more time to make progress than I do.
Can you do mine please 🙏🏽
Very nice.
I find that car people are 99% great fantastic folks, I love the diversity of vehicles picked out for a rebuild. Many typed are from their early youth that family had, so there is an emotional connection to that type, and that is what makes it so great.
Nice videos, check every thing you do, before doing it. Lol.the best way although at times I have tried going bull in a China shop, even knowing in my mind it's not the best way of getting the job done correctly. And a so appreciate that you aren't telling storytelling about other stuff as you go along.
Great videos - keep the F-1 videos coming! I’m restoring a 51 F2 and it’s great to see how you are progressing. Keep up the great work!
This is a good time to install new king pins, bushings and the thrust bearing. The thrust bearing sits in the worst place possible on the truck. They are greased only when the lower bushing is greased. Water dirt and road salt and lack of grease kill these bearings. PLUS you can relocate the grease zerk with the spindle mounted in the bench vise. Thanks for the video of your disc swap.
Omg I need help my screen started going on and off until it completely stop coming on a whole year now I can’t regulate my heat/air only the bottom radio buttons work no other buttons What can I do
Looks great!
Had one just like this with the 6. Wish i had it back.
What vehicle do rotorsbelonge to.
The Carb Shop in Greenville did the rebuild on Edna's carburetor a few years ago. Great work, fair price. Plus the shop is really cool. They have all kinds of rare carburetors and intake manifolds. Not to mention some great antiques
Happy to see another video. Been wondering how shes coming along. Cant wait to see the next one
Magnificent. I followed your video and succeeded for a total cost of AUD$32. Lexus said I needed parts quoted at $20,000 on a car worth about $2,000. It requires a skill that I would never achieved without this video.😀
How many total hours did it take?
Once the nav system was out of the dash, the electronics work took about an hour. Getting the unit out of the dash was the hard part because I was fearful of breaking any plastic parts or leaving tools marks on the dash. I think all told it was about 3 hours.
I took about 6 hours as I took a lot of care.
Having done it once, I could get it down to 3 hours. It is not the sort of job to hurry.
Did you have to redo the brake lines and put in a new master cylinder?
I was lucky in that the brake system was given a booster and proportioning valve upgrade years before putting the disc brakes in. If you are running with a stock setup (no proportioning valve and a single reservoir master cylinder), you will need to upgrade those too. Otherwise, you run the risk of locking up disc brakes unexpectedly as they will likely engage before the rear drums with the conversion. I will say that the change to disc brakes made an absolutely phenomenal change to braking performance. I highly recommend making the change.
Watching from the Netherlands. Looks great so far.
Just finished watching all the videos on this build. Thank you for taking the time to make the videos and taking us along!!! It is a very enjoyable hobby. I’ve just about finished a 60 then have a 51 in about the same condition as yours that will get started on next winter. Thanks again!!
Funny ,I commented on using a 351 , then I saw the video on the '53 with a 351 .
Doing the same with my Willy's L226 flatbread 6. ...Newk from Kentucky
Pretty crafty flywheel tool .
Nice to restore ,but a good candidate for a 351 and an AOD . From the looks of it ,it's a really nice truck .
Thanks for the video nice job
Enjoy these days with your daughter helping you while she still wants to help. My daughter used to help me until she got older, now I can't get her help since she's grown up. I had a 52 ford that hurricane Katrina finished off and was never able to finish restoring it.
Very nice work.
I used to have this truck years ago and had started a restoration and had to sell it mid stream to move. I now live in Chile and would love to find a similar truck here in Chile. So thanks for the videos and I am enjoying the project and I wish you luck. Jim
Nice that you didn’t have to remove the kingpin. Looks like for my 66, the kingpin has to come out.
Hopefully, you won't have the same problem I had with the kingpins in my 1949 F-1 (czcams.com/video/m78NACv_wkc/video.html) It took me 6 weeks of effort and me and a buddy of mine almost killing ourselves with a 20 ton press (the axel slipped out of the press while it was under high pressure and the king pin still didn't come out). Eventually, I was able to break it loose with a lot of heat, a stout steel rod, and wailing on the end of the pin with a 5-lb sledge to break it free. Good luck. If you can get everything done and get the disc brakes in, I will tell you that it is more than worth it. Braking performance with disc brakes is fantastic.
What size of rim you're using? Does it have clearance issues, I see you've put wheel spacer?
The old post-1957 rims with the full moon hubcaps fit fine without the spacer (the ones you see in the video). I needed the spacer to put on 15" rims that I bought from LMC which you can see if the "F-100 Restore Some Shine" video. Unfortunately, the bleed screws on the caliper were just a small amount too proud and were dragging on the inside of the rim. It was really annoying to find that the LMC rims were just slightly too small. I think the originals were 16" rather than 15". The main reason I went with the rims from LMC was because of the hubcaps I wanted to put on when I cleaned everything up. One of the many painful (read expensive) cascades you bump into in one of these projects.
Yeah, I need to rebuild mine too. It is out of the truck. I ended up pulling everything off the frame (clip, cab, bed) when I realized that the engine had serious issues and needed to go for a rebuild. Since then, I've cleaned the frame down to bare metal and found repairs that were needed there too which will be part of an upcoming video. I can make a video of the steering rebuild.
I was hoping you would rebuild the steering gear ( box) going to do mine soon. Thanks.
Ahh 10-4 I appreciate it🤝
Thank you!
I used to have a 1952 Ford F1 that I had a 351 Windsor engine and a FMX automatic transmission in it until Hurricane Katrina ruined the truck.
My grandfather restored a 49 F1 when I was just a boy back in the early 90s. It looks like it was even the same factory color as yours! He passed a few years back, and I guess the truck now resides in Florida with a retired police officer.
Beautiful truck in such a great condition you got there. Congratulations!!
That is my dream truck. Keep us posted.
Either do a complete engine rebuild or an engine swap. Personally, I would take that engine to a machine shop and let them redo the entire thing. I love old trucks like that.
I've already sent the engine off to the machine shop. Though the 226ci straight six isn't as popular as the flathead 8, it is a rock solid engine that is less prone to cracks.
I just discovered your restoration project, nice work! Will you disassemble your suspension when you paint the frame? Looks like you haven't rebuilt the steering box yet. Keep on truckin'.
Unfortunately, I haven't posted any videos in a few months, though I do have a bunch of filmed content that I plan to put up here in 10 minute chunks. At the moment, I am in the process of cleaning up the frame after pulling everything off (engine/transmission and front and rear suspension). I hope to get the next video out over the Thanksgiving holidays. It will be from the early summer, but shows the progress. Thanks for watching.
Fun to watch your video. I purchased a 1950 F1 in 1988 and restored it in 1994. It had a 7HA 6 (currently putting in a 8BA flathead V8.) I did some research on the beds for this truck and from 1940 thru some point with the 1950 model F1 the bed floor was steel. I took out the steel bed, put in a 3/4 in pressure treated under layment and then oak. Currently upgrading it from 6 to 12 volt, put in dual master cylinder (this for safety- left the drum brakes) and just redoing many things that need attention since first restoration. I drove the truck as my everyday driver for 5 years and it has been used as a truck. Still solid (live in Denver area) and looking forward to getting the truck back on the road in 2023. Not a resto mod. Mostly original and all changes could be change to original. No radio, AC, does have a defroster and after market (period accessory) heater. I am not ready to sell it yet but I have the 7HA engine (rebuilt with no 35000 mi since rebuild). If you are interested let me know and once the V8 proves itself, I will like put the 7HA on the market. Parts are still available, but NOS much harder to find than in 1994. If you are interested in my resource list, let me know and I will put one together. Have fun. Definitely a fun truck to drive. Cheers.
Thanks. I appreciate it. I realized after a bit more research that the bed was original though rusted out rather badly. I haven't had a chance to put out a new video since I finished rebuilding the front suspension. I did get the engine to turn over via the starter after pushing it over ensuring I could get it to go all the way by hand. I did encounter resistance with the exhaust valve on cylinder 4 which is sticking in its guide. Exhaust on cylinder 6 was also sticking open but didn't resist motion like 4 did. Given I was down 2 out of 6 cylinders, I pulled the head to find that the intake on 3 had been "repaired" if your definition of repair involves using a die grinder and a loop of metal that really doesn't seal. So no compression on cylinder 3 either. A maintenance log indicated a valve issue in the early 80's. Over the summer, I recorded a bunch of additional content and ultimately pulled the engine and sent it off for a rebuild. Other than parts availability, did you have a reason to move away from the 7HA 6? Working on these old machines is a blast. I love that everything is metal and rubber rather than brittle plastic.
I also forgot to mention, in case you are interested, this truck came with the 4 speed "crash box" manual transmission (not synchronized) and a Dana 41 with a 3.93:1 ratio differential. I did find a kit to change the ratio to 3.54:1 which would offer an improvement. I really don't want to swap out the rear end with a modern one.
What primer and paint did you use and would you use it again?
I used Rustoleum Self Etching primer and Duplicolor Universal Black (DS100). Both rattle can products. The Rustoleum bonds to the metal really well. The Duplicolor seems to be a bit easier to chip. I may explore a different black paint when I do the rear springs and axle.
it took you over 10 mins to get the crossover tube off 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, I think the plastic on mine had welded itself on about as well and I didn't want to twist too much for fear of breaking the plastic.
My navigation system is bad the screen works and can access all buttons except map, destination and menu any ideas?
The initial symptom I experienced was that the place I touched on the screen wasn't registering correctly. In other words, I would touch one spot but it would act like I touched somewhere else. Is that what you are experiencing? If it is, you have the same problem that I did.
@@droppedwrenchgarage5422 no i can fully touch the screen i just cant acess the menu navigation and destination buttons its come up with external system not connected
Did you have any issues with the spacers? I'm not sure if the original wheels are hubcentric or not but there's not much there to centre them with the spacers there.
I did have to put 1/2" spacers to keep the calipers from dragging inside the rims.
Nice classic ... lets get er done ... thx for the vid.
Just discovered your channel.. love this stuff.. with what I'm seeing, it looks as if you're going back pretty much stock.. As far as a penetrant , I couldn't tell what you're using but might I suggest a 50-50 mix of Acetone and Automatic Transmission fluid.. Works better than just about anything on the market... Maybe that and some heat might break it loose.. Well thx for taking us along for the ride..
I did manage to finally get the king pins out (that is another video on the channel). At this point I've pull most of the body panels off and started digging into the engine and related rotted wiring (editing that video now). I just finished rebuilding the carburetor today since the accelerator pump wasn't working. And yes, I plan on keeping this truck absolutely bone stock all the way down to its 6 volt positive ground electrical system.
I have a 73 international travelall I might put this kit on it
Just found your channel and subscribed, I look forward to working on my own F-100 soon!
Impact what you can would speed things up.
This was one of my early videos. I've taken to a format now where I've condensed my videos down to 10-15 minutes (or less). My presentation style, though hopefully improving, isn't engaging enough for a long video. Thanks for the comments and feedback. I do appreciate it.
Love this project and love this old truck. I had one and never got to rebuild it. I sold it instead of taking it to the next house when we moved up. I miss the old truck and that project. I would love to find an old truck like this here in Chile and rebuild it with our youngest child who is the last one in the house. So I am liking seeing you do your work. Jim in Chile.