We drive the GrandDaddy of Heavy Duty Trucks -1947 Dodge Truck on the Road
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- ( www.TFLtruck.com ) The 1947 Dodge Truck is the GrandDaddy of Today's modern Ram Heavy Duty Truck. In this TFLTruck video Nathan get's behind the wheel and learns that it take some skill to be an old school truck driver.
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We had a Dodge truck almost identical to that one on the farm while I was growing up. I used to enjoy diving it. We also had a KB6 International with a 5 speed and 2 speed rear end. I used to be able to double-clutch them pretty well, but when I took a job hauling gravel in a 1960's International, I had to learn all over again. The following year, I drove an International R-185 (a bit heavier). I could do anything with that truck (or thought I could). One day, I tried to do a split shift from 4L to 3H, while coming out of a pit road, and I managed to strip 3rd gear. My Dad (owner of the truck) was not pleased. If he was operating a piece of equipment that broke down, it was the equipment's fault. If I was operating a piece of equipment that broke down, it was my fault. All that was many years ago This video brought back memories.
That 1.5 ton Dodge truck is spectacular. I love the gearbox whine.
You never use first gear on an unladen 4-speed truck--My dad was a contractor and had a '52 Dodge rack--we lived at the top of a hill and I always knew when he was coming home because 2nd gear almost sang as he came up the hill
Neat old truck. You can downshift. You have to rev match a non synchro transmission with the gas pedal.
wolfman9999999 Same thing with old cars with non synchro 3speed transmissions. Chevys had synchro on 2nd and 3rdgears but not in 1st until the 1960s. Grind it till you find it, they used to say.
Now that's Awesome!!!! The back bone of America right there!
+Daniel Schneider Brilliant sarcasm. You're wasted on CZcams.
+MrKeyboardCommando no dude, I'm completely serious! That truck right there moved America in the 50s! I would think so! They didn't have 18 wheelers back in the day. That's a awesome piece of history. That's a teamster truck right there! Jimmy Hoffas calling
Daniel Schneider Oh, sorry, I thought you were comparing the current US spine to a 60+ years old jalopy. My mistake.
Incidentally, I was under the impression the railways made the USA.
+MrKeyboardCommando your probably right rail ways moved a lot of product, but the Trucks moved it to the warehouses and to the stores. There's always gotta be a middle man. If all 18 wheelers stopped for a week America would be crippled
Daniel Schneider Especially as the rail network has been so drastically reduced.
Holy crap that's amazing I love old rigs like that.
Suddenly my F-350 seems a bit girly :-)
+NuclearGrizzly Wearing a frock doesn't help !!!!
MrKeyboardCommando
Sometimes I want to feel pretty :-)
NuclearGrizzly Oh, come on, you know very well you always look pretty. You're just fishing for complements. :-)
MrKeyboardCommando
Aw shucks. Busted :-)
But don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
NuclearGrizzly Grizzly, the whole world loves you, and you know it, you scamp.🌍💞 😍
thats a real old school brute. love the old Dodge trucks.
Doge, Chevy, Ford, Ram, Nissan, Toyota...I don't car who you are brand loyal to, this would be an awesome drive.
+freezor80 Doge?
much wow very loyal such respect to brands
Why did you write ram and dodge. 😂 and you said doge! 😂 😂 😂
Just picked up one of these, and its in great condition. Can't wait to get going on it.
I would like to see Mr. Truck drive that. He might actually know how to shift properly!
Nathan, they need to teach you how to drive an old 4 speed non synchro. lol I like the 47. Nothing like good old True American iron.
This video brought back some memories. I had a 1939 Dodge pickup my uncle gave me when I was 16 (1966). It was a 3-speed, but it had square gears. I learned how to double-clutch with this truck. This skill came in handy 30 years later when I purchased a 1953 Brockway dump truck.
Dodge trucks were plush for the day, with upholstered door panels and headliner. Ford and GM had all painted metal.
I wonder if the metallic paint was original - you could get it on Chrysler Corp. cars even before the war but if it was on trucks it probably would've been a rare option.
I had an Uncle who was a farmer that had one of these 47's. I got to drive it when were were threshing Grain. I would drive it along side of the columbine and catch the grain as it was coming out the machine!
wayne owen It’s ‘combine’, hehe
Thanks for that flashback! That's the first vehicle I drove. I thought double clutching was normal. We would put that truck in low gear, set the throttle and walk along side loading hay bales. Step up on the running board and nudge the steering wheel.
My good friend has a 1947 5 ton Dodge that your truck could be carried on. It has a 34 foot bed and weighs 13,000 pounds empty. 10.00 x 20 tires. 413 cubic inch flat head engine. 6 volts, 5 spd. transmission with a 2 speed rear end.
dodge made 5 tons in the 40s? thats news..
@@xTheJmanChannel The 413 L-head weighs about 1,000 pounds, about like a Cummins 6BT. Dodge also made road tractors that used this motor - very collectible. Fuel economy wasn't strong. The 413 have two carburetors. The same block was built in 331 and 377. There was a super rare 413 diesel, I believe fewer than ten were built and maybe one still exists.
Rather have that truck than any new one with all the safety crap and electronic Gadgets that I wouldn't want or need.
+Jimmy M Drive that truck in Alabama in August with no air conditioning and you'll see why modern trucks are better.
+Jimmy M I'll take that 47 over a new truck anyday. lol
Joel Borden Well I don't live down south so I don't have to worry about that. But the truck I drive now is a 97 and has no air conditioning and heat that doesn't work well and I have no problem with no air con what so ever. I don't find it a necessity up here in the northeast. My truck doesn't even have limited slip diff or 4x4 and I can manage in the winter. I don't need bells and whistles.
Beautifully restored. What type of tray hoist is used?
I had one of these types - a COE, cabover 1947 Dodge back in 1974. It used to belong to Reuben and van Dyke, the company that hauled for Marshall Field's in Chicago. It had a flatbed on it with wood sides. I used it to haul scrap metal.It had a hand crank socket on the front damper, so I made a crank and actually used it to start the truck when I wanted to show off! I left it sticking out the front end and drove it around to watch people's reactions when they looked at it as they passed me!The gears in the trans were straight-cut and sliding gears (opposed to how any modern trans has "sliding clutches" or "dog clutches" and the big gears are constant-mesh) and boy did they howl! You did have to double-clutch especially shifting down, but for me it was easier just not to use the clutch at all! Just drag it out of gear and time the right moment to put it in the next gear. Down-shifting was trickier, but I was great at it in no time!!Not too many young people back then could drive one of these old transmissions without syncs. Not to mention cranking engines off!!
Once you get the feel of them they are a very smooth transmission to shift, I have a WF 32. 1947. Ford also used that transmission as far up as 1952 and they do take practice.
That's an old truck, just a year younger than I am. I loved seeing it; thanks for sharing.
After driving one of these old truck you wont need the gym that day
1947 Dodge 3/4 ton truck best truck ever
Will ride much better carting a load.
I would take that 1947 over the 2015 Dodge any day of the week and twice on Sunday !!!!
+Nodak81 LOL......Good idea !!
When I was growing up there were still quite a few of those old 40's and 50's trucks in use on the farms. They were always fun to drive. I'm pretty sure the gears in some of them were roughly hewn from large boulders, or so it felt when you were trying to shift them. Jamming gears wasn't just a metaphor. You had to put some shoulder into it.
little tip if you ever drive a unsyncro again.once your rolling time it so you drive with out shifting with the clutch and it won't grind because you become a syncro.
I just want to drive a truck like that everywhere! They just don't make things like that anymore. So cool!
Great video Nathan!
Nathan a real trucker floats the gears even today. Only use the clutch to get moving. After that no clutch. Its easier to mesh the gear with your right foot and the throttle. Clutching just disengages the engine and the input shaft, but it doesn't disengage the the wheels or forward motion of the vehicle and the output shaft of the transmission. Those 2 shafts and the gears on them are what you are trying to mesh. Now on a synchronized transmission as in a car or light duty truck there are brass brakes in between the gears designed to match speeds of the gears in a shift. You always single clutch those transmissions or you risk destroying those brass brakes ie synchronizes.
Check out the awesome 1957 movie "hell drivers" starring these trucks.
got one of those, pulls like a tractor, had to pull a dump truck out of the ditch that seemed twice as heavy !
that old truck is kickass
Hahah you sound like me the first time I tried to road test a dump truck. Even modern large trucks dont have synchros in the transmission.
Hard to watch the grinding of gears, you should find a Mack with a triplex transmission.
I'm so jealous of you Nathan. But I could not double clutch I think. I've never done it. Awesome drive man. I'd love to try it.
+freezor80
It's not that hard if you know how to drive a manual.
Just clutch an extra time between gearchanges.
+M Lowe
It's probably easier if you youtube it but to explain it easy;
When you shift in a modern vehicle you depress the clutch, change gear and then release the clutch.
Let's say that you are in first gear and you are using the double clutch technique.
You depress the clutch, move the stickshift into the neutral position and release the clutch. After that you depress the clutch again and move the stickshift into second gear and release the clutch.
would love to drive one of those old trucks
Cool video!
Nice truck, nice video
beautiful truck! thanks for sharing
great video
Nice old truck.
70 Years old!
Nice truck.
Loved the old Dodge but the term ‘Dumper’ made me laugh ! It’s commonly just called a ‘dump truck’ or ‘dump box’. Why would you use first or ‘creeper gear’ when taking off with an empty truck unless going up hill? Lol.......anyway, nice to see a ‘kid’s interest in old iron....40 years excavation co. Owner operator here.
Don't understand the need to double clutch. I'd think you could just float the gears.
That's how I learned to drive, when I was 12, but knew how to shift
Grind em til ya find em. You need to learn to drive that truck!!!
Sweet!
awesome
That truck is awesome and is still better than ford f450
If you're okay with 45 mph hauling and scary steering if you push it faster. They have two speed rear axles. I think you could swap a front axle from a Ram 3500 Cummins truck and improve the steering - power. A more comfortable seat would help too. They do okay "as is".
The original country boys getaway vehicle
Great!
Hey Nathan, are your pants too tight? Your voice was up several octaves on that vid.
Take it up the Ike gauntlet!
+dn bn I think it might be a little slower lol.
+Quadrunner It would probably make it across. ...eventually. My buddy has a Chevy of that vintage and it will do almost 45 mph going downhill, maybe 50 if its a really steep one.
+1guyin10 I wouldn't be surprised at all if that old truck could pull more then the new ones in the lower gears.
+Quadrunner They would pull a surprising amount considering it wasn't even making 90 hp. They were geared absurdly low so that really helped.
moar please!
Is this truck based on WW2 German truck that Wermacht drove ? I mean it looks very simmilar and it's made two years after the war.
No, the 1947 Dodge trucks were left over from the design back in 1939. Slight changes in 1940 and 1941, but then the same design was used post war through 1947. Totally American design.
@@Jobratedman When Dodge first built these they were criticized by some for being too car like. I have a 47 half ton. Its cool.
i ant to get a 1947 dodge and put a 12 valve in it but i would have to replace the drivetrain as well ... lol
that is a real sweet and blood truck of america by real people. not machines
When are you guys going to review the new Toyota Tacoma?
+M Lowe Press clutch to take out of gear, release clutch then depress again and go into next gear.
muito bom
You forgot you mention that straight 6 is only 80 hp.
I think its a WF-32 with a 95 hp 237 flathead six.
It was more in the 1.5 ton truck. But it was not a whole lot because trucks in those days didn't go fast because large, full-size trucks speeding along two lane rural highways has never been a smart idea.
hook up to that 5500 and pull it backwards
All you hear in this video is horrible grinding noises while he struggles to even understand what the clutch does
This where in India
Can't beat American made (
America.
Anyone who thinks this truck is awesome has never driven one. They suck ass in every way but that's what you would expect from 1947.
I've driven quite a few, and don't think they suck. You can't compare them to a brand new truck. Technology has come a long way, and so has safety. However, that's not why people like me like these old trucks. You have to appreciate the style, the history, and the feel to understand. Everyone has their own opinion though.
Well many of the other comments were people saying they would rather take one of these trucks than a new one, thats stupid to me as they are very crude and not practical anymore. They do have style but no function anymore, they ride bad, no power steering, garbage brakes, an inline 6 gas with 2 mpg at best and a non synchronized trans. No thanks. I do like the older vehicles such as late 60s and up because they were just getting more modern and user friendly.
I drove an all original 1948 Plymouth to high school for a couple of years. I averaged 18 mpg with the flathead 6. those big steering wheels make steering really easy unless at a stand still. the non synchro trans, yeah it's a handful at first, but once you are accustomed to it, it's second nature. Again, you can't compare these old vehicles to the new ones. People who say they would take the old one over the new one don't care about creature comforts or how long it takes to get somewhere. It is all about the drive, having fun and feeling a connection with the machine.
I understand, just mainly talking about this truck in particular. Not a fan lol. Got an A model ford pickup with the 4 banger and 3 speed and i'm fine with that other than the cab is not really meant for someone who is 6'2 haha.
haha, yeah I understand where you are coming from, a relative of mine has a model a phaeton convertible. Plenty of room in the back, but up front... not so much.
Ofcourse rear wheel drive. Do you except a front wheel drive gayness on a truck?
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Would you please remove the miserable background music, please?