Wing Windows, Gas Tank removal, Installed Plates, Dash...

 New VA plates

Dead fuel sending unit w/cork float

Cleaning of the fuel tank. I had to remove this sucker to get to the sending unit. But I got a service bulletin to add an access plate so I won't have to remove it again...

Both wing window are now installed

Had to pull the dash to get to the instruments, ugly...

Rear Window Install

In my primary effort to make this truck street legal I am replacing the broken glass. Here are some photos of replacing the rear window. I tried the rope method but that didn't work because the rope cut into the vintage reused moulding. I suspect that the rope method would work fine with new moulding. I have used the rope method in the past with no problems. Si I used the putty knife method which just takes longer...

Window Removed

Glass Installed into Moulding

Window Installation Complete

Wing Window Glass Removed (waiting for setting felt...)

Lights! Action! Drive!

Got the following lights working
1. Parking front & rear
2. Tail, rear only
3. Brake
4. Directional lights, front & rear, right & left
5. Headlights, Hi & Low beam

Still no dash lights and only the amp meter and oil pressure work. Engine temperature is mechanical with a bulb in the engine and a copper tube to the gauge that some one cut and all the ether leaked out... Speedomter works though.

Took a night ride. Weird not having backup lights. 1948 = primitive. The truck didn't come with directional lights, backup lights, or front directional lights.

Here is the radimeter (temperature) gauge bulb removed from the engine:

No Synchros & Spur Cut Gears

It's been decades since I had to drive a old school tranny like this one!!! Do I try to double clutch or just try to know when to jam it into gear?

Going for a Quick Ride in the Stude (its not street legal yet...)

I'll get a better video soon, I need to find a way to attach the Droid in a better place and more securely...

Rear End Assembled

I received the bearings yesterday and assembled the rear end. Here is the contact pattern using Persian Blue. Not the best pattern, the pinion needs to move closer to the ring geer. Some day I'll figure out the best way to move the pinion:

Got Bearings?

Finally got the Timken bearings for my pinion from ebay: