COE Newbie with 48 Ford Coe, Old School Flathead and Low

My Name is Jay. I've been reading COE posts thanks to all who have taken the time to share your experience and knowledge.

I snaped a photo of a truck in 2006 in Dayton Washington about 300 miles from western Oregon where I live. Did some detective work and figured out who owned it. Call the guy, Ron, every 6 months till last summer when he finally agreed to sell the truck. He had mentioned that he had a number of 40-50's vintage fords. I tried every trick in the book to get him to sell. Finally during my call last summer I asked Ron if he had missed the leason his mother had drilled into his head to share with others. He laughed and finally we made the deal on a complete, straight, 48 Ford COE that was last licenced in 1984.

The first weekend after getting it home I pulled the plugs and shot some mystery oil in the cylinders. Second weekend I tuned it up and screwed an oil pressure gauge in and it had 25 lbs oil pressure on the starter. I put the plugs in and by god it started maxing out the 50 lbs oil pressure gauge. It sounds pretty solid.

My vision is to use the stock ch***is, a little different from what most are doing, retaining the Flattie, adding a T5 trans, super wide 9" axel and modifying the stock straight axel and get it low.

I'm old and have a job so progress maybe slow. As I figure out each of the mysteries of my project I'll share it with you.

Have some photos of the 48 and also my 41 Willys sedan in my album.

Good Luck to you all. JT

 

Welcome Jay. looking forward to your posts.

 

Had a look in your album, looks like a great start to a project, Willys looks pretty good too!

 

Looking forward to watching this one.
Looks like a real solid start.

 

There's going to be jealousy if seth(iwannaflatty) see's that goose riding that sheep in the first picture in your album. LOL

 

All,
Thanks for the warn welcome.
That picture of the goose sitting on the sheep is not photoshop. It was cold and the sheep had laid down so the goose climbed on the only local heat source. That struck me as "Never seen that before".
Interesting you should mention iwannaflatie. His build is an inspiration that ride has "the look". I'm still tying to figure out where to source the 35-40" wide whites photo shoped onto his ride.
Best of luck to you all, Later on. JT

 

How much for the leetle sheep??
That there is the finest sheep i've ever laid my eyes(hands)on,boy!!
the goose aint bad either.
Some inter-racial???stuff going on over yonder in yer farm...

Thanks Jayt for the nice words,,,I dont know where we could get WWW that big but I been meaning to Email a guy that has some.
I'll be watching
good luck!!!
and welcome.

Shopdawg,,,you makin fun of my sheep? I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my sheep don't like people laughing. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it....
Wait,why does it always have to be a male sheep?????

 

Real nice solid truck you got, I can see why you were so determined to own it. I dig that spring ride seat. It brings me back to the old Freightliner I drove way back, LOL. Have fun with it.

 

Cool find Jay, bought a 48 F6 coe myself last year.
I'm also keeping the original ch***is but with a dually dana70 rear and a chevy G30 front.

Follow you

Happy building
Ronald

 

A C6 is really wide. Sounds Like you're solved numerous issues by going with model wide enough Dana 70 and C30 front. Best of luck to you. JT