Happiness is a fully rebuilt rare original Ford carb!!! New plunger, needle, gaskets, acid washed etc. Putting her back on the truck now!… Doesn’t help that after sorting the hard lines and getting it plumbed I excitedly go to start the truck and have a flat battery! Ha!
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Wow, coming together! A piece of art! Everything fixed or rebuilt and kept looking original’ish with a neat patina. We’re 95% done. Will have it at the Ford show at Claudlands in Hamilton tomorrow… Check out the tidy new wiring! You could eat off that engine!
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We got the motor running today, purrs like a pussycat! We’ll be replacing the leads and plugs.
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Great day in Rogers workshop painting firewall, engine bay, more chassis cleaning, new floor pan hand fabricated, loom stripped out! New loom next week! Check out the tidyness of the F1’s backend! Firewall all tidied up and looking awesome! We had a new floorpan fabricated. All welded in and looking great! Nice…
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I managed to grab a few hours today to finish up the paint on the F1. It had a great patina but through some careful sanding I’ve managed to make it look worse… but in a cool way 😉 It’ll look like an old rough truck but it’ll be on clean, new running gear. If…
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So I met this great fella Roger on Neighbourly when I posted looking for a casual mechanic to help out with our little F1 project. Lives just around the road and is an awesome mechanic with a hoist. he’s going to help me get this old girl on the road in pretty fast time. The…
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