2017 F15A Starting over

[sth65pac]

Well after a short break of 9 years I am back on to my F15A.
To search threads here is my original linkk http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=7402

The Army Registration Number is 57827 after researching at the Australian War memorial. It is a 1942 Ford F15A.

In 2009 I fell through my old trailer and crushed my back disks so I wasn't able to do a large truck until now. I have learnt a lot but know far from everything.

I'll have questions and suggestions. I take on that some people are perfectionists I'll admit I am not so live with it. This may be a little out of order But I will try to make it flow.

After an initial assessment the rust in the cab roof is worse than ever and I have NO desire to use Protec paint ever. It is porous and has allowed my truck to deteriorate badly. Ahh well live & learn.


I removed the roof the very next day. It will need to be sand blasted and repaired (again) I have had the gutter parts pre-made so I will mig them on once the Sandblaster has done his job.


A great example of care when assembling (somewhere between issue and me becoming owner)

Today (ANZAC DAY) I took the steering box off- yes some water inside but we'll have to see how it goes... :

Are there meant to be grease nipples here ??? (front of front springs?)

Cheers,

Ian

[Ron King]

Protec paint is not too bad.
Any flat paint is porus.
I tend to mix a harder to flat paint which not only makes it dry quick but just adds a slight gloss and helps the paint to seal.

Please keep posting your progress.
You know where I am if you need help lifting something and save your back .
Ron

[Mike Kelly]

We have all done the wrong thing when painting . Nowadays I apply a 2 pack seal coat over the initial primer coat.

The local paint shop here often has 2 pack mismatches they are stuck with . A customer has ordered say 4 litres of the best quality Wattyl 2 pack top coat, the customer turns up, hates the colour and the shop is stuck with the paint, they put it under the lower shelf for sale at less than half new price. Doesn't matter what the colour of the 2 pack is, its job is to seal the primer from moisture. You can then paint your flat khaki enamel over the seal coat.

[Jacques Reed]

Originally Posted by sth65pac

Are there meant to be grease nipples here ??? (front of front springs?)

Hi Ian,
Nice looking F-15A for a starting point.

Yes, there are grease nipples there to answer your question.

Cheers,

[sth65pac]

Originally Posted by Jacques Reed

Hi Ian,
Nice looking F-15A for a starting point.

Yes, there are grease nipples there to answer your question.

Cheers,

Many thanks Jacques... Added to my I need it list
Purchased today QTY 20. Thank-you for the clarification.

Cheers,

Ian

[Jacques Reed]

Hi Ian,

You may know this, but be careful when buying grease nipples as there are a few types of threads available. Society of Automotive Engineers- Lubrication Thread (SAE-LT) is the type mainly used on cars and trucks. It has a tapered thread to form a tight seal and is screwed into a parallel sided UNF tapped hole.

There are also Metric threads, BSP threads and NPT threads available. Some are not tapered either. Some are close in size but will not seal or tighten up, and more likely strip the threaded hole. Australia prefers BSP pipe sizes with Metric sizes on Chinese stuff, and the US prefers NPT pipe sizes.

If you have an original sample best to match the thread type up to that.

Hope this is of some help to you and others. I learnt this the hard way ordering grease nipples on my Korean built ship with British, Chinese, and Japanese machinery on board. Think she went to the breakers with a few boxes of unused wrong type grease fittings on board!

Cheers,

[sth65pac]

A little more progress, Fuel tank removed and all the JUNK from the rear.

I have a twisty step, I am probably going to attach a long bar to it and bend it back the way it was (I hope).

Cab remains will be removed tomorrow I hope.

and the dreaded rear cross-member.
Hopefully it will spring back to the original line. If not I have a hydraulic pack to persuade it in to alignment. I will cut off all the rivets and replace it. That means making having a new one made in the coming weeks.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

This is looking at it end on. Not good

Hopefully I can get this all straight.

Cheers,

Ian

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Hello Ian,

Great to see you have restarted on your F15A. Thanks for sharing all the photos, we like them here on MLU. Could you please attach them as described here?
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19
Our experience over the year (decades, really) is that using external photo hosting will one day lead to the loss of pictures, rendering a thread like this useless. That would be a shame and waste of your work posting it here.

Thanks,
Hanno

[sth65pac]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

Hello Ian,

Great to see you have restarted on your F15A. Thanks for sharing all the photos, we like them here on MLU. Could you please attach them as described here?
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/showthread.php?t=19
Our experience over the year (decades, really) is that using external photo hosting will one day lead to the loss of pictures, rendering a thread like this useless. That would be a shame and waste of your work posting it here.

Thanks,
Hanno

They are on Photo bucket Hanno. I can email them to you if you wish and you can do what you want.

Ian

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by sth65pac

They are on Photo bucket Hanno. I can email them to you if you wish and you can do what you want.

Ian, I have edited your last post to show how it works. But you will have to do it yourself, mate, can't spend day & night editing other people's postings. Administering & moderating MLU is already taking too much of my time...

Cheers,
Hanno

[sth65pac]

I had an original hatch with the truck VERY RUSTY, but it had a broken hinge. Obviously a bit of a rush in the factory as the hinges are reversed between the two. Hopefully these pictures will upload ok. I'm new to this photo upload style so bear with it. I drilled out the rivets on the old hinge and will plunge weld on the donor hinge. Its 16:50 here now. Enough on a Friday.

Still have to repair around the turret and finish the drip rails.

Tomorrow I says...tomorrow.

Cheers,

Ian

[sth65pac]

Slow work yesterday, after some grit in my eye. No injuries with PPE on any vehicle except this truck.. My eye is slowly getting beeting better. Some hatch patches. tacked in first then fill the popped holes (rust) Dress with a flap disk.