"the desert express.1951 ford coe pick up"

Ratio is easy to figure , count teeth on ring and divide by pin. teeth . Love the truck .

 

thank you sir..Im liking yours.

 

Painted the back of the chassis,cleaned up some stuff i didnt like.
Offset the axle by 3/4" back,we will see how it looks.
And fabricated my bumper bracket,Im no Bass but it came out ok.
I still need to tweak it a bit.

Now working on new Cab subframe-to-frame mounts...they will be fancier than the ones i made last year..


Posted using a chisel and hammer on Central America river stone.

 

Kinda lame to be the only one reading my thread and posting on it,oh,well.

I was just daydreaming about my truck last night when I got one ofthe coolest Private messages ive gotten on this place.
Mr Pilelish shared this cool story with me and Im posting with his permission.

" This an incredible story. My father, he has been gone for 15 years, was a freight salesman for DE in Oakland. The original DE was in Los Angeles, there was barn and yard in Ridgecrest. I painted the barn sign in Oakland at Fruitvale and 880 to the detail with the backward S's, cactus and jackrabitt. in 1963 when I was in High SchoolThe original owner of DE, Ange Reader( Sp) his kid drew the logo with the s backwards, he was like 7 or 8 in the 50's so the ol man stuck with that idea. Your build brought a tear to my eye."
I thought it was a great story.
Thank you mr Pilelish.

Ive been working on my body mounts.heres some useless pictures.

 

I read it and post on it

 

Dang Seth, your fab skills are improving...........lookin goooooooooood!!!!!!!!!

Cool story as well. Wish I had time to work on mine.
I'm always interested in your build......

 

Here's a post for your ego. Yours is my favorite truck on the HAMB.

Now keep posting.

Dave

 

Thanks guy...
Im sorry I sound like an attention whore...its cuz I aint getting action lately.
Thanks

 

Whoa - great progress dude since I last looked. Glad you hung in there....

 

Thanks guys...its great to have this type of motivation.

I started welding my brackets...I need to use gas on my Hobart 140.
I tried hooking the gas to the welder yesterday and the fitting on the regulator is different,,its bigger...

 

Any progress is good seth. no action, did you hurt your hand LOL.

 

heres some picss...this mounts need some speed holes...i guess its time to buy a hole saw set.

 

Nothing says speed like a COE ,lol .KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmOtdfeNovE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

Seth that is cool and I must say to you............

 

that is bad arse

 

I got a pair of fog lights from awesone dude "feo".
Thanks Javier.
Also working on rear bumper..
Yay or nay??

 

I say nay on the fog lights....

 

Seth , read the hole blog last night and great minds do think the same . Thought you might get a kick out of one of my finds at swap last April. Also could use some help on my tread deciding on dash .

 

Stop rubbing it.hahahaha...
I think id go with the stock dash.



Here some updates for today.
Listening to pinkfloyd helps A lot.


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one more.

 

So its been more then a week losing sleep and just looking at other peoples brackets and mounts so I can start making my own.I need to shitcan the ones above and make new ones for the rear below the cab.I already started cutting some metal but I wasnt "feeling" it.So today,I give it another shot and whatdayaknow?Everything sort of "clicks".A couple of grinds here and there then some metal cleaning and then i start tacking stuff together.I'm pleased on how the bracket looks that i run a little welding bead on the corner.Awesome!So I run another bead and then I finish one side."This looks ok but next side I will do a continuous bead"This is the result of the first part

 

I start on the other side trying to make one long good looking bead.My son is playing around me so I tell the wifey to keep him from looking ant the pretty light.I finish then I clean it and Im so proud of myself that I hurry to take pics.

 

Then I realize,,,I WELDED IT BACKWARDS!!!!!!!!!! Fmr

 

Time for some JACK an a nap . lol Blue

 

Just noticed this post...
I spit my icee with that one.

No kidding.
I might just do that.

 

Brackets finished.

 

I have been offered a 1977 Ford 250 custom short bed with a 390 auto for 400.
The truck has the twin beam axle on the front.
the guy crashed into a 2.5" wall and the passenger side axle broke off its "mount"??
and ended up under the cab.
Im thinking I could use everything from the truck on the coe ie.:
rear axle,gas tank,engine,radiator etc.
But Im afraid of the gas mileage on the FE.
what do you guys think.???
Stick with the sbc or go all ford?

 

I personally would use anything other than a 350 Chevy. It's about as generic as a Bic pen. The 390 ford would be much cooler to me. Yes, I vote for the 390.

 

If you've got the space,i'd say go for it !