g'day all, thought i might put up a post so you all know who i am. i've a 1951 chev 3/4 ton truck that i purchased from my girl's grandparents(her great grandparents bought it new). It is Aussie built RHD truck. everything apart from the trayback is original, and she is a bit knocked around but in good nick compared to some i have seen. however the tranny crossmember on the chassis was badly damaged on both ends (i'd say torn out from crash or hitting tree stump in paddock maybe). i've got it in about a million pieces and have about 2 million photos from pulling it apart. i've got access to a sand blaster at work so i cut all the rivets on chassis (as i have a friend can help with re-rivetting) repaired bad rust, sandblasted, and primed with 2pac epoxy. getting all new wheel bearings and diff bearings out of USA (long wait for postage so far). i plan to finish chassis and running gear in 2pac gloss black. i have included a couple pics of before and during as there arent any after pics yet. I will have alot of questions when it comes to the engine and gearbox, along with the cab and panelwork. hope i can get some after pics happening soon
Progress looks good. Welcome to the forum 'Mate'. Glad to see one of our Aussie friends with a project truck too.
If a personal package rather than one from a business can get to you sooner let us know. At 76 years of age I am way better at helping than working it seems. Money orders for goods I sent down under are very strange looking things. Instead of the amount being written out there is a 100's column, a 10's column, and a 1's column with the appropriate number checked in each column. Darn sure gets around bad hand writing. Your in luck in having a 3/4T in the way that the rear end has an open driveshaft so a later, up through 1972, center section can be installed giving you much friendlier highway gearing. We have reinstalled transmission crossmembers and just used grade five bolts which are as hard or harder than the original rivets. They make a bolt with splines near the head, like wheel lug bolts, that will draw into the hole as tight as a rivet. The work you have done so far looks primo so I'd bet the finished project will do you proud. We may have to educate each other on terminology but that's more fun.
Welcome to the message boards! Love the truck and the stories, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to following your progress. Damon
I'd love to see pics of the right hand drive setup/ dash. I see the vents on the cowl are reversed also......interesting. You craxy Aussies driving on the wrong side of the road and such....... Are the steering boxes the same as US?
more pics thanks for all your interest fellas, i have been trying to email classic part for a week or so now without reply, is the website down or something? thanks for the offer Evan, i will keep that in mind, ol' chebby, i have taken a couple (phone) pics of inside the cab, but couldnt find the steering box in amongst all the other gearm i think it would be just the reverse of the left hand drive vehicles
G day Mate! Welcome aboard and thanks fore sharing your pics. Are you planning to build up the truck stock as a stakebed again as there are nt that many left of them ? Martinius Norway.
That is interesting....exactly reversed from US models. How do they set up the shift linkage and the throttle linkage? I would love to see pictures from an origional truck, if you find nother one.
Being a 3/4T it should have a floor shift---just have to practice shifting left handed. We did a 40 Pontiac that had a foot starter and carb on the right side. The linkage transferred from right to left through a bellcrank mounted to the bottom of the toe board. International used the direct approach; the linkage rod runs right through the center of the block between cylinders.
martinus, i will be resoring to original with a few nice touches, however i plan to build the bed similar to the original tray (one in pics is not original) from the rear it will be shaped └₍__₎┘ with seats over wheels alond the length of the tray. all the fixings will be forged stainless hopefully ol' chebby, she is a floor shift, choke and idle up (wind out throttle) operated via cable and foot thottle operated via linkaged transfered to left side of engine as shown in pic what more pics would you be interested in, i seem to have lost some of the pics i took whilst pulling her apart but i still have some 300 pics to look through.
HMMMMMMM, that would make an interesting conversion for a US truck. I never knew they made a right hand model. An Aussie right side cowl vent to make 2 lower cowl vents, I bet you could whip up a whirlwind with all vents open. I suppose dash stainless is spendy, does anyone reproduce it for right hand drive?
Welcome , newbie ! From The Land Of Wonder no less . I see a *very* nice rig indeed , glad to hear you're going stock(ish) as that 235 CID ' Stovebolt ' engine is hard to beat .
i havent driven it but from what i have been told the vents are like aircon, i'm not sure if anyone reproduces the dash stainless, i might have to get the original stuff re chromed. i was under the impression that the motor was 216ci but havent done too much digging. can anyone tell me just from a pic?
No no no ! That stainless steel is dead simple to polish and it'll look far better than any chrome ever did . Post some pix of your engine and we'll identify it for you .
is original dash stainless? i assumed it was crome here are the pics i have of the motor, i can get number in a few days when i get home from work
Yes the glove box door and the top and bottom of the speaker grill are stainless. Here is some pitures of mine before and after the paint and polishing. Sorry this was the best before I had. And here is cleaned up. Its cheap and easy to do.
