Barrman
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Now I Don't Know if my Cab is even a Gasser Cab. M35 differences
I have been pointing out differences between 1952 and 1953 cab and bodies for a few weeks now as I find them. It seems the biggest difference was staring me in the face all these months and I didn't see it until yesterday.
My 1952 and 1953 Gasser trucks both have a flat firewall as seen in the second picture below. My replacement cab has an indent away from the engine on the firewall as pictured in the first picture.
I didn't catch it until I went to put on the forward tunnel cover and it didn't fit. I had already put on the starter lever, throttle linkage and all the wires without figuring it out. The flat firewall cab was sitting about 20 feet away for me to walk over to and make sure I was putting stuff in the proper hole the entire time too. Thankfully, I had cleaned and painted the front cover from both cabs just so I could use the best one and keep rust from killing the other one.
I was looking at a 1969 Multifuel today. Pistolnut was laughing at me as I walked around his noticing differences and similarities between his truck and mine. But, his firewall is just like my replacement cab firewall. His even has the holes for the Gasser throttle linkage, starter lever and a mount for a generator. But, he has multifuel fenders on his, newer headlight panels and the frame under the cab is square at the front compared to the curve on mine.
Basically, the only real difference between his cab and mine is the dash panel which has a bigger hole for the bigger gauge plate.
Interesting stuff if you care about it. Oh, here is how far I got Saturday in the bottom picture. I am about out of painted parts to put on the truck now. Hopefully, it will warm up above 60 this week so I can get some more stuff ready.
I have been pointing out differences between 1952 and 1953 cab and bodies for a few weeks now as I find them. It seems the biggest difference was staring me in the face all these months and I didn't see it until yesterday.
My 1952 and 1953 Gasser trucks both have a flat firewall as seen in the second picture below. My replacement cab has an indent away from the engine on the firewall as pictured in the first picture.
I didn't catch it until I went to put on the forward tunnel cover and it didn't fit. I had already put on the starter lever, throttle linkage and all the wires without figuring it out. The flat firewall cab was sitting about 20 feet away for me to walk over to and make sure I was putting stuff in the proper hole the entire time too. Thankfully, I had cleaned and painted the front cover from both cabs just so I could use the best one and keep rust from killing the other one.
I was looking at a 1969 Multifuel today. Pistolnut was laughing at me as I walked around his noticing differences and similarities between his truck and mine. But, his firewall is just like my replacement cab firewall. His even has the holes for the Gasser throttle linkage, starter lever and a mount for a generator. But, he has multifuel fenders on his, newer headlight panels and the frame under the cab is square at the front compared to the curve on mine.
Basically, the only real difference between his cab and mine is the dash panel which has a bigger hole for the bigger gauge plate.
Interesting stuff if you care about it. Oh, here is how far I got Saturday in the bottom picture. I am about out of painted parts to put on the truck now. Hopefully, it will warm up above 60 this week so I can get some more stuff ready.
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