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My family and yours crossed paths in that area at that time. Attached is a picture of my 1936 Ford 1.5 ton farm truck, which I restored as a tribute to my dad and grandpa. It is a parade truck for our family business, which is also still going.

Attached is a picture of an owners manual I found useful while restoring my 36 1.5 ton. It is available from several online sources.

I agree that the headlight switch is 90 degrees off. If that is the only thing we can find, I would say it is one heck of a restoration. What is the nob next to the gas pedal? Maybe a power take off control?

The stock setup for your truck is a combination oil pressure/fuel on one side and temperature/amp on the other. The oil pressure is electric, fuel is hydrostatic from a tube out of the tank with liquid site glass, the amp is pass through wire, and the temperature is a tube from the sending...

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Here is a another gvw list from the Truck ownwers manual for 36.

I put 6.50-20s on my '36 1.5 ton. I got them from Miller Tire (www.millertire.com). Paid $195 per tire, $38 per tube, and $30 per flap. Beverly Miller is very nice to deal with. Definitely a highway type tread, but good for my use.

The 36 truck used the 35 car fuel guage, which is hydrostatic. The pair you show is exactly the same as my 36 1.5 ton. I found a sender to go in the fuel tank and an oil pressure gauge on ebay. I cleaned out the fuel gauge site glass and bought fluid and copper line from a store like Mac's. It...

I used KBS NuMetal epoxy on my 36 1.5 ton steering wheel with good results. It is easy to work with.

I got my rebuilt coil back from Skip Haney and installed it with a F-5 condensor, modified to mount on and wire to the dome style coil, per posts in the archives, and re-connected the resistor under the dash. Even after an extended run at full temperature, the engine starts every time with a...

Skip Haney: I went to www.fordcollector.com and followed the instructions to send the coil to him with a check for $83.00 ($75 rebuild and $8 shipping). Starter: The strange thing is that when my engine was hot and would not start, the starter was turning much faster than when starting...

I forgot to add that I did send the spare distributor mount coil to Skip Haney for rebuilding, so I can go back to the original style if I want to.

I moved one wire from one post to the other on the under dash resistor to bypass it and went for a test drive and got to full temperature. Upon return, I had no starting problems. As an aside, during the drive, I noticed deteriorating performance of the engine, but managed to get home. When I...

I will try bypassing the external resistor. I went to the conversion coil because I exploded (literally) the one on the distributor when I left the ignition switch on, so I can't go back to that one. However, I found another distributor mount coil in a box of parts from the previous owner. I...

A couple of summers ago, I had trouble starting my 36 Truck after the engine was hot. All was good after I installed a phenolic spacer between the carb and manifold. Now I am having the problem again, and I think it is the coil. I have a 6 volt with a conversion to a tube coil with an internal...