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Welcome. I have a '28 also. But yours looks better than mine. Let us know if you need anything.

Wire spoke or dish? and where did you get that # from? Probably Canadian? or Egyptian.

I used a auto interior mirror. (from a 28 a) I mounted it onto a piece of sheet metal, then tucked the top end in around the header panel and the bottom into where the header panel mounts into on the bottom. Mount the mirror as low as you can so you can see thru the back window. The original style f...

yes ,,, I'd Use it. And keep looking for another also..

Use it. Nothing ventured bla bla bla.

Sweet Ride !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cheapest is a tarp. But what ever you get be sure it "breaths". You don't want condensation to build up and rust and rot every thing. I did that with an antique garden tractor and ruined just about everything. Make a 'tent' over it. sort of.. I don't know of any on the market.

On my '28 the number stamped on the frame is Just in front of the cab. On top of frame. easy to see. I wire brushed the area and highlighted with white chalk. And there the number showed up. Give it a try, you may get lucky and it won't be under the cab.

Stop guessing and find the numbers. Then you will know.

if it is not shaking and or knocking you should be good. With a non-counter balanced crank you'll know by the shaking it is too fast.

Stakebed wrote: ↑

August 31st, 2017, 7:23 pm

Be great if I had a seat and the cab mounted on the frame and a bed to see around I may just make all the parts and do the final welding in a few years. Not sure how I'm going to finish part of it yet...

Or ! take it and fit it to someone else's truck.

Tape a mirror on your yard stick , tape the yard stick to the truck, and set it so you can see what you want to get your angle.

1wonton wrote: ↑

August 26th, 2017, 12:33 pm

Weren't the original stakes all steel?

yup!

I have them in mine also. I made my own. Find the thickness you need and form it with the ball of a ball peen hammer over a hole in a block of steel. Check the length of the rod. If it is worn really short you may wish to get new ones.. Actuator leaver is supposed to be 15 deg. forward. Length of ro...

Thing is, essentially what I'm going for in design isn't what most would have gone with anyway. The original flatbed that was on this thing stuck out at least a foot on either side of the cab, and that's just not really what I'm wanting. The basic idea is that I'm building something a bit along the ...