New project or parts?

[Elkhorn29]

Picked up a 1928 stakebed today minus cab, hood,front fenders and few other things. If I find a cab for this frame it might become another project, if not, its parts for my 29. I thought it was cool that it has most of rear fenders with fender spacers. I don't believe I have ever seen rear fender spacers on stakes before. I have seen them on express trucks. Strange thing about this truck is it has reverse thread lug nuts on at least one wheel. I need to check the others. I know my 29 is not reverse threads. Great Day today, got to test wench on car trailer. It worked great!
Have a look at the pictures

[Brady]

Great find and nice photos- notice the early intake manifold witout a vacuum port. Thanks for posting, and BTW- you may want to wait until after dark to test out any wenches on your car trailer...

[Farrell In Vancouver]

Nice find! At least it should be easy to find a 29' cab, and what ever else you'll need. How about some more shots detailing those fender spacers? I have three AA running gears now and all have lefty threads on the driver's side lugs.
Re:Brady's comment about the lack of a vac. port on the intake: Does that mean it's early? Or is it standard for vehicles with Electric wipers, such as the closed cars of 28 (Coupe, tudor, sedans) ?
Congrats on yer "wench" testing

[Neil Wilson]

Elkhorn29,
From what I can see (like the wheels), your AA is a '29 (not a '28).

[Elkhorn29]

Elkhorn29,
From what I can see (like the wheels), your AA is a '29 (not a '28).

That is what I thought when I first saw the truck from the wheels. I was able to find the VIN and its AA5324** which would make it Oct. 1928. Besides that the truck also has

1. What appears to be an early transmission much like the regular A (small without PTO or a secondary overdrive)
2. The bed has "Ford Truck" on the back of the bed
3. The emergency/park brake was on left hand side (at least whats left of it)
4. Rear motor mounts are early three sided style.

The motor does not appear to be a '28 or AA. The timing gear cover does not have the fin/gusets above the front motor mount. The numbers on the motor have been removed so I can't really date it. The motor does have compression. We are perplexed about the left hand threads on the wheel lugs? Why?

Is there a way to clean the distributor hole in the motor without dismantling? The distributor was removed some time back and dust and dirt are all in it.

Thanks for any input.

I will post more photos soon of rear fender spacers

[Elkhorn29]

Great find and nice photos- notice the early intake manifold witout a vacuum port. Thanks for posting, and BTW- you may want to wait until after dark to test out any wenches on your car trailer...

Why would I want to wait till dark?

[Elkhorn29]

Here are some more pictures of the rear fender spacers.

[Elkhorn29]

couple more pictures

[Neil Wilson]

Ford recalled all AA trucks sold prior to February 15, 1929
to replace the Model A spindles with new AA spindles. This
resulted in the change over to the new wheel bolts and nuts. For
trucks with the 15/16” sized wheel nuts, both ground and spare
wheel nuts were changed and a starting crank and wheel wrench
with a 1-1/8” wrench size was exchanged for the old part. Since
this was done free of change, most trucks were converted.
Consequently, original trucks with early wheel nuts and starting
crank are rarely found.

[Chris Haynes]

Is it possible that truck originally had an Express body that was replaced by the stake bed? I have never seen fenders mounted like that on a stake bed.

[Boomer]

I believe rear fenders were available on platform beds until the end of July 1929.

It looks like you have some good parts there. Keep us updated.

[Chris Haynes]

I believe rear fenders were available on platform beds until the end of July 1929.

True, but were the tops cut away like these?

[Neil Wilson]

The 1928/1929 platform and the panel delivery used the same rear fenders. And starting about April 1928, the express body center stake pockets were shortened and consequently use the same rear fenders as the platform and panel delivery.

The platform used the fender spacers as shown about. The express used a shorter design fender spacer. The panel delivery did not have a fender spacer.

[Boomer]

Chris,
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking. My fenders were also missing the back half when I picked my truck up. I don't know if it was rust or if they ended up cutting them off because they were damaged somehow. Either way, it looks like it might have been a rather common occurance.

[SHELBY MESSER]

The front part of the fenders may have been added to the truck to prevent the rear tires from throwing mud on the running when driving on the muddy roads! There were only a few hard surface roads in these old boys younger days? Shelby, Louisiana.