After 15 years ownership of my great grandfathers old pickup has been assigned to me. Pulled it from it's resting place of 30 years and placed in my humble garage. Onto rust repair and vintage mechanics.
fair warning, this will be a very slow build as time and funds allow.
Looks like a really solid start though. Nice survivor.
Just fix what's broke. Leave cosmetics alone. It looks rad just the way it is.
Congrats on landing the truck!
Tool set for a 1946 pick up:
oldtin wrote: Congrats on landing the truck! Tool set for a 1946 pick up:
and a #3 phillips.
What, no bailing wire?
Agree with above, just mechanicals.
All Hail the Farm Truck!
I really like the long box and 125" wheelbase!
The folks at LMC Truck have about every gasket and chatchka you would ever need.
http://www.lmctruck.com/icatalog/ca/t.aspx?Page=10
The plan for now is to make it run down the road.
Who has a good 41-46 short block?
what's wrong with it? i rebuilt a chevy 235 when i was 15, the gmc is similar but different.
Well, the story I was told is that it suffered a lack of antifreeze and cracked the block. Stories of it running and smoking gophers out of the field exist
I don't know about the GMCs but I seem to remember with the Chevy 235 it was common to use the latest one you could find since they were near identical externally but had much better oiling and a slight horsepower bump. Might make the search a tad easier too.
This is a 228. Did the engines change much externally between the sizes? I'm assuming the transmission bolts to any of them at that time.
GMC had several different engines in that era; I believe they were all built on the same basic design but from what I can find there was a 228, 236, 248 and a 270. They were a better engine than the Chevy truck engines of the era, for one thing they had pressure oiling rather than splash oiling in the Chevys. The 270 was a popular hot rodding engine.
You can probably find more info on the http://www.stovebolt.com/ website; it's mostly old Chevy trucks but they also cover old GMC trucks as well.
Page 18. Apparently you have a "low deck" GMC 6 but can swap all the way up to a 302. Don't look at any other pages or you'll be drooling over speed parts!
No desire to go fast with this. Cruise nice and slow
Cool truck. I even like the wood side panels on the bed. And it's nice to see it next to a Suburban for scale.
Did a little cleaning and found the old hand crank start behind the seat.
Also lots of mouse nests
patgizz wrote:oldtin wrote: Congrats on landing the truck! Tool set for a 1946 pick up:and a #3 phillips.
No clutch heads on that era?
The early 50's trucks are full of them.
I know the 216-235 squirt oilers have major issues with the heads and blocks cracking. We had to Buy 4 or 5 core motors to get a good head and block combo.
I also had to rent a jig which helped line up the oil squirters in the oil pan to the scoops on the rods. It is the most ridiculous Rube Goldberg lubrication system I have ever seen.
https://www.fillingstation.com/ had everything we needed.
Awesome truck
I look forward to watching this one
Drool...
Subscribed.
Pulled the plugs today and poured some pbblast into all the cylinders.
Pretty sure I'm just going to swap this engine out though.
You would be surprised at what will clean up on a old engine. Don't write it off just yet. I've driven pistons out with a sledge, cleaned the rust off, reringed, and reinstalled. This isn't a 7k rpm engine.
Tolerances can be measured with a ruler. 
In reply to Toyman01:
This. My neighbor routinely pulls tractors and dozer of a similar era out of the woods, soaks, frees up, hones and cleans up engines that have been full of water and runs them without issue.
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