Most in depth review review/history 1952 Chevy 1 ton truck  

I have so many ideas of episodes that I wanna do but you’re right I haven’t seen a task force truck in good shape this year restored to original condition another truck that you don’t see often is a 58 Apache I would love to compare all of the trucks to one another like the 52 international, dodge Chevy ford Would love to compare Hudson terraplane and studebaker express 1937 that’s a tall tall order both trucks are super rare I’m probably gonna hit my truck again before this year is over the format has changed a lot since I did that episode I’ll start looking for a task force truck=)

I was hoping to find the whole range that hasn’t happened yet

Forth gear isn’t bad reverse is bad. If you’re big, it doesn’t affect me too much but I do have to slide over a little bit when I put it in reverse.

@@What.its.like. Oh, I mistyped, I meant reverse. At least you have plenty of head room. Love the truck.

Thank you so much for digging =)

That’s the setup I wanted or ls swap but I’m happy with what I have if the engine goes idk I might

I will totally do a Ford F1 as soon as I find one =) Ideally, I would love to find a Ford international Chevy Dodge and compare them all

@@What.its.like. Great, I can't wait hope you find a '52. Also, the whole F1 to F5 family is really interesting as well.

No worries I’m so glad you got something from it.. I bought the truck to drive it it’s honestly my favorite truck of any truck that I’ve ever driven ever. Of course mine has a swap drive train but it’s still retains everything else like it’s the original chassis still has mechanical brakes mechanical steering.. honestly I’m probably gonna shoot that video again because the format has changed so much from when I originally did it.. 4400 that’s a one and ahalf ton truck right? They are so cool and parts are readily available the only thing that is hard to find is the corner windows i’m in the process of getting a radial tires I’m having a heck of a time finding the single piece of Rims they only made them in the mid 80s on off commercial vehicles I might do a comparison video bias versus Radial tires in the rain

Yes, the 4400 is a ton and a half. I don't have the corner cab windows. I think they are a good thing to have, but the truck I found didn't have them. I got a battery charging to go into the truck. I hope this weekend to get started or to see if I can get it started. Good to know that the parts are readily available. I would like to drive it around before I change the drive line. Won't be going anywhere far (or fast). I'll watch for the new video. Good luck.

A Chevy nv4500 trans with 5 speed overdrive and a 350 Vortec or GM HD383 stroker would do wonders for this truck.

That’s awesome do you like yours I’m currently out in mine love it 😍 just had radials put on the rear needs balanced

Your truck sounds awesome I’m going to revisit my truck because format is totally different now it took me 4 days to shoot that video because I didn’t know how or what I wanted to show and how to present it Does your truck go highway speed just curious

@@What.its.like. Goes 90 pretty easy with mid range RPM; but I don't feel safe with these 70 yr. old reflexes. Tell the wife it's a chick magnet but their mostly our age. Their story is basically the same about how they learned to drive on the farm in one & all agree the smell inside is the very same. Coming out of Wal-Mart I've walked up on a few teenage girls hugging the fenders & hood as they pose for selfies. The epoxy flat brown rattle can Rust-oleum I apply every 4th election year seems to draw them to it like milk chocolate Hershey bar. On the format... Like every career; it takes forever to get the swing of it... but once you get it organized the process only takes a quarter of the effort & time to accomplish the results. Looking forward to riding down the trail of the few known facts there are on each vehicles attributes. Blessings be upon your further endeavors.

Thank you so much for sharing those amazing stories I’ve owned 3 classic cars 67 mustang 73 karman Ghia and the 52 Chevy truck I get more looks in the truck then both of the other two cars combined the mustang was sick and the Ghia got great gas mileage.. I’d venture to say no the truck even tho it’s a daily drives better than my mustang did I loved that that car but it was a still ride

I am working on it I need two more rims you don’t happen to have any do you I’ve looked everywhere around here.. right now it’s got biased and radials on it and I would not recommend doing that.. can only drive safe we about 40 miles an hour the 19.5s are rough i’m going to keep my split rims I’m going to try to see if I can find somebody that has a forge and make a mold of them because I can’t be the only person that has this problem

No, I don't. Sorry. I swapped the original split rims for 7r 19.5 wheels and tires and was worried that it wouldn't make much of a difference. As I drove out of the parking lot of the tire place I was laughing , because even at that slow speed it was night and day. Also I think the bigger wheels look great. All these guys that slam the trucks and make them into "cars" are silly. it's a one ton ! My truck has a utility body and a crane on it and works for a living. And looks like a proper truck.

It’s my baby/workhorse I’m honestly gonna redo this video because everything has changed since then and nobody really watched it anywhere in the beginning I think that that episode shows a lot of what I wanted to show on this channel but I don’t have the opportunity to show cars like that and drive them I’m working on it though I recently got a job at a classic car dealership so I can drive everything there but if I go to other classic car dealerships I can’t a lot of it has to do with insurance purposes and other various factors like if the car catches on fire who’s to blame..

Awesome thank you so much for that. I never drove any other one besides mine, we are coming up on our 500th episode I’m going to cover this truck again. I still have it. I don’t ever plan on getting rid of it, but I’ve had some mechanical upgrades and it doesn’t look as good as it back then.

@@What.its.like. yeah 47 is probably the most unique in these trucks because of the story on them. The workers in charge of the tooling went on strike because GM was pushing so hard to get the new tooling out as a result they actually made a few 47 trucks identical to a 46 and the 47 AD trucks retained a crap ton of the old technology I’ve had mine since I was 15 and in my quest to make it stay as original as possible I’ve had a difficult time finding parts because of year specific stuff. Yours is definitely in better shape though hopefully mine will be in that kind of condition soon I didn’t have a bed engine or good rear end when I got mine rear end is different too because the older 4 speed was a different length than the sm420 that came out in 48. You have a beautiful truck by the way mine doesn’t even have paint anymore lol

I absolutely love the SM 420 transmission. Mine has a 350 V8 in it. Nothing spectacular makes 150 hp but it has a hydraulic roller cam. It seems like that should’ve been the perfect set up for that truck. It will go 80 miles an hour. It gets 20 miles to the gallon now it’s sitting on radial tires 19.5 With the radial tires, it doesn’t have the resistance the bias had it rolls freely. It also stops better and handles and wet weather better. For me, I absolutely love this sound of straight cut gears in a transmission when you’re at the top of third it almost sounds like it’s supercharged and I absolutely love it when you go to shift gear it clicks.. My truck has that patina look, but it’s started flaking the clearcoat off of it so I took it somewhere to get it clearcoated and that was the furthest of drove it and a long time and man that I have a blast =) your part of driving the truck you’re part of everything that’s going on. New cars are so isolated when you push the break down and it goes all the way to the floor you need more brake fluid. It talks to you like that it communicates new cars don’t do that.

Awesome information thank you so much for the correction

Have you tried? Napa, rock auto, O’Reilly’s, eBay is huge help most of the time you can find whatever you need on eBay… you might laugh but I needed a master brake cylinder for mine 52 Chevy and they had one a couple towns over had I called in the morning I could have walked out with the part in my hot little hands that same day.. Also pro tip take the part with you to the store everytime I need a front end part we get heavy duty 3800 series. But the parts are always too small O’Reilly’s had my front tie rod end ( those were hard to find) and took a couple weeks.. you’ll be surprised specially, if you live in an area that has a lot of people that use Classic Cars like there’s a lot of AD series trucks 1947-1954 driving around here. Other sites www.lmctruck.com/chevrolet?gad_source=1 classicparts.com/chevy-gmc/chevy-gmc-truck-parts/1947-1954-truck-parts shop.classicindustries.com/lp/1947-2008-chevy-truck-parts-accessories-classic-chevrolet-trucks www.npdlink.com/1947-1998-chevy-truck I hope this helps =) what engine are you running mine doesn’t have the stock drive train but absolutely love it.. still not 100% sold on radials I’ll talk about it in the 500th episode on Tuesday I thought it would be cool the do a totally live show but idk how that would work I guess I could flip it with the iPad and it could just be a one off like that which would be cool =)

Very helpful. Thank you! I’ll check out my local Napa first then rely on these sites. Funny enough, this rear end is going in a 1929 Chevy 1.5 ton I’m building into a classic camper hot rod. It has a higher compression 235 decoding from ‘56-62 and I’m still trying to decide on a tranny. Fun project!

Depends on the market I’m not selling mine but I’ll tell you what I paid for it $7,500.. I see them for sale lot for around that price.. for reasons I can’t explain the half ton costs so much more but it’s 1/3 the truck.. The one and a half ton and 2 ton trucks you can find for 10k and under Check Facebook marketplace right now is the best time to buy I’m finding all kinds of deals because people have to pay for storage

I switched the rims I think we’re going to cover this again the format changed drastically since the very first episode I honestly don’t like the way that it rides now.. i’m going to get it aligned and see if that fixes it but you get it on a dirt road you can’t go faster than 5 miles an hour it just shakes.. with the bias tires you could go 90 down a dirt road and it was totally stable

Are you talking about the tandem the big trucks.. I don’t know anything about 4 x 4 with Chevy early Chevy I honestly don’t know anybody that I can point you to either, does anyone else know a link and can get them in touch with someone who would know?

@@What.its.like. Like the regular drivers license for most countrys is a class B. Which allows you to drive Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) all the way to 3.5 tonne. The equivalent of this! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UlbBdVw8brc.html

No idea market is all over the place mine is a 1 ton the crazy thing is 1 ton 1.5 and 2 tons are generally cheaper than the 1/2 3/4 ton truck and the 1-2ton trucks are more truck for money. I think I’m going to feature the truck again because no one whatevs that and the format has changed quite a bit. Paid $7,500 for that one and according to nada it’s worth $20,000 for good shape. But that’s a jumping off point it’s worth what someone will give for it. =)

Two piece not widow wheels but no one will change those here.. I’ve since put 19.5 radials on it and have been chasing problems even since I’ve done the universals king pin new tie rod ends..

Soul by adding the 195 Wheels how much has that helped your gear ratio in Road speed

The truck would go 70, 7580 with the biased tires on it.. it gets better gas mileage now I get about 20 miles to the gallon on the highway.. I’m not sure if it’s worth it though because of all of the issues that I’ve had to fix since.. it has never tracked right since doing this modification.. and with the tires with tubes never had an issue with keeping air pressure never had to put more air in .. every time it gets cold outside or gets extremely hot after being cold. I have to readjust the air it’s safer yes but that seems like it’s only positive the tires themselves call for 100 pounds of pressure but if I put that much in there the truck is undrivable. So I have them at 75/80lbs We are approaching 500 episodes on the channel. I think I’m gonna hit that in the summertime. I’m hoping to have all the kinks worked out by then going to do another review on that truck and talk about all of the hurdles. The tires are also cheaper than the bias. They almost half the price I paid $150 per tire the bias with the tubes foundation and everything they were almost 350. I’m sure they’re more than that now.

@@What.its.like. remember that t o e in is different with radial tires than it is with bias ply tires might want to check what's local tire shop what your toe in should be for the handling

Yeah, that’s when I found out the tie rods were bad. I’ve been trying to get it four wheel lined and I keep chasing problems. Every time I go to get it aligned somebody else will say something else is wrong with it and they can’t align it.

Haha no bs in that truck No traction control, no airbags seat belts manual everything and best of all if I leave my cell phone at home I can go totally disconnect nobody knows where I am or where my vehicle is at.. which is freedom in a way