So much SLUDGE! Barn Find 1949 Ford F1 Truck - Will It Run?
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The Flathead V-8 in this barn find Ford F1 pickup is FILLED with oil sludge. Can Davin and Jeff get it cleaned out enough to get this beauty of a farm truck running again?
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Several years ago I lived in a small town and each time I would get gas at a service station I would see a 1950 Ford pickup parked in the weeds. I asked the guy whose truck it was and they said it was a parts delivery pickup and after the owner died it had been sitting there. I finally bought it for $25 dollars and only rebuilt the carb and repaired the radiator drove it for a few years. What great memories.
Similar story back in '78 or '79, I think it was. Guy said it wouldn't start, so I ended up trading him a couple of shotguns for it. Ended up pulling the starter out of it and having it rebuilt. Put the starter back in and drove it for several years until I sold it. THAT was the one that got away.
Not the hot, honey-blonde girlfriend who called me a male chauvinist pig (I was 22, in the Navy, and had no clue what that meant - except that I wasn't getting any). Nope, it was the truck.
Okay, and the '67 Shovelhead. And maybe the '68 Bonneville that I replaced the zener diode on and drove it even in the winter. In Tulsa.
You two do a great job of presenting, without any foolishness or BS. Very refreshing!
This series is becoming one of my favorite online things to watch. Please keepem' coming!
WOW! Looks like the old Paraffin Pennzoil!
It’s awesome to see Jeff again, and to see “Vancraft Speed Shop” history in the making.. definitely would love to see more of these videos..
I realise now that I've missed Jeff, actually. These guys compliment each other nicely as a barn find starter duo.
Thanks very much!
Wow. That started right! Can’t beat those older machines.
Hard to hold a good Ford Flathead down. My 1950 F-1 was purchased in 2010 from a farmer in Wichita, KS and shipped to my home in Detroit. It get driven regularly with it's recently rebuilt engine. Flatheads forever.
Wichita, my hometown.
It's a Ford pick-up it'll run.....
I love watching these vids of these Ol Gals breathing life again... An Ol Timer once told me to run the engine for 10 minutes with a few quarts of Kerosene to clean up that sludge caused by Non Detergent Oil. It sure did clean it up too. 5 Gal buckets and Old Milk crates are a must have in any garage, lol. I would have done a compression on those cylinders while I was replacing the plugs.
Fantastic loved every minute of this, Well done guys...
Really a solid truck and virtually all original. For me it would be an honor to own this amazing piece of automotive history.
Looks like fun! Awesome project for Vancraft Speed Shop 🤘🏻
I would LOVE to have a vehicle like this. I don't care what year, make, model, engine type or size, whatever. I just want something old and original to slowly bring back to life. But since I'm barely surviving financially. I don't see how that is possible
That’s a Ford for ya!!! I mean, that thing just fired right up, and, idled like a champ!!!
Love these old trucks. This one looks like it would clean up well. It should be restored.
Diesel is a winner for flushing that sludge out. Really beautiful old truck, great to hear it running again!
Doesn't kerosene work too?
@@everready19373,, perhaps but at nearly double the price 😳
I've used Diesel to clear a knocking lifter. Worked great 👍👍
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Looks like years of Quaker State and Penzoil. 🤣🤣
Took a minute for Davin to realize what the bore scope was clearly showing him. Glad they both eventually came around and yanked intake manifold. Would've like it even better if they changed out oil filter cartridge before firing it up. This is at the very least a two flush operation. Good luck, Jeff.
Yeah pull gas oil bad truck strong drive.
Jeff had already changed the oil and filter.
Coldwar Motors just dealt with the same issue in their flathead revival but their engine was also seized and a few valves were broken. I wasn’t really surprised this one ran as well as it did.
Love you guys's channel I was born in traverse City Michigan
My dad had a 49 in black when we lived in CA.
Ford trucks will always be #1 Henry Ford was the man
So someone i know has one of these. Just thought it might be helpful to someone. The motor rus on leaded gas. Fill the tank with 87 and dump a shot or two of lead additve in it. And Away ya go. It saves the heads from burning up. Saves ya some money if its as original as possible. Hopefully it helps. But if you should have one these reserch the crap out of what it takes for gas (if engine has or has not been replaced) im not a mechanic but thought someone might at least find it helpful.
Once you change the oil in the engine, I'd love to see the oil in the manual transmission and rear axle.
SLUDGE KING!
Makes me really happy about how the condition my 1950 F1 flathead is in I was super surprised when I pulled the oil pan on it there was no sludge just a little build up in the bottom of the pan pickup screen was spotless and the was very little wear I was very surprised
Very nice Ford pickup. Regardless of what some people say, Ford, especially back in the day, made some very reliable trucks. That's why I will keep my old 94 F150 till the wheels fall off. Then I'll fix it and drive it on down the road. All that sludge because of the old oil recipe and it still runs with a little TLC. First on Race Day!
I have a '94 as well with 0 intentions of ever letting it go. Want another 9th gen, but a diesel 250 and pull an airstream around the country, hopefully one day soon.
Non-detergent oil, short trips and infrequent oil changes = sludge factory. No PCV valve, either. Those blowby gases would collect in the crankcase and react with water and other byproducts of combustion, forming more sludge.
Postwar, pre-1950s Ford trucks are my favorite. They have an otherworldly look of serenity about them. Terrible ride quality but who cares when it looks that cool!
I don’t know Gavin, interesting video but if it were me I certainly use gloves instead of exposing my hands to that mess!
I’ve got a 48 f1 with a four speed crash box,real adventure to drive.
Holy crap (literally and figuratively)! It actually sounds okay! Very nice work, gentlemen. I love the fact that this old dog is gonna be back out there, doin' its thing! Thanks everyone!✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
I like the first gen F series pickups, but the 1953-1956 F1s are my absolute favorites!
Love these old F-series pickups. Especially the first gen trucks. Nice work!
Awesome job and love the truck 🥰
Wow that was cool gotta love the flathead ❤
Nice truck
Looks like somebody's running a perfume base. Oil like Quaker State or shell.
Great video. Glad you two were not afraid to get grease on your hands as a first step in restoring what has been my favorite pickup since it was introduced in 1948. I hope you will paint it Ford green.
Well, its up to the new owner... and he might go for the patina look.
A lot of that colour will come through if you cut the paint with 1000, then 2500, then a compound, then a polish and rust converter the rust areas. You'd really be surprised.
When you look closely at rust spots, often there's a very small hole in the paint, but the rust has bloomed over the paint. The cutting takes the bloom off to reveal good paint underneath.
I would certainly restore the paint and run it like that for a few years, especially if it factory paint. Just think the guy that sprayed that has long since passed away. It's real history you can touch and feel.
I’d bet $1000 that the farmer used Quaker State. Of all the sludge engines I’ve been into back in 70’s and 80’s, 90% of the owners always used QS.
Well done you two 😎
My sister bought a 70 LTD with a 390 in it it is severely overheated and she bought this car for a song my brother and I pulled the engine down to the heads it had two cracked heads on it but when we took the intake manifold off I pulled out six softball-size things of oil carbon buildup just like that then we proceeded to dump kerosene down through the intake and into the pan then we put a drill on the oil Drive rod and ran the kerosene up through the block to wash out as much as we could we went through 6 gallons of kerosene took the pan off cleaned it out make sure the pickup tube was cleaned out got the engine back together filled it up with oil and ran it drove it 100 miles on the first oil change 500 on the 2nd and 500 on the 3rd each time the oil came out it was black then we went to regular intervals of three thousand miles on the oil change and it ran for 20 years somebody told me that Pennzoil if you didn't change it would have a habit of gluten up like that but it ran clean after that
I had an engine in a Michigan loader ruined because I took it to a shop & they put detergent oil into it. It loosened up all of the sludge & destroyed the bearings. Should have done it myself.
Every Saturday I watch a fun Canadian show on youtube called Coldwar motors if even a small amount of my fellow Hagerty fans would take a look would really appreciate it.
The 4.0 in my XJ had 160K and looked just like this. It ran, but it wasn't pretty. I pulled the valve cover and scrubbed everything down with ATF and a toothbrush. The ATF liquified the sludge just enough that it could be easily wiped up, but not enough that it was running back down the inside of the block and pan.
Wipe the body down with some linseed oil and you're ready for the car show
😊 was good to hear that old engine fire up. Good job guys 💪
What a lovely old truck. couple of cans of motor flush it will be good :)
Now all it needs is additional "desludging", reattach the rear bumper, fabricate a new exhaust, and a good wash, possibly a patina job (if the new owner so desires), and this truck's good to go!
Late 60s/70s no end of post war to late 50s cars and trucks dead on farms and back of gas stations. $25 hay bale money, junk yard battery, junk yard tires, fix the points, top off the fluids and down the road again. Girls and beer were far more important than oil changes. Well they're not $25 anymore, just paid $10K for a 1959 barely alive survivor but another fun winter project and add it to my collection. Keeps me sane.
Helpful hint: when tinkering with a vehicle that has been sitting for a while always wear gloves when sticking your fingers or hands into places you can't see, and have a wingman with a fresh can of wasp spray. Getting stung or bitten will ruin what should be fun.
I'd love to see that truck fully restored. It has to be one of my favourites from that era.
Davin it seems like it would be great to hang out with you guys and work on stuff.
I love it when that happens! Vroom Vroom. One thumbs up isn’t enough for me, add to that another 1000👍
thanks Davin, Jeff & Crew, for your repeated badass productions. 13:50 Dudes are Happy. this is another cool ride & she rivals Hag’s Green Shop Truck in the Survived Relic Dept.
how’s Davin’s ‘66 Chevelle? it’s been while since he converted her over to Holley EFi & I’d like to know whatever Good, Bad & Ugly there may be since the swap. whazzup?
I watch whatever you guys deliver, so thanks again for the videos, HagTeam
Water flow, top to bottom or bottom to top?
I got my work done early this morning. Now I have the rest of the day watch great videos like this one!! Excellent job on getting that ole dog to bark again.
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Fill that engine with diesel. Let it sit for a week. Flush it. Do that 3 times. It will then run like a champ.
That’s the plan!
@@Hagerty it would be awesome if you can (with all your suppliers) show all the stuff you can still buy for such a car. Just going thru pictures of maintenance items and all the other things that a simple starter does not think about.
I mean it's just awesome when a pro shows you the way. And all the aftermarket sellers can make a buck. Everybody happy.
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I guess, if I had just waited a couple of minutes, you already knew that cheap fix.
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Awesome truck. Awesome job getting it running guys. Cheers!!
Bet the original owner traded at the old Heart of Dixie gas station and bought their “re-refined” non-detergent 30wt.😀
Thank you for posting Hagerty. I have a 1968 Chrysler New Yorker which has probably 50% of the amount of sludge underneath the two valve cover gaskets on my 440 V8 engine and I ran some Marvel Mystery Oil in it and some heet and some fuel stabilizer in the gas tank and instead of old lead additive and I do the oil changes every 3000 Miles and still get 10 miles per gallon of the city in about 15 on the freeway I believe my car is 65,000 miles on it or maybe 165,000 or maybe 265,000 but I'm going to add a windage tray to a next time I change the oil next year and also I'm going to run some seafoam in it and cross my fingers and hopefully won't destroy the engine is also an exhaust manifold bolt broken off in the head.
Good job , I'm waiting for the next part 🎉
Those great, big wide flat fenders. You could probably take a little nap laying on those while working on the engine.
One of my favorite front ends 48-50 f1 what a wicked ride
@@carsonanderson89 50-51 have a different grille; one big bar, with 5 big teeth. I had two of em.
Wonder how much sludge is in the pan...
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your hands will never be clean again !!!
Wow, seventy-four years old and its running again.
I love everything you guys do, every stage, but these types of videos may be my favorites.
Woow beautiful patina, looks gorgeous
Love these old F-series pickups.
Thats 70 years worth of parafin from Pennzoil.
Back in those days most people used NON-DETERGENT motor oil.
So engines constantly sludged up. ALSO, most engines either had
NO oil filter or if it had one it was a BY PASS cartridge type oil filter
which only processed about 15% of the engines motor oil unlike
the spin on filters of today which process 100% of the engines oil.
Old Tech.
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Sludge in old motors is because of old oil technology. Old engines will last much longer with new tech oil.
How about running ATF (1qt.) in with the oil and doing some frequent oil changes. I have done this in the past with good results.
That was a nice one guys !!
YUCK
As a John, born in 1949, I'm loving the truck. She's a peach!
who is this jeff guy? no link?
Lucky Men !!!!
I have a 49 Ford Truck just like yours, now I really want to work on mine, its been sitting since 1972
Fantastic video, fantastic topic, fantastic hosts, but way too short.
Here in the UK I've never understood the whole truck thing but that is an absolute beauty. Very cute, pretty, dainty little thing. I'm hope you show more of this thing cause it wld be great to see it slowly come to life and hopefully be used.
Pick up/ El Camino's/ Ranchero's part car,part Pick up truck are handy to have,,great haulers,,look up. The 1940's Hudson,,those were precious and Diamond Reo,Studebaker,,International Harvester
May not be sludge. My dad said when they traveled in search of employment, if a rod got to knocking, they would pull over and add some pork skin and go for a while longer. Crazy huh?
My Grandfather had a Ford very similar to that. When I was a kid I remember that when he pushed in clutch and let it go, it would go, "thunk thunk." heheh.
Great video. Loved it.
At least it’s a nicer looking ford
Whenever you find an old relic,,instead. Or trying to start it,,why not flush it he motor,lubricate and start,,or rebuilt the engine,,that a precious truck
I picked up a 50 f68 last year (thats the Canadian version of f3) would love to make that ol flathead run but it is unfortunately locked up tight
Plastic wasn’t invented back in 49, probably Bakelite , I like the no plastic era, glass and wax paper oil jugs
Today i learned i could literally fill a block up with diesel to dissolve the sludge. Learn something new everyday
Yikes!
I don't know what the long-term intent for this truck is, but if it were mine, I'd just tear the engine down for a rebuild and get it right. Cleaning the sludge out is likely to expose a host of issues.
Trying to fush this level of sludge out of this motor by putting diesel in it is a complete wast of time and a formula for disaster. Sludge like this is the norm for old flathead motors that have run non-detergent oil. The diesel will dislodge enough crud to risk destroying your bearings. The last thing you want is to dislodge the crud and then have the crud pumping through your bearings. If you want all of this crud out dismantling the entire engine and cleaning/hot tanking the block is the only way to do it. Hot tanking is the way to go. Cooking the block in an oven to burn the crud out of it and then shot blasting it ruins the surface finish on machined parts like gasket surfaces and lifter bores. With an engine with a lot of sludge like this the best thing to do if you can't completely dismantle it for a cleaning would be to just to remove and clean the oil pan as they get a lot of sludge in the bottom and then run non-detergent oil if you can get it to avoid dislodging the crud/sludge that is in the rest of the engine.
Great watching : you make it look so uncomplicated 🤓❗️
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Nice F1. I like the grampa repairs. The whiskey dent in the front fender at 1:14 looks like they used a ball peen hammer to push it out. I hope there's enough original paint to just seal it and leave it like it is.
my dad had a fleet of trucks in the 1960's, he used Quaker State oil and it had sludge exactly like that, tons of it in the engine