Hi everybody. Aaron here. My 16yr old son and I went and got a 56 F600 Friday. 272 with holley 2bbl. Changed the points, condenser, and a few other essentials, poured some gas in the carb and she took right off. Oil is perfectly clean. Going to get the fuel system cleaned out, see if she'll hold water and see what happens. Its a 4 spd synchro with a split rear. 17000GVW. 


Glad to have found you all here!


1956 F600 272
2005 F250 5.4

Welcome

54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

Welcome to the site.

Lorena, Texas (South of Waco)

Welcome aboard. Sounds like an interesting truck. Please post some pictures.

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

1956 F600 272
2005 F250 5.4

The body is remarkably sound. Very little rust. Frame is not twisted. 51,xxx miles. Probably 85-90% complete. Someone put a sticker on the dash that said 7500lb tare and 31,750 loaded! WHAAATTTT? Heavy! The kid and I will spend some time cleaning all the fuel system out and getting all the hoses and the belt replaced. See if we can get it to run consistently and warmed up. So far just a few seconds running on a bowl full of fuel, but it didn't knock and the valvetrain sounded good from what I could hear in that short of time and over the super loud fan. 

Once it's running right we'll see about the clutch and trans. Looks like a rear main leak, no idea on trans/clutch situation. Going to try to hold off on any 'real money' until we know what all is needed. Gonna be fun! I'm sure I'll have tech questions for you all. 


1956 F600 272
2005 F250 5.4

What’s the plan for the truck, Bogner? How are you going to use it? Work, fun or both?

MplsMike
'56 Parklane
Minneapolis, MN

Maybe a little of both? I do contractor work. Remodeling and such. Some woodwork. Maybe put some tool boxes on a flatbed? Hard to say. Probably just roll around in the beast once in a while, hit up some car shows with my friend who has a '36 Ford sedan with a flathead. Mostly it's something for my son and I to work on to help him learn how to work on things without computers. 

1956 F600 272
2005 F250 5.4

Nice looking truck. And it runs and drives that's even better. 

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Nice truck! It has great bones. Welcome to the site by the way. If you like build threads or websites, check out my www.hotrodreverend.com/blog sometime. My son and I have had a wonderful time with our project!

Daniel Jessup

Loveland, Ohio

aka "The Hot Rod Reverend"
check out the 1955 Ford Fairlane build at www.hotrodreverend.com