[DavidG]

Chris,

In response to your question, the left side of the engine compartment is pretty much as it was the day it was built allowing for decades of use. It has the early version of the intake manifold with the long vacuum line for the windshield wiper motor (slightly bent downward) consistent with it being a fairly early production vehicle. As with the left side, the engine splash pan attached to the frame side rail and front cross member is missing.

It has no air cleaner/silencer, engine steady rods, nor firewall-mounted oscillation damper, but then it did not have them when new, unlike the fours in '32 passenger cars and commercial vehicles. The air line for the gas gauge is missing and both the flex line into the fuel pump and the tubing from the pump to the carburetor have been replaced as has the original two-blade fan (the four-blade four-cylinder fan was adopted during the '33 model year). The rubber portion of the hood side bumper attached on top of the front fender flange is missing and the radiator hose clamps are not the originals.

It appears that the handle of the early hood latch that shows up in one of photos was originally chrome plated, which is unusual as the hood latches on standard commercial vehicles and big trucks were normally all black painted with the chrome-handled versions reserved for passenger cars and deluxe commercial vehicles. Are the other three hood latch handles the same?

When it is convenient, may we see a photo of the left side of the engine compartment that differs from that you provided previously. I noted in an earlier photo that it still has its original early small diameter oil filler tube and cap, but there is a characteristic of the early B cylinder block casting that I am curious to learn if it still survived at the time your truck's engine was manufactured. In your previous photo, the left side of the block is largely obscured by the water inlet pipe and its two sections of rubber radiator hose.

Thanks!