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Originally Posted by Tony Wheeler
No need Grant, I have 3 FGT chassis and 4 F15A chassis in my backyard, and I've spent innumerable hours poring over them looking for differences! All I can find on the siderails is an extra set of holes for the fuel tank brackets, which on forensic examination prove to be drilled rather than stamped, with lines scored from the adjacent stamped hole set for accurate measurement. Evidently this was necessary to fit the running boards unique to Australian pattern FGTs.
All other differences relate to additional and/or relocated crossmembers and fishplates, which I've catalogued in post #39 here:
http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...?t=1929&page=2
I wonder if the two different siderail prefixes arise from early parts before the alternative rivet holes were included to simplify production. Also of course there are differences between Cab 12 and Cab 13 side rails, and in the case of Cab 12 chassis I believe the FAT preceded the F15A in development. |
My comments were taken from the Canadian parts books F15A-01, FGT-01 and F15-01 so may not totally apply to the Australian FGT. If the Austalian frame is different to the Canadian FGT, did Ford ever do the frame rail stamping for the FGT or other CMPs locally or were the frames one of the parts that were imported for "local assembly"? If it was "local assembly, I've no idea whether Ford Australia would have been modifying the Canadian F15A frame (that would, of course, make for almost identical frames F15A to FGT) or the Canadian FGT frame.