New Member - CMP Differences

[Bob Carriere]

HAd another look at the pictures....... You have a Ford grill...... is it a Ford or a CHev....... do you have a pictures of the front and rear axle????

Normally the Ford axles are split at the center.....while the Chev have a bango type axle with a front conver that is bolted.....

THe dash is a Chev model..... keep in mind that a lot of Chev Ford parts are interchangeable except the Ford V8 and tranny and the Chev 6 cyl.

The fun has just started.

Bob C

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

HAd another look at the pictures....... You have a Ford grill...... is it a Ford or a CHev....... do you have a pictures of the front and rear axle????

Normally the Ford axles are split at the center.....while the Chev have a bango type axle with a front conver that is bolted.....

THe dash is a Chev model..... keep in mind that a lot of Chev Ford parts are interchangeable except the Ford V8 and tranny and the Chev 6 cyl.

The fun has just started.

Bob C

I'm pretty certain he's got a Chev there. That Ford grille could sure confuse you though.

I'm with Bob. There so little interchangeable between the HU and other CMP Chevs that finding local parts instead of dragging a whole truck all that way makes more sense.

[James Y]

The grill has the wrong badge, I live in Edmonton and have been around the army vehicle collector seen since a kid some 40 years now, my dAd and myself have had or still have a military vehicles for a long time but this is the first ww2 vehicle project.
Based on the input I am going to pass on the Ontario truck, but if someone has something closer to Alberta let me know.

Will post more info.
Jim

[Lynn Eades]

Does the steering wheel interchange?
Are you able to buy bits from the donor truck without taking the whole thing?
I thought the mesh of the grill was different between the two makes?

[Bob Carriere]

Barby grills ......

..........grills as in drinking bar grill..none of which Lynn would be familiar with.


Then you have the pure Chevrolet grill which is made of expanded steel...holes looks like diamond when the steel is stretched.

The you have real genuine Furd grills...... woven of steel mesh...... holes are some what smaller ( that is why they all overheat) and squarish....

Then you have parts mixed between Furd and Chevy either at the factory due to parts shortage or Ford CMPs that want to look good !!!!.

Bob C

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

The you have real genuine Furd grills...... woven of steel mesh...... holes are some what smaller ( that is why they all overheat)


Bob C

So that's it!!! And here I was thinking it was something to do with Furds being poorly designed and cranky.

(Chev CMP's never overheat)

(hey, wait a minute. Carriers are Fords. They overheat but don't have the same small-holed mesh. Maybe it is because Fords are poorly designed and cranky)

[cletrac (RIP)]

When Ford was designing the flathead Henry told the engineers that the motor had to make heat so the heater would be more efficient. Well, running the exhaust ports through the block sure solved that problem!