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rotorwrench · 12-24-2018, 09:57 AM

Ford changed manufacturing and inter factory storage & distribution processes more than a few times over the years. In those early years most all the trucks had some variation of the Borg Warner T8 4-speed transmission so they may have kept them attached. Most would be a BB type package with the heavy duty clutch. Fords tendency to paint castings prior to assembly could have gone either way as far as color. They were all 85 HP 221 engines in the years after 1934 and before 1939 so the Ford dark green would be likely but I certainly don't know with any certainty. The serial was still on the transmission as far as I know so that would be the natural course of things Ford for that era.

12-24-2018, 09:57 AM	#9
rotorwrench Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 16,425	Re: Painting transmission. Ford changed manufacturing and inter factory storage & distribution processes more than a few times over the years. In those early years most all the trucks had some variation of the Borg Warner T8 4-speed transmission so they may have kept them attached. Most would be a BB type package with the heavy duty clutch. Fords tendency to paint castings prior to assembly could have gone either way as far as color. They were all 85 HP 221 engines in the years after 1934 and before 1939 so the Ford dark green would be likely but I certainly don't know with any certainty. The serial was still on the transmission as far as I know so that would be the natural course of things Ford for that era.