1978 F-fun hundred 3/4 tons and 37s

Levigarrett76 said:
Having ****ing kids has brought out the cheap in me....That and putting back for retirement.:frown:
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"Retirement" :flipoff2:
 
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$25 and it comes with a gun, this way you can have different grease ready to go :laughing:
 
rattle_snake said:
How many types of grease/guns are necessary? Asking for a friend.
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Moly and red n tacky cover everything I need. Set for the trailer and set for the garage. So, 4 just for the typical homeowner.

Or buy one and the fancy ends for it and change stuff around all the time like a psychopath:flipoff2:
 
I got three, an old long lever style i keep moly grease in for greasing tractors, skid steer, chassis parts etc..

Got a ****ty new one with pistol grip that will extend into a lever for red grease

Got ****ty small bike grease gun with needle tip with some kind of ultra moly i run in ctms.

Had another old school long handle and small handheld pump style that **** the bed and threw em out
 
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Note the knurled collet body or whatever you might call it. Allows the jaws to expand around the zerk. Lock it on the fitting, squeeze, no mess. You don’t have to lean on the gun or any BS.

The advantage to lock and lube is thumb operation vs slippery fingers rotating the collet.
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Hydro assist complete. Burped and ready for test drive. I shaped the tabs to mimic the diff cover profile. Delrin, although that appears to be slang, machines really nice.
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While the tires were off the ground, I gave my best shot at the price is right and spun each wheel. The passenger side has noticeable drag and doesn’t freewheel. Probably a brake issue. I’ll force the calipers back and bleed the system again. Been cold and rainy so no use trying to monitor temperatures for diagnoses.
 
Included this safety feature in the tie rod bolts
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Toe-in was originally set at 1/8” for the 33.4” tire which proved to be too much. It was twitchy. It was reduced this 🤏 much and feels good now. My least favorite alignment setting because I stress that the knuckles are straight.
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8” advertised ram is only 7-7/8”. It was limited 1-1/4” for 6-5/8 stroke. Crazy because with reverse Ackerman it utilized all of it. Turning radius was neat but the sketchy manners were not worth it.

It was a chore grinding steering stops and verifying joint clearance. Had to weld up the axle Cs and grind the pads to match knuckles. Front and rear stops all strike and angles verified to match.
 
Levigarrett76 said:
Very nice
Jealous of the cold
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I guess we’re never satisfied with what we have. A trip to Florida sounds real good right about now. My onions won’t grow because it’s too cold and no sunshine.
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Lake has been covered with fog for a couple of weeks. Kinda clearing yesterday. It’s entertaining hearing the fog horns of the lake freighters though.
 
Onions finally took off while in Florida for 2 weeks
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This trip made up our mind. Florida isn’t for us. It’s fun but too far south
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If we were going to blindly move east it would be the Carolina’s or Georgia but that’s not going to happen either. Most likely Wisconsin again. We made a mistake leaving Utah before inflation. I’d still bitch about the drought, air quality etc etc but I’d have my friends and actually rock crawl again. Other runner ups are Tx, Az, Ok and the black hills. Bottom line is I’m miserable in Mn. Typing this in sweatshirt weather. Lol
 
I'm only wearing a long sleeve because of the bugs, it's certainly not sweater weather in the rest of the country:flipoff2:

AZ or Black hills from your short list would be nice, for me :rasta:
 
The only other planned project for now is update the windshield washer system and illuminate the water temp/OP gauge.

Had a problem ejecting the pump several times from the tank. The impeller and gasket came off this time. Gasket was long gone and it’s not a part available for sale. This prompted a bullnose recovery tank conversion and SuperDuty spray nozzles. Hoping the sprayers will be more efficient than the juice wasting tubes they’re replacing.
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Dunno if I’ll mess with the TBI before winter or just buy a manual choke assembly and call it good.

Otherwise I’ll be focusing on my fab table to get all this steel off my floor. Maybe make some racecar progress this winter.
 
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Provience said:
I'm only wearing a long sleeve because of the bugs, it's certainly not sweater weather in the rest of the country:flipoff2:

AZ or Black hills from your short list would be nice, for me :rasta:
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Wore my long sleeve fishing hoodies to block the sun on the gulf once I’d had enough. Lol I am admiring my orange man color 😎 ugh experienced **** roaches in our Airbnb. And I’ll take my B52 sized Mn mosquitos, at least you can aim for your target.

Az somewhere in the hills would be nice. There’s probably a good reason why my parents decided not to move us there. We can’t all be like Shannon Campbell.

The Black Hills SD have a better climate for us and I could potentially stay in the same work but housing out there is probably worse than Ut. $$$$

Saw a video today about 12,000 homes for sale in the Fl county we visited. Co-workers wanting to move to Fl state the same problem. Home and flood insurance through the roof and lots of hoops to jump through. Etc etc.

Hmm I’ve got a couple years to figure it out.
 
WiscoF100 said:
Wore my long sleeve fishing hoodies to block the sun on the gulf once I’d had enough. Lol I am admiring my orange man color 😎 ugh experienced **** roaches in our Airbnb. And I’ll take my B52 sized Mn mosquitos, at least you can aim for your target.

Az somewhere in the hills would be nice. There’s probably a good reason why my parents decided not to move us there. We can’t all be like Shannon Campbell.

The Black Hills SD have a better climate for us and I could potentially stay in the same work but housing out there is probably worse than Ut. $$$$

Saw a video today about 12,000 homes for sale in the Fl county we visited. Co-workers wanting to move to Fl state the same problem. Home and flood insurance through the roof and lots of hoops to jump through. Etc etc.

Hmm I’ve got a couple years to figure it out.
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There was a ****roach about noon running across the concrete at work, 50 yards from a building and 75 from grass or anything :laughing: thought "damn, they must be getting desperate" and then that night had a couple running around the house about midnight :homer: theyve lived here for a very long time, as long as it's not small ones they are just wandering in from the great outdoors :flipoff2:

I'm surprised the Black hills are more expensive than pretty well anywhere in Utah, I haven't prices that region though. Have known a couple people that went that way over the past 5 years.
 
Chit chat update

Went to look at a engine today listed as a rebuilt 400

😒 351M. I wish folks were more scrupulous when it comes to Ford engines. First give away was the crank index hole followed by the 1KA casting ID. It was tough to explain that it wasn’t what they thought it might’ve been.

A 400 would be swap worthy but I’m either going to plan downtime to have this engine rebuilt or go down the 460 rabbit hole. It’s mostly the supporting mods and what I have to change that I’m staying away from right now 🤑
 
Night shift market place find. 429 ran when parked 10yrs ago….Driving home with it right now and don’t know much other than it has D3VE heads and a square bore 4V intake. Ribbed C6 with a reverse pattern valve body.

I met the guy in a BOMARC SAM complex 😁
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Think I regret this now 🤣 water and pine needles in the intake. Probably not a quick revive and drive that my lack of sleep convinced me of. SOB! Maybe I should’ve sprung for the ‘77 camper special 4V 460 for $1,250

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Odd dual port modulator that must be for the EGR system. See valve cover pic
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L code servo. Slightly spicier than a truck

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D1VE-A2B block
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D3VE-A2A heads
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Noteworthy maybe, thermactor passages aren’t bored.
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Exhaust flapper doodle?
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It’s really not much better off than the 460 core I have.
 
Well sure, not better off, but at least you have have a whole extra engine and transmission now.

They make more of them, but the new ones are damned expensive
 
New ones have a bunch of silly wires I don’t like 🤪 and they ain’t making more old ones so it’s not wrong that I rescued this one.

74 seems about right and 73 was the last year of car equipped 429

I’ll get this sprayed down in the next day or so then start pulling some more pieces off. Gonna need to have a bunch of parts sand blasted. Hoping it’s not fubar’d inside and require a machine shop overhaul.

Absolutely LOVE the early Power by Ford script valve covers.

I’m afraid this will be a slippery financial disaster and not a quick clean up.
 
If this cleans up…

Early timing chain
Full gasket set, valve seals, freeze plugs
Fox body pan kit
Water pump
Plug wires basic tune up stuff

Fabricate…
New block mounts to work with existing auto-fab perches? TBD
Exhaust- glancing back and forth seems that these manifolds will clear. Driver crossover under pan, run tandem to T case and plumb into existing X-pipe. I don’t care what they say on FTE….
Alternator and PS brackets

Retain…
All cast iron components
Pulleys
Starter- if not seized
Flexplate
Maybe TQ converter?
OE points ignition and coil (fawk Pertronix!)

At some point this winter (hopefully before the swap) I need to tear down 4 of these C6 and inventory my parts so I know what to order and get 2 built for myself and the other 2-3 for resale.
 
Oh i see where you can make out 73 on the VC tag.
Hoping this sucker cleans up for you, but also hoping it doesn't to witness another BBF build. :flipoff2:

With conversion mounts and factory perches that pass side car manifold will be right close to top c of frame rail. Lots of swaps I've seen people torch out that part of the frame using car manifolds. I'm sure this wont be issue for you.
 
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