Someone asked me to make a thread, so here it is. Did not think it was worthy of a thread, but we have some 2wd street trucks in here so what the hell. 
1984 F250 I picked up. It was a 6.9 2wd truck that had thrown a rod back in the late 80's and sat in the desert since. Bed looks like it was never used and it has one small dent in the front fender and damage where someone keyed the door. Goal is a tow rig to camp out of and haul my Scout to go wheeling and sleep in the bed, and also a backup daily driver. (Scout build thread)
I also picked up this 1992 F350 from a member who likes to play with shafts all day. For a number of reasons, it was destined to become a parts truck due to California being ******ed. I flew up and drove it home 700 miles. Later found a broken engine and transmission mount, and the truck was filled with rat ****. I parted it out, the bed is now on my friend's cattle ranch and Idaho and the 460, ZF5, and 4wd stuff is going into the F250. Been selling off parts to fund the build.
Tore down the F350, engine came out for a rebuild. It ran good and did not really need one, but one of the casting ears broke off and I had to weld it back, also tossing in a Melling MTF3 stage 1 cam and going to through on some headers if budget allows. Planning on using stock EFI (have heard it does well with mild cams) but might toss on a carb with a price adapter if it goes south.
Engine tear down.
Casting welded up with nickel rod. Worked amazingly well. Got it as flat as I could, still can see light between the transmission and it but a .008" shock shim does not fit in.
1984 F250 I picked up. It was a 6.9 2wd truck that had thrown a rod back in the late 80's and sat in the desert since. Bed looks like it was never used and it has one small dent in the front fender and damage where someone keyed the door. Goal is a tow rig to camp out of and haul my Scout to go wheeling and sleep in the bed, and also a backup daily driver. (Scout build thread)
I also picked up this 1992 F350 from a member who likes to play with shafts all day. For a number of reasons, it was destined to become a parts truck due to California being ******ed. I flew up and drove it home 700 miles. Later found a broken engine and transmission mount, and the truck was filled with rat ****. I parted it out, the bed is now on my friend's cattle ranch and Idaho and the 460, ZF5, and 4wd stuff is going into the F250. Been selling off parts to fund the build.
Tore down the F350, engine came out for a rebuild. It ran good and did not really need one, but one of the casting ears broke off and I had to weld it back, also tossing in a Melling MTF3 stage 1 cam and going to through on some headers if budget allows. Planning on using stock EFI (have heard it does well with mild cams) but might toss on a carb with a price adapter if it goes south.
Engine tear down.
Casting welded up with nickel rod. Worked amazingly well. Got it as flat as I could, still can see light between the transmission and it but a .008" shock shim does not fit in.
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