Things are still happening in the background on this thing. We are supposed to have rain all next week, so I might get out of farm work and house work.
Last fall I bought out an estate of 7 cars, one of them was a 85 F250 that they told me just to take for scrap, as it was in the woods and basically rusted in half. However, it had a pretty slick set of wheels that look sorta period correct for the dentside, and they were 17's so they would clear super duty brakes. I had to get adapters, but whatever, I doubt this truck will be loaded down like my other ones and I'll keep an eye on them.
This chassis has 4"? I think lift springs up front, I haven't measured the block, but it looks like they added 4". It sits about the same height as my 03 with 4" lift. I figured a 37" tire would fit well, and help keep the 6bt in a happy rpm range. I went shopping for 37's in E rating and about had a stroke. I have a connection that can supposedly get me an employee price set of Grabber X3, but not until next January. Against my better judgement, I picked up these Kanati Mud Hog. They have fair reviews, typical of a cheap tire. If they suck, I'll replace them with the grabbers next year. They ended up being under $1000 shipped to my door, and I had some rebates to get about $75 off that. The pattern reminds me of OG Goodyear MT/R which was one of my favorite all around tire.
I was looking at flywheel and clutch stuff, and figured out that it would take a cummins flywheel, machined for a ZF6 pilot, and a 7.3 clutch. I was recommended to Kentucky Clutch, so I called them up, told him what I was building and how much power (not much), $750 and 4 days later and a clutch was delivered by UPS. They machined the flywheel and installed the zf6 pilot bearing, all hardware, ready to go. Good dudes there.
My 8 year old has been into wrenching a lot recently, so he helped me pull the cab off my Zf6 donor truck.
Unrelated to this, but setting up stuff for yet another eventual project, the engine donor for my Foxbody was delivered yesterday too. Complete disaster unloading it, I told them to load it backwards at the end of the trailer, instead it was on the front of a wedge trailer. Pushed the poor toolcat too far and blew the seals on the tilt cylinder, then got in a rush to get off the road with it and forgot I had chained the forks up to stop it leaking and bent the shit out of the fork guard. A state trooper actually stopped because he thought the mustang had hit the car hauler, then told us to get the hell off the road.Trying to not let my ADHD get the best of me and stay focused on the dentside.
