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Truck build

Weldabeast said:
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How quickly you’ve gotten the build. I realize you’re a welder but you have some serious mechanical skills too man. It would take me a couple years to accomplish what you’ve gotten together in a couple months
 
Thanks.....
I've always been mechanically inclined. My grandpop taught me a lot before he died. My dad is the type to pay somebody for an oil change and it drives me crazy....
 
This 1 been a minute....having a baby doesn't help with truck builds.

Now that hunting season is wrapping up and the babies a little older/more manageable time to get back on it. I went and picked up front leaf springs today. Next couple paychecks I get a battery, brake booster, and master cylinder so it's back up and running before I tear it apart completely.

Springs are stock 77 f250 so should have just about perfect spring rate for a nice ride on the road
 
You thinkin sponge paint camo job? or stealth strip the whole thang??
 
I'm confident u can weld a mean SpongeBob rim and still keep em balanced
 
Flurries of action and long down times...but once I have the 4x4 swap complete and tires on Ill get excited seeing it when I come home from work and I'm good about knocking out the silly not exciting stuff. There is still a bunch of unknowns like steering and brakes and onboard air system that I have to figure out as I get to them but I'm not to worried about it...all the info I need is online if I search for it. And a good majority of the stuff is available for purchase now a days but I'm too cheap and piece things together myself. That's part of the fun/challenge of the budget offroader builds...My old buddy that's gonna help never dropped out of the 4x4 circle like I did and he's got a lot of truck builds under his belt. I'm a lot better at fabbing up stuff since the last time I built a truck also....forecast looks for smooth sailing.
 
Man I can't believe I missed this. My first truck was a $400 2WD '83 F150, straight-6, 3-speed manual. No shifter boot and a leaky gas tank which made ashing our smokes onto the transmission - no shifter boot after all - an exhilarating proposition.
 
The group that I used to wheel with used to do a cheap truck challenge....thousand dollar budget to buy a vehicle, drive it outta state to the mountains, beat the tar outta it, and drive home....I've made lots of pizza box gaskets, left a number of truck hoods in various states cause u know....if it overheating just give it more air flow... And made pantyhose into continues loops cause ur alternator belt fell off somewhere... Fun stuff
 
408 going on the stand....maybe @Fl Canopy Stalker sells me his 82 or I find some other vehicle.to stuff it in. The 2wd transmission coming out of the 87 is in good shape with a "recent" rebuild mileage wise...this kinda stuff is getting harder and harder to find but I'm maxed out on room to keep much more in rhe garage. I need a shop. The motor would be real fun in a foxbody or sleeper 80s thunderbird
 
tailgunner said:
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I'm too lazy to make things clean and shiney after the first initial clean prior to install.

That yellow jeep jumping thru the air I posted earlier had a 440 with a casting date of 10/31/1969. I can't remember what all work was done to it but it could roast all 4 54" tires at the same time
 
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