Not So Pro 3

[Dream]

The truck only has 75000 miles or so on it.....but it was used to haul pulp wood. The bed is beat to chit.

Yep. Thats no bueno.
I always thought if you could find a place that used to put on work beds, flat beds etc, that they might have some minty pickup beds out back. As long as they were put up outta the dirt that is.
I guess most of em were scrapped or sold though.
I'm still lookin.
Wish id kept that 74 I got for $200. Truck was straight and solid. White long bed with green interior. No rust or dents. XLT with factory AC.
Motor and trans missing.
I was gonna use that body on the 4 x 4 I bought that was complete with a bad transmission and beat body.
Had to sell all that off, along with my 73 Ranger short bed.
Oh well, life lessons.

 

[Dream]

Might maybe have a oem 4bl intake. The shipping would suck, but your welcome to it if you guys want it.

Shipping WOULD suck.
Those weigh like 872 lbs.
Excellent boat anchors.

 

[Lightning Performance]

The truck only has 75000 miles or so on it.....but it was used to haul pulp wood. The bed is beat to chit.

Save the engine block and sonic test it. We went through seven Ford FE blocks to get a good one for an FE build. Not easy to find around here. In the process we found 427 football con rods with bolts and nice 69' 390 steel crank for our build. It would pull anything with a top loader stick and 3:55 Dana 60 under a 72' F250 camper special converted to a dump body with portable sides. Very nice truck on it's third body resto now. Motor is fifteen years old or more. He put the good stuff in it to.

When it was all done at 7K all in with custom Hooker headers, a 68' 390 came up for 3k done, lol... a totaled out old T bird just done up.

Enjoy the old truck build with Bubba

 

[p61 western]

Shipping WOULD suck.
Those weigh like 872 lbs.
Excellent boat anchors.

Yep put a performer rpm on the kids 390. I think the front of the truck raised up a inch lol.

 

[Stump Shot]

Save the engine block and sonic test it. We went through seven Ford Y blocks to get a good one for an FE build. Not easy to find around here. In the process we found 427 football con rods with bolts and nice 69' 390 steel crank for our build. It would pull anything with a top loader stick and 3:55 Dana 60 under a 72' F250 camper special converted to a dump body with portable sides. Very nice truck on it's third body resto now. Motor is fifteen years old or more. He put the good stuff in it to.

When it was all done at 7K all in with custom Hooker headers, a 68' 390 came up for 3k done, lol... a totaled out old T bird just done up.

Enjoy the old truck build with Bubba

Y block Ford's were like the 312 just before the FE's came out in the late 50's. You could go through all of them and never make an FE.

 

[Dream]

Save the engine block and sonic test it. We went through seven Ford Y blocks to get a good one for an FE build. Not easy to find around here. In the process we found 427 football con rods with bolts and nice 69' 390 steel crank for our build. It would pull anything with a top loader stick and 3:55 Dana 60 under a 72' F250 camper special converted to a dump body with portable sides. Very nice truck on it's third body resto now. Motor is fifteen years old or more. He put the good stuff in it to.

When it was all done at 7K all in with custom Hooker headers, a 68' 390 came up for 3k done, lol... a totaled out old T bird just done up.

Enjoy the old truck build with Bubba

That's what its really about. Spending some time that you cant get back so the younger ones have some good things to remember when we're gone.

 

[Dream]

Yep put a performer rpm on the kids 390. I think the front of the truck raised up a inch lol.

I put an intake gasket on a 352 for a guy I worked with in exchange for a used t350 trans. I got the chitty end of THAT deal.
Back hurt for a week...

 

[p61 western]

I put an intake gasket on a 352 for a guy I worked with in exchange for a used t350 trans. I got the chitty end of THAT deal.
Back hurt for a week...

Best done with a cherry picker lol

 

[Dream]

Yep put a performer rpm on the kids 390. I think the front of the truck raised up a inch lol.

All of those old 60 degree V8s were solid. Did well in industrial applications. 390 had some power, as long as you knew how to get it out. Heads needed the most work, and get rid of that heavy arse intake. You could make solid power just working over the top end.
Best ones were the Windsor engines around 1967-69.
They weren't as heavy, and the tree huggers hadnt made them restrict the heads yet.
Great aunt had a 69 Fairlane 4 door that she never got over 20 mph.
That thing was a BEAST. It would burn the tire right off, and had that torque that puts you in the seat and a smile on your face.

 

[Dream]

Y block Ford's were like the 312 just before the FE's came out in the late 50's. You could go through all of them and never make an FE.

What was the next smaller one? I cant remember exactly, but my ex FIL had one in his "yard truck". Maybe a 272? Had the exhaust crossover across the front of the engine like the 312.

 

[Dream]

Best done with a cherry picker lol

Yes. If id only had the money back then...

 

[USMC615]

Evenin Jason.
Hows your ole jarhead arse doin down there?

Hey buddy, doing alright. How ‘bout you?

 

[p61 western]

All of those old 60 degree V8s were solid. Did well in industrial applications. 390 had some power, as long as you knew how to get it out. Heads needed the most work, and get rid of that heavy arse intake. You could make solid power just working over the top end.
Best ones were the Windsor engines around 1967-69.
They weren't as heavy, and the tree huggers hadnt made them restrict the heads yet.
Great aunt had a 69 Fairlane 4 door that she never got over 20 mph.
That thing was a BEAST. It would burn the tire right off, and had that torque that puts you in the seat and a smile on your face.

I really like the 351 Cleveland, but not paying what folks want for them.

 

[Dream]

Hey buddy, doing alright. How ‘bout you?

Hangin in there. Gettin ready to rack out. School day tomorrow.

 

[Dream]

I really like the 351 Cleveland, but not paying what folks want for them.

I know. Used to have people give the ones away that needed a rebuild. Could get a junkyard motor cheaper and get back on the road quicker.
Wish id taken a few of those home and kept for a "rainy day". Just never wouldve thought back then that they'd be worth anything.

 

[USMC615]

Hangin in there. Gettin ready to rack out. School day tomorrow.

I hear ya...ain’t far behind myself.

 

[ucm931]

LMAO. I think that dude is immortal

Immortal or he's knocked several dozen years off his life. Any life insurance he has/had is prolly null and void after this video came out. Why would you bet against the inevitable.

 

[Stump Shot]

What was the next smaller one? I cant remember exactly, but my ex FIL had one in his "yard truck". Maybe a 272? Had the exhaust crossover across the front of the engine like the 312.

The progression went... 239, 256, 272, 292, 312

 

[USMC615]

Took some Fioricet migraine medicine a little while ago...the caffeine in it has me wired for sound and wide awake. Ugh...

Sometimes it’ll put me to sleep...other times the opposite.

 

[Dub11]

Amen. I so want life to get back to normal.



It’s got the 360 4 Speed. F-250 long bed.

Does it have the divorced t case?

I really like the 351 Cleveland, but not paying what folks want for them.

I know where 2 of those are at, both in rusted out Rancheros.

The progression went... 239, 256, 272, 292, 312 Then LS it so it can finally go fast.

Fixed for accuracy