I'm not a diesel expert but usually on a gas engine white smoke is a coolant issue ex. Head gasket or intake on some engines

Great post,great work,nuf said!

Prayers heading your way for a speedy recovery.

Welcome !!

I'm sorry still no pictures but I'm working on it. The wife say's keep them both, that way ill stay out of trouble for a while ha ha!!

Yes! Please keep them coming, very interesting.

Happy B-Day, and here's to many more!!!

Thanks for all the reply's I'm still undecided about what to do but if I decide to go that route I will put an engine back in the 66. Thanks Daryl

Welcome to FTF you've come to the right place!!

No the truck is a Wv truck. After the VFD took the truck out of service the township took over the truck and used it to plow the city streets for many years. It has a steel bed on it now.

Here is some more to think about! I have my 66 with a 429 I haven't started on yet, I would like to finish them both but I'm not sure I will be able to. I'm thinking about taking the 429 out of the 66 and selling the rest of the truck and put that money toward the 73 and put the 429 in the 73...

I'm trying to get some pictures for you all to see if I can get my blackberry to work properly, thanks for all the replys so far.

Thanks for the reply, you have me deep in thought now! The vin is F26YCQ45972. I did verify that it did belong to a local VFD they probly added the ton axel so they would have a 4X4 brush truck. The rear springs are 12 leaf with overloads.

Thanks for the reply, ill try to get some pictures up for you. Its hard to do sometimes with a Blackberry. The person I bought the truck from put a dumping flat bed on it. The body needs some work, they use a lot of road salt in the winter here and the truck was used to plow city streets by the...

Glad he is improving will keep the prayers coming.