Took her out for her maiden voyage yesterday. Motor runs smooth as silk. I have a nasty exhaust leak on the passenger side exhaust manifold that will need to be addressed soon.

Thats a pretty cool old bike. Where is it located?

The MSD converter was similar to "MSD Ignition 501". It looks like it wasnt installed properly and floated in the dizzy cap. The rotor was shaving it down when it passed and it finally just shattered all the internals. I tracked down a bad splice in my ignition wire. Once I fixed that the truck...

You are right, i meant to say 1 ton rear end. Tires will be a pain eventually. Its got brand new tires from the previous owners, and this is only a winter driver, so I should be good for some time. The guy that had it before the kid i bought it from obviously put a lot of work into this thing...

got it running. In case anyone felt like chiming in at some point.

Heres a couple shots of her.

I recently bought a frankensteined 1961 f100 with a 390 and 1 ton running gear. I got myself pretty deep in this hole of a problem. I bought the truck and she ran. Carb was blowing fuel everywhere and it has a busted MSD electronic ignition module in the distributer cap. I swapped the card to a...

I am stopping in and saying hi! I have a Frankensteined 1961 F100 4x4 I picked up this winter. Its a giant rust bucket, but she has her good angles.