Please dissect my truck.

[bicyclemonkey]

I just found this awesome post where people were dissecting trucks being sold on ebay. The original post is linked here.

Could you guys please dissect my truck? Here are a ton of pics

pics of my truck

The VIN is F11YRR41153 and is pulling up as a '73 F-100 4x4, 360.

 

[TexasNomad]

HamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamana!!!!!
I'd say you could easily get 8+K here in west texas for it..

 

[bicyclemonkey]

HamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamanaHamana!!!!!
I'd say you could easily get 8+K here in west texas for it..

SERIOUS!!! You mean $8+ dollars right, and maybe some change? I paid $2150 for the truck and $700 to have it shipped to me. This truck has been severely jacked with over it's 30+ year existence. The original color was a dark green/mint green two-tone.

What else can you guys tell me about this truck?

 

[flareside_thunder]

I can tell I would do it...I'd even buy it a drink first....

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Ok, then anyone wanna buy it for 8K? lol!

I'm guessing by the spartan interior that this was actually an F-100 'Custom'. No A/C, but it has power brakes, no P/S. Do the body panels all look accurate or can anyone tell if anything's been replaced?

 

[flareside_thunder]

CD player is not Factory lmao missing the taillight trim, you have a nail in your passenger rear tire, rear bumper is not original, fan shroud is missing, it's got a bodylift on it and i don't think autohubs were available for that truck when it was produced......May be wrong.oh and that thing whatever it is on the lower radiator hose is not original.....do you have a mechanical water temp gauge in there..non dash cluster?

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Yeah, lol, I figured the CD player was not OEM

I caught the nail too. I removed it and luckily it was too short to penetrate the tire...no air leaks.

Those actually are not autohubs...they are manual hubs and say "ford" on them. It looks like the driver side hub had been replaced, it still says 'ford' but seems to be of lighter constructions than the passenger side hub.

That thing on the lower radiator hose was a block heater...I have since removed and replaced with a new hose.

The PO has a mechanical temp guage and the temp sending unit is directly on the thermostat housing.

The grill looks to be off a late model truck or Bronco...I took it off along with those side steps.

I have a new factory body mount kit with new hardware on the way so I can get rid of that crappy body lift!

More comments please.

-chris

 

[tomtoc]

More comments please.

nice looking truck. there's a few guys on here that can tear apart gen 6's. give them a few and i'm sure they'll find the thread (and problems). welcome to the forum

 

[73F100Shortbed]

Nice truck. Not sure about it being an 8k truck. But looks good.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Nice truck. Not sure about it being an 8k truck. But looks good.

Yeah, I wasn't either. I think I got a good deal for $2100 though.

 

[73F100Shortbed]

Definitely a great deal you got. Here you might get 3-4k but times are tough right now.

 

[bucks77ford]

The bed looks like it is an early style bed with the round fuel tank hole, but has a later style tailgate with all the trim fixings. On the passenger side of the bed chrome on the very rear, it looks like the racetrack style, but the rest of the truck doesn't have it. The truck looks pretty solid though.

 

[TexasNomad]

I say 8K because there was a truck on CL that was in rough shape that was going for 7000K it had patch panels on the divers side and passenger side..
I could have been sold for less I dunno but when I went back to kind the add it was taken down by the owner...
So i'm guessing it sold....

 

[78F250]

Dissect my truck......interesting title.

 

[Blade]

i have to say that that truck is BEAUTIFUL

 

[bicyclemonkey]

The bed looks like it is an early style bed with the round fuel tank hole, but has a later style tailgate with all the trim fixings. On the passenger side of the bed chrome on the very rear, it looks like the racetrack style, but the rest of the truck doesn't have it. The truck looks pretty solid though.

My guess by looking at the passenger side trim is that it was replaced and cut where it would have turned downward by the rear parking light.

My NPD catalog has all that tailgate trim listed as 73-79. But maybe they were just indicating it will fit on 79-79 trucks.

 

[1973 F-100 4x4]

I can tell you that the engine is not original.
It has "Thunderbird" stamped in the valve covers!

Also, what does the shift pattern on your transfer case look like?
Most F-100 4x4's came with the Dana 20 single speed t-case.
(4wd-Neutral-2wd) No low range.

 

[bicyclemonkey]

I can tell you that the engine is not original.
It has "Thunderbird" stamped in the valve covers!

Also, what does the shift pattern on your transfer case look like?
Most F-100 4x4's came with the Dana 20 single speed t-case.
(4wd-Neutral-2wd) No low range.

I measured the stroke on the motor and it's 3.5" so it's a 360. I ran the numbers on the intake and they came up as a '62 model 390 4V intake. My theory is that the PO needed the 4V intake to install the Edelbrock 4V carb. The '62 model intake has the oil filler hole on the intake, where as the original was on the valve covers. So he went ahead and swapped out the valve covers as well. So my thought is that it's the original 360 block but has the intake and valve covers form some '62 T-bird or something.

The T-case shift knob only says 4wd and 2wd.

 

[1973 F-100 4x4]

The T-case shift knob only says 4wd and 2wd.

Yep, Dana 20 T-case.

As for the engine, that is a possibility.

Is there a breather on the valve covers?
Or is it on the intake?

 

[bicyclemonkey]

Yep, Dana 20 T-case.

As for the engine, that is a possibility.

Is there a breather on the valve covers?
Or is it on the intake?

The valve covers are clean, it must be on the intake.