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I recently bought a nice driving 86 F150 regular cab/8' bed with a 4.9L 4spd. OD manual trans.
It had been sitting for over 20 years, it was elderly owned and the owner passed and the truck was left to sit under a lean too semi covered until last year. I found the truck for sale after the last owner spent over $4k on it getting it up and running again.
The thing runs great, has only 55K on it, and it went right through state inspection here.
The bad is that it don't have A/C, the seat, tops of the door panels, and dash are sun faded pretty bad and there are many cracks in the now brittle vinyl bench seat.
I had been looking for one of these for years after selling my original 1986 which other than color was basically identical to this truck. I bought my first one new, kept it only a year and traded it for a loaded 1987. I regretted that move for years.
This truck runs and drives as good or better than my original truck and the body doesn't have a single dent. There's a rust spot just starting on the left rear wheel lip, and the tailgate looks like they took it from another same color truck since it's missing the FORD lettering and has an OVERDRIVE emblem most often only found on AOD equipped trucks.
I can deal with the lack of A/C, its not worth it to me to add air. I do want to make the interior look better.
The dash isn't cracked, its sun baked and turning black, but it's not warped or cracked at all. My options seem to be a carpet cover, hard dash cover or shell, or to repaint the dash cover.
The tops of the door panels are turning white from the sun, their too dry to repaint and are beginning to flake on top. I see Coverlay sells new panels, as well as a dash top, has anyone used this brand?
How hard is it to remove the top dash pad to repaint it? Does it just unscrew and lift off or is the pad part of the whole main dash?
I recently bought a nice driving 86 F150 regular cab/8' bed with a 4.9L 4spd. OD manual trans.
It had been sitting for over 20 years, it was elderly owned and the owner passed and the truck was left to sit under a lean too semi covered until last year. I found the truck for sale after the last owner spent over $4k on it getting it up and running again.
The thing runs great, has only 55K on it, and it went right through state inspection here.
The bad is that it don't have A/C, the seat, tops of the door panels, and dash are sun faded pretty bad and there are many cracks in the now brittle vinyl bench seat.
I had been looking for one of these for years after selling my original 1986 which other than color was basically identical to this truck. I bought my first one new, kept it only a year and traded it for a loaded 1987. I regretted that move for years.
This truck runs and drives as good or better than my original truck and the body doesn't have a single dent. There's a rust spot just starting on the left rear wheel lip, and the tailgate looks like they took it from another same color truck since it's missing the FORD lettering and has an OVERDRIVE emblem most often only found on AOD equipped trucks.
I can deal with the lack of A/C, its not worth it to me to add air. I do want to make the interior look better.
The dash isn't cracked, its sun baked and turning black, but it's not warped or cracked at all. My options seem to be a carpet cover, hard dash cover or shell, or to repaint the dash cover.
The tops of the door panels are turning white from the sun, their too dry to repaint and are beginning to flake on top. I see Coverlay sells new panels, as well as a dash top, has anyone used this brand?
How hard is it to remove the top dash pad to repaint it? Does it just unscrew and lift off or is the pad part of the whole main dash?