New Dent :)

[Alvin in AZ]

Was given another truck the other day, so that makes me 7+1/2 Ford
trucks all together and right now only my '75 F150 (I bought new) is
drivable! LOL

The newest one is a March of '75 F250 flat bed (wood) 6000GVW 2wd
360FE T18 x44,000 miles Willcox AZ farm truck. Never wrecked but got
dings and dents all around and only the hood and passenger fender are
perfect. LOL

Original paint, metallic brown and still looks good so it's been parked in
a barn a lot or something? The AZ sun will eat that dark matallic paint
right off a Ford, "my" '76 F350 cattle hauler (stripped chassis) lost its
silver paint in about 5 years, no kidding! :/

A cowboy buddy parked it here ~6 months ago and when talking about
hauling it off, I whined at 'im about "taking my work bench and storage
space" so he up and gave it to me. LOL

So now what? :/
I sure as heck don't know.
He's mailing me the notarized title.

Alvin in AZ

 

[John in AZ]

Sweet! good custom work bench.

 

[taxreliever]

Sweet!

 

[LEB Ben]

Damn you Alvin...another SW truck...lucky SOB. If you're so concerned about what to do with it...I'd be more than willing to take a few parts off your hands.


BTW...IMO, that brown metallic is one of the prettiest colors Ford ever put out.

 

[Alvin in AZ]

I'd be more than willing to take a few parts off your hands.

Cool.
Like what?
Coming to get 'em?
Sending somebody by here to get 'em?

I'm guessing I'll be parting it out tho.

There's a couple things I might want like the flywheel and side window glass.
The windows are much less scratched up than mine for some reason I just
plain ol' don't understand. Hmmm... thinking they might've got scratched like
that while living next to Kennecott's tailings-piles at Hayden Junction AZ?

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Mainer(d), what pictures you want?
There ain't nothing there you ain't seen a jillion times before.
It was original with no chrome.

It's a ratty old farm truck, but it is a Super Cab with a sliding rear window.
Hey! That'd be cool for when we're hauling mocosos* around huh?

Had one of those sliding rear windows on my list of options for the '75 F150
but Ford wanted -way- too much money for it, so didn't order it.

Alvin in AZ
*brats!
(good kids are no fun

 

[LEB Ben]

Alvin...no travel plans...but if the dash pad and visors and maybe even mirrors were in good shape...maybe something could get work out????

 

[Alvin in AZ]

dash pad
visors
mirrors

I've never really looked at it for parts before, so had to go out and look it over.

The mirrors are about as good of shape as any I've ever seen from back then!
No kidding, it's a miracle they made it since both doors are dented. LOL
They didn't drive this thing through heavy brush, ever.

They're the "western style" trailer towing mirrors. Since there's about half a
jillion models of those things, that's one part that'll need a picture, huh?

The visors are almost good but still a-no-go, the edging is cracked from the
heat.

Dash? Did you say dash? ...an "Arizona" dash? :/
Mine got a crack in it within ~2 years of new.

This one is surprisingly good shape for Arizona but -only- because they didn't
use it for a storage area. But it's cracked to beat hell!
...just no chunks missing from it, which is another miracle?

Doggonit, the T18's gear shift lever is welded together from parts for some
odd reason. Got one of the original keys tho.

Alvin in AZ

 

[bucks77ford]

Sounds like a good ol truck. Keep finding those trucks and parting them out so us guys in the rust belts can get em.

 

[bowhunter]

Sounds like you got a deal, i live in arizona as well.

 

[LEB Ben]

Hmmmph...wel now Alvin, forgot the havoc the sun had on those dash pads, and the mirrors aren't what I'm trying to replace. Regardless, I'm still salivating over Arizona truck parts.

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Sounds like you got a deal, i live in arizona as well.

Cool, fill out your stuff?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Butthead in AZ

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Sounds like a good ol truck. Keep finding those trucks and
parting them out so us guys in the rust belts can get em.

Yeah, but Buck, there's a problem is shipping costs or something?

If it weren't for some sort of problem with getting these basically rust free
parts "back east" there wouldn't be a single one left out here, they'd all
done been hauled off and rusted away "back east" already.

(higher population + more money = no more western trucks or parts) ?

Alvin in AZ

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Hmmmph...wel now Alvin, forgot the havoc the sun had on those dash pads,
and the mirrors aren't what I'm trying to replace.
Regardless, I'm still salivating over Arizona truck parts.

The door panels each have a little damage too but that's cool, might be able
to use 'em to design my own? Drill holes through where the clips line up with
the doors' holes, you know, stuff like that.

Walked around it looking it over while on the phone with my buddy and only
really saw the hood and passenger fender as perfect. T18 has some sort of
shifter problem, the FE engine ain't a 390, the wheels are mismatched and
a real mess, I'd missed noticing the mirrors and still hadn't looked at the
carburetor and checked the throttle-plate-shaft for play yet.

Rear axle's ain't needed back east.
Original bench seat is long gone.

Oh but it does have an MSD 6a and BTW-scratch-off the passenger fender
as "perfect" now too, just noticed something that before I figured could
easily be fixed but don't count as "undamaged".

What can I say?
"it was a farm truck!" ? LOL

Good enough parts for locals that need 'em for work, not show?
Engine's claimed to run real good and it's got what I think of as a "460
radiator" (because those large-topped radiators I always saw with 460's.
And the water pump's bearing has no play at all. ...for sure not -recently-
but maybe a low mileage rebuild? I need to fire it up I guess.

Alvin in AZ
ps-
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash.jpg
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/dash1.jpg
I don't have a good picture of the black rubber dash cover I made.
Original had chunks missing out of it by the mid 80's. LOL
pps-
Oooo... just now wondering about that farm truck's speedometer!

 

[Alvin in AZ]

It happened.
(because here's the pictures

Here's the air box it looks better than mine since I had
mine in Sacramento for a couple of their rainy winters...

The axle and springs are a bit rusty on this one side.
I believe it's just from it having been caked with that
dangged Willcox mud a lot....

The tag is there under the two bolts to the left. I scraped off the grease
to find the tag and found clear-silly-cone on the cover plate but the tag
was put back but upside down so the bolts'll have to come off to read it.

And a new picture for those that don't read the Gen 8-9 forum...

...guess which seat-frame is a Gen-8 and which one's the Gen-6!

Alvin in AZ

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Doggonit couldn't find my can of U-nuts for sheet metal screws and had to
rob some from the Farm Truck. LOL

Found out the plastic speedometer housing is solid and the original key is the
-same- pattern as my '75 F150! So it also fits my '91 Bronco since I'd
re-keyed the like-new lock cylinder from the '75 C700 and installed it in the
dash of the Bronco...

I pulled the old key out and looked at the pattern and could see right away
it was like my old '75 I'd bought new.

So how many patterns did Ford make anyway?

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Heard-tell Freightliner made 6 or 8 or 10 or some measly number like that. ??
Truckers were all the time asking for other Freightliner drivers to come try
opening their door for them after locking themselves out. LOL I'd made a
point of making a copy of every Freightliner my ex-girlfriend drove but then
she up and switched to Volvo's. :/

Alvin in AZ

 

[Jolly Green]

^^^ What are the chances of that? That's awesome!

 

[nobodyspecial]

In high school, I had a crown victoria, and my friend had an explorer. Our keys would open each others doors, but not start each other vehicle.

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Yeah Jolly Green Giant and Nobody...
And the '90 parts truck's door key fit the '91 Bronco too.

So how many pin-patterns did ford make?
Seems like not many.

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The cool thing for me is how my '91 Bronco was abandoned and so
didn't come with any cool old original keys.

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Anyway... was given another Ford truck yesterday! LOL

'95 F350 crew cab dually 460 with -broken- E4OD ...drug runner's
got their butts stuck! LOL

It was bought for parts and he got his money back with one fender
and one door. All he's going to use is the bed and rear axle.

I declined it tho, :/ ...just took some parts off it for my Bronco.

His plan is to take a Sawzall to it in the next couple weeks. It's a
cryin' shame really, the dangged thing looks brand new, but what
can we do? Shipping costs have gone sky-high. :/

Alvin in AZ

 

[Jolly Green]

The Bronco would have had the key on the colum, right? So you moved it down to the dash?

 

[Mil1ion]

IIRC, Ford used about 148 combinations and there are 7 pins per lock so the most they could use would be in the hundreds.