[Plato2k5]

Nice direction with the 12V. When you had the front cover off, did you do the killer dowel pin repair?

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Nope, hasn't moved in 30 years and 300k, I like the odds of it staying in place another 10.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

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[Jrgunn5150]

Idk why this failed to upload.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Drug the truck out, stacked all the garbage on it on another truck, ready to pull the rear axle, springs, tank, and clean up and paint the frame this weekend.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I was going to pick up a junkyard axle yesterday to swap into the rear, but came across a complete SD dually 4x4 chassis, for 500 bucks, so I went and bought that instead lol.

Think I'll just drop the cab onto it. At this point, I've paid 700 bucks for a door with my name on it 😄Since everything from the original truck is gone now.

BTW, 10/10 do not recommend this tow. Actually stopped a few miles down the road and slept in this parking lot and had it flatbedded in the AM. The ad did not show that absurd bumper lol.

I tried to think of 1000 lbs of stuff I could buy from that Farm and Fleet to get some tongue weight, but I really don't need/want anything.

 

[greygoose]

Whoa! Yeah, I am glad you did not pull that home like that.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Currently in Florida, got a front clip and a Kubota lol.

 

[greygoose]

Haha! Awesome!

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Alot of work to land back where I was? Or maybe slightly ahead?

Anyway, my Superduty chassis is the same cab confirguration as my OBS, Supercab.

So the front cab mount spacing is identical, using the OBS cab mounts in the Super Duty, (Super Duty are weird threaded, and I don't have the bolts or they might work too), I dropped the cab onto chassis, which set the spacing for the core support and rear cab mounts, which do not at all line up.

So, I will have to make new rear cab mounts, and notch my core support to get it over the sway bar mount (or something to clear it or relocate it), and my "axle swap" will be complete.

Also removed the cab from the old frame, loaded old frame onto trailer, cut into pieces.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Cab is mounted, just used a piece of 1/4 flatbar between the Super Duty mounts and put little outrigers on it to the OBS mounts.

Next weekend I'll clean all the crap that's accumulated inside and paint and sound deaden paint so I can get the dash and column in.

 

[greygoose]

Looks good so far!

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Made a new plate to mount a Super Duty hydroboost, so my chassis brake lines should plug right in, had to cut the rod down a bit.

Got the HVAC in and the dash sitting in, missing a giant seal for the steering column I'd totally forgotten about. I'll spend the next few weekends dinking around with this stuff before getting a clutch and the hydraulics to stab the drivetrain in.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I've done about 250,000 of the 1 million things left to completely assemble and wire a bare cab.

The core support had to be slotted for the SD sway bar mounts so it could go back far enough.

Unsure if the Powerstroke rad will still fit, it was not slotted in that photo.

Roof had a million holes from random cab lights and a Chevy visor was screwed to it when I bought it. Welded them all shut, don't think I'm going to bother adding in the correct lights.

Dash is loosely installed, HVAC is all working, I somehow wound up with incompatible box/cable/control. Ford has a 92-mid 95 and a mid 95-97, of course I discovered that after the dash was in and bolted for the 4th time, so I took the control unit out and was able to take the knob, mechanism, and cable all off as a unit and swap to the correct stuff.

Other than that I fogged the door jams so they'll be red when the door opens and put my best doors on, one of which had a smashed window inside it where they just replaced it and left the old in the door lol.

With that I pulled it back out of the way, it's time to go back to the engine, swap pumps, swap all my cool stuff to my new pump, bolt the clutch on, mod the bearing retainer, and generally work towards having a drivetrain to jam into it, hopefully around Memorial Day.

 

[greygoose]

Excellent work! I can't wait to see this thing running!

 

[Jrgunn5150]

When I bout this new frame, I, for some reason, decided I should put my OBS steering shaft onto the box.

I was using a pipe wrench on it to move it around the yard and whatnot.

Last night, I installed the steering shaft seal and column, and learned, OBS shafts are 4" shorter than Super Duty shafts, and apparently, SD steering boxes are 4" further forward lol.

Anyway, finally, column is in, time to reinstall the harness and get the engine and trans together.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

Drug this back out, got a hood yesterday at half off day at Lucky's, scuffed it all, and shot it in a single color.

Turns out I had some injection lines switched around before, so I fixed that, bolted everything back together, waiting on a new front seal to get the cover on so I can swing it up into the chassis.

I'm hoping, with my ZF5 and using a NV271 case, that I can set it back far enough to use the stock driveshafts.

 

[roll-bar Bob]

Wow She is starting to look like a truck again nice work

 

[greygoose]

Wow She is starting to look like a truck again nice work

Agreed! Can't wait to see this thing running!

 

[Jrgunn5150]

I added a gray pearl to the clear coat and now I have a gray splotchy truck lol, won't matter much when I hit it with a tractor or back into a trailer, but I'm mildly irritated by my poor life choices here.