Crockett, CA checking in.
Posted: January 1, 2013, 5:36 pm
Hi all. Glad to have come across this site yesterday. Found you guys and gals and signed up right away. I bought me a 65 f100 short bed with a 352 vin. back in October. It was driven by an old man for some number of years. Then sat for the last eight. Rust I feel is at a minimum considering it has been outside in the weeds. I picked up my sweet beauty for $800 woohoo. I have all pieces minus horn trim ring and stock radio. There are a few questions I have, being the guy is passed. I will have to seek my own answers. Maybe with your help and my can do attitude. We will see good things come from my build.
Right now my goal is to get this truck as solid as possible. When I showed up to her she had no battery. Minimum oil and trans fluid and no gas. I figured I'd get to is so I filled the tank up as well as the carb strapped a battery to her and topped the oil. Wouldn't you know it. A couple cranks and vroom.. Sweet is the sound of life through a forgotten ford V8. Then no forward or reverse. Which was fine cause I had no brakes. Pedal to the floor. I topped off tranny and water, while under the hood I cracked the mater cylinder and wouldn't you know it. Bone dry. Topped the reservoir and began pumping while engine warmed up. Suddenly the pressure started building and there were brakes. Sweet, this deal was looking better and better.
I put my foot on the brake and released the e-brake. Whew, it held. Rocked back and forth from drive to reverse and it was working. Oh yea. Hey pops, do I got brake lights? Nope. What the hell I thought. Well I figured it out. It had a pressure switch for brakes. The terminals were just dirty.
Hopped in pulled out of the weeds and into the cul de sac and drove in circles for 5 mins. The funny thing was it kept trying to chirp tires if gassed and turning. My kind of truck. I headed out towards the freeway with fingers and toes crossed. Hit the on ramp and gassed it. It took off like a bat out of hell. I was at 70 before end of on ramp. It just dipped and rode like a dream. I was passing all sorts of everybody. Spider webs and all.
Since that ride home. I bled the brakes. I rebuilt the carb and changed the water pump. While running the truck over the next couple weeks. I must have blown all the rust out of the engine and right into the radiator. Yep, it popped. A brown terrible mess it was.
Long story short. I got a aluminum radiator from summit $144. A couple upper mounts from junk yard. Welded mounts to bottom core support, now I have to bend an upper mount.
Well if you have read this far, hopefully you got a sense of the way I feel about this truck. I never had a truck. I've had a 66 cyclone, 67 mustang and an 86 5.0 with let's say all the goodies. Now I'm in a focus with a wife and two kids. This truck will be my salvation... Thanks, Jeremiah.
Right now my goal is to get this truck as solid as possible. When I showed up to her she had no battery. Minimum oil and trans fluid and no gas. I figured I'd get to is so I filled the tank up as well as the carb strapped a battery to her and topped the oil. Wouldn't you know it. A couple cranks and vroom.. Sweet is the sound of life through a forgotten ford V8. Then no forward or reverse. Which was fine cause I had no brakes. Pedal to the floor. I topped off tranny and water, while under the hood I cracked the mater cylinder and wouldn't you know it. Bone dry. Topped the reservoir and began pumping while engine warmed up. Suddenly the pressure started building and there were brakes. Sweet, this deal was looking better and better.
I put my foot on the brake and released the e-brake. Whew, it held. Rocked back and forth from drive to reverse and it was working. Oh yea. Hey pops, do I got brake lights? Nope. What the hell I thought. Well I figured it out. It had a pressure switch for brakes. The terminals were just dirty.
Hopped in pulled out of the weeds and into the cul de sac and drove in circles for 5 mins. The funny thing was it kept trying to chirp tires if gassed and turning. My kind of truck. I headed out towards the freeway with fingers and toes crossed. Hit the on ramp and gassed it. It took off like a bat out of hell. I was at 70 before end of on ramp. It just dipped and rode like a dream. I was passing all sorts of everybody. Spider webs and all.
Since that ride home. I bled the brakes. I rebuilt the carb and changed the water pump. While running the truck over the next couple weeks. I must have blown all the rust out of the engine and right into the radiator. Yep, it popped. A brown terrible mess it was.
Long story short. I got a aluminum radiator from summit $144. A couple upper mounts from junk yard. Welded mounts to bottom core support, now I have to bend an upper mount.
Well if you have read this far, hopefully you got a sense of the way I feel about this truck. I never had a truck. I've had a 66 cyclone, 67 mustang and an 86 5.0 with let's say all the goodies. Now I'm in a focus with a wife and two kids. This truck will be my salvation... Thanks, Jeremiah.
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from ALBERTA!!
I'm just up the straits from you in Martinez. Checked your pics... two things I'm jealous of is your vintage sliding rear window, and your original gold-on-black plates! Nice, man...
