Just picked this truck up, trying to get it back on the road, needs some love for sure!






First order of business is to get the trans back in it, and get it moving on its own power...

That is why I am here...

It has T98-1480 or 148C stamped on it. Two issues. Needs a clutch and possible fly wheel. And the shifter once put in the trans just rotates around and around. Seems to go through all the gears if you hold it.

From what I can google, its a 4 speed, but I need some help with this one...

Thanks!

 

Also, I know nothing of the 352 motor I was told it has...

 

The Borg-Warner T-98 4 speed shift lever retainer cap threads on/off. Once it's removed, a trunnion (7B125 aka roll pin) is visible within the threads that locks the lever in place.

But a T-98 was never used with an FE engine. FE engines in F100/350's used either a Warner T-18 (similar to a T-98) or the New Process 435.

352 is an FE engine, has 5 valve cover bolts per side. Was first installed in 1965 F100/350. The only V8 available 1961/64 was the 292 Y block.

 

Well, the photo is a bit blurry, but it looks to me like someone swapped out the original motor for the FE block. Did they ever finish the conversion, I wonder, or get to the point where the trans didn't fit and give it up? In any case, it will be much easier to find a flywheel/clutch/transmission combo for the FE than for a Y-Block. An auto parts store should have the clutch, maybe a flywheel.

If the truck still has its data plate, it would be interesting to decode to see how it started life. Can you post a photo of it?

~Steve

 

Warranty Plate riveted to the left door face below the latch.

Photo's of the engine swap would be interesting to see, considering how a 292 mounts in a 1961/64 vs. how a 352 mounts in a 1965/66.

 

I'll get some pictures late tomorrow. See if we can come up with what is in there... The trans I know is what I posted, its laying in the back.

Motor I have no idea...

 

T-98 will not bolt to an FE engine.

 

Got shipped to AZ for a few weeks, had a buddy take these. Going to have my son take a picture of the data plate.

 

 

Seattle truck, T98 Warner 4 speed

It had a Y block 292 when it started out in life.

 

Numberdummy will be able to tell you more, but it appears your intake manifold, at least, is from a 1965 motor intended to go in a car.

The VIN on the warranty tag indicates that you've got a '63, and that it originally came from the San Jose plant with a 292

~Steve

 

So does it infact look like a 352? And if so does that mean the reason the trans is sitting out of it is they could not figure out how to mount it?

 

Doesn't f10 make it a 2wd

 

C5AE intake manifold casting number prefix: Same FE car & truck.

5J22 = Cast September (J) 22, 1965 (5).

There are far more car related part numbers than truck related part numbers for 352/360/390 engine parts.

 

F10 = F100 2WD

C = 292 2V

R = San Jose CA Assembly Plant.

400485 = 1963 .. assembled April 1963.

122" Wheelbase.

B = Caribbean Turquoise.

F100 2WD .. 5,000 lbs. GVWR

81B = Custom Cab.

F = Borg-Warner T-98 4 Speed Manual Transmission.

A1 = Dana/Spicer 44.1 Rear Axle / 3.73-1 / Limited Slip / 3,300 lbs. Rear Axle Capacity.

5,000 lbs. Gross Vehicle Weight Rating.

135 net HP @ 3,800 RPM

74 = Seattle WA Ford District Sales Office, where the original selling dealer ordered the truck from.

1963 Custom Cab has a 1964 Custom Cab grille.

Donkey hood ornament could be replaced by a statue of actor Boris Karloff, who played the first Frankenstein monster in the film 'Frankenstein' (Universal:1931).