So i decided to document my 1977 Ford F250 build now. Originally i was not going to build the truck, but i could not leave well enough alone and things quickly snowballed. details on the truck are as follows. 1977 Ford F250 Supercab Shortbed 460 BBF C62WD3.54 gears 48,000 miles 3rd owner, have all original paperwork from the original owner(window Sticker, Finance Contract, Owners Card, etc.) i purchased the truck as a birthday present to myself with approval from the wife on 4-27-16. i picked up the truck and immediately drove it over 150 miles home without any problems. here it was the day i bought it.

the truck was very clean overall, minus a few cracks in the dash i would say mint for a almost 40 yr old truck.



I couldnt leave the stock Pizza Cutter tires on the truck at the very least so i started shopping around and ended up finding 5 17" method wheels and 5 35" Toyo Open Country MT tires for a smoking deal for the truck. this was the first roadblock i hit as the 35's would not properly clear without some modifications. my first thoughts were to put glass on the truck with the stock suspension and run it for a while. after weighing my options around the begining of may i decided to embark on what i called the 14 day build. we were headed to Hawthorne, NV for the VORRA race and wanted to take Brown Betty along for the ride. i began researching lifts, and springs i could use to not go overkill with what already worked well. I wanted to run some lift springs and extend the radius arms and throw a decent shock on the truck. upon weighing my options and a check of the wallet i decided to bend the beams and do a coilover swap on the truck. as it was not too much more $$$ wise than adding a coil and a decent shock under there parts wize. i had all the tools and time to build the beams and radius arms already so that was a wash. So as of about 2.5 weeks ago the plan was to cut stock coil buckets out, remove radius arm mounts from frame and add a simple engine cage, Pie-Cut beams and plate for the lift, extend radius arms. here are pics from the build process over the last couple weeks.



i finished the truck up just in time for the trip. shortly after building the truck my wife and i jumped in it and drove over 500+ miles through california and Nevada without a hitch. the truck ran super smooth on the road and handled very well off road. i ran out of time to get the rear where i wanted it but it will get remedied shortly. overall this experience has been fun. I would of not been able to get everything finished if it was not for my friends that helped and my wife that continuously brought me waters and food to the shop so i could continue jamming on the truck. here is the only picture i got from the weekend of the truck out and about. looking forward to some small modifications and some future trips out in this thing.

 

That's great,i hope you share more info and pics cause I just found a 79 f250 2wd myself. Thanks.

 

Here are some pictures of the front end under the hood.


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Awesome.. Woot, another build thread. That's one great looking truck. Digging the suspension, rims and tires you did. Great freaking job!!

 

Awesome truck!

 

Wow so much for the unmolested 40k mile truck. But it does look real cool nice work!

 

hahahaha, you have to start with a great foundation. if it was a race rig i could see starting with something much worse but i wanted a clean truck to build a platform off of.