Took care of one more rust spot..........

I always forget to take a before picture. Remembered in time to show the inside rust. Skin had similar cancer.












A little preservative for now

 

ordered weatherstripping for my doors.

 

It's not a bad job if you just take it easy and don't try to rush it. Use the 3m yellow weatherstrip adhesive. You can get it at autozone, but I couldn't get it at o'reillys

 

Made a little video with the GoPro. Playing with different views and angles.

 

Thanks for the info PapaBearYuma.

I think I might try the dry-fit route like pauliwood did in his forum on his Crown-Vic Viking Build.

Sounded like he just pressed it on from the bottom in the middle, looped around and came back, then trimmed and simply installed the sill plate.

Fingers crossed I can replicate that method. I'm using 1980's to 1996 weather stripping for 2 reasons:

a) It's almost 50% the cost of 73-79 weatherstripping
b) It can be trimmed to fit our doors

 

Bought and installed a headlight switch.

 

Drove her down pch today.
She did decent on the freeway at 60mph.. I guess you can't expect much of the old rigs

Happy 4th

 

Installed a new fuel pump in Magnus. Old one was spitting gas on the oil filter.

 

Nice video, really like the beginning, it makes the truck look very imposing

 

After about 5 years of restoration it's almost done.

 

Front end shot

 

Holy Hell that is one sexy looking truck.

Questions...

1) Specs on tires (size, width, brand (cause I can't read lol), etc)
2) Specs on rims (size, brand, etc)
3) Paint codes (black and grey/silver)
4) Does your truck have a lift kit? If so, what is it, and how much lift?

I gotta know!

 

Spent last night sorting through my collection. Figured I would share a pic for all you FORD lovers out there. Nothing completes an old truck like a vintage license plate

Took approximately 6 hours of hard scrubbing to get these license plates clean!



*Note - There were about 40 plates drying when I took the photo, so there's many missing from this pic. Including a pair of 1955 plates.

 

BFG All Terrain T/A 35 12.50 15

Alloy Eagle 58 Series 15x10. I drilled them to accept the 80's style centre caps.

Black is 2010 Ford Tuxedo Black. Silver is 1978 Ford code "V"

4 inch suspension lift. Front springs are from JBG. Can't remember where the blocks came from. Shocks are Skyjacker If I remember correctly. I pieced it togeather as I had a bunch of stuff from past projects.

 

Thanks for all that great info. Love your truck.

Why did you swap out the front springs for something different?