Odd. Oh well, another PO mystery I guess. Maybe they swapped cabs with one that hadn't had A/C and kept the old dash, etc. without hooking it back up.

Yep. Dealer installed A/C. An easy way to tell is the vent in the instrument cluster. If it has a screw on either side of the vent, it's dealer installed A/C. The dealer used the non A/C dash bezel and cut out the Ford emblem, then screwed a vent to the back side of the bezel.

Also, the A/C controls will be separate from the heater controls in the middle of the dash.

My '73 has dealer air.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.for...63b067413f.jpg


Yup. Factory AC dash with the separate control. Not sure why the firewall in this one is different. Might have been a cab change by not one that I knew about. Not too worried about it personally. Might try to find a non AC dash at some point.

OK, that's the dealer-installed setup. Makes more sense now. Factory A/C had the controls integrated with the heater controls rather than the separate knobs over by the vents.

Installed my electric fan. Not a bad upgrade for less that $55. Got the fan from a '95 Mercury Cougar V8 from the local salvage for $23 and the wiring harness from ebay for $32. Took longer to fab up a set of brackets than it did for install the fan. I highly recommend doing this upgrade. If I can do it, anybody can.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELECTRIC-FAN-COMPLETE-WIRING-INSTALL-KIT-THERMOSTAT-50-AMP-RELAY-185-SBC-BBC-/331419626501?hash=item4d2a262c05&vxp=mtr
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.for...562eff5443.jpg

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.for...17c3550fa4.jpg

Well, I did this today....

Pure jealousness!!!

went to my late Aunt Fern's old house and picked up a new deep freeze she had extra with my 78 it was the first drive since i drove it home from the shop since i just got it re-insured today..... filled up the tank with premium and it wasn't too painful...... got a slow leak in my tire patched.....and last but not least i scheduled for my exhaust to be done on her on Thursday $350 gets me Dual 2.5" all the way out the back with 4.5" echo tips i have until then to decide whether i should 45 them behind rear tires or 90 or straight out under the bumper what you fellas think?

I like exits behind the back tires, but on an angle. I think that looks best.

kick out at a 45 degree Smoken. Looking forward to pictures.


All I did with mine was drive to/from work today.

I am getting you an old school open face helmet (with flames of course) to wear for your crazyness.

I see you are putting that C-6 and NP-205 you got from me to good use. :-X22

Yes I am bragging, but that is why RC and I have our names on the tailgate (which you also got from me if I remember right....:)

Thank you for that again, see ya in May for the "live" show. :-jammin

i like the 45 degree behind the rear tires myself that's what my 72 had on it when i first got it i should have pics up on either thursday afternoon or friday

I took the 79 F350 out for a Sunday cruise, then washed her and put her back in the shop!!

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/...psh702fjvr.jpg

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8717/...e05b11d5_z.jpg

Clean, fresh carb for the '78 :)

^^^ might be a vacuum leak lol