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Hello! I said I would let you guys know how the pickup was after I got it home. A buddy and I went and hauled the pickup home yesterday. It does have the ZF 5 speed. I think I actually made out on this deal for once. The guy swapped in a rebuilt transmission and transfer case about 6 months before he had his fender bender. I crawled under the pickup and looked to see how "dirty" and greasy things were and I believe he is telling the truth. Both the transmission and transfer case are really clean and almost shiny. He said that it also had a new clutch and flywheel installed along with a new starter. He said he had also just did the rear brakes and put in new axle bearings and seals. As far as I can see, the only differences I can see in the frames between my 86 and this 88 is that the front spring brackets are different. On my 86 there is just one shock on the front, on the 88 there are two shocks. Other than that they are the same as far as I can tell. It looks like that if I wanted to swap the brackets, the rivets would line up on both of them. I'll post here about my progress on the swap when I get time to get the project started. 
Ben
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I wondered that myself until I met him when we went and got the pickup. He was a real nice older retired guy. He also had an 89 F150 4x4 for sale. It was a shortbox with the 5.0. He said he had just put a new engine it it and the automatic transmission went out. He said he thought about putting another one in or swap the tranny out of the wrecked pickup I bought, but in the meantime had bought a newer pickup and just didn't want to "wrench" anymore. He said that he is at the point in his life where he just wants to take it easy and just do the things he "really" enjoys doing. He likes to hunt and fish. I guess we all get tired eventually and don't desire to do the things we used to enjoy doing and move on to other things. I'm a young guy yet and I have a hard time thinking that this may be me some day, but I know I have whitnessed my grandpa's and even my Dad do just as this guy seems to be doing. They all just reached a point in their life and decided to slow down and just do the things they enjoy the most.
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