Don't get carried away spending money on it. Sure, it's a good truck, but it is not a collectors item and will never be.

 

The truck means a lot to me. It's one of the few things I can call mine.

 

Put enough money into it and that will always be true. You gotta get past emotional attachments to inanimate objects.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that the truck doesn't give a %^t about you, would kill you given the chance, and would let anyone, even a dirty, sticky stranger, drive it.

 

So you're saying the truck is a trustworthy w*ore? haha. I'd sell it, so I aint that far gone with attachment to it.

 

Aren't they all?

Just enjoy it for what it is, and don't get carried away. Good luck with it.

 

some of are, I don't plan on getting too carried away. Just enough so it might be here for my kids or even grandkids.

 

I edited my earlier post about the date code, you can see the changes.

 

WDM-BR / 6JB / 2.75 / 9 / 385A

WDM-BR = 1973/79 Ford Light Truck Parts Catalog / Text, Section 40.1, Pages 5-8 = Rear Axle Parts List #88 ~ D6TZ-4234-A .. R/L 31 spline axleshafts.

6JB = Axle assembled the 2nd week (B) of September (J), 1976 (6) / A = January, M = December, the letter I is skipped.

2.75-1 ratio / 9" rear axle / 385 is the plant code / A is the first design.

If the OP wants more info for his F150, he can buy this catalog on a CD from hipoparts.com for about 22 bucks.