At least eye pro is an easy one, besides you only have 2 chances. And both of them are pretty important IMO.

 

I'll second the black widow hunting at night & with a torch. It's almost fun! About the only time you really see those suckers out. Put on a headlamp & go have fun!


Now for the custom body lift pucks - here's some pics. Keep in mind these are just a general idea. I was trying to get the body as low to the frame as I could on this one & I was removing the rubber body mounts all together as this truck was getting a roll cage that was both welded to the cab & solidly attached to the frame (tubes welded to plates that bolt to frame). The things are stepped so as to lock into the body tower coming off the frame. There is then another machined "washer" on the bottom that accepts the above mentioned "stepped" section and locks things solidly into place.
Machine the top of the body mount spacer so the stock, rubber mount sits down in it/locks in like it does in the stock tower/bracket off the frame.
I use 9/16" or 5/8" bolts when I do setups like this. Much stronger than the tiny crap they sell you with typical body lift kits.







Lastly - I feel your pain on the welded on bumper. Out of the 8 or so of these trucks I have owned I think 5 of the bumpers were welded on. And usually with bubbly, booger welds. So annoying to have to cut that up & clean them off.

On my crew cab the hitch was welded on AND had a tube that was welded to the stock cross member. Plus the overloads 77&79 is talknig about were welded on my truck too.
These are those fugly *******s!




All clean now though!

 

Chase, Two questions, how would those pucks do for a daily driver, would you even notice a difference in ride verses the stockers? I like the idea of lowering the body.


How much for that packet of salsa?

 

Thanks for sharing those pictures, and the idea. You built those yourself?

Your frame is awesome looking. Cant wait to get to get to scrapping and blasting mine.

 

So by now we are feeling pretty good. Trucks disassembled. Actually only took a day roughly.

We opted out against taking the cab off until we could:
1. locate a donor truck
2. figure out how to mock the PS in place
3. Get the PS in place

So we began to look at the interior and loosen everything up and remove. It truly went uneventful.

You know, you can find out a man/woman just by the amount of and type of s#@! they leave behind in their vehicle.

 

How wide is the rear of your frame? My 79 2wd is 34, which seems weird to me.

 

73-77.4 F250 Highboy frames are more narrow in the rear, than the 77.5-79, I do believe. That might be a carry over to a CC frame? Just a guess?

Read post # 8 to confirm https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...ease-read.html

 

I will measure tonight.

 

I wouldn't recommend removing the rubber body bushings on a truck unless you fully cage it & tie the cage to BOTH the body & the frame. The body will start to crack otherwise. So for most of us as a DD I'd say don't use solid pucks like this. I don't know that you're really notice a seat of the pants difference with these, but over time your sheet metal would.
You could order some poly body mounts & cut them down though. Sadly on the supercab those pucks were made for I only got a 1/2" drop from stock as the floor hit the frame anything beyond that. I wasn't doing this for normal looks/lowering reasons, so I wasn't about to cut into the floor to get it lower.


Yup, I built um. I build pretty much everything on my trucks from scratch.

And thanks for the compliments on the frame. I wire wheeled mine. Wish I woulda pulled the cab & blasted it, but this project was never supposed to be a complete rebuild like it has turned into. It's october now, so my trucks 7th birthday of being torn down & off the road is upon us


4wd crews did get the narrow "highboy" frames, but I was pretty positive that stopped when the highboys did in late '77. Didn't read the link, so I may be off, but if seems odd that a true '79 would have a narrow rear frame. Unless it was maybe originally a cab n chassis truck???

 

One more thing to lower the center of gravity was my thought, thanks for the information Chase.

 

No problem. My point with them was to keep a lower C.O.G. as well. Almost counter intuitive as I was "lifting" the truck, but the "lift" was to help clear 35" tires & give me a bit more suspension travel rather than just for looks like most.

 

My 78 2WD CCSB has the narrow frame, Ted's is a 78 CCSB also (we live close).
As far as I know ALL Crews are the narrow frame no matter the configuration.

Believe you were referring to a "Wolf" spider. Have killed 18-22 of them in our master bathroom the last two months. My wife wants to move as a result.

 

I will be watching this with interest, too, even though my truck is a supercab. Love your entertaining writing style. That spider may have been a hobo spider. We have those in the northwest. Big, scary looking, and they pack a mean bite.
BTW, I work for the railroad, and an old slang term for a caboose is a "crummy." I have no idea why. I've never heard of a pickup truck referred to as a crummy.

 

Not sure either.

Hobo spider? I have no idea. All I know is F that. He's long dead now though. Lol.

The crummy thing was completely new to me.

 

FML was carved in the back of the front seat. These seats will be replaced with the King Ranch set up, so no carving in mah new seats please.





So hipsters in Washington smoke Marlboro and eat M&M's? Apparently a lot of them. At least they didn't litter their stuff all over the place, just kept it in the truck.





So the one bag of peanut M&M's was opened, but half full. Bet one of my buddies he couldn't finish the bag.<br/>We both won the bet. He finished the bag, got my $10 bet, but threw up the rest of the night.<br/>What would you do for $10? I sure as hell wouldn't do that. lol.





So the interior is out. Lets assess the floors for a second...





sexy is what that is. Both sides this good.





Front has sheet metal set down. Thats ok, I can buy front floor boards all day. I was just relieved the back ones were good.