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One suggestion that I would make is to look for an ambulance body of about the same year. Many of the ambulances have an air ride system on them with a Z spring and bags. If you find one that was off a similar year truck, it may bolt right up. I happen to know where one is that came out of an older truck ('92) and has a dually, disk brake rear end, but I don't know how it would compare to what you have with the newer frame or where you're located but it would be worth a look. At any rate, I love the build. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for all the great feedback guys. I hate to take much credit for ideas on this project. I have been reading other builds for years and really am just taking my favorite parts of other peoples builds and trying to do it in my own way.
Nate- I appreciate the idea for looking for ambulance parts. I had no idea that I could get the rear suspension from there. I will contact the junk yards to see if I can get my hands on anything, it should be a lot cheaper than a custom built or aftermarket rear suspension.
I haven't made much progress on the project recently. It is starting to warm up in the frozen north and I want to get some of my other vehicles ready for summer driving. So far I have managed to rebuild the carb and install power brakes on my 73 Bronco and am just finishing up a power brake install and 4 speed toploader swap in my 71 mustang convertible. Once I get these projects complete and the summer cars ready to drive, then I will jump back on the cabover project.
And because I love adding pics to my posts (and there are a lot of ford lovers reading this), here's the bronco and mustang I have been working on -
Well, I do believe it is my time to "shine" per say. I have been given the amazing opportunity to tear apart MrCarlsonq's 7.3L Powerstroke for school and to do him a favor and to get his motor freshened up. At this point with the pictures, I have simply received it at where I'll be working on it and have taken many, many, many pictures, here's two of the best looking overall views of it. At this point I've had the motor for just about a week and have been working on it each day.
At this point I have removed all of the electrical wiring, the sensors where they connected to the wiring are left in for now, and I have removed the turbo
Here I have removed the valve covers and am looking at the appearance and overall look of the HEUI Injectors and noted that cyl #8 did not have the updated injector
Here I have removed the injectors and bagged them for later testing at my workplace when I have time.
Have removed the cylinder head bolts here.
And now have removed the head from both sides with help of a couple of my classmates. Pretty messy from all the oil and fuel that was/is still in the injectors, cylinders, and the overall engine.
Looking at the oil pan, dented and rusty, suggested a new one
Here I've pulled the crankshaft pulley, was a bugger to remove but eventually was convinced with some loving words and loving taps with a deadblow and lovingly cleaning out a trio of bolt holes to attach a pulley remover
Water pulley and cover is removed, had a minor mess from coolant that was still in there but not to worry, it just joined the rest of the oil/coolant mess on the floor already
Here the engine, now light enough, is mounted on an engine stand (had tried before but the engine wanted to bend the front down to where it would've snapped the bolts off)
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