I’m glad you over seas, I might steal that stripe from you

 

69 F250, factory AC, PB, PS AM-FM, just turned over 30,000 miles. My Dad bought this truck New and I've owned it for 44 years



Interior pic, all original

 

Looks to be a 3 on the tree amigo... Very nice ride, and in excellent shape... Where do you hang you hat?

Baja

 

wow... that has to be one of the best i have seen.. hard to find like that for sure

what are the round things on the steering column..

 

Here's my 1967 LWB 352, code name Lucille.

 

Nice ride amigo, and looks like lucille is a SoCal truck... gotta love those sunsets..

Baja

 

Not mine, but I had to take a pic.

 

RALLY-PAC, consisted of a tachometer and a clock. Was installed on the '65/'66 Mustangs. '66 version was different from the '65 version. The one on the column in the truck is the '66 version.

Hi-Po version would have an 8,000 RPM tach. Non-Hi-Po would have a 6,000 RPM tach.

'66 Rally-Pac.



'65 Rally-Pac.

 

Wow, I have never seen that... very nice idea..

Baja

 

Photo I had saved of a person's Bumpside with a Rally-Pac mounted on the column.

 

There’s a 65 edition of dallas c/l for $300....

 

I just bought a 1968 Ford F100, which is in decent shape. It's obviously been modified over the years and has interesting little things about it. It's the Meadowlark Yellow with Wimbledon White on the bottom. F10ARD44177. I've been looking at the decoding information and the A should indicate a 240 6 cylinder engine, it has a 390 V8 in it now. I assume it's the San Jose CA plant with a build date of June of 1968? I may be interpreting things wrong but that's what it seems like to me.

 

The tailgate and front passenger's quarter panel are off different vehicles, I'm going to get it painted. I also have the missing chrome strips and some of the badges for the truck. Those 2 straight pipes on the back sure give it a nice roar going down the road. It's got an exceptionally low differential gearing? 60 is really the top end and that's got the engine wrapped up so I don't do much over 50-55mph. I DO have another differential that the guy I bought it from said, was a highway gearing? It was an automatic at one point, but (again quoting what I was told) the gearing in the steering column broke and didn't work right, so they converted it to a 4 on the floor. 1st is a GRANNY gear. I'm not sure what transmission they have in it now? I have to get up underneath it this weekend and take some pictures and check out what they did? I have to admit I love the 390 V8 that's in it, it's been rebuilt very recently. The truck just turned over 17,000 miles which I'm assuming at the very least is 117,000 miles perhaps 217,000 miles? Power steering, power brakes, it has the drum brakes and they are new. Stops great, a little bit of play in the steering up front. Long bed, I've had people tell me it's the camper special but I don't know if that's true or not?
I have a VERY strong gas smell in the cab. I checked the tank and it's an original tank style, the neoprene gas filler hose is good, no breaks, very tight and seems to be good? I suspect the gas line coming out of the top of the tank, it "looks" like they put it into the tank and tried to seal it with some kind of Gel? Has a little space around the metal gas line and the fumes are VERY strong there. I'm not sure what it originally looked like or was sealed with? Anyway, this is a long post and enough for now. Thanks for any info.
Keith

 

Welcome to the Bump Kingdom amigo. Appears that there are a few things on your truck that did not come with it from the factory, but most are appearance things, so won't matter mechanically. Not sure about your gearing, but if it has a 4:11 rear end and is a 4x4 (looks like it from the front hubs), then it probably came with a stick. If it now has an automatic, that could be your gearing issue, as automatics have much higher gearing in the differentials.. Only other thing I can think of, is if you have it in low range in the transfer case... that would wind it up a lot to go 60... You can always jack up one rear wheel, put it in neutral, (block the wheels of course), and rotate the wheel, while counting the driveline rotations..

Good luck with it amigo...

Baja

 

If your truck originally came with a 240, the gearing in the rear end was likely either 3.50 (Axle code 08) or 3.70:1 (Axle code 09 on the warranty plate affixed to the drivers side door) --A 240 needs all the help it can get.

If you have a 390 in it now, going up to a 3.25:1 ratio probably won't hurt its pulling ability too much but would drop your RPMs at highway speed.

However, changing lower ratio gears for higher ratio gears will help with lowering engine RPMs at highway speed but will be a trade-off on the ability to accelerate, pull/haul heavy loads. The only way to effectively be able to use the truck as a truck and to be able to cruise at a reasonable RPM range on the highway when not under a load would be to have an overdrive transmission.

Just a rear end gear change is going to make one scenario better and the other worse. An overdrive would allow you to keep your rear end gearing to be able to accomplish either scenario.