I guess I'll go ahead and start a build thread on my truck, I have always wanted a 92-96 f150 single cab, 2wd, short bed. About a year ago I broke the timing belt on my car and my coworker offered to sell me his truck, he bought it new in 96 and took decent care of it but it definitely needed some work and I've got a lot to do.

So the plan is to just make a bad *** street truck, so far I have got kyb shocks all around, 15x8 wagon wheels up front with 275-60r15 and 15x10 cragar v-5's in the rear with 275-60r15. I will be buying a set of 15x7 cragars for the front at some point to replace the wagon wheels.

Swapped in a set of fox body lx seats, expedition center console and am in the process of blacking out my interior, more on this later.

I made my own front grill and bought a pair of black headlight bezels to replace all the chrome pieces.

Msd cap/rotor, msd coil, will be ordering my plug wires and spark plugs soon and then will be bumping up the timing a bit.

I am going to be doing a lot of body work and repainting the truck, I've got a rust spot over each rear wheel so I need to weld in some new arches. For now I am just getting rid of the red stripe that goes around the bottom of the body and painting it gloss black, after I get the rust fixed I will repaint the white and it will be bmw alpine white. This is my first time doing paint and body so hopefully I can make it look decent!

I have a set of long tube headers that I need to get put on and then the exhaust will be true dual with both pipes exiting right in front of the passenger rear wheel (like the 2nd gen lightning).

I have a pair of bell tech 2" lowering rear shackles that I will be putting on soon and am also buying my front 2" drop springs and shocks this weekend.

My buddy gave me a 86 302ho that he had planned on putting in his bronco but never got around to it, the plan is to build that engine up and swap out my old one. Hopefully it will be getting a 331 stroker kit, e303 cam (I have it already), gt40 heads or maybe aluminum if money allows, and I've been mulling over fabing up a m112 s/c to go with it but we will see.

Anyway hope you enjoy the build, all I have right now is some crappy cell phone pics but I will post them up shortly.

 

Here's a pic of the truck the day I bought it


The rear wheels


Wheels mounted


The grill that I made with the new black headlight bezels


A pic of my fox body seats with the expedition center console, for right now they are just dyed black but I will be recovering them in black vinyl as soon as I purchase a sewing machine

 

I have repainted the red stripe that was around the bottom of the truck black, I am pretty happy with it so far. Still need to shoot the clear.




And I have also painted my mirrors. I painted the chrome parts the same gloss black I used on the body but for the black plastic I used motheres back to black, I'm not very happy with this product because it made it look very splotchy. I will be taking them all apart over the next few weeks and I'm just gonna paint everything the black.

 

My girlfriends grandpa is probably one of the coolest dudes to ever walk this earth, he's got probably close to 100 vehicles on his land all ranging from 30's-late 70's fords. I was talking with him last week and told him I was needing to find a 70-79 bronco rear bumper and he just so happens to have about 10 of them so he told me to come out and take my pick.

I chose the only one he had that wasn't chromed, as you can see in the first 3 pics it was pretty beat up but I'm a metal worker as my day job so I wasn't to worried, after about an hour with a propane torch and 3lb sledge I got it all straightened out. Then I started sanding all the old paint and rust off, I'll take it to work with me tomorrow and blast the inside to get the rust off of there before painting.

I'll post some pics up after I get it painted and figure out how I'm going to mount it on here.

 

nice progress. glad to see another one of the OBS trucks getting a facelift.

can you post more pictures of the Mustang seats and the console. specifically how they mounted, and the dash to console interface.


My F-250 was a $400 truck when I bought her. Slowly working into a real nice truck with lots of welding and repairs

 

Thanks tylus! Sure I'll have to remember to take some pics when I get home.

As for the seats I used the mustang rails, got the seats exactly where I wanted them and then drilled new holes and mounted them with new bolts and nuts. I wasn't able to put one bolt in the drivers seat until I remove my front gas tank because it's right where I need to drill.

The center console right now is just sitting in the truck, I plan to make a square box out of 1" angle iron that I can mount to the floor of the truck and then will be able to put the console over and mount the console using the existing screw holes that it used in the expedition, I'll get pics and show exactly what I'm talking about! The console doesn't move around at all so this hasn't been a priority yet.

 

Love where you want to take this. Subscribing because once my bronco is done I plan to build a 92-96 truck with a similar styling and have myself a bullnose, bricknose, and obs built differently.
Trav

 

Thanks man I appreciate the Interest!
i was actually looking for a bronco before I bought this truck because I wanted to do a lightning clone with a bronco lol, everyone I've told that has yelled blasphemy at me, but one day I will do it!

 

Today I finally got the rest of the old rusted bolts cut off, finish sanded the metal and got it primed. I probably should have used body filler in a few places just to get it all smoothed out but it's a bumper so it's gonna get beat up anyways. Last week I used my last quart of the ebony gloss black I've been spraying with so I will go pick more up tomorrow and get some color sprayed when I get home from work.

I'm also going to take all the mounts up to work and media blast them, I'm still not sure how I'm going to mount this thing yet so I may not even be able to use them. If I have to I will make all new mounts out of material I have laying around at work.

 

@tylus I'm sorry that it took me so long to get you pics, I hope this helps.

This is the center console to dash interface. please excuse the junk in the floor board lol.


This is a pic kind of showing how I'm going to make my mount, it will just be a square box made out of 1" angle iron and bolted to the body of the truck, the console will sit over it and the holes that you can see there on the console will bolt to the square frame


As for the seats, this is the drivers seat, drivers side of the seat and rear mount. Excuse the red carpet, I just dyed the carpet black until I can afford new black carpet and didn't take the seats out to do it. I don't have a pic of the mount for the drivers seat passenger side rear mount because it isn't bolted down, I will have to remove the middle gas tank before I can do that.


Pic of drivers side, drivers side front mount.


Drivers side, passenger side front mount.


Passenger side rear mounts.


Passenger seat, passenger side front mount.


Passenger seat, drivers side front mount.


I hope you can understand this lol, I'm a few beers in already!

 

So you didn't have to make your own mounts simply bolted them to the floor?

 

That is correct! I spent quite a few hours situating the seats before I drilled my holes to make sure everything was where I wanted it and level, as I was situating it I realized the fox body mounts sat perfectly flat against the floor of the truck so I just drilled my own holes and used extra large washers on the bottom.

 

Hell yea nice. You got lucky getting seats that old in that kinda shape

 

I agree! I spent months waiting for a decent set to pop up that still had good foam and weren't all ripped, from what I was told is they came out of an 89 lx but I can't be sure because I don't know fox body's all that well.

I almost felt bad for dying them black but I will be recovering them In black vinyl anyways.

 

They look good. I'd personally like to see you do the s/c on this truck. I have always felt the first gen lighting lackedin the power department