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Hey guys, I got recommended to start posting my build over here as well, I have a very long, drawn out (132 page) build thread on PSN, but seems theres a lot more traffic here as well, so here goes. I would post a link to that thread if others want to see it/if thats okay? (Idk if theres any "rules" against that, for whatever reason?)
I bought it in August of 2014, it was originally owned by an Asphalt company for the first 280,000 miles, then sold to the PO, where he put another 40,000 on it, and I bought it. I have since put another 60,000 miles on it, and a way too much money...
Heres when I bought it, and had detailed it a bit. It had some messed up paint around the headlights, but a surprisingly straight body, and the PO had redone all the seats/headliner so the interior was in very good shape as well. When I bought it, it was completely stock, down to the OG Downpipe and all.
And today.
In between there was an accident, a motor rebuild, several transmissions, the manufacturing of 2 different flatbeds, lots of motor mods, a 6" lift, SAS, and lots of fabrication and little doodads here and there.
Looks good! what mods do you have planned for the future? Or are you going to just leave it like this for a while?
Well I still have to finish the flatbed that I'm in the middle of making, only things left are some welding, sanding and powdercoat. I also have a turbo going out right now, and a DieselSite 66mm Wicked Turbo is coming next week.
Then I need to finish my 4wd conversion, which includes rebuilding the divorced np205 that I picked up for it, putting 1350 joints on all 3 inputs/outputs, and getting 3 custom driveshafts made for it. I've designed this setup to have matching front and rear drivelines at 63" long.
Well we'll see if I get in trouble, here's my build thread, and I'll start transferring pics to this thread too in my spare time, theres probably an easy 300 pictures, maybe more. I noticed theres an upload limit here on FTE also? I always prefer posting to the forum directly, rather than photobucket or something that somehow always screws up and then threads are lost without pics...
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I really like the divorced transfer case setup I have on my 76 Highboy. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out on your truck. Are you going to upgrade the 205 while you're in there or just replace seals, bearings, and slap it back together?
I accidentally posted these in my welcome thread, so I'm going to just copy-paste them here really quick.
Well April of 2015 I replaced my first trans in it (which turned out to be the 3rd trans going into the truck, as a reman came out that day), it was just a used unit that I picked up from a buddy that was supposedly low mile etc.
Then I got a steering wheel from my wife (girlfriend at the time), along with a nice quick release for it.
Next thing up was to tackle the fuel leak. This thing pissed fuel and oil like nobody's business. This pic was after sitting for 10min in my driveway.
So i did the tightwad mod first, and found out it was the fuel pump leaking, and the hpop was leaking, and the turbo pedestal was leaking. So I then went into e-fuel, and rebuilt the hpo system.
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I really like the divorced transfer case setup I have on my 76 Highboy. Looking forward to seeing how it turns out on your truck. Are you going to upgrade the 205 while you're in there or just replace seals, bearings, and slap it back together?
Looks like I can already upload, but when I registered, it said at the bottom that a regular member has a 100(?) picture upload limit.
I would like to upgrade it, but after talking to several rebuild guys, they said since it already has a fixed yoke on the rear output, I shouldn't have any issues. The rear slip yoke I guess is the real weak link in the 205. So I'll just do a nice rebuild with 1350 yokes and put it in. If/when I step up in injector size (plan on 238 or 250s), maybe I'll go through and do some more upgrades.
After the billet wheel install, I didn't notice much, and if anything, I felt the motor "slowing down" for some reason, had some issues that I couldn't understand, then one day while out testing to see if the HPOP could hold pressure and determine the health of the HPOP, the truck started misfiring, and BELLOWING white smoke. Uh oh.
Pulled over, popped the hood. No coolant in the reservoir. Pulled dipstick, 6 quarts or so high on oil. Also noticed pin hole in radiator that had been leaking coolant on top of the motor for a while.
And the tear down begins to find out what happened...
The motor build was an extremely long drawn out process, one that took over a year. I'm going to try and summarize it best I can.
So once I towed the truck back to my shop, I figured it was a blown head gasket, and because i'm an idiot and didnt check compression or a leak down or anything, I went straight to work pulling the driver side head off to check the gasket. Got the head off, and the gasket was in perfect shape! So I had my fingers crossed it was the passenger side head! (These heads were no joke!!! Weighing in at around 200lbs, pulling them off with the motor in the truck was damn near impossible with 3 people!!!
No dice. Got both heads off and saw both head gaskets were in good shape... I did get to see that all 8 cylinders still had a beautiful crosshatch in them still, and the motor cranked over fairly easily and freely. Awesome to see at 350,000 miles.
So I had to start looking elsewhere for what my issues were. I thought it was either a bad oil cooler, a pin hole or crack in the block, crack in the front cover, cracked heads, or anything else!!!
Pulled the motor and took it to a buddy who owned a diesel shop, and was going to do the rebuild for me.
While the motor was away, I did anything and everything I could. Including cleaning the engine bay, clearanceing the firewall for more room around the downpipe, rebuilt the turbo, deleted the pedestal, and the EBPV, stripped the engine harness down, cleaned it, and re-loomed it, etc etc etc...
Very long story shot on this engine rebuild, it ended up being 3 injectors stuck open and flooded the cylinders, and the 6 quarts high on oil, was actually fuel, not coolant. The radiator was only low on coolant because of the leak at the top of the radiator core. The diesel shop let my motor tip over while on the ground, and it broke the oil cooler front mount (that bolts to the front cover). So they replaced it for free, and we went on our way. They bored the block .020" over, and used a brand new Ford Rebuild kit from Sunrise Ford, I bought 3 reman AB injectors to replace the bad ones, a new T500 HPOP, some .030" shorter 7/16" chromoly push rods (stock ones were too short because the machine shop machined too much off deck and heads, making VTP contact!!!)
After I threw it all back together and had it installed, I filled it up with coolant and it started to leak... I couldn't find it at the time, and ended up having to pull the motor, and I found out it was the front cover was cracked (right where the oil cooler bolts to, remember when they dropped it?)
Notice the crack through the bolt hole
Looking inside the coolant passage.
So I ordered a new front cover, gaskets, and everything required, replaced it all in a weekend. Then I called him up, told him what happened, and long story short, there was a lot of shouting, and we're no longer friends and I had to eat the cost of his ***** up ($1400!!!)
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