I lost weight when the China Virus hit because all the restaurants closed.

 

Thank you. 1967 with only 18,000 miles on it. WOW!
Yep, not a lot of 410s out there.

 

So that's where they came from.

They do make handy little totes.

 

The old truck really squats for only having 1000 pounds in the bed.

GVW - 7700. Actual weight - 5200 +- a few pounds.
So its "capable" of carrying 2500 pounds.
I think its *** would be dragging on the pavement if it had 2500 pounds in the bed.

 

That's interesting to note. What's the GVWR again? (edit: Duh. You said it right there and I glossed right over it!)
My F350 with 8550 GVWR barely moves with 2,000 lbs in the bed. Even though it's an F350, it's the lightest-duty version at the time. The extra "50" over and above the 8500 limit, let my truck leave the factory in '79 without a catalytic converter. Although it had a Thermactor/Air pump, it still lacked a thing or two in the emissions department.
Back to the suspension though, mine does not have the optional "overload" spring set, and the leaf packs look like the standard rear setup, just like you'd have on your F250. I wonder if there is that much difference after all, or if the years and harder work have taken their toll on yours?
Mine had a relatively easy life, but was still used for camping, rock hounding, a bit of ranch work, and long trips. But not much in the way of heavy toting except for an occasional load of firewood.

Just more interesting differences to note in the different trucks.

Paul

 

I would imagine that the difference in springs between a 7700 and an 8550 would not be that great.
What is your Rear GAWR? I'll have to go look at my sticker again. Can't remember off hand, but do remember a friend's '79 F350 (one of the last built I think) had a lower front GAWR, but a much higher rear GAWR than mine.
I've mentioned his truck in threads of the past, and had quite a few skeptics (including Bill aka NumberDummy if I remember) when I mentioned that the front was a Dana 44 when it should by all rights have been a Dana 60 in the F350. But the front GAWR was notably less than mine with a 60 in the front. But the rear, and overall GVWR numbers on his were quite higher than mine.
Bought his truck brand new at Swanson Ford in Los Gatos (long gone now) and outfitted it for what we now call overlanding. He and his pops were avid Alaska travelers and really outfitted that thing to the nth degree!

Paul

 

The 410 mercury marauder has wings built into it so the front is going to have that added lift.
"Mercury"

 

QUOTE=1TonBasecamp
My F350 with 8550 GVWR
My 1979 F250 4wd Camper Special had a GVW of 8400 and came with a catalytic perverter.

The extra "50" over and above the 8500 limit, let my truck leave the factory in '79 without a catalytic converter.
And the birth of the F-150, same reason.

Just more interesting differences to note in the different trucks.

Paul

 

1/13/2022
It looks like the bed should hold 2500 pounds.

I'm thinking your F-350 has fewer leafs but they will hold more weight than my '76.
I would think your's are thicker and wider than mine.

My '76 has 6 on the front and 9 in the rear. My '79 only had two in the front but they were wider than my on my '76.

Had I know what i know now when I bought my 1979 F-250 I would have bought a F-350.
I'll bet I busted 15+ of those stub axles and the I busted off the pinion gear in that front Dana 44.
That Dana 44 was the weak link in that 4wd.

 

I need to find me a couple of Mercury emblems.

 

Maybe clone your truck with the Mercury M250 badging. I think it would be really cool.

 

It would be even cooler if my truck was a Mercury.

 

It was the cars turn in the shop this evening.



Fortunately jut its regular 5000 mile oil filter change.


And then the trucks turn.
I'm letting the oil drain over night and in the morning the oil pan comes off for the last time.


This is what I am going to use for the side seals this time.
I will insert the vacuum hose up inside and literally back fill instead of trying to force it in from the outside.
I will Super Glue the hose to the cap and roll the tube like a tube of tooth paste forcing the silicone in.
It is way too hard to try and push the main cap in place with any seals on the sides of the main cap.


And I am soo confident that I am going to use good oil and a good oil filter this time.
Instead of the cheap Walmart 10w40 diesel oil and a POS low-life Fram oil filter.

I'm draining and refilling the engine coolant too. Ijust want it to be fresh.

3 previous tanks of gas, 9.7 mpg.
Last tank, 10 even.
I'm a happy camper right now.

 

For all you Facebook users.
Oil leak?? What oil leak??

 

"If it's not leaking oil, you best be checking the oil" is how I used to respond to those riding other bikes joking about a drop or two of oil under my Triumph or Norton. A buddy (was my Sgt. for years but he was retired by then) and I rode to Ohio for a multi-day MC race / swap meet / show event in June '98, he on his HD, me on my Gold Wing ... and we both had our wives. He got worried about a few drops of oil seen under his HD at a gas stop. I looked under it, saw no fresh oil drips. That same trip, we had just met a log truck on old US Rt 60 in a curve over just west of Rainelle where a jug of chain oil slid off the bed to bust in the road right in front of us, might have been some of that oil ... or it even might have been there when he parked at that gas pump. I told him but he was not happy ... so I told him my old line. Very next day, the first day of the event, they packed up and left for home back in Va. after breakfast at the motel caffe ... without us ...with no reason offered, just said he was going home. His wife told me later that he had spent the night sleeplessly worrying about it.

My wife and I rode home a day later, just us on our Gold Wing ... was in a heat wave ... using a Rt 50 and 33 to 11 based path. We missed their company that long hot ride home.

I guess that I should not have joked with him about that oil spot on the ground, I had no idea then the effect it would have on him, and it somewhat spoiled the whole trip for us all. But we all got home safely, so there was that. I guess the oil spot happening just a few hours after we met them to start out for Ohio at a local gas stop where his HD would not start and me riding to Walmart to get him a new battery, he just saw it as "a sign"? We lost him a few years afterward.