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gas or diesel, its going to drink alot of fuel, but who cares as long as you look cool doin it !!! Thats going to be a great truck to own, and with the crew cab you can drag all your family along for the ride.
I understand your dilemma regarding which way to go with the restoration, however, doing an 'as delivered' from Ford before being modified or up-fitted for railway use would be an best-case scenerio in my mind, at least till you build an removable camper body for the chassis.
Im just 'spit-balling' and I too would be all over the map with ideas but it is your truck now and as the current custodian of this historical artifact I know you make make it into the best original N-Series Crewcab it could possibly be.
Please continue adding photo's of everything you see that is currently there and as you progress with your upgrades.
Thank you for sharing with this enthusiastic audience.
Pete
thanks! Will take a while getting caught up on pics.
Finally restored installed Pallet jack fantastic for tire wheel remove/install Looks a “bit” different from as purchased. After a sandblast n PPG base clear the original wheels look fantastic! Hope i am qualified! 😆 Looks like 22nd wk of 1966. It matches perfect. Truck early junr 1966 and 22nd week of year in 1966 is May 30 to June 5 Fully restored Used NOS kit to tebuild. Way cool how it works.
Excellent progress. Did you paint the frame with the bed in place? Cool mini slick. Are you going to paint it?
Yes, first got underneath and did a full sandblast from cab back then same with paint. Plan is to pull the dump bed to finish up then do same to dump bed. Wood looks in great shape so will remove the 1/8" deck plate to see what top side of wood looks like. Flip it if I have to as excellent on bottom side. Still has the original red paint in nice shape just dirty.
Diff done & installed. Did some rearranging in shop to move F100Raptor to main shop then moved BigN Crew into side shop under it’s own power.
now to finish up brakes by adding master fresh built booster then bleed/adjust it all.
I like the wheel comparison. How did you restore the leaf springs? Did you use anything between the leaves when assembling? That old paint with the logo cleaned up nicely.
I like the wheel comparison. How did you restore the leaf springs? Did you use anything between the leaves when assembling? That old paint with the logo cleaned up nicely.
typically will use a ceramic coat in flat when natural color but these ones were black so just took them apart and did PPG base cleAr.
Those photo updates are awesome.
It must be exhilerating to see the transformation d uringthe chassis prep and paint, and, to realize that if the factory original lasted this long under all adverse conditions then how long will she survive now that she's getting real love.
She will be the stuff of many of our dreams.
Thank you for continued updates - Pete
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