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Greetings from a new guy!
Good day all,
I just signed up this morning. I recently bought an 03 F250Ext Cab Super Duty 4wd with 5.4L A gasser wasn't my first choice, but I thought I might body swap it with a 96 Powerstroke when I pull the engine from that for rebuild. I was hoping it would be a simple swap, but from asking around it would need some "rocket surgery" & I'm not a good welder yet.
My 96 Powerstroke is a short bed, Ext Cab, with auto xmsn, & all electric amenities inside which still worked when the head gasket blew, followed by a high pressure fuel line. That made for an impressive sight on the drive home. It took 10 gallons of diesel to get me 10 miles to home & I mosquito-fogged three lanes of interstate highway behind me! Thank God my gut had told me to fill both tanks.
I also had a long-bed Ext Cab 96 Powerstroke with 5 spd xmsn & I learned the hard way about the need for a high quality aftermarket fuel filter unit with that one. I had a "mentor" who turned out to be a b-s artist & eventually had the truck disassembled enough to give up & part it out, after finding out he didn't know how to troubleshoot electrical systems...
I have an 89 F350 Crew Cab dually with IDI & standard xmsn. It's in my pasture "zoo" & will be my Pawpaw truck when I get the others rehabbed & sold. It has a light bar on the cab & was geared really low. I think my buddy got it from a highway dept auction or airport authority. He delivered portable buildings with it until his back & knees rebelled against wrassling with foundation blocks. I want to add Banks turbo & 4wd. I like the late 90s body style better than the Bullnose, but the latter won't be mistaken for a Powertroke by gangstas, as if they could drive a stick shift in this day & age.
Other projects: I have a 63 GMC SWB stepside 4wd with too much lift kit & Fred Flintstone floorboards, needing a frame-off resto; a chopped 72 4wd Suburban with 454; a 73 C-10 LWB fleetside; an 86 Jeep Cherokee, GM V6 with blown head gasket & an almost identical Cherokee, straight 6 with the Renix (Renault) engine electronics for parts. The Renix Cherokee tried to run when I hauled it off, but had a rod knocking like a sledge-a-matic. I was surprised it hadn't already grenade-ified itself. Early 70s Allis-Chalmers 5020, which I had thought was a Kubota with a 2-cyl diesel & 4wd.
An abandoned 10th year anniversary 280ZX which I tried to sell but could hardly give away. Speedboat with a massive Oldsmobile big block (the previous property owners son burned up the engine in everything they ever > > > wait for it > > > GAVE him, including a Smokey & the Bandit-style Firebird which they didn't leave.
All these projects are protecting weeds & insects in my pasture from heat prostration for now, but I'm retiring & still in halfway decent condition for resto work, I can make my grandkids do all the heavy lifting in exchange for adding their names to titles.
My wife has a 2017 Ram 1500 crew cab & we just learned the hard way that the modern Hemis are junk. They valve train started coming apart, but we parked it promptly to save our core charge. She had bought a 2015 Hyundai Tucson brand new & we got bit on that engine too. From now on I'm restoring old stuff without computers or crappy-alloyed rings & pins.
I have a 2017 FLHR with 25k mi for wind therapy. I'd have 50k on it if not for a couple of illnesses & injuries.
I have two first-generation Beechcraft Bonanzas, one flyable & one in restoration. Also a storm-damaged Cessna 172 in the barn waiting for TLC, & an obscure one-off homebuilt biplane project.
I probably shoulda called myself "yard art" or "fredsanford" instead of "dirtfarm!"
Cheers to all!
DF
I just signed up this morning. I recently bought an 03 F250Ext Cab Super Duty 4wd with 5.4L A gasser wasn't my first choice, but I thought I might body swap it with a 96 Powerstroke when I pull the engine from that for rebuild. I was hoping it would be a simple swap, but from asking around it would need some "rocket surgery" & I'm not a good welder yet.
My 96 Powerstroke is a short bed, Ext Cab, with auto xmsn, & all electric amenities inside which still worked when the head gasket blew, followed by a high pressure fuel line. That made for an impressive sight on the drive home. It took 10 gallons of diesel to get me 10 miles to home & I mosquito-fogged three lanes of interstate highway behind me! Thank God my gut had told me to fill both tanks.
I also had a long-bed Ext Cab 96 Powerstroke with 5 spd xmsn & I learned the hard way about the need for a high quality aftermarket fuel filter unit with that one. I had a "mentor" who turned out to be a b-s artist & eventually had the truck disassembled enough to give up & part it out, after finding out he didn't know how to troubleshoot electrical systems...
I have an 89 F350 Crew Cab dually with IDI & standard xmsn. It's in my pasture "zoo" & will be my Pawpaw truck when I get the others rehabbed & sold. It has a light bar on the cab & was geared really low. I think my buddy got it from a highway dept auction or airport authority. He delivered portable buildings with it until his back & knees rebelled against wrassling with foundation blocks. I want to add Banks turbo & 4wd. I like the late 90s body style better than the Bullnose, but the latter won't be mistaken for a Powertroke by gangstas, as if they could drive a stick shift in this day & age.
Other projects: I have a 63 GMC SWB stepside 4wd with too much lift kit & Fred Flintstone floorboards, needing a frame-off resto; a chopped 72 4wd Suburban with 454; a 73 C-10 LWB fleetside; an 86 Jeep Cherokee, GM V6 with blown head gasket & an almost identical Cherokee, straight 6 with the Renix (Renault) engine electronics for parts. The Renix Cherokee tried to run when I hauled it off, but had a rod knocking like a sledge-a-matic. I was surprised it hadn't already grenade-ified itself. Early 70s Allis-Chalmers 5020, which I had thought was a Kubota with a 2-cyl diesel & 4wd.
An abandoned 10th year anniversary 280ZX which I tried to sell but could hardly give away. Speedboat with a massive Oldsmobile big block (the previous property owners son burned up the engine in everything they ever > > > wait for it > > > GAVE him, including a Smokey & the Bandit-style Firebird which they didn't leave.
All these projects are protecting weeds & insects in my pasture from heat prostration for now, but I'm retiring & still in halfway decent condition for resto work, I can make my grandkids do all the heavy lifting in exchange for adding their names to titles.
My wife has a 2017 Ram 1500 crew cab & we just learned the hard way that the modern Hemis are junk. They valve train started coming apart, but we parked it promptly to save our core charge. She had bought a 2015 Hyundai Tucson brand new & we got bit on that engine too. From now on I'm restoring old stuff without computers or crappy-alloyed rings & pins.
I have a 2017 FLHR with 25k mi for wind therapy. I'd have 50k on it if not for a couple of illnesses & injuries.
I have two first-generation Beechcraft Bonanzas, one flyable & one in restoration. Also a storm-damaged Cessna 172 in the barn waiting for TLC, & an obscure one-off homebuilt biplane project.
I probably shoulda called myself "yard art" or "fredsanford" instead of "dirtfarm!"
Cheers to all!
DF
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Good day all,
I just signed up this morning. I recently bought an 03 F250Ext Cab Super Duty 4wd with 5.4L A gasser wasn't my first choice, but I thought I might body swap it with a 96 Powerstroke when I pull the engine from that for rebuild. I was hoping it would be a simple swap, but from asking around it would need some "rocket surgery" & I'm not a good welder yet.
My 96 Powerstroke is a short bed, Ext Cab, with auto xmsn, & all electric amenities inside which still worked when the head gasket blew, followed by a high pressure fuel line. That made for an impressive sight on the drive home. It took 10 gallons of diesel to get me 10 miles to home & I mosquito-fogged three lanes of interstate highway behind me! Thank God my gut had told me to fill both tanks.
I also had a long-bed Ext Cab 96 Powerstroke with 5 spd xmsn & I learned the hard way about the need for a high quality aftermarket fuel filter unit with that one. I had a "mentor" who turned out to be a b-s artist & eventually had the truck disassembled enough to give up & part it out, after finding out he didn't know how to troubleshoot electrical systems...
I have an 89 F350 Crew Cab dually with IDI & standard xmsn. It's in my pasture "zoo" & will be my Pawpaw truck when I get the others rehabbed & sold. It has a light bar on the cab & was geared really low. I think my buddy got it from a highway dept auction or airport authority. He delivered portable buildings with it until his back & knees rebelled against wrassling with foundation blocks. I want to add Banks turbo & 4wd. I like the late 90s body style better than the Bullnose, but the latter won't be mistaken for a Powertroke by gangstas, as if they could drive a stick shift in this day & age.
Other projects: I have a 63 GMC SWB stepside 4wd with too much lift kit & Fred Flintstone floorboards, needing a frame-off resto; a chopped 72 4wd Suburban with 454; a 73 C-10 LWB fleetside; an 86 Jeep Cherokee, GM V6 with blown head gasket & an almost identical Cherokee, straight 6 with the Renix (Renault) engine electronics for parts. The Renix Cherokee tried to run when I hauled it off, but had a rod knocking like a sledge-a-matic. I was surprised it hadn't already grenade-ified itself. Early 70s Allis-Chalmers 5020, which I had thought was a Kubota with a 2-cyl diesel & 4wd.
An abandoned 10th year anniversary 280ZX which I tried to sell but could hardly give away. Speedboat with a massive Oldsmobile big block (the previous property owners son burned up the engine in everything they ever > > > wait for it > > > GAVE him, including a Smokey & the Bandit-style Firebird which they didn't leave.
All these projects are protecting weeds & insects in my pasture from heat prostration for now, but I'm retiring & still in halfway decent condition for resto work, I can make my grandkids do all the heavy lifting in exchange for adding their names to titles.
My wife has a 2017 Ram 1500 crew cab & we just learned the hard way that the modern Hemis are junk. They valve train started coming apart, but we parked it promptly to save our core charge. She had bought a 2015 Hyundai Tucson brand new & we got bit on that engine too. From now on I'm restoring old stuff without computers or crappy-alloyed rings & pins.
I have a 2017 FLHR with 25k mi for wind therapy. I'd have 50k on it if not for a couple of illnesses & injuries.
I have two first-generation Beechcraft Bonanzas, one flyable & one in restoration. Also a storm-damaged Cessna 172 in the barn waiting for TLC, & an obscure one-off homebuilt biplane project.
I probably shoulda called myself "yard art" or "fredsanford" instead of "dirtfarm!"
Cheers to all!
DF
I just signed up this morning. I recently bought an 03 F250Ext Cab Super Duty 4wd with 5.4L A gasser wasn't my first choice, but I thought I might body swap it with a 96 Powerstroke when I pull the engine from that for rebuild. I was hoping it would be a simple swap, but from asking around it would need some "rocket surgery" & I'm not a good welder yet.
My 96 Powerstroke is a short bed, Ext Cab, with auto xmsn, & all electric amenities inside which still worked when the head gasket blew, followed by a high pressure fuel line. That made for an impressive sight on the drive home. It took 10 gallons of diesel to get me 10 miles to home & I mosquito-fogged three lanes of interstate highway behind me! Thank God my gut had told me to fill both tanks.
I also had a long-bed Ext Cab 96 Powerstroke with 5 spd xmsn & I learned the hard way about the need for a high quality aftermarket fuel filter unit with that one. I had a "mentor" who turned out to be a b-s artist & eventually had the truck disassembled enough to give up & part it out, after finding out he didn't know how to troubleshoot electrical systems...
I have an 89 F350 Crew Cab dually with IDI & standard xmsn. It's in my pasture "zoo" & will be my Pawpaw truck when I get the others rehabbed & sold. It has a light bar on the cab & was geared really low. I think my buddy got it from a highway dept auction or airport authority. He delivered portable buildings with it until his back & knees rebelled against wrassling with foundation blocks. I want to add Banks turbo & 4wd. I like the late 90s body style better than the Bullnose, but the latter won't be mistaken for a Powertroke by gangstas, as if they could drive a stick shift in this day & age.
Other projects: I have a 63 GMC SWB stepside 4wd with too much lift kit & Fred Flintstone floorboards, needing a frame-off resto; a chopped 72 4wd Suburban with 454; a 73 C-10 LWB fleetside; an 86 Jeep Cherokee, GM V6 with blown head gasket & an almost identical Cherokee, straight 6 with the Renix (Renault) engine electronics for parts. The Renix Cherokee tried to run when I hauled it off, but had a rod knocking like a sledge-a-matic. I was surprised it hadn't already grenade-ified itself. Early 70s Allis-Chalmers 5020, which I had thought was a Kubota with a 2-cyl diesel & 4wd.
An abandoned 10th year anniversary 280ZX which I tried to sell but could hardly give away. Speedboat with a massive Oldsmobile big block (the previous property owners son burned up the engine in everything they ever > > > wait for it > > > GAVE him, including a Smokey & the Bandit-style Firebird which they didn't leave.
All these projects are protecting weeds & insects in my pasture from heat prostration for now, but I'm retiring & still in halfway decent condition for resto work, I can make my grandkids do all the heavy lifting in exchange for adding their names to titles.
My wife has a 2017 Ram 1500 crew cab & we just learned the hard way that the modern Hemis are junk. They valve train started coming apart, but we parked it promptly to save our core charge. She had bought a 2015 Hyundai Tucson brand new & we got bit on that engine too. From now on I'm restoring old stuff without computers or crappy-alloyed rings & pins.
I have a 2017 FLHR with 25k mi for wind therapy. I'd have 50k on it if not for a couple of illnesses & injuries.
I have two first-generation Beechcraft Bonanzas, one flyable & one in restoration. Also a storm-damaged Cessna 172 in the barn waiting for TLC, & an obscure one-off homebuilt biplane project.
I probably shoulda called myself "yard art" or "fredsanford" instead of "dirtfarm!"
Cheers to all!
DF
that's a lot of fun you have and have worked on, good luck
wind therapy and reading FLHR means big V twin. a great ride, , just sold my long owned since 1974 , 61 FLH police special a h1/500 and h2/750 triple Kawasaki. widow makers . body has told me to old and broken to many times to ride in the wind, any more fly boy wise gone is my 68 m20d and the latest a colt 100 ls. a 70 Chevelle SS 454 ls6, a 64 C2 coupe basic of basics 327/250 4 spd, a superformance cobra with a stroked 427 miss all that,
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