84 150
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84 150
Well, first of all, hey everyone, I'm new here, but not to cars.
Anyway, Saturday I'm supposed to go to VT to help my b/f's sister out with her truck(s)
She currently has an 84 F!%) with a rotted bed, bad brakes and a bad gas tank. SHe is getting one with a mint body and "blown engine". My job is to swap the engines.
Now my questions...
1. What do you think the chances of them having the same engines are?
2. How much of a pain do you think it'll be if they have different engine?
3. What was the most common engine in the trucks?
Any help is appreciated. I'm taking the blown engine and tranny home with me. If it's a larger V8, it'll go in the 85 t-bird I'm getting, if it's a smaller engine, I'll probably save it for when I get a truck (I'm looking to get an early 80's 150 4X2 with a stepside bed in the future)
Anyway, Saturday I'm supposed to go to VT to help my b/f's sister out with her truck(s)
She currently has an 84 F!%) with a rotted bed, bad brakes and a bad gas tank. SHe is getting one with a mint body and "blown engine". My job is to swap the engines.
Now my questions...
1. What do you think the chances of them having the same engines are?
2. How much of a pain do you think it'll be if they have different engine?
3. What was the most common engine in the trucks?
Any help is appreciated. I'm taking the blown engine and tranny home with me. If it's a larger V8, it'll go in the 85 t-bird I'm getting, if it's a smaller engine, I'll probably save it for when I get a truck (I'm looking to get an early 80's 150 4X2 with a stepside bed in the future)
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well, here's what happened:
I got up to VT and had an 84 F150 as a donor and an 81 as the main truck. I also had a total of 3, 300ci engines to play with, the keeper with an auto and donor with a manual. Checked out the engine in the 81, seemed ok, but in DIRE need of a tune up. Tuned it up and it was ok.
This "mint" truck that I was told we had to pull parts of was total junk. It was a wiring nightmare for one (example: there was a light switch like you'd see on a wall in the house for the headlight switch). Only thing we're taking from it is the gas tank and bed.
Note to self, never take the word of someone who doesn't know cars that something is "MINT" though how anybody could think that truck was mint is well beyond my understanding...
Now I have 2 engines just chilling in storage. One will get rebuilt and dumped in to whatever I buy for a truck, and the other, who knows, maybe a strange project down the road?
I got up to VT and had an 84 F150 as a donor and an 81 as the main truck. I also had a total of 3, 300ci engines to play with, the keeper with an auto and donor with a manual. Checked out the engine in the 81, seemed ok, but in DIRE need of a tune up. Tuned it up and it was ok.
This "mint" truck that I was told we had to pull parts of was total junk. It was a wiring nightmare for one (example: there was a light switch like you'd see on a wall in the house for the headlight switch). Only thing we're taking from it is the gas tank and bed.
Note to self, never take the word of someone who doesn't know cars that something is "MINT" though how anybody could think that truck was mint is well beyond my understanding...
Now I have 2 engines just chilling in storage. One will get rebuilt and dumped in to whatever I buy for a truck, and the other, who knows, maybe a strange project down the road?
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Originally Posted by Samsonitesamsonite
I'd buy it if you built it 
That would be a killer project though. One of those 300's will be put in to a truck and turboed, that's for sure
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