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09-26-2007, 05:08 PM
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Hi all - MT member here
Well I have posted and received a bunch of help from various users, and i thought to post an intro thread for the HP chapter - BTW I have requested to join!...
So I have some pics in my gallery, and I will add to that with a story. I posted most of this in another thread a few weeks ago, but here it is for you HP'ers.
Bio: Saw the ad in the paper for a 1975 XLT Ranger, 4x4, manual, and it was out of town on a farm/ranch. I drove 1-1/2 to check it out and on first impression it was in pretty good shape - rough, and a project, but definitely road-worthy with some work. It belonged to the original owner - a cattle rancher/farmer near Big Timber, MT. He had it parked (sitting not running) next to his barn for the last 6 yrs or so, after he swapped the motor out of a 1972 390 (from a 360). It had been infested with mice/rodents who had pissed and crapped everywhere they could (I have a couple of pics I need to post) and it stunk and was filthy. He had hauled it in on a 5th wheel trailer, and wheeled it off into my driveway with no brakes and less than 4 lug bolts on each wheel. There was NO passengers side brake hardware. The title was from 1975 and the state was confused...lol. No rust (very little surface rust in some areas) on any of the typical F series panels and corners, and the body is a little rough from bumping into fence posts and cows. But, it's an XLT Ranger with all the options, a real 'Highboy' model, and it was a special order DSO from Canada. Everything works pretty well, it's not hard to gut the interior. I need to replace a set of front leaf springs and the passengers side has a knock (it's a lifter or a wristpin). But it started right up after giving some gas to the carb. Hope to get lots of use out of it. It runs right now, I installed a manual choke, and I am still in the process of putting the interior back together - looking for some bucket style seats in black or grey if anyone wants to sell them to me. I need to have the brakes fully adjusted at a shop, because I replaced ALL the hardware on each wheel, adjusted, bled, but they still are strange - pedal goes to the floor before I get any stopping action. I also just picked up a NOS set of parking brake cables from eBay which will be installed here shortly. Anyway thats probably a pretty good bio - maybe one of these days the HP chapter can meet up for a day of fun. Oh and I only live a few blocks away from another member, Kenny (YoungMT Hick) so I see his truck and his Dad's pretty often - hope he is handling basic OK. L8tr!
Mike
Mike
So I have some pics in my gallery, and I will add to that with a story. I posted most of this in another thread a few weeks ago, but here it is for you HP'ers.
Bio: Saw the ad in the paper for a 1975 XLT Ranger, 4x4, manual, and it was out of town on a farm/ranch. I drove 1-1/2 to check it out and on first impression it was in pretty good shape - rough, and a project, but definitely road-worthy with some work. It belonged to the original owner - a cattle rancher/farmer near Big Timber, MT. He had it parked (sitting not running) next to his barn for the last 6 yrs or so, after he swapped the motor out of a 1972 390 (from a 360). It had been infested with mice/rodents who had pissed and crapped everywhere they could (I have a couple of pics I need to post) and it stunk and was filthy. He had hauled it in on a 5th wheel trailer, and wheeled it off into my driveway with no brakes and less than 4 lug bolts on each wheel. There was NO passengers side brake hardware. The title was from 1975 and the state was confused...lol. No rust (very little surface rust in some areas) on any of the typical F series panels and corners, and the body is a little rough from bumping into fence posts and cows. But, it's an XLT Ranger with all the options, a real 'Highboy' model, and it was a special order DSO from Canada. Everything works pretty well, it's not hard to gut the interior. I need to replace a set of front leaf springs and the passengers side has a knock (it's a lifter or a wristpin). But it started right up after giving some gas to the carb. Hope to get lots of use out of it. It runs right now, I installed a manual choke, and I am still in the process of putting the interior back together - looking for some bucket style seats in black or grey if anyone wants to sell them to me. I need to have the brakes fully adjusted at a shop, because I replaced ALL the hardware on each wheel, adjusted, bled, but they still are strange - pedal goes to the floor before I get any stopping action. I also just picked up a NOS set of parking brake cables from eBay which will be installed here shortly. Anyway thats probably a pretty good bio - maybe one of these days the HP chapter can meet up for a day of fun. Oh and I only live a few blocks away from another member, Kenny (YoungMT Hick) so I see his truck and his Dad's pretty often - hope he is handling basic OK. L8tr!
Mike
Mike
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03-17-2008, 08:07 AM
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I'm from Glendive, by the way i have a rancher friend that is looking for a 65 to 72 --4X4 ford 3/4 ton pickup to install a flat bed and bale feeder on . Hopefully with a 300 -6 cyl. engine.I've been checkin around Glendive but have not had to much luck as these trucks are a bit on the old side. LOL like me. Randy
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