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Ladies and gents! Just showing face. I’ve owned my crew cab for about 6 years now. Spent the last five living abroad, and just returned from an 8 month deployment, quite a bit to get done so I’ll be asking and searching. Here’s Babs (Barbara Ann), she’s a 1974 F250 4x4, NP435/205 divorced, D60-4.10’s front and back, non-disc, with a ‘66 390 Ci engine (C6ME-A).
Just finished the following: New drive shafts (F/R), All fluids flushed and changed, Holley rebuilt, T-Stat, new aux gauges (dead after a year of being overseas), fuel lines/filters, and EVERY light bulb on board.
She’s getting a smidge of rust around the drivers door (front corner), passenger side front door (aft corner), and the drivers side fender bottom at the mounts.
What’s the popular opinion, new door skins and fenders or cut, patch, sand, blend paint?
If it can be sanded and blended, I would go that route for sure...but I would address the rust spots immediately! Maybe even just sand down to bare metal then clear&cut, then decide on the next step!? Just my $.02
Hello, was looking to replace my fuel tank sending unit in my rear poly fuel tank. Not having any luck finding it due to the plastic tank being approximately 25 1/2 gallons. All parts stores only list a 19 gallon steel tank for that truck. Has anyone ever run into this problem and were you able to find the sender?. My second plan was to replace the fuel tank with the steel one. Was told that our early 90s F350 Cab and chassis aft tank would fit the crew cab. Would appreciate any insite into this situation. Thank you. This is the sending from the aft tank.
Hi all,
I bought a crew cab and love it.
its the biggest car i ever owned.
In Holland the avarage car is half the size and weight.
1 cilinder of the 460 has more cubic inches then the complet 3 cilinder engine in my daily driver :-)
I saw from another post that you said it's a 1977 model year truck, but I see it has a 78/79 front grille and hood. Also, with it being a longbed truck and 4x4 it looks like someone converted it to be 4x4 since longbed 4x4 crew cabs were not produced by the factory in these years. You certainly have a rare find in your area!
I saw from another post that you said it's a 1977 model year truck, but I see it has a 78/79 front grille and hood. Also, with it being a longbed truck and 4x4 it looks like someone converted it to be 4x4 since longbed 4x4 crew cabs were not produced by the factory in these years. You certainly have a rare find in your area!
More pictures would be fantastic to see
Hi Maddogjohnson,
you are 100% correct.
I had a lot of papers with the truck and found 1 from Ford Customer Services.
it is build 6 juli 1977 as a 400 CID 4x4 crew cab shortbed in Light Blue :-)
so the truck is completely according factory standard, except grill,hood,engine,color,interior and long bed
I learned a lot taday about my truck.
i love to drive it, it is a bid on the long side for Holland, need 2 parking spots and almost the whole width of my side of the road.
Well it been about 9 months since I bought my crew cab and decided that I would tear it apart and fix what I didn’t like. Ditched the stock axles and picked up some 2014 superduty axles with the big brakes and elocker. Stripped the steering and suspension from the truck. Then proceeded to build a new suspension and steering from scratch. It will have King coil overs on the front with triple bypasses and the rear has Deaver spring under axle long travel leafs (G2HD link killers) with 3.0 triple bypasses. 2.5” diameter x2.75” travel bumpstops at all 4 corners. Still has the stock straight 6 in it but after the suspension I will repower it with something else. Been thinking 6.2 all aluminum ls3. This was the steering set up when I bought the truck. 20” drag bar and camero steering box with welded pitman arm, heim joints with single sheer. Scary stuff! Double bobbed the bed. Took 30” out of it. 24” before the rear axle and 6 behind it. As it sits right now. Waiting for shocks. 12-16 weeks.
Well it been about 9 months since I bought my crew cab and decided that I would tear it apart and fix what I didn’t like. Ditched the stock axles and picked up some 2014 superduty axles with the big brakes and elocker. Stripped the steering and suspension from the truck. Then proceeded to build a new suspension and steering from scratch. It will have King coil overs on the front with triple bypasses and the rear has Deaver spring under axle long travel leafs (G2HD link killers) with 3.0 triple bypasses. 2.5” diameter x2.75” travel bumpstops at all 4 corners. Still has the stock straight 6 in it but after the suspension I will repower it with something else. Been thinking 6.2 all aluminum ls3. This was the steering set up when I bought the truck. 20” drag bar and camero steering box with welded pitman arm, heim joints with single sheer. Scary stuff! Double bobbed the bed. Took 30” out of it. 24” before the rear axle and 6 behind it. As it sits right now. Waiting for shocks. 12-16 weeks.
I love this build. Our trucks could be siblings. Waiting on Shocks is the worst right now with Covid delays.
I love this build. Our trucks could be siblings. Waiting on Shocks is the worst right now with Covid delays.
funny thing is I ordered the rear shocks and it took forever and they came wrong. I wanted overlapping and I got staggered. Unfortunately staggered isn’t optimal for leafs. Now I have to wait it out again🤦🏼
Has anyone tried the side mounted plastic tank Bronco graveyard sells or determined what fits a 79 F250 4wd crew cab? Mine looks like it might have some part of the strap that held it but otherwise I have nothing to go on.
This is the tank I was looking at it says fits some crew cabs.
I have had this truck for many years. Having kids young put a damper on things, and I never really got around to doing much to it. I did have the engine completely rebuilt a long time ago, but not miles ago. Was a daily driver for a couple of years when I was in construction. Even though I didnt have the time or money, I refused to let it go.
Now my youngest kid is a senior in high school, and I have some more time and money than in the past, I have been going through the old girl and bringing it back to life. It will never be a "show truck" or anything, but I do love it. Probably going to paint it this year, black and white scheme, that will be unique, but hopefully look like it might have been factory when done.
1978 F250 Crewcab Custom, with the 351 M400 engine. Edelbrock 750 cab, which may be oversized, but its the only one that seems to give it enough. I posted here a while back, I think, but wanted to give some photos. Going to reprime and sand the whole thing down soon, and get going on the paint when it warms up a bit.
Going to go back to the original mirrors before paint, and have a bunch of other things to do. Put a couple of before and after pics of some things I did already.
