started Duraspark conversion

 

Put the key in and drove the kid and me to the L park to see wife and get a chile dog and watch a little bit of the LL Base ball(Dan fine dogs)
now on Sunday and Mondy (sucks getting old) I did the back brakes
and tried to put the new Ebrake cable on(what a joke).Its like 2-3 ins short.Went back to the zone and it only showed 1 app for the truck.

 

brakes....you doan need no stinkin brakes

 

Only really need front brakes. None of my F-150's have had great rears. I never replace the cables needed for the auto adjust, and forget to manually adjust until it gets to the point my fronts lock and my backs don't do a thing.

 

yup, i live in those dorms now and as a matter of fact that first pic is in cts.

i am a 2t2 air trans. 721 APS

 

today?
i went from;


to this:



the factory had put 3" single pipe. it also had 30" turbo style muffle with dual 2" tail pipes and 24" cat.
. yes! the pipe's is 2" from muffler to right before the tip where it is 2 1/2" tips. so I installed a complete ford factory 3-1/2" single pipe with it 22" straight through muffler and a 10 ' cat, that I found on a ford 1 ton truck in the wrecking yard.
now this is what ford should have had on my 1995 F250 S/C 460 truck!

 

Our old 85 F150 had the rectracable hood light on it. The GM light is a secondary light with a switch on it. I like the GM one better because of the on/off switch and the fact that it has a manual reel to retract the cord. The Ford one had a spring loaded / tension type retractor similar to a seat belt and sometimes its hard to get it to retract.

 

I always like the look of the factory side exit duals. The setup you have now probably sounds better and flows better, so thats a neat swap.

 

It's not about what I did to my truck today, so much as what I'll be able to do to it in the future:



Blew all the money I saved this winter from snow removal, but that's what I was working for in the first place, so it's all good. Definitely an upgrade from the crapomatic Chinese flux box on the right.

 

Psycho-bang-bang, nice toys! Is the Hobart a plasma cutter? And that mig should be sufficient for quite alot of things, maybe even frame repair - I got a 175 Lincoln but I rarely go over the 2nd lowest power setting (70 amps), and I weld all sorts of 1/4" thick steel pieces like that.

As for my truck progress, I rearranged my forward-facing lighting, actually its controls - until now I had a manual switch on the dash for the overhead lights and a "panic" switch on the floor that fires both the overheads and the bumper lights, however there have been times where I wanted to have the bumper lights on (they shoot till like the next county over) but having the overheads on with them is illegal on public roads. So I played with the harnesses and switch things around a bit - now the dash switch triggers just the bumper lights, and the foot switch still fires both the bumper and the overhead lights. I don't have a separate switch for the overheads alone, but I've never been in a situation where I needed the overheads without the bumper lights, so it's all good right now. However, I do have a switch on my dash that I do not use right now, so one of these days I may wire that up for the overheads alone - not too likely tho, as the wiring for everything I have is already kinda nightmarish (even tho it's perfectly logical and decently arranged)...

And right now I got the bumper lights bezels drying after getting painted, they were chrome but they started rusting out so I went to town on them with the roloc sanding wheels

 

the hobart is a welder. and very nice upgrade if i do say so myself. if i get somethin old, itll be an old lincoln red face. if its new, anything hobart will do.

 

how much was that, if you dont mind my askin?

 

$669 from Northern Tool, but free shipping. Anywhere else for that same unit, if the base price was cheaper, tax and shipping made it more.

I'd love to get a Hobart Air Force plasma cutter, but I'm very broke now.

 

I need a welder and need to learn how to weld haha. I got some stuff to practice on and can't wait till I decide to buy one. Yea that statement sounds weird, but whatever.

Today I spotted what seems to be the rear main seal leaking. Oh well. That'll get replaced whenever the tranny has to come down.

The other day the truck made me $50 dumping a washer and dryer and four rims at the scrap yard

 

corrosion assessment