I am not sure? if you get a chance could you post a picture of your steering box,
I probably will not be looking at this one until this weekend

 

So my transplanted 390 must have had prior head gasket issues before i got it, it appears the po had dumped some of that instant head gasket sealer in it. Well shes not got a head gasket leak, i pulled one of the heads and it looks like it was leaking at the water jacket at #1. If i take the heads off and have them machined if necessary, put some new gaskets on do you think that will take care of the problem? obviously if there is no cracks anywhere?

 

put a straight edge on the block and make sure you didn't warp the deck or anything bad like that you might want to get the heads machined a little more to bring up compression

 

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got this as a parts truck. Have not maid up my mind if i am going to swap parts or swap frames. Its a 75 f250. With what appears so far to be a good running 360, it fired right up. Not sure on the drive train yet, the transfer case does not want to stay in 4h, it stays in all other gears tho. I was also excited it came with the original owners manual.

 

a little progress

 

so it looks like u decided to put yer body on the f250 frame....... its comin along perdy good.....keep us posted

 

it's a little easier when you got a forklift to help ya out. Its also nice when your buddy owns the junk yard and hauls the crap away for me. I decided to just swap body's due to the fact i wanted the np205, and leaf springs up front. Tired of the coil springs. I am going to run the 360 that's in it and build the 390 out of the f100. Or if i can find a 460 c6 combo ill do that.

 

and on its new home

 

Got this from my friends junk yard, 78 f150 lariat trailer special, 351M. Going to grab some parts off it, somebody beat me to the tilt cruse wheel though. Everything else is there though.<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v645/mercilessantics/?action=view&current=1215091307.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/mercilessantics/1215091307.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a><a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v645/mercilessantics/?action=view&current=1215091317.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/mercilessantics/1215091317.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

 

I hat you Cali people with good parts everywhere lol. looks like a good build man

 

10.25 reay for install.





390 getting pulled apart again and rebuilt.

 

Matt you still got the lift from the 1/2 ton? You wanna sell it?

 

Ya, it is still sitting there. Coil springs, radius arm drop brackets, idler arm drop bracket, and some huge leafs for the rear.

 

If you weren't so far away I would go after that lift. I can only imagine what the shipping would be. The truck is coming along really nice man!

 

i may be interested in the lift as well. how much lift was it?
what do you want for it?