If you do decide to fix her up, be sure to take the tires off the rims and check them before you drive it again. You would be surprised how many wheels are damaged in rollovers and don't even show it. Curbs and ditches can have a nasty effect on wheels.

Please keep a photo journal of your work. It might inspire some of us to save a wounded truck.

Doug

 

I go to vo tech for machining,but the auto body shop has a fram machine up there, and i'm good friends with the teacher so I will definately be having it put on there to get checked out.

Bolts will definately be getting labled and bagged, i have been looking for those little plastic cabinents with all the pull out drawers but none of the stores around have them.

It definately did, when we put the new cab on, we will be building a roll cage in it. Sorry, but after that ride i'm not taking chances.

I will be keeping a photo journal, i learned how much it actually means to you from helping a friend restore a 1969 Mach 1 mustang that we just finished this past summer after working on it for 9 years.

 

Work will be starting shortly, but i need to find a heater so we can melt some of this snow off of my truck and take the chill off so we can actually work on it. Found one in the paper, should be going and getting it tomorrow or the next day.

 

You were really lucky! Last year we had an ice storm and I had to let my truck roll up over a curb and drive two wheels on the road, two on the sidewalk to avoid several cars that spun around in front of me. I had zero traction, no way to stop or go, and just enough space to avoid disaster. It was my 2x4 auto trans so I didn't brake and dropped it into 1st to just let the gears slow me to a stop with almost no use of brakes because I was already starting to go sideways and the brakes would have spun me around also. As for the roof, roll bar is a great idea that I was considering myself for my 4x4. Unfortunately these older trucks are heavy and their roofs can't really support their weight. My friend fabricated his own roll bar inside the cab behind his seat using some steel pipe that he bolted in. In your case it would have probably been just enough to help the back section keep it's shape, which would have been better than the scary scene you went through.

 

We got the hood and both doors ope. I realize the doors aren't importan to get open when tearing down the truck but it made me feel better. The hood was stuck shut pretty good, pried out the one fender and my buddy yankerd her open. Started undoing bed bolts but dad came out to the garage and told me it was to late that i needed to go to bed since i hve school this morning. We should have the bed off tonight. Will take more pictures.

 

Got the bed off tonight.


Whats the easiest way to take the front end off? Someone told me to unbolt the readiator support from the frame, then the fenders from the cab and unattach all the stuff bolted to the fenders and i can lift off the hood and all. What's your opinion?

 

 

Is your frame green? lol

good luck, look likes you have a nice place to work on it too.

 

Yes, it Hot Rod Green. My plan was to do the undercarriage and stuff in hot rod green, hten paint the truck black. Now i dunno what I am going to do.

The garage isn't bad. 32x32 pole barn with cement floors. No insulation, wind blows right through it. But I finally found a used kerosene torpedo heater i can afford, so its a lot nicer in there now. I just wish the garage had another stall in it. Right now i have my truck sitting where dads should be.

 

You really respect your dad. GOOD MAN!

 

i had a 93 that was totaled like yours, sold it to my buddy (worst move i ever made) He fixed it up really nice. now i see him driving my truck around and i want to cry. on the positive side, i got to buy the truck i wanted because of the crash. 95 F-150, 105.000miles, 4x4, 300i6, m5od. gotta love them tractor motors!

Ryan

 

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!!!

Worked well past teh midnight hour last nihgt, i ended up having to work during the day, then plowing about about a miles worth of driveways with 8" of slush on them. I didn't get started on the truck until almost 5 o clock at night.

 

 

Wow, man, that doesnt look good. But it does look like ur frame is good. Thats a plus. Take the day off today lol.

 

We did, tomorrow i'm going to look at a couple different cabs and talk prices to see what i can do.... i didn't realize fenders were so expensive at $110 a side......