Salter check out 75 F350's Photo bucket pics if he'll let you. They're awesome. 160+ of em too.

You're gonna need another shower afterwards.

 

75F350, Ed I remember you now, you gave me some info when I did the power steering conversion on the 76, I did end up breaking it by the way just like you said I would, it lasted long enough though, well what do you say, can I check out your photobucket album ? if you don't want to post it up you can e-mail me the info at rsalter66@yahoo.com, thanks for all the input guys, I have this same topic on about 4 different forums and I got the best info on here

 

I'm nowhere near the level to build at this stage. But just wanted to throw out the though of what if you use a short bed on a long be frame, after you move the front clip & cab back, wouldn't it be more easier than cutting up a long bed to fit the off set frame. Just wanted to add to your progress thoughts.

Mitch

 

No problem guys I leave my photobucket open for all to view.
Dont look at too much at one time,,,,,
Sart here and cruise around:
Image of The boyz waitin to play - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

 

Mitch:

Thats a very good question, and it has many answers. In my area short beds fetch the big bucks, so destroying one is not the cool thing to do. The other side of this is that often the entire bed has to be cut, so even this would destroy a short bed. Typically these trucks are not assembled with nice pieces, they are assembled with some junk that does not make the grade or has some damage already. I pick up junk parts for almost free, and dont mind hanging a wrinkled fender on a truck that will eventually find itself upside down. These are not show vehicles, they play, and play hard. WHile I appreciate the guy that restores these things I too have a passion for these trucks, but my vision is a little different. Call it crazy, but I build all sorts of different things, and they typically revolve around the dentside body style. You will notice that I really love 79 trucks. Any year truck gets a 79 grille. If I had to choose between a double cheeseburger or a 79 grille shell, that day I would go hungry. I am not a little guy, so I can afford to miss a meal, but I will not pass up a 79 front end, lol.
Back on topic, the bedsides that we usually cut up, have either terrible rust, or have been wrecked somehow. See we cut so mush away that usually we cut out tha bad and what remains appears to be alright. At least that is until we roll the truck, or the mud simply tears a panel clean off. Then we head out to the junk yard, or find a wrecked truck, and find parts. They may not look pretty, but we keep these things alive, and you should see our numbers when we attack a mud hole. Darn dentside fords everywhere,
Kind of makes me smile.
See:

 

DENT-****!!!!

 

75F350, I have a question on the exhaust routing. Is that fenderwell headers with exhaust running outside the frame and then curving up to exit in front of the wheelwell of the bed? What size is the pipe in the pic? Any muffler? Thanks.

 

Ed (75F350), as I said before, it is refreshing to talk to you on this matter,
" YOU GET IT !!" I am not taking something worth restoring and destroying it,
I am using up left overs from my 78 Bronco build, which was going to be my main wheeling rig,
but it is turning out so nice I don't want to destroy it




I used my 76 for parts so this is whats left




but it has a great drive-train left in it with a strong running 390



so instead of junking it, I am going to build a very capable wheeler / mud buggy out of it

I did look over your photobucket page of dent-side ****, very nice indeed ,
well I have to go for now, but I look forward to coming back to this thread,
thank you very much...Rick

 

Here's a couple from my 78 I had:




I have a ton of these. I was going to do a frame up restore, but found my 78 I own now.

 

Thanks, those are good shots, the reason I started this thread was because
I had people on other forums telling me this was going to be hard to do,
some were saying the frames get wider behind the cab , blah.blah.blah, etc,
I don't have mine stripped down yet and won't be starting it until the spring time ,
so I was looking for pictures to prove them wrong and prove to them it can be done easily,
I was really getting perplexed at all the negativity that I was getting on this idea on other forums,
now I have had my issues with this site in the past,
but I am glad I decided to stop by and post this here..!!
because then along comes my new hero 75F350 (Ed) and just shut all those naysayers down,
I can't thank him enough, plus he has some pretty good ford **** there
I used to be a Chevy man but the doctor gave me some ointment to put on that and it went away
as you can see by my new tattoo I am now a FORD MAN ALL THE WAY!!

it is a tattoo of my own design so I think its the shiz-nit
I tried to clear it up a little bit so you could see it better?
here is my tattoo guys rendering

well I am really diggin this thread, lets keep it going, Thanks..Rick

 

That is absolutely correct sir.
It is 3" pipe, and it has a muffler. At that time it used an Ultra-flo round 16" 3"in to 3" out.

 

I have a tat, but I'd have to say that one is a bit much for me. That'd be like me gettinga tat of a computer on my arm

 

well tattoos are something that are and not for everyone, and all have a different meaning to that individual who has them,
mine represents my love of building bad *** vehicals, and my new love of Fords,
I have a Dragon on my other shoulder that I got about 10 years ago that represents the demons in my life
I plan on getting a lot more and hopefully getting two full sleeves done
I am not sure I understand the computer comment? but hey. to each his own, no harsh feelings here if you don't care for it

 

Hi Rick, I remember you from the midmad forum. Still messing with those ek-4's?
Anyways good luck with your truck and when you start your project start a thread (probably in the offroad forum?) so we can watch your progress.

 

Thanks Ed (75F350)! Keep us up to date Rick!