A long time FTE, Vic is from Riverside and has an 01 SuperDuty with a 7.3, among other toys.

Glad to have you aboard, Vic

 

Woo thanks!

Here's a little intro to the vehicles we have..


Vehicle information cause that's what everyone is interested in..


Wife's 4x4:
1987 Ford Bronco
Mods: Solid Axle swap with 9" coil springs, Dana 44 up front and Ford 9" in the rear. on 40" boggers. 1996 351w motor swap with a 78 C6 trans completely rebuilt with a jr shift kit installed. The SAS is actually 98% completed. Need to weld a couple things.. Should be done next week..
Here's a pic of it from Azusa Canyon in January before we did the SAS



My 4x4 (need to fix some things on it)
1979 Ford Bronco
400 with a C6. 4" lift on 35" BFG MT's. I picked it up for $500 bucks. Fixing some things on it then I'll smog/tag it.. Haven't done much to it since I'm working on the wife's rig. Not much to look at, but for 500 bucks I'm pretty stoked with it. Can't wait to wheel it.



Family vehicle / Wife's Daily driver / Tow & Recovery Rig
2001 Ford F250
7.3L Turbo Diesel. 6" on 37" Pro comp extreeme AT's. PO's set it up for towing a 5th wheel. It has the EGT/Trans/Manifold preasure gauges, Toque converter lock, turbo timer, after market deep sump trans pan, and the knarly bumpers.. My buddies call it the "Urban Assult Vehicle"
This is it at Azusa


My daily driver is a 2007 Yamaha R1..



My wife has her own sportbike. It's an 2005 Yamaha R6.



So ya.. That's us in a nutshell..

 

I'll give you $550 for the '79 right now















You stole it!!

 

Brand new 35" BFG MT's, 4" lift kit and brand new body mount bushings.

Darn right I stole it..

2 negative things about it.. $400 in back registration fees and it was not running on more then 4 cylinders.

Registration - There's a place in Temecula that does car registration. They know all the tricks and what not with the DMV. They're going to bring it up to current non op status for $100

Engine - rebuilt the carb (Found 1 side was completely clogged). Changed the cap/rotor and plugs. Thing purs like a kitten now. Has an idle issue, but It's due to not adjusting anything on the carb after the rebuild and I'm pretty sure the old vacuum hoses need to be repalced. No biggie I have replacement vacuum line waiting to go in.

So total I have roughly 600 into it so far. Purchase of the bronco, gas to pick it up and tow it home and parts..

I want to do more but the wife has made it clear I am to get her bronco fixed before I mess with mine.

 

Smart woman - sounds like she knows just how to motivate you.

 

Ya. Makes me wish I wouldn't have done the SAS.. I've been working on her bronco forever now.

Plus I've been trying to track down a high idle issue on her bronco. I'm hoping the TPS I bought yesterday fixes that..

Oh.. I also have to change the clockspring on the F250..

*sigh* my poor bronco just has to keep waiting.. But it's ok cause I knew it was going to be like this when I bought it.I just wanted to get it in my back yard so no one else can buy it. Didn't want to miss on the deal of the year!

 

Is your cruise control kicking off?

 

No horn
No cruise control
Airbag code 32

 

You should take pics and do a write-up on it. I was looking for a thread on it for one of our chapter members the other day but couldn't find one.

 

I know.. Searching is a pain..

Someone has done a write up on it.. Let me find it..

 

I don't know if I have a setting wrong of if the search on this forum sucks.. I do a search and the results are all out of whack.. The newest response was yesterday but it was second on the list..

Here's a PDF to it.

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/hootbro/Clockspring.pdf

Here's a writeup on how to remove the steering wheel

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...l-removal.html

 

7.3 and Super Duty are tough forums to search in. Probably because there are sooo many threads and the title doesn't always jive with the content.

Thanks - I'll pass those on to Bob.

 

Exactly..

The clockspring is $76 at Kragen/O'riley's

It looks like it's a simple thing to do. I'm going to change the wife's on friday night. I would do it tonight but have to return a bottle of argon to a buddy.

 

It doesn't look too bad - I'd sure rather do it myself than pay someone to do it.

 

Howdy Vic. I like your toyz!