close your eyes. think purple, primer, and rust. then think, po changed the valve covers 1 year ago, and diddn't use gaskets. metal to metal.whole bottom of truck is drooling oil,front to back, had to park it on cardboard. has ceramic coated full length headers though.oh, and the front grill and surrond are perfect.

 

Howdy Mary's Land. Just figured out I need a front tank. Dusty, remember you buying a tank recently, how much did you say it was?

 

except for the headers and the perfect front end-it sounds like my 90 F150

 

bought it from rock auto, up top in the sponsors,just click on them then do a serch on your truck. was $112 delivered to my door 4 days later in the big brown truck. came with a new o ring, and lock ring. if I had it to do over, I would order the new straps to go with it.I used rust encapsulater from eastwood on it too. it's galvinized, but I want it to out last me.

 

I bet more than the whole 78 ~~~~

 

no way dude. a paint job, and your truck will be a great truck. a paint job on this, and it will be a painted pos. best part, I found out today from the guy's buddy, he paid $2900 for the pos last year on ebay. one born every day. huh?

 

told ya it was more than the 78~~outlast you old timer? is that why you quit smoking?

 

Thanks Dusty. I figured on doing new rubber at least, straps probably aren't that much more. Now all I need is the money to buy it.

 

still sounds like my 1990 F150 leaks more oil than it holds

 

mabeeeee..... hehehehe

 

yeah don't we all if i had money -mine would be in the body shop painted and leak NO oil

 

male stripper?

I don't think you read the part about he used no gaskets, or sealants to instal the valve covers. he drove 10 miles to and from work, and used 6 qts a day.the truck has been here 2 days, and filled up 2 sheets of card board. probaly comeing home with it on the roll back in the rain, it left an oil slick everywhere we went

 

oil leak can be fixed at your buddy's house in about 1 hr, bring it on by big boy. paint could happen too, better hurry though, atns are comeing and you need to get the "most improved" trophy

 

oil slick ---yup sounds like my truck Exxon reps were following me the other day -thinking of painting Exxon Valdez on the side of it
poor wildlife