77 f250 highboy
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77 f250 highboy
was driving down the road today and sitting 20' off edge of country road with grass up to the bottom of the doors was a 77 f250 so i stopped to see if the person who owned it was interested in selling it because i am looking for a frame to sand blast and get ready for my perfect cab and dog house. a lady came to the door and said that she would sell it to me for the price of scrap so i decided to take a look when i crawled through the weeds and under neath the truck i saw the divorced transfer case and realized it was a highboy she said that she just drove it around the farm until the carburator started leaking and parked it so i popped the hood to and to my surprise there was a very nice 351m that was immaculate clean with no oil leaks. i was kind of impressed considering the the rest of the truck very badly rusted. the frame is in very good shape and the running gears look to be in good shape. my question is do i want to go with the highboy chassis or 79 f250 regular 4x4 chassis what do you guys think? She also said she has power steering conversion kit. I want to build a f250 4x4 with a/c and cruise control. i have always had 78 or 79 f250's am i going to have any trouble finding parts.
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I'd go with the 77 chassis. The only differences I'd prefer to have from a 78/9 over the 77 is the Power steering and the HP front axle. That being said, the 44 that's in the 77 will hold up just fine, and the control valve in the 77 is 30+ years old...of course it's gonna have issues. The control valve really is pretty decent when new or refurbished. So even though I'd prefer those couple of things, I think the difference is negligible and certainly wouldn't keep me from using the 77.
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Not sure if you're planning a lift or not but if you are the early year '77 chassis already sits approx. 4" higher than the '78/'79 chassis (depending on spring fatigue), that will keep an extra thousand bucks or more in your pocket and not spent on a lift kit.
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