Warranty Number F35YK780914

WB 132

COLOR M

MODEL F350

BODY E81

TRANS A

AXLE 22

GVW 10000

CERT NET HP 172

RPM 4000

DSO 547382


This is on the 66 in my sig. It has been stuck in the mud for about 10 years. Just fired it up pulled it out and drove it 100 miles home the other day. Other than a little cancer on the floor the cab is sound. I am thinking it may be to good to part out. So I am thinking of cleaning it up and selling it as I have to many rigs here and people are complaining. It has Custom Cab trim on the doors but only has the red and chrome side trim on the hood. Doors aint even drilled for it. is this right?

 

Well Bill don't seem to be around. Hope he is just taking a break and is okay. Anyone else decode the above numbers? I am most interested in the DSO numbers. The more I look this 66 over the more I want to work on it. I got to overhaul the 4v Holly and replace a couple brake lines is all to get it drivable. Even through I just drove it 100 miles home the other day. It ran bad cuz of the carb and had no brakes. Will any other carb fit the intake without an adapter? I know when I take the Holly apart the cork gaskets will be shrunk and shot. And I have yet to get a holly kit up here that did not have theses gaskets shrunk up from sitting on the self to long. Is there anything to soak them in to soften them up some?

 

Any square bore carb, my 390 has a edelbrok but i bet your is 2bbl?

 

Naa. It's a big 4v Bud. The 427 in my sig. of course I need to drop the pan and take some measurements to be sure. Anyone decode the numbers for me yet please

 

edelbrocks are eaiser to tune and hold a tune better than holleys but i think holleys perfrom better and have way more go fast parts.

 

Hi arctic...Heres the info ...

F35= F350 1 ton conventional cab truck
Y= 352 V8 engine
K= Kansas City assy. plant
780914=Nov. 1965 build date, 1966 model year truck

WB= 132..wheelbase in inches
Color= M= Wimbeldon white
Model= F350= 1 ton truck with 10000# GVW
Body= E81= E= Red Crush Vinyl & Red Cody Pattern Woven Plastic,
81= 81B= Custom Cab conventional cab truck

Trans= A= NP435 4 speed trans.
Axle= 22= 4.88 ratio Spicer 70, 7.4M load rating
GVW= 10000= trucks max GVW with people, cargo and full tank of fuel
Cert. Net HP= 172@4000 RPM= Engines rated NET HP rating @ specified
RPM shown
DSO= 547382= Omaha, Ne, where the original selling dealer ordered the truck from...the last 4 is its unique order number, This truck was special ordered, not bought off the lot.

What does it have back of the cab...there were 3 options...a Styleside pickup box...which would be the 'wrong' 57-60 type, its load capacity is 3,775 lbs. Flareside box and a 9 foot platform and platform stake which are designed to haul up to 5640lbs(5325 lbs with stake sides.
No exterior moldings were available aside from the windshield and aluminum grille as well as the CC outside door nameplates which were all part of the Custom Cab package. It should have a white steering wheeland a tutone dashboard and a bright painted instrument cluster.


I hope this helps...I'd love to see pics of it :-)


- cs65

 

Hi Don and Thanks. Where is Bill? It worries me when he's not on line.

It's got a 8x12 flat deck on back. Everything else you said pretty much matches. The engine has been changed and the bench seat is gone. Head liner is warped bad and if it had door covers they are gone as well. Dash is red and white with the silver insert as you said. I have had it 15 years or so and only drove it a few times. It looks a lot worse than it is. I need to clean it up some and than get some pic's for ya. I wish I knew what it had on back to start with. I would like to get a wrecker body for her if I keep it. But I have no place to keep it or work on it indoors so if someone made me an offer? Wish I could find a set of hood hinges for little or nothing. That and go through the carb and break lines and she would be ready to work again.

 

If the end of the flatbed has FORD stamped on it...its factory...
Does it have a seat at all ??? It would be the same seat as any 66 CC 2WD truck F100-250... it would have been an identical interior to a CC truck except different color steering wheel. If there was no dashpad on it...the delete was an option of its own...the lack of trim clip holes on the dash would show that...look in the rear of the dash ...

Bill is prolly just relaxing...which is a good thing...no stress hopefully and lets him do other stuff he wants to do.


- cs65

 

Hey Don the dash is padded. All the years I have had the truck I never saw it before. It's black. I thought it was painted. It's in pretty good shape but faded. And no throttle cable either. Got linkage. Oh!! forgot to look at the back of the bed. BRB. Naw it's a wood bed with an angle iron bed frame head ache rack. Well built and solid. I know as I have seen it with 3 cord on it before I got it from the owner that built the engine in it.

 

Uh...you listed 4 RPO's, not 3, and 2 were not available with DRW.

Who knows how many DSO's there could be?

1) Styleside Pickup-9' Express-SRW only.

2) Flareside Pickup-9' bed-SRW only.

3) Platform (flatbed).

4) Platform & Rack (stakebed).

If the F350 had DRW, it was not available with either pickup bed. It was only available as a Cab & Chassis, or a Platform, or a Platform & Rack or one a the myriad DSO's.

Ford didn't offer a DRW F350 pickup (Styleside only) until 1980.

If a customer requested it, Ford would ship the truck to an outside body maker and have a wrecker, utility, box van, or whatever body installed.

This would be a Domestic Special Order and the truck would have a 6 digit DSO.
E81: E = F100/750 Custom Cab. Since there's no mention of 2WD or 4WD, the same upholstery was used for both.

The seat frame itself is the same 1961/66 F100/1100, Standard & Custom Cabs.
Nope, the hood is not original to the truck if it has red insert side mouldings. It's from a 1963/64 and prolly has a gear and lightning bolt hood emblem.

Only 1963/64's had the red painted insert side mouldings. 1965/66's are a different style, have no painted inserts and none of these side mouldings were part of the Custom Cab package.

Side mouldings were optional on all 1963/66 Standard and Custom Cabs. These mouldings are anodized aluminum, not chrome.

All 1961/64's have the gear and lightning bolt hood emblem, this emblem was also used on 1965/66 I-6's only.

1965/66's with a V8 have a..V8 hood emblem.

Tricky, I was on FTE briefly Wednesday morning, then had a gazillion things to do.

 

Bill, The info I mentioned about the back of cab equipment is taken from the Salesman book I have...it says 3 options in the book...I know it said 4 different physical variations...I only typed what they printed once upon a time..


As to the F35 in the VIN...General Info section, pg 33, RH column...F35= F350 64/


Regarding also the F35 in the VIN referring to it being an F350 series conventional cab truck...GI section, pg 30...it uses F250 as an example...but it says there conventional cab truck F250 series in their example...

On the Body portion of the tag...on the same page(30) on the lower half of the tag explanation it says 81 is 'conventional cab'.
The trim letter/number preceeding...in this case E, says its the red pattern I described which in the soft trim section it states is for Custom Cab package equipped trucks(81B)



- cs65

 

Yes, but you said 66 F100/250 2WD Custom Cab. The only parts of this statement that are correct are '66 & Custom Cab.

2WD has nothing to do with it, and the E body code applies to F100/750's.

F350's were available as body style 81 (Conventional Cab), body style 84 (Chassis & Cowl), body style 85 (Chassis & Windshield), so there's no way = none that the series code of F35 refers to a conventional cab, because...

Body Styles 84 and 85 have no cabs, cuz they're Open Drive-Away's.

I was also gonna nail you on the white steering wheel jazz, but FTE went down for maintenance before I could type a letter.

Both Black and White steering wheels were offered for Custom Cabs, and most were black, because white got dirty very quickly.

And you failed to mention that the white steering wheel for F350's has 4 spokes, same as 66 F250 4WD / 1961/65 F100/250 4WD

 

LOL....the Salesman Book I have only mentions white steering wheel on CC trucks in F350 section...it was a part of the CC package.


I read somewhere...gotta do some digging..that the F series trucks were conventional cabs...thus why I put that in...

As for the seat...the F100/250 2WD reference was simply because theres a ton more of those which many should have an idea of as to appearance and pattern design...literature, etc...just to give people something to visualize in their noggins....

In doing a bit more digging, arctic...your truck would be a dually...minimum tire size 8 X 17.5 - 6PR



- cs65

 

You are assuming again. Did Tricky say his F350 has DRW?

8.00" x 17.5" tires were used with 17.5" x 5.25" wheels. Application: F250/350 & P350/500 (Text, Section 10, Page 6).

How many F250's came with DRW? None that I'm are of until 1985.

 

Ya guys it's DRW. 16 inch solid ring two piece not a split ring. And 6 bud. Any way to know what the DSO was?