A buddy of mine who has helped me with some trans / clutch swaps on my quad cab and a gasser truck has a chance to get an 89 IDI F250 for basically free and since I'm at least somewhat competent with these I went to look at it with him. The truck is beautiful, but has a bad dmf and no reverse, and the guy who owned it "parted out" the steering column.
Never fear, because I have my old ZF5 from my 7.3 sitting in the upstairs garage at my place that just had the rear mounting tabs broke. My buddy fixed that and the trans is fine and ready to be a donor. I also have a steering column from my 89 gasser that he can have with keys and whatnot, but the stupid little plastic box on the side of the steering column where the "sliding metal thing that moves when you turn the key" (I don't know what it really is called) broke off on mine, and when we tried to put the column from my truck in the other and use the connector on this steering wheel that was cracked it's like it's not making contact.
He has a line on another steering column if I *****'d mine I was going to give him, but in the meantime is there anyway to jump certain wires on the connector I'm talking about to simulate "key on"? I already just ran positive 12v to the IP and jumped the solenoid and started the truck and we had it running and moving forward around in a field.
At this point we just want to drive it to his house so we can take it from there at his shop, but we want to be able to actually have the thing "on" and not "IDI on" if possible.. It's only going to be on back roads for the drive but still it's not registered and all of that fun and isn't going to be until he gets it back together and fully checked over. Assuming the steering works the thing has practically no rust and can make him a really nice truck for all the owner is asking from him money wise, but we just don't want to keep messing with it in his garage if we can get it home. Worst case we can always just trailer it but we don't have a trailer.. If we just drive it as is, we're nervous it's going to shut off randomly or something and we won't be able to start it back up without at least something resembling an ignition even if it's a toggle switch to the starter solenoid to start it and another to simulate "key on" with current steering column. Maybe it doesn't work because it was from a gasser? Just thought of that though I am pretty sure they are interchangeable if they are from the same generation and these are even from the same year.
Thanks for the suggestions as always.
Never fear, because I have my old ZF5 from my 7.3 sitting in the upstairs garage at my place that just had the rear mounting tabs broke. My buddy fixed that and the trans is fine and ready to be a donor. I also have a steering column from my 89 gasser that he can have with keys and whatnot, but the stupid little plastic box on the side of the steering column where the "sliding metal thing that moves when you turn the key" (I don't know what it really is called) broke off on mine, and when we tried to put the column from my truck in the other and use the connector on this steering wheel that was cracked it's like it's not making contact.
He has a line on another steering column if I *****'d mine I was going to give him, but in the meantime is there anyway to jump certain wires on the connector I'm talking about to simulate "key on"? I already just ran positive 12v to the IP and jumped the solenoid and started the truck and we had it running and moving forward around in a field.
At this point we just want to drive it to his house so we can take it from there at his shop, but we want to be able to actually have the thing "on" and not "IDI on" if possible.. It's only going to be on back roads for the drive but still it's not registered and all of that fun and isn't going to be until he gets it back together and fully checked over. Assuming the steering works the thing has practically no rust and can make him a really nice truck for all the owner is asking from him money wise, but we just don't want to keep messing with it in his garage if we can get it home. Worst case we can always just trailer it but we don't have a trailer.. If we just drive it as is, we're nervous it's going to shut off randomly or something and we won't be able to start it back up without at least something resembling an ignition even if it's a toggle switch to the starter solenoid to start it and another to simulate "key on" with current steering column. Maybe it doesn't work because it was from a gasser? Just thought of that though I am pretty sure they are interchangeable if they are from the same generation and these are even from the same year.
Thanks for the suggestions as always.
