ifrythings
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Figured I would start a build thread to track my progress and hopefully help others in a few of the mods I have planned.
This is going to be a slow build but hoping to have it driving before winter.
So to start off, got a 95 F350 460 4x4 E4OD CrewCab with a bad motor in it.
Donor vehicle is my 87 F250 regular cab which the cancer is starting to convert it back to dirt. I have a rebuilt 91 7.3 with turbo rods, pistons, Justin's j2 cam and head studs, 94 factory turbo with a new ats exhaust housing from Russ and new bearing kit. Cylinders 7 and 8 got sleeved, 8 had a hole in it, got the whole rotating assembly balanced and a ZF S5-42 trans behind it.
I'm basicly transplanting a lot of the 87 stuff to the 95, engine, trans, tcase, front driveshaft, bucket seats, hydro boost and pedals, radio and speakers, chevy rearview mirror and the box.
The nice thing about the 460 and diesels trucks is they share the same engine crossmember so everything is a bolt up deal besides having to drill 4 rivets out to remove the gassers driver side engine peach, passenger side is bolted on *** Ford??
Mods planned
Gas to diesel
-Auto to stick
-05+ superduty axles
-2016 rear springs
-99 up rear shackles and hangers
-Backup sensors off of either 99 up truck or backup and forward sensors off of a freestar van (these are both stand alone systems)
-Electron chromatic rear view mirror with temperature and compass readout
-04 4 wheel ABS swap
This is what it looked like before I touched it.
Front clip off and engine ready to come out
Engine out, front diff ready to come out just waiting to preasure wash and start removing rivets.
I found 2 cracks on the front frame horns (the clean area with red paint pen around it) not sure the best way to fix that but I do have a welder and not good at welding at all haha.
Found a 06 f350 with the 5.4l in it that I got the axles from, 4.10 gears, got the spring mounts which was a waste of time as where the rubber spring insulator go was rusted so bad that I bought new ones, also got radius arms, brackets, springs which may or may not work, sway bar, steering linkages and gear box, tracbar and bracket, shocks which will be replaced after mock up.
Also got the rear axle with blocks but missing all the brake stuff.
2016 springs- got these from a guy that bought a new truck and put a lift on it right away, they have 23km on them, brand new, came with the overloads and ubolts and ubolt plates.
These springs are 10" longer in the front and an inch longer in the rear, they are also a progressive spring and should make a great improvement to the ride quality.
The 05 up steering box pretty much bolts right in, I had to drill the frame side holes out to 9/16" (14mm). The inside frame "sleeves" are big enough to accept the bigger bolt so your not weakening that area of the frame. The other side of the frame where the box goes is already big enough or just needs a little clean up. The factory gear box uses 7/16" bolts and the 05+ box uses 14mm, the intermediate steering shaft is the same so I can reuse the obs one as the newer ones look to be aluminum and the one I got had tons of play in it. Now I could of bought a reamer and enlarged the hole in the obs box but the newer box has a 4 bolt top plate, bigger selector shaft and bigger pitman arm though the pressure lines are different but easy to get around that. I wanted to keep everything the same so if later down the road I want to do a lift kit I don't have to piece together odds and ends.
I'll grab more pictures of everything later and add more as I do each step.
This is going to be a slow build but hoping to have it driving before winter.
So to start off, got a 95 F350 460 4x4 E4OD CrewCab with a bad motor in it.
Donor vehicle is my 87 F250 regular cab which the cancer is starting to convert it back to dirt. I have a rebuilt 91 7.3 with turbo rods, pistons, Justin's j2 cam and head studs, 94 factory turbo with a new ats exhaust housing from Russ and new bearing kit. Cylinders 7 and 8 got sleeved, 8 had a hole in it, got the whole rotating assembly balanced and a ZF S5-42 trans behind it.
I'm basicly transplanting a lot of the 87 stuff to the 95, engine, trans, tcase, front driveshaft, bucket seats, hydro boost and pedals, radio and speakers, chevy rearview mirror and the box.
The nice thing about the 460 and diesels trucks is they share the same engine crossmember so everything is a bolt up deal besides having to drill 4 rivets out to remove the gassers driver side engine peach, passenger side is bolted on *** Ford??
Mods planned
Gas to diesel
-Auto to stick
-05+ superduty axles
-2016 rear springs
-99 up rear shackles and hangers
-Backup sensors off of either 99 up truck or backup and forward sensors off of a freestar van (these are both stand alone systems)
-Electron chromatic rear view mirror with temperature and compass readout
-04 4 wheel ABS swap
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This is what it looked like before I touched it.
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Front clip off and engine ready to come out
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Engine out, front diff ready to come out just waiting to preasure wash and start removing rivets.
I found 2 cracks on the front frame horns (the clean area with red paint pen around it) not sure the best way to fix that but I do have a welder and not good at welding at all haha.
Found a 06 f350 with the 5.4l in it that I got the axles from, 4.10 gears, got the spring mounts which was a waste of time as where the rubber spring insulator go was rusted so bad that I bought new ones, also got radius arms, brackets, springs which may or may not work, sway bar, steering linkages and gear box, tracbar and bracket, shocks which will be replaced after mock up.
Also got the rear axle with blocks but missing all the brake stuff.
2016 springs- got these from a guy that bought a new truck and put a lift on it right away, they have 23km on them, brand new, came with the overloads and ubolts and ubolt plates.
These springs are 10" longer in the front and an inch longer in the rear, they are also a progressive spring and should make a great improvement to the ride quality.
The 05 up steering box pretty much bolts right in, I had to drill the frame side holes out to 9/16" (14mm). The inside frame "sleeves" are big enough to accept the bigger bolt so your not weakening that area of the frame. The other side of the frame where the box goes is already big enough or just needs a little clean up. The factory gear box uses 7/16" bolts and the 05+ box uses 14mm, the intermediate steering shaft is the same so I can reuse the obs one as the newer ones look to be aluminum and the one I got had tons of play in it. Now I could of bought a reamer and enlarged the hole in the obs box but the newer box has a 4 bolt top plate, bigger selector shaft and bigger pitman arm though the pressure lines are different but easy to get around that. I wanted to keep everything the same so if later down the road I want to do a lift kit I don't have to piece together odds and ends.
I'll grab more pictures of everything later and add more as I do each step.