So what did you do with your truck today?

[Old Goat]

Last Saturday I brought home a new project

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1951 Ford F7. I have exciting plans but have to finish other projects before I can consider starting this one...

Being red, and the 2 Spot lights, was thinking maybe it was a Fire Truck in it`s younger life.

Going to throw in a IDI?
That would speed her up.


Goat

 

[chillman88]

Being red, and the 2 Spot lights, was thinking maybe it was a Fire Truck in it`s younger life.

Going to throw in a IDI?
That would speed her up.


Goat

Would like to do something bigger but it's looking like an IDI is all that's going to fit without cutting. Would like to eventually hop one up with a big pump and an R&D turbo kit, would like to get around 300hp (plan on hauling with it).

DT466 would be ideal but I'm pretty sure they're too long without hacking into the cab.

Pretty sure it was a fire truck, there's traces of a name on the doors.

 

[Nero]

Decided to toy around with the 94 idit I picked up over the weekend, did a compression test, about 350 across the board except #7, 150psi. What's odd is some holed would build to 180, then get stuck... Then all of a sudden spike to 350. Wonder if valve seats are crummy, or if piston rings are sticky. Once they 'unstuck' and jumped, they kept going to 350 afterwards each time.

Also tested the glow plugs, one is bad.
Tried to read the cracked odometer, 330k.

Anyways, tried to prime the fuel system, got fuel to the pump, solid 5psi lift pump running out of a bucket.. Nothing out of the injection pump... Pulled the pump return fitting, full of rust.

 

[FrozenMerc]

Would like to do something bigger but it's looking like an IDI is all that's going to fit without cutting. Would like to eventually hop one up with a big pump and an R&D turbo kit, would like to get around 300hp (plan on hauling with it).

DT466 would be ideal but I'm pretty sure they're too long without hacking into the cab.

Pretty sure it was a fire truck, there's traces of a name on the doors.

Major cutting is defiantly going to be required to fit a DT466 in. I got away with slipping a 300 I-6 into my '51 F1 (same size engine bay as your F7), without any firewall surgery. It did require pushing the rad about an inch forward and running electric fans - see mock-up photo below. A DT466 is about 10 inches longer than a 300.

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[Kdo58]

I did two ac mods

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[Old Goat]

Would like to do something bigger but it's looking like an IDI is all that's going to fit without cutting. Would like to eventually hop one up with a big pump and an R&D turbo kit, would like to get around 300hp (plan on hauling with it).

DT466 would be ideal but I'm pretty sure they're too long without hacking into the cab.

Pretty sure it was a fire truck, there's traces of a name on the doors.

Looking at FrozenMerc`s picture below, that is a pretty tight engine compartment.

yeah R@D has some pretty engines that would drop right in.
Bling Bling $$$. Plus a little massaging.....


Goat

 

[Trouzt]

Finally replaced my drivers side door that had been folded open before I bought it. Now I am really going to have to learn how to paint the beast. Also turns out a 1986 F150 door fits perfectly on a 1993 f350 once you modify the arm rest mount...