IDIBRONCO
IDIBRONCO
Today, I took my truck on a treasure hunt and I did find some. I picked up a 1988 F250 Ex. cab, 4x4, ZF5, 7.3. Unfortunately, the body is too shot for me to mess with so I bought it with the intention of stripping it out and then sending it to the scrap yard. About three weeks ago, a friend sent me a text asking if I needed any 6.9/7.3 parts (well duh!
). I told him that I'd take a pair of 7.3 heads since I have a short block but no good heads. The I said that I'd take the whole thing if the price was right. He told me that this guy said that there's two trucks, a 1987 with a 6.9 and a 1989 with a 7.3 both 4X4 with a ZF5, and he'd take $500 a piece. I told him HELL YES! I mean who here wouldn't? He wanted a ZF5 for a future project and that was all. I worked out a deal with him for one plus what he didn't want from the other one. He backed out of the deal so I looked at them and told the guy that I'd buy them both. I got some help (from a FREAKING idiot) today and I took him out to flat tow one back to my garage. The owner said that he had the truck pulled out of the weeds in his pasture with a tow style truck. The truck was at least 2/3 of the 3/4 mile (estimated) back to the highway. I got a little bit creative and decided to buy some 3/8" vinyl tubing and run it from the vacuum system on my truck and hook it into the vacuum system on the other truck to have power brakes on the towed one. It worked way better than the afore mentioned idiot did. Since it was only about 10 miles back to my garage, I had no issues with just leaving the transmission in neutral.
). I told him that I'd take a pair of 7.3 heads since I have a short block but no good heads. The I said that I'd take the whole thing if the price was right. He told me that this guy said that there's two trucks, a 1987 with a 6.9 and a 1989 with a 7.3 both 4X4 with a ZF5, and he'd take $500 a piece. I told him HELL YES! I mean who here wouldn't? He wanted a ZF5 for a future project and that was all. I worked out a deal with him for one plus what he didn't want from the other one. He backed out of the deal so I looked at them and told the guy that I'd buy them both. I got some help (from a FREAKING idiot) today and I took him out to flat tow one back to my garage. The owner said that he had the truck pulled out of the weeds in his pasture with a tow style truck. The truck was at least 2/3 of the 3/4 mile (estimated) back to the highway. I got a little bit creative and decided to buy some 3/8" vinyl tubing and run it from the vacuum system on my truck and hook it into the vacuum system on the other truck to have power brakes on the towed one. It worked way better than the afore mentioned idiot did. Since it was only about 10 miles back to my garage, I had no issues with just leaving the transmission in neutral.
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). At the first mile, I turned back to the north again and I could smell the hot brakes on the wind. The brakes seemed to work fine from where I was at. Since it was only about two miles from the garage when I stopped, I decided not to get into an argument with this (who probably had his head up his back side instead of paying attention to me). The front bumper is ok at best, but no longer perfect
. After we got back to the garage, he said that I should sell every little thing off of the truck. I told him that I'm not in the salvage business and I don't really have room to store what I I'm going to take off of the truck. Then he said that he'd like to take the rest of the truck and see if he could sell anything. I said "Great. It's yours after I'm done." so I wouldn't have to bother with hauling it off. He told me that he'd even give me half of what he managed to sell from it. Apparently I did a good thing by keeping my anger to myself. Now for some truck body pics.
. That alone is worth the cost of the truck! I have no idea where the seats came from, but I LOVE THEM!!! They appear to be leather. Even though the driver's side needs to be reupholstered, I sure am thinking about putting them in my truck. The radio seems pretty nice so it's coming out too. I plan to save all of the glass except for the cracked windshield. I'm also going to pull the complete wiring harness along with the engine, transmission, and transfer case. The other truck is a 1989 regular cab, but it's still got a knocking 7.3, ZF5, and a transfer case which is still worth the $500 when I save up the extra cash to go get it.
Just in case somebody's wondering, I bought 40 feet of hose, used a fairly short chain, and let the hose hang loosely down the side of my truck. I held the hose in place with zip ties so it was easy to attach and detach. I also left both hood popped with the safety latches holding. I got all the way up to 35 MPH one time. Usually it was between 20-25 MPH.
Sweet exhaust hanger on the muffler too, right?
