'71 F250 back on the road

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'71 F250 back on the road

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Well....after having my F250 sit for about two years, she's finally back on the road.

The shift "bowl" that the AT shift lever fits in cracked out, common issue on older trucks. I ordered a replacement through LMC, and in the process of taking apart the steering column to replace it, I managed to toss or lose the two screws and holddown plate that holds the spring in place behind the shift lever. Yes...I felt stupid. So...the fact that no one sells those parts, and finding a steering column was nigh-on impossible, the truck just sat, and sat, and sat.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. While visiting friends down outside of Portland (Oregon), I stopped in at the local U-Pullit yard. What a suprise! They had a '76 F250 just in, and had a complete steering column. $25! I had that thing pulled out in no time and on the way home.

After putting it in with a new rag joint, I had to modify the wiring, but was able to re-use part of the wires from the old column, and basically made a '76 to '71 wiring adapter that didn't modify the truck's wiring harness. Having the backlit shift indicator is really nice too.

I swapped the metal inner door panels out of my '71 F100 (it's getting parted out), used the inside door release and arm wrests from that truck as well.

This weekend, I rebuilt the Holley carb (600CFM, vac sec) and the truck is really running nicely at this point.

She's not the most beautiful, but still a great truck:

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Im pretty sure I have seen this truck online before. I have a pic of it up in my room right now of it sitting next to another blue 71 beside a barn with a feild in the background. Am I right?

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I think your truck looks great, congrats on getting it back on the road! :drive:
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Nice, you gotta love gettin 'em back out after something stupid holds it up. Good work on the column wiring adaption.
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71-F-250SC-72-F-250C, you might have seen old pictures (4+ years) over at my site, http://www.wheatfarm.com.
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That's definitely looking good! :thup: I'll bet it feels good to be able to drive that again.
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Posted some more pictures here. The teal tailgate is off the F100. I need to repair the pivot pocket on the origional yellow tailgate as it's totally rusted out.
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Those are the pics I have in my room that I found one night when I was looking around at old ford trucks and found those two sitting next to each other. Thought it was a cool picture because of the two trucks and the background.

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Looking good. Glad to hear it's running well. :D
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Nice truck. Just looks good sitting there.
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I've been busy working on the F250 lately. Ordered a number of small items from Dennis Carpenter. The list so far is:

2 door lock knob grommets
1 door switch for interior light
1 interior light bezel
1 heater temp control valve
1 kit gaskets for fresh air intake for heater box vent control
2 heater tube grommets to seal firewall
1 heater temp control cable

Gluing the foam gasket into the heater vent control was interesting. The weatherstripping adhesive is tacky as hell! Had to use googone to remove it from my fingers.

So...the saga continues. So far, I've put the heater/fan unit in that I pulled out of the F100, installed a new heater temp control cable and water valve, all new heater hoses, retrofitted a gas pedal assembly out of a '76 F250 (longer than the stock one), swapped out the driver-side vent setup from the F100, flushed the engine coolant system, changed all the external light bulbs, replaced the brake booster vacuum hose (had an ultra-cobby fitting that someone welded up for the intake manifold connection), and then promptly broke the heater fan switch while trying to remove the connector to re-route control cables! DOH.

I'm looking at replacing the hood with the one off the F100 as well. It's the wrong color (truck will get a paint job eventually anyway) but the hood on the F250 has totally worn out hinges and the sheet metal bracing for the hood itself has seperated from the hood and is vibrating around.

I've had a lot of fun so far, but there's no way in hell I'd be a professional mechanic. Just don't have the patience for it :-)

As far as the F100 goes, I'm still using it for parts, so I'm not selling anything off of it yet.
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