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Hi all. Glad to have come across this site yesterday. Found you guys and gals and signed up right away. I bought me a 65 f100 short bed with a 352 vin. back in October. It was driven by an old man for some number of years. Then sat for the last eight. Rust I feel is at a minimum considering it has been outside in the weeds. I picked up my sweet beauty for $800 woohoo. I have all pieces minus horn trim ring and stock radio. There are a few questions I have, being the guy is passed. I will have to seek my own answers. Maybe with your help and my can do attitude. We will see good things come from my build.
Right now my goal is to get this truck as solid as possible. When I showed up to her she had no battery. Minimum oil and trans fluid and no gas. I figured I'd get to is so I filled the tank up as well as the carb strapped a battery to her and topped the oil. Wouldn't you know it. A couple cranks and vroom.. Sweet is the sound of life through a forgotten ford V8. Then no forward or reverse. Which was fine cause I had no brakes. Pedal to the floor. I topped off tranny and water, while under the hood I cracked the mater cylinder and wouldn't you know it. Bone dry. Topped the reservoir and began pumping while engine warmed up. Suddenly the pressure started building and there were brakes. Sweet, this deal was looking better and better.
I put my foot on the brake and released the e-brake. Whew, it held. Rocked back and forth from drive to reverse and it was working. Oh yea. Hey pops, do I got brake lights? Nope. What the hell I thought. Well I figured it out. It had a pressure switch for brakes. The terminals were just dirty.
Hopped in pulled out of the weeds and into the cul de sac and drove in circles for 5 mins. The funny thing was it kept trying to chirp tires if gassed and turning. My kind of truck. I headed out towards the freeway with fingers and toes crossed. Hit the on ramp and gassed it. It took off like a bat out of hell. I was at 70 before end of on ramp. It just dipped and rode like a dream. I was passing all sorts of everybody. Spider webs and all.
Since that ride home. I bled the brakes. I rebuilt the carb and changed the water pump. While running the truck over the next couple weeks. I must have blown all the rust out of the engine and right into the radiator. Yep, it popped. A brown terrible mess it was.
Long story short. I got a aluminum radiator from summit $144. A couple upper mounts from junk yard. Welded mounts to bottom core support, now I have to bend an upper mount.
Well if you have read this far, hopefully you got a sense of the way I feel about this truck. I never had a truck. I've had a 66 cyclone, 67 mustang and an 86 5.0 with let's say all the goodies. Now I'm in a focus with a wife and two kids. This truck will be my salvation... Thanks, Jeremiah.
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:welcome: from iowa
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Welcome from the Green and beautiful North.....Willamette Valley in Oregon that is. Welcome from the Brother Hood. Never been a shortage of information and suggestions and support.
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Welcome from Northern Nevada. Sounds like you got a sweeeeeeeeet deal.
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Welcome and Yahoo!!
There is a 66 red and white stepside in Crockett,usually on second ave at about Wanda st., and you will see a white long bed 61 uni drive in to the C&H lower parking lot from time to time :)
Send me a p.m. if you need a hand I live just across the straights on the hill behind Columbus Parkway
Oh yeah pics are always welcome.
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Will do John. That red and white step side is or was for sale. I take it you work a CH. Cool man I will be sure to hit you up. I live across the street from work on Winslow St.. House with chain hand rail. Can't miss it. Always looking for someone to share ideas and tinker with. Good to know there is someone in the North Bay relatively close.
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Nice Build Bob. That is my ultimate goal, bagged. Just got alot of figuring to get there.
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Ok here is some more progress on the uni

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:welcome: from Louisiana. Suggest you also post your info in the Truck Talk section for maximum exposure to all members. Some folks won't see it under the "Western" section.
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Cool... Another local! ;-) I'm just up the straits from you in Martinez. Checked your pics... two things I'm jealous of is your vintage sliding rear window, and your original gold-on-black plates! Nice, man...

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Thanks f25065. Just got my crown vic front end and rear from my buddy unibody madness. Waiting on sheet metal to finish tailgate. Also pounded all the dents out of frontend sheet metal and eliminated rust. We ought a get together some time f250.
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Here is the link to the CV front install. I just took a quick peek and the pics are gone but the info is still there

http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/71605 ... -f100.html

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Thanks John. I'll have a look see.
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Some things I have been messing with on my Slick.

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A radiator replacement and yes the trans cooler is in an unorthadox position. Placed back where it was mounted originally.

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Some things I cut up today.

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The tailgate. Been a project for a minute. Still need some more customizing and filler looks good so far.

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Some new parts. Of the P71 Variety.

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Last but not least. Some 1 3/4 DOM to hold it all together.

Thanks for viewing will post updates here for my West Coast friends.
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Well a little update. I got everything tore out of the rear frame. Popped all rivets and removed brackets. Once I removed the bed I noticed the frame wasn't even top to bottom. Today I cut the frame to 2 5/8 on top and cut the bent portion on the bottom out. Im gonna cut and weld a piece in. Then match the bottom frame to the tops 2 5/8. Cant wait to get to weldin im my step notches and start the boxing of the rear frame.
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Today I finally finished welding up my step notches. 3hrs. here and a couple hours there. Got her done. I also got the motor pulled out and front suspension exposed to through in the crown vic front end, Thanks for all the help with that Unibody Madness. Mad props... Also unibody brought me a hood which I am going to do something cool with... I still have to box the frame. Gonna do the whole deal. I'm having a pain in the ass hard time trying to find tube inserts for 1 3/4 tube with .120 wall. I'll figure it out shortly.

here are some pics.
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