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Machspeed

Re: Brutus's Progress in pictures

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Ingenious how you digitalized your speedocable, George. Nice work.

John

"Blackie" - 1986 F150 4x4 - Mildly warmed over 351W HO - Original owner

86 1/2 Brutus

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Thanks John. its from an 83 town car

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

86 1/2 Brutus

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Had to hurry it up to get Brutus entered in the show.

The dash is installed, the underhood is near complete and driverside door is done. The new steering wheel should be in tomorrow hopefully

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Gary Lewis

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Looks great, George! Well done.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

Dad's: '81 F150 Ranger XLT 4x4: Down for restomod: Full-roller "stroked 351M" w/Trick Flow heads & intake, EEC-V SEFI/E4OD/3.50 gears w/Kevlar clutches
Blue: 2015 F150 Platinum 4x4 SuperCrew wearing Blue Jeans & sporting a 3.5L EB & Max Tow
Big Blue: 1985 F250HD 4x4: 460/ZF5/3.55's, D60 w/Ox locker & 10.25 Sterling/Trutrac, Blue Top & Borgeson, & EEC-V MAF/SEFI

86 1/2 Brutus

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Thanks Gary

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

MarkF100

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Very sharp truck. Hope my 83 comes out looking just as good.

“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
Hunter S. Thompson

86 1/2 Brutus

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Thanks. I'm sure it will, just takes alot of time and patience.

The steering wheel is finished, cant wait to see it in the truck

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

86 1/2 Brutus

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Finally got the tailgate installed. getting closer

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Rembrant

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Lookin' good!

1994 F150 4x2 Flareside. 5.0 w/MAF, 4R70W, stock.
1984 F150 4X2 Flareside. Mild 302 w/ 5spd. Sold.
1980 F150 4X4 Flareside. 300i6 w/ 5spd. Sold in 2021.
1980 F100 4X2 Flareside. 351w/2bbl w/NP435. Sold in 1995

86 1/2 Brutus

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Thanks. We kind of have to go into rush mode. It needs to be drivable by the weekend. The car is nearly dead. No brakes and the transmission is slipping. All electronic issues. See why i want this truck on the road.?

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Rembrant

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86 1/2 Brutus wrote

See why i want this truck on the road.?

Understood. I wish I lived somewhere that I could drive my Bullnose year round. Southern envy;).

86 1/2 Brutus

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I really am excited to be able to start using it again. it's more comfortable then my crown vic and gets about the same milage. With a bed full, it rides like a town car

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Gary Lewis

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Looking good!

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

86 1/2 Brutus

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The interior is fastly becoming complete. The new steering wheel installed. Sound system installed and the last of the upgrades. Audo dimming rearview mirror from the parts vic. The rest of the hand made wire harness's in the doors complete along with the keyless entry The floor is covered in bed liner, followed by carpet underlayment, then carpet. The 6x9 speaker holes, yes they are factory, horrible arent they? looks like someone did it with a can opener.

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

86 1/2 Brutus

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Started on the black body stripes as well

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Gary Lewis

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Looking good, George & Nick! Lots of work, but it is coming together.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

86 1/2 Brutus

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Thanks Gary. Yea its coming, slowly , but going. We are finding more things that need to be taken care of before he hits the road. Found a transmission line leak and really looked at the lines and decided they need to be replaced. More under hood wireing to do and carb work. I finally got the spacer in and his exhaust system is totally sealed up now, so i can get on the final tweaking of the yfa.

Once im done, i will video, which i have a question for you. When i put a video on youtube and share the link, it dosen't put a preview. I notice when you do it does, what are you doing to have the preview?

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

Gary Lewis

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While on Youtube get the "embed" code. On here tick the "Message is in HTML Format" box and paste the code into your post.

But you'll then find that in HTML format hitting "enter" doesn't create a line feed in the post when you preview. To get a line feed hit Formatting and then hit Line Feed. That will put the right code into your post for a line feed.

Gary, AKA "Gary fellow": Profile

86 1/2 Brutus

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Early morning start and run

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

86 1/2 Brutus

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Well Brutus has been on the road as a daily driver for a week now and everythings to be running very well. The egr delete with the carburetor located about half an inch closer to the manifold has proven to give Brutus a bit better gas milage and a slight bit more get up and go. Still much work to do, but so far we are very happy and glad we are able to drive it again.

I know i have some of this stuff posted in other threads, but i need to keep up my thread as to try and keep things in order.

Here is the new carburetor spacer in place , thanks Jim for picking it out for me. We didn't know what to do with the extra hole in the mainifold to feed the egr, it was a bit of a problem because the new spacer covered just a small part of the hole. I wanted to put a bolt, but the spacer got in the way of the bolt head. We cut the bolt head off even with the manifold and everything fits great. On the other side, as you know, Brutus had that Thermatctor set up. Where the thermactor went into the exhaust, as luck would have it, we were able to also screw another bolt in and now everything is sealed.

Nick and George
1986 1/2 F150 XLT Lariat 4X2 300 Six - C6 - 3:08 in a 8.8 - Fully Loaded - 8 Foot Box
Owned since new

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