Gary Lewis

Check this out: https://www.rearcounter.com/results.php?s=1&page=1934. That should take you to Rearcounter and a page that includes the brackets. Then hit Control & F at the same time for the search function, and type in what you are looking for, such as 7787, and hit enter. I see listings for most of the parts. You then click View Details and then on the next page click Request Pricing.

fords4life - That's a shame. Glad you got it worked out. On the brackets, you might have luck searching for them via the part numbers, which are shown here: Exterior/Bumpers. You might find them new. Bob - My to-be 1st gear/low range ratio will be 55.6 with the 3.55/ZF5/BW1345 combo as opposed to 49.7 with the T-19, which is a 9% improvement. And, 5th gear is much, much better on the ZF.

It's owned by a roofing company, and it's their backup work truck, but mainly they keep it clean for pulling parade floats. So it may have to drive on messy dirt with a lot of weight, and all the mud tires not only keep it from sinking, but can also soak up a few nails. And it gets attention in parades, so it's returning their investment. I had to take it down the highway to an exhaust shop, which is why I noticed how nicely it rides. Later, I did a bunch of other minor repairs, including poly RA bushings, making the fuel gauge work for both tanks, planing an exhaust manifold, new battery terminals, replacing a vent window frame, aligning the doors, replacing the inner hose for both fuel filler necks, calibrating the speedo... Mid-day update: Remember yesterday when I thought I'd found something as a guy said they had an '88 F350, but he thought it had TTB's? He was going to go verify what front end is under it? Well, I called back to the place today and drew the other guy, not Tom to whom I'd spoken. This guy said "I really thought we had a D60 down in the barn" (a light started glimmering), "but we can't find it." I started to say "Yes, those D60's must have legs" when I thought, "Wait a cotton-picking minute! This sounds way too familiar." Sure enough, this is the same place I'd called two days or so earlier. I didn't tell the guy that and he promised to make a thorough search and call me back. But I don't hold out much hope for it. On a positive note I did talk to Chris at Boom's Garage. I explained what the whole project entails and he's going to call around and see if he can find something. But I cautioned him that I've called most of the salvages in the Tulsa area. And, that what I really need him to do is to rebuild the diff and install the locker. He's more than happy to do that and is to work up a quote and email it to me. Further, he likes the Ox locker and has installed several of them. So I may have found a good place for the specialty work. The search continues......

Yes, that truck had 3.54/3.55 gears. I'm pretty sure it was the BW1356 transfer case (but that was a long time ago...) My Bronco now "only" has a 4.0:1 1st gear in its NV3550 5 speed. But behind that are 4.10 axles and an Atlas with 4.3:1 low range:nabble_smiley_good: But even that 70:1 crawl ratio is NOTHING compared to the Tacoma I saw out in Ouray last summer. It was owned by the president of Marlin Crawler and boasted a crawl ratio of 572:1:nabble_smiley_oh: I told you about how he got out and watched his truck idle up a line on the Wall on Poughkeepsie Gulch where no one else could even make it up! I was seeing the black boxes in your part of Oklahoma on the news last night and thinking about you Take this with the way it is intended, but my father would have said "The first liar doesn't have a chance." Seriously though, 70:1 is pretty serious gear reduction. But 572:1 is insane! Yes, I remember what you said, but I still can't fathom it. As for the little black boxes, they were red rectangles here. I don't have TV coverage in the shop, but I do have good internet usually as I have three of Google's meshed wifi routers and one of those is in the shop. So we pulled up two of the Tulsa TV channels on the big monitors, picked one to listen to and put it on the Bose speakers and we were set. At least until we had a lightning strike close by that took out the cable for several minutes, so I tethered my iPhone to the computer and away we went again. One storm was reported to be out at the lake, which put it maybe 10 miles due west and coming east. But it appears to have gone slightly south and missed us by 2 1/2 miles. Another went less than 10 miles north of us. And all the while there was thunder, lightning, and RAIN!. So Kaw Lake is 35' above normal and is having to let out lots of water, and that flows into Keystone Lake, which is equally over full and is having to release 215,000 cubic feet of water per second just to maintain the level. But that is flooding Tulsa and may literally wipe out a brand new casino. Meanwhile Skiatook Lake is 15' high, the highest it has ever been, and while they don't want to let out any water as Bird Creek is WAAAAAY out of its banks with historic flooding, the water is going over the spillway. So are very fortunate. No damage, at least of which we are aware. Some neighbors lost large limbs, some had a bit of water damage, but for the most part nothing serious. But it was a BUSY night.

Thanks! But I've had a lot of help finding the documents, writing how-to's, etc. So it has been a community effort.

Jochen - Sorry to see that you have to do that. While I've not done it on a truck with EFI, it really shouldn't be all that different than with a carb. You should be able to pull off the injection equipment and then pull the manifold. As for repairing the manifold, I've seen it done using JB Weld, which is a metal-filled epoxy. We cleaned the gasket surface thoroughly, filled the pits with JB Weld and let it harden, then filed it back to close to flat, and then used sand paper on a file to sand it back to flat. Then when we installed it we used 4 long bolts with the heads cut off to serve as guide pins. But even then it is possible to get the thing cocked a bit, so take care that it is level as you install it. And put some RTV around the coolant passages in the front and rear, just to make sure they seal.

A wire nut is probably much better than what you had. And, with plans to replace the alternator with a 3G I'd say that'll work.

Nice! But those stainless headers were prettier and probably flow much better. And, weren't they less expensive?

Makes it even better.

I think you are describing the wiring shown below. And what you have circled in blue is what I've circled in red. But I don't think the wire at the 12:00 position really goes just to the voltage regulator. It is probably the shunt and should connect to the yellow/white dot wire at the starter relay, and the yellow/white dot wire goes to the regulator. Right? If the connection you circled is good, and it was welded together at the factory, and if the rest of the wiring checks out as shown below, then you can tape the connection up and use it. But, if it is a bad splice then someone has replaced the shunt and done a poor job thereof. In that case I think you have a few choices. First, if you want to stay with the 1G alternator, then you could repair that splice, which should not be difficult. Or find a good harness at the salvage. Or, I might have one. I will look. But, this might be the time to do a 3G conversion, as described here, and get away from that wiring.

Nice! And not a bad price.

Jim - I agree with Rule #1. Lots of false info out there and it is oft-quoted, which makes it "true". Instead I like factory literature, but even then there are errors, which is why I checked it out. Anyway, glad to see that the ZF ratios work well. Particularly the 3rd gear ratio as that is just too low on the T19. Oh, and the 5th gear ratio is infinitely better. Bill - Those old trucks are cool. There's a guy down the street from us that has a Deuce & a half. And several of the local fire stations have rescue vehicles based on the old military trucks - many of which have been used over the last few days. Speaking of that, it was a wild evening. After the SERIOUS rain we had a couple of days ago we had another round last night. But, with it came tornadoes. We had two sets of neighbors over in the shop hanging out, and at two different points in time most of the people were in the storm shelter. Apparently the storms went just north and just south of us so we had no damage. But, the rain added to the misery as the east end of town was already under water and the level will now come up even more. We are safe but many families have had to be evacuated, so please keep all in the paths of the many storms in your prayers.

You are right, this is community. And we look out for each other. By the way, you are now on the map.

Welcome! Glad you found us. That's a very nice truck. How 'bout creating a signature that tells us what it is and has so we don't have to ask when you have those hopefully-few challenges? But, in your pic I see a shift lever on the column, suggesting it is an auto. However, on the floor I see what may be a second shift lever for a manual transmission. Am I seeing things? And, where's home? I ask because we have a member's map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and I'd be happy to add you if I had a town/city.

Jim - I had always gone with what I read on the internet, and that does say the 7.5L T19's had the 6.32 1st gear. But some time ago Jonathan corrected me and I did some research. First, I turned to Ford's documentation, and I'll point out the 1983 dealer's fact book, which is the best one I have on-line, but the others agree. Go to the Powertrain tab and then to Pg 13, where you'll find this bit: Then go to the next page, where you'll find the table below showing that the T-19 has a 5.11 1st gear. However, I wasn't convinced so put BB in 1st and drove it at something like 3000 RPM using GPS for MPH, and did the math: 5.11.

I'm not a big fan of automatics, but I couldn't find a manual when I was shopping for my truck. I spent 3 years looking for a 4WD '80 - '97 F-250 or F-350 crew cab with a gas engine and a manual trans that wasn't clapped out and was within abut 500 miles of me. When I opened the search up to automatics it only took another month. But my favorite truck I've owned was my '85 F-250 RCLB with a 351 and an NP435, so yeas, I get granny gears! (although the auto in first gear with the tranny in low range is pretty good for creerping trailers around) My favorite low gear story was when I was at the NCAA Frozen Four in Detroit, parked in a parking ramp near the exit with a steady stream of cars behind me. My dad was with me and thought we'd never get a hole in traffic. I told him "no problem!" Looking in the mirrors (so people couldn't see that I was looking) I put it in reverse and dumped the clutch. The truck jumped back and immediately almost stopped. But no one behind me knew it would almost stop like that. With the 4WD F-250 tailgate almost filling their windshield, the first car sped up as much as possible to scoot past me while the one behind him slammed on his brakes. I carefully backed into the spot they left for me and headed out of the ramp! That's funny! And the NP435 has an even better 1st at 6.69, so with an NP208 your truck would be doing 7 MPH at 5000 RPM - assuming 3.55's. And, as you said, it would appear to accelerate very rapidly, only to slow down immediately. That had to have been a shock. I often wondered how the ZF5's 1st is going to be in Big Blue. The T19's 1st is just about right for starting a loaded trailer, so if it really is 5.11 and the ZF has 5.72 then it will top out slightly sooner. But looking at the calculator just now I find that there's not a lot of difference. The ZF will give me a bit more grunt down low, and it'll have a bit better 3rd gear, which is too low in the T19.

Our driveline calculator (Driveline/Calculators) says that Big Blue's BW1345 has a 2.74 1st while your 1356 has a 2.69 1st. And that Big Blue with 3.55's would hit 5000 RPM at 9 MPH and that Lil' Red would hit it at 8 MPH. But, that's with the 5.11 1st that I think the 7.5L T19's have. So if yours had the 6.32's then you'd have hit 5000 at 6 MPH. However, the ZF5 has a 5.72 1st, so it'll be even better than the T19. As for walking beside the truck, I did with Big Blue. A couple of years ago we needed to take our old sign down at church, so I tied on and put BB in 1st and 4Lo. Took out the slack and got out with it idling. Asked the guys that were down by the sign if they needed any help. You should have seen the look on their faces.

It wasn't easy for me to talk Lesley into driving the truck. And there's no way she'd do it if it had a manual trans. But there were enough tight turns and she's not as used to how big vehicles move, so she wasn't comfortable (and I wasn't either) with having her guide with me being blind. She was the spotter for me to stick the trailer under the pontoon though. Janey grew up driving a vehicle with a manual transmission, but hasn't done in decades. So she'd be hard to persuade to drive Big Blue. Especially since she doesn't like moving big vehicles, like a large trailer. But, I LOVE the granny 1st on Big Blue so don't want an auto. Moving the trailer around is so easy - put it in 1st and 4Lo and come out on the clutch. You WILL move, but not very rapidly.

Looks good! But I think I'd like the original wheels better than the Lightning rims.

That was a new one for me! I do have a front hitch on both my Bronco and my F-250, and I agree with you! It's so easy to walk my folks 32' travel trailer into and down their winding drive way, putting it just where we want on the far side of the pad. With a travel trailer in front you can't see ANYTHING, so my wife drives the truck and I walk alongside, spotting. And a couple weeks ago we put their pontoon boat in the lake. The new boat (bought last spring) just barely fits in the garage at the cabin so we have to pull the trailer out from under it once it's in. The old trailer was too small and light for the new boat so after carefully using it to put the boat away last year they bought a new trailer this spring. With the old trailer I could run the trailer up to the front of the boat with the truck, but the back of the trailer would be too high to fit under, so I'd have to stop just as the trailer tires got up to the flat floor, lift the tongue off the hitch and walk it in by hand. But the deck on the new boat comes almost all the way to the front, so the trailer tires would still be well down the hill when the trailer got to the deck. And the new trailer has way too much tongue weight to do that by hand anyway. So imagine my delight when I found that the new trailer is low enough to fit under the boat while it's still on the hitch! There's only about 3" to spare to fit the trailer between the pontoons, but with the trailer on the front hitch I was able to push it straight in, no problem. I was expecting it to be a lot harder than before but it ended up being much easier! That's an interesting Beach Boys song. But, it was late enough that it doesn't play on the 60's channel. As for the use of the front hitch, Janey wouldn't be willing to drive the truck, but she'd walk outside to direct me. But the boat trailer change appears to have been a big help or plus. Good karma!

Good luck with it. Glad you found the paired belts. Someone didn't use a pair on Big Blue and there's no way to get them adjusted correctly.

LOL yes I know you are I got a feeling I may want to do that, set fire to it, but never would but you will be the first to call just before the fire dept. LOL Dave ---- James Taylor, my man, sang of me: I fix broken trucks, I know I really can.

No, Mark, this is the inner panel for the roof of the cab. These cabs have two layers, whether you have a headliner or not. Here's a closeup, followed by the whole page:

I have the trailer hooked up and can be there overnight. I'm good at taking problem trucks off people's hands and making their lives easier, so who you gonna call?

Big Blue does what Ford's do best - rescuing hapless Chevy drivers. The Beach Boys said: Our youth minister intern's Chevy had a broken serpentine belt. Luckily I have the trailer out ready to go, so I putt-putted it out through the gate and past the brick posts on the driveway using the front hitch. (If you don't have one and you move a trailer, you should get one.) Ran around it and off we went. Had to go to the station as all this Chevy hauling is making the 460 thirsty. Got 8.9 MPG, which is slightly less than what Blue got hauling Big Blue back from Florida at 75 MPH, through the night. But Big Blue gets the job done, and he looks mean doing it.