Gary Lewis

No, the regular cab Bullnose trucks never came with bucket seats. That's explained here: Interior/Seat Interchangeability.

HAMB's recommendations are usually good. But I've not used any tractor paint so can't comment. I have, however, like Cory used Dupli-Color and it worked well.

Not bad for the money.

A lot of truck for the money. And, a nice one at that.

In my book "not running" means "parts only", and $1000 is too much for one of those. Perhaps the plow ups the price some, but I doubt if it would that much.

Yes, it is probably a bit high in price, but it appears to be a nice truck. Here are some things I noticed: - Don't like the air filter, but that is easily changed - Propane hardware on the passenger's fender - Interesting steering wheel - The transfer case shifter boot trim ring that Shaun's been talking about - What's the deal with whatever is where the tach would be? Is it a compass? - HEI - No A/C - Black grille, headlight doors, bumpers, and wheels work well together. (Thinking Big Blue) - Clear turn signal lenses, so probably has slider locks

As embarrassing at it sounds, I have now owned two of these trim rings and have never really paid that close of attention to them. They probably are stainless, and I'm just a dummy who is too lazy to break out his MPC. The floor plate I bought has a boot that came with it for the transfer case, however it seems to have too many folds for the trim ring to fit around it. I cannot remember how I made it work with the boot in my F150 because I know that boot was from something newer than 1983. I guess I will have to quit being lazy and dig through my MPC and see what I can find. I have saved the below picture since it's a close up, and there's definitely only four folds over the trim ring. Not sure if the rest are tucked under the vinyl floor, or if the boot itself is different with less folds. Shaun - I cannot find that trim ring in the catalog. And I have one of them - which does NOT have a number on it. I've looked at every instance of the terms "boot" and "trim" in the catalog, to no avail. And I've scrolled through the section that contains the boots and gear shift levers. Further, I've looked at every one of the illustrations of shift lever boots. Nada. So, maybe tomorrow afternoon I'll climb the "microfiche tower" and check out the '82 version I have of the MPC. I'll look at the illustrations first and see if I can spot it. Then turn to the part #'s around boots and shift levers if needed.

Yup!

Nathan - See if this answers the questions: Exterior/Bumpers.

I will put a file together of the pictures sometime soon to send you. I just edited pictures and modified them as I went so some pictures may or may not exist yet as they are shown in the how to i typed up. I am more then happy to have the information be put somewhere that it can be found and put to good use. I will send you an email or emails if it requires several to get the photos to you as soon as I can. Weather permitting I might go take a few more "better" pictures of the finished installation. When writing a how to description down I quickly could see I should have taken more pictures along the way, but I think there is enough there a person could copy the work I did. I also only used the camera on my phone for all the pictures so the resolution available isn't all that great. That will work.

Wow! Just WOW! That is an extremely well done how-to. And, it deserves a place on the website itself as it won't be found nearly as easily or often here in the forum. How about a new page called Saginaw Conversions in the Suspension & Steering/Steering? With your approval I'll see what I can do using your words and layout. But, if you want to email me your pics that might be better as I can use higher res pics on the web pages than I can here in the forum.

fords4life - Unless I don't understand what bumper you are talking about, the front bumper bolts directly to the frame. So, what am I missing? David - That bumper requires the rubber pad. But Dad's truck doesn't have them. Just the chrome bumper. But thanks anyway.

I've not heard of any damage or injuries in our area. As for the engine, it'll be running a cement mixer in Brandon's business. There's a clutch that attaches to the shaft and then a gearbox that bolts to an adapter plate that bolts to the engine. And it is the input to the gearbox that has a pilot that runs in the bushing. Apparently there is a commercially available engine for the mixer, but it is much more expensive than this approach. And, there are plans available to do the conversion, so we decided to do it. I hope Brandon will chime in when he gets the whole thing assembled and tell us how it works.

That's neat! But, it isn't unusual for exhausts to glow red, although not nearly that much. Years ago Dad and I pulled the doghouse off their mini motor home w/a 400 Chevy so we could tune the QJet. As the daylight faded we realized that the exhaust manifolds were indeed glowing red, and we were just cruising at about 60 or 65 MPH. Which explained why the doghouse got so hot.

Brandon and I had an interesting day yesterday. And, while not pickup related, it was interesting nonetheless.Basically it was to bore the crankshaft on a new Honda engine to accept a pilot bushing, to shorten it by .500", and to drill a hole for a lock bolt. It took us a while to mount the engine on the mill's table with the crank parallel to the table and then to tilt the head of the mill so that it was also parallel with the crank. Once that was done we ran a .625" carbide end mill into the end of the crank to create the pocket for the pilot bushing. Then we used a cut-off wheel to cut .500" off the end of the crank, as shown below. I'd take about a .020" cut with the mill table and then Brandon would turn the crank a few degrees with the starter rope. Then I'd take another cut and he'd turn. And after many minutes of doing that dance the end fell off. But then we marked and tried to drill the hole for the lock bolt. And we quickly discovered that while the center of the crank was fairly soft, the outside had been hardened. Seriously hardened. But we finally got that job done, although using another end mill rather than a drill bit as the bits just spun and got hot. Meanwhile the next door neighbor came over due to whatever was going on outside. It had been raining cats and dogs and the wind had been howling. But all of a sudden there was no rain and not a leaf was stirring. And, as the neighbor pointed out, there were clouds going in three directions right above us. Later Steve/FoxFord83 mentioned that he saw a twister come out of the sky to the west of where he works, which is east of us. Well, I'm pretty sure this is what he saw as it is surely directly above our house and the shop.

The Nabble embed thing is tricky. Give me the link and I should be able to do it - after while as I'm headed out now.

Yes, having a professional CAD'er among us might be a big help. But I don't have one of the pivots anymore. In fact, I never have had a production one. Just one someone cobbled together with a cutting torch. UGLY!

EOTZ 9275-F 80/84 F100/150 (Regular Cab) - - 116.8" W/B 80/84 F150/250 (Super Cab) - - 138.8" W/B Use with 16.5 gallon midship steel fuel tank-incl. (1) COAF 9276-A gasket

Interesting approach - a floor shifter for an auto. Curious to see how you do that. Any pics of how that connects to the tranny?

Things are progressing so rapidly in the additive manufacturing area that it won't be long before we'll be able to make serious parts using it. Things like the engine/tranny end of the mechanical clutch linkage, which is NLA. Cool!

Beautifully done! You are really on a roll with that truck!

Gary, just one more thing (Columbo), does the list show a different one for a 2WD crew cab F350, no 1986 DRW crew cab came 4WD, so no leaf springs in front. Bill - I'll check later today. Off to a meeting at church this morning (so we can meet with Steve, and other others, tonight), then to Wally World and then to Hitch 'N Post to get the frame liner instructions. But, I hope to get back out to the shop mid-morning. Steve - So, you were looking west, roughly toward our house, and saw the funnel??? Wonderful! Brandon was over and we were machining, more of which later, and it was blowing and raining to beat the band. Then everything got quiet, the neighbors came over and Janey came out, the sirens blew and we got the safe room ready. Apparently it was close, but fortunately it decided to leave us alone.

That is cool! No, HOT! Thanks for sharing that link, Jim.

Adam, we weep for you and your truck. It was good to have you on here, but you really don't have to go. Several of our members don't have Bullnose trucks, including Jim/ArdWrknTrk. Anyway, we wish you well.

Type 18 tape stripe, Explorer only: Specifications/Tape Stripe Codes/F-Series Tape Stripe Codes.