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Imagine how much fun it is for me, with my 1 year wonder mechanical pump setup? 😂

Oh geez yea, that would be no good. Some scrubbing and WD40 for it cleaned up pretty good. Worse case scenario it's just for looks lol. I have a 48" farm jack in the garage maybe I need to make a mount for that. I suppose you could get away with the front, because of the TTB, (if you can get under it!) but the 10.25 rear axle is just too high for me to get my (stock sized) tires on. Granted, I've only had 2 flats in 37 years, as I get older and more broken I begin to loath that tire carrier. It certainly didn't make it easy for me to change my tank last year!

Is there an extractor fan, or does it just work passively?

The HFH system underwent a couple of changes. In the beginning I think the power switched at the actual switch, so there wasn't a selector relay. The six port valve changed too. Beginning in '85 ALL trucks got the bigger tank bing, because the 5.0 EFI pump/sender assembly had to fit in the tank. In '87 the filler necks changed, and fuel went down the center with a annular/circumferential vent helping deal with filling "click off" These tanks have no vent support ring.

Which year is this for Vivek? Honestly, I can usually picture the pages of my EVTM in my head and just "be the electron" following it like a road map. I apologize if the diagram I'm picturing is not 1986, but AFAIK nothing changed in the last year carbureted fuel delivery, just the senders have different values and read 'upside down' because the instruments aren't thermal.

Pink/black is the starter bypass (prime while cranking) The resistor in this case is not a length of wire, it's an actual component, after the relay, but before the inertia switch.

I wanted new (unrusted & unmolested) steelies for my truck. I ended up buying Wheel Vintiques through Summit's eBay store. They look the part and fit my type 3 wheel covers just fine. While I have a different lug pattern, 5 on 5.5 is really common. I'm sure they have something to suit your needs.

They are missing the intermediate section. I'm going to tag Dave Grant, as he installed dual tanks in his Flareside and probably knows a thing or two about Flareside fillers...

I usually try to specify starters by Lester #. It narrows down the applications and seems to be universally found in the interchange Sorry you have the wrong starter. I definitely know the frustration.

The rubber duckbill of the cowl drain should be farther up, at about the level of the kick access panel. One thing to be mindful of with those Ford jacks, while they may work with 15" 150 tires they annoyingly allow you to get a flat 235/85 R-16 off.... but they don't go high enough to put a filled tire back on! DAMHIK!!! 😡 Get yourself a 3" thick chunk of wood big enough to provide a stable platform and toss it in the bed. Maybe a doubled up piece of 2x8 or10 pressure treated? (I have a chunk of 12/4 mahogany) Far better than having to put the flat back on while you go searching for a flat rock on the side of the road. 💡

I'd be very tempted to fit a Pertronix unit, and forget about cam wear, failing condensers and filing points forever... 💡

Did you get a manual starter for an automatic truck? Maybe it can't kick out far enough to engage the flexplate?

Please go to the EVTM and familiarize yourself with the Hot Fuel Handling system. Pk/bl should be bypass safety while cranking.Fuselink (T) hot in start... It comes after the pump relay and the resistor. But before the inertia switch The oil pressure safety provides pulldown for the fuel pump relay, it's fed by fuse 18 and grounds at G801. The pump power relay is fed by fuse link (S) and passes to a resistor before feeding the inertia switch The inertia switch is on the passenger side of the transmission tunnel and feeds the selector switch on the dash. At least this is what it looks like in my EVTM.

"Re-assembly is the reverse of removal"... Always fun when the entire vehicle is built around 'X'. Heater core on the firewall above the tunnel on later Ford vehicles comes to mind.

As long as the 400, 429, 460 are the same (manual or automatic) that high torque, clockable Tilston style starter is TWTG!

There should never be a check valve in the vacuum advance, just a restriction to provide some hysteresis so the timing doesn't jump around. Gary has a point about even some new modules don't have functional ignition retard. I believe he showed with his oscilloscope that applying power created a 1ms delay, which worked out to 4ish degrees of crank rotation. A bound up advance plate would make sense, but I can't see that changing one fully charged battery for another making a bit of difference. Except that the time spent with the hood open, screwing around with cables and hold down allows the starter a chance to cool off. Stopping the heat from the headers in the first place is going to do more for the life of the starter than anything else.

Have you considered a starter heat shield? If your starter is drawing more than 600A your relay isn't going to last long before it welds itself closed. 💡

I have a lowly 'Custom' and it came with white lettering, although it has no other stripe package. In fact, when I repainted it I ordered reflective vinyl.letters. They hold up really well and now they really show up at night. There was some discussion with a member from GA about how best to paint them on. I'm pretty sure he settled on a brayer (inking roller) in the end.

Welcome Allen! The entire YF series tuning section of the manual is available! https://www.garysgaragemahal.com/carter-yfa-1bbl.html

I can assure you that 80-90, Bronco, 150, 250, 350, all the same front floor. Broncos & Supercabs kinda kick up in the back but that shouldn't be a concern. The vinyl floors I bought were stupid thick and no amount of heat seemed to help them lay flat near the firewall. So, I got a thinner rubber floor from Mexico, on eBay.

There was cobblestone all over back then. Cambridge, Boston proper, lots of the little side streets still had it. Do you remember when the Hancock tower was raining windows on Copley(?) Plaza? !!! Thankfully people didn't die.

Human lives.... When I was born 60ish years ago there were 3B people on the planet. Today there are over eight billion! Let that sink in a bit. One generation...... Even if we were to decimate the entire human population it would barely budge the needle. (I'm not trying to get biblical, but I'm sure y'all know what that means)

I honestly don't know who started it. I came from the 'toe' of Connecticut and had never encountered race riots before. 13 years old, thrown into a foster home, new school system entirely...🙃 I certainly didn't feel welcomed or quite grasp everything that was going on around me. Had I known history was being made, I might have viewed it differently. 🤔

Radiusing the back of the box would probably accomplish the same thing, without messing up the entire steering geometry.

Bummer Angelo! I'm confident in your ability to fix this, and fix it right. Sounds like a complete front end upgrade. 👍 I'm not too familiar with the solid D44 swap. Mostly see D60 SAS in leaf sprung trucks. But I'm subscribed to tag along on this adventure. 😉