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Gary Lewis Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Welcome! You bought it new? Cool! That's a wonderful story. And who is "we"? You and your wife? You and a child? Tell us more, please! And, where are you? We have a map (Bullnose Forum/Member's Map in the menu) and could add you if we had a city or zip. Perhaps you are close to one of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArdWrknTrk Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Welcome George n' Nick! I don't know what happened 🤷♂️ We're big fans of the 300, Don't you want to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86 12 Brutus Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Hi and sorry about the deleted message, I am trying to figure everything out and accidentally deleted it. Nick who is my spouse of 25 years bought this truck brand new in 1986. This truck can pull anything, and boy i mean anything. This particular truck is a Military truck, in late 86 model year Ford put out 1000 of these trucks, they were all baby blue with the Z vector stripes. Everything is super heavy duty and lots of redundant wiring . It came with 2 batteries and 130 amp international harvester alternator. It has the Big Military 300 with C6 and 3:08 gears on a Detroit locker rear end. Towing is 12,500 lbs. Paid $14,000 bucks back in 86. It was the first truck he drove, and not wanting to buy the first thing, he drove many more, but he told me none of them had anything on this truck. it rides like a Lincoln and can pull the Louisiana superdome down Poydras street:-) Nick who is an electronic / electrical technician and designer actually made this truck remote start, remote window roll up , remote lock and unlock about a year or two before it was even offered on any vehicle. It also had a home made amplifier with 4 x 15 inch woofers behind the back seat, 3 hp per channel. Well times have changed and we have grown up and the truck , well, it aged. We are currently in the process of doing a somewhat restoration. New paint, lots and lots of body work. Completely rebuilding the dash updating and rewiring the inside. New carpet and seat upholstery to come. Also we bought all new AC system which we will need everybody's help with that please. All he hvac duct work has been redone including a modification to the blend door which is made out of plastic and breaks very easily as we all know. We modified it with small hinges from the hardware store which in our opinion works much better then that plastic stuff Ford was using. I still need to pick out or find the electric fan for the 134a AC system. We are located in a small town in southeastern Louisiana called Lutcher which is French for Small dull town with bad fm reception:-) We are really happy that we stumbled upon this forum for as we all know some forums well are just bad, I could tell some horror stories. Anyway, there are some other slight custom things we've done to the truck, not necessarily for customization but necessity. I own an 88 F150 which is the parts truck for most of it. The rear bumper and steering column as well as the tail lights have been added to the 86. If anybody needs any help with electrical wiring or pretty much anything that has electrons flowing through it, Just ask Nick. We will be happy to help in any way we can. Me, I have been in auto parts for quite some time and know all or most of Fords tricks. Nick also took the factory radio and added bluetooth to it, not just a module hanging there, but this is actually now a AM/FM Cassette/ bluetooth radio. we are talking about possibly doing an internet based business offering this modification to factory radios. We are also currently totally restoring a 79 Ford Ranchero. Did i leave anything out? to long winded? thanks for welcoming us. Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86 12 Brutus Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Hi and sorry about the deleted message, I am trying to figure everything out and accidentally deleted it. Nick who is my spouse of 25 years bought this truck brand new in 1986. This truck can pull anything, and boy i mean anything. This particular truck is a Military truck, in late 86 model year Ford put out 1000 of these trucks, they were all baby blue with the Z vector stripes. Everything is super heavy duty and lots of redundant wiring . It came with 2 batteries and 130 amp international harvester alternator. It has the Big Military 300 with C6 and 3:08 gears on a Detroit locker rear end. Towing is 12,500 lbs. Paid $14,000 bucks back in 86. It was the first truck he drove, and not wanting to buy the first thing, he drove many more, but he told me none of them had anything on this truck. it rides like a Lincoln and can pull the Louisiana superdome down Poydras street:-) Nick who is an electronic / electrical technician and designer actually made this truck remote start, remote window roll up , remote lock and unlock about a year or two before it was even offered on any vehicle. It also had a home made amplifier with 4 x 15 inch woofers behind the back seat, 3 hp per channel. Well times have changed and we have grown up and the truck , well, it aged. We are currently in the process of doing a somewhat restoration. New paint, lots and lots of body work. Completely rebuilding the dash updating and rewiring the inside. New carpet and seat upholstery to come. Also we bought all new AC system which we will need everybody's help with that please. All he hvac duct work has been redone including a modification to the blend door which is made out of plastic and breaks very easily as we all know. We modified it with small hinges from the hardware store which in our opinion works much better then that plastic stuff Ford was using. I still need to pick out or find the electric fan for the 134a AC system. We are located in a small town in southeastern Louisiana called Lutcher which is French for Small dull town with bad fm reception:-) We are really happy that we stumbled upon this forum for as we all know some forums well are just bad, I could tell some horror stories. Anyway, there are some other slight custom things we've done to the truck, not necessarily for customization but necessity. I own an 88 F150 which is the parts truck for most of it. The rear bumper and steering column as well as the tail lights have been added to the 86. If anybody needs any help with electrical wiring or pretty much anything that has electrons flowing through it, Just ask Nick. We will be happy to help in any way we can. Me, I have been in auto parts for quite some time and know all or most of Fords tricks. Nick also took the factory radio and added bluetooth to it, not just a module hanging there, but this is actually now a AM/FM Cassette/ bluetooth radio. we are talking about possibly doing an internet based business offering this modification to factory radios. We are also currently totally restoring a 79 Ford Ranchero. Did i leave anything out? to long winded? thanks for welcoming us. Peace Our zip code for the map is 70071 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86 12 Brutus Posted July 18, 2020 Author Share Posted July 18, 2020 Hi and sorry about the deleted message, I am trying to figure everything out and accidentally deleted it. Nick who is my spouse of 25 years bought this truck brand new in 1986. This truck can pull anything, and boy i mean anything. This particular truck is a Military truck, in late 86 model year Ford put out 1000 of these trucks, they were all baby blue with the Z vector stripes. Everything is super heavy duty and lots of redundant wiring . It came with 2 batteries and 130 amp international harvester alternator. It has the Big Military 300 with C6 and 3:08 gears on a Detroit locker rear end. Towing is 12,500 lbs. Paid $14,000 bucks back in 86. It was the first truck he drove, and not wanting to buy the first thing, he drove many more, but he told me none of them had anything on this truck. it rides like a Lincoln and can pull the Louisiana superdome down Poydras street:-) Nick who is an electronic / electrical technician and designer actually made this truck remote start, remote window roll up , remote lock and unlock about a year or two before it was even offered on any vehicle. It also had a home made amplifier with 4 x 15 inch woofers behind the back seat, 3 hp per channel. Well times have changed and we have grown up and the truck , well, it aged. We are currently in the process of doing a somewhat restoration. New paint, lots and lots of body work. Completely rebuilding the dash updating and rewiring the inside. New carpet and seat upholstery to come. Also we bought all new AC system which we will need everybody's help with that please. All he hvac duct work has been redone including a modification to the blend door which is made out of plastic and breaks very easily as we all know. We modified it with small hinges from the hardware store which in our opinion works much better then that plastic stuff Ford was using. I still need to pick out or find the electric fan for the 134a AC system. We are located in a small town in southeastern Louisiana called Lutcher which is French for Small dull town with bad fm reception:-) We are really happy that we stumbled upon this forum for as we all know some forums well are just bad, I could tell some horror stories. Anyway, there are some other slight custom things we've done to the truck, not necessarily for customization but necessity. I own an 88 F150 which is the parts truck for most of it. The rear bumper and steering column as well as the tail lights have been added to the 86. If anybody needs any help with electrical wiring or pretty much anything that has electrons flowing through it, Just ask Nick. We will be happy to help in any way we can. Me, I have been in auto parts for quite some time and know all or most of Fords tricks. Nick also took the factory radio and added bluetooth to it, not just a module hanging there, but this is actually now a AM/FM Cassette/ bluetooth radio. we are talking about possibly doing an internet based business offering this modification to factory radios. We are also currently totally restoring a 79 Ford Ranchero. Did i leave anything out? to long winded? thanks for welcoming us. Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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