fordwheelinman
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Feb 11, 2009
- Location
- Randolph County
This little truck has been around for a while. My wife's brother in law had it for years. He hit a deer, and I had fixed it.
Note the wrinkle behind the light and the messed up lip.
The drivers door broke a hinge, and I fixed it. Then he gave it to me.
After chasing an electrical bug, that I still haven't found, I resolved to fuse every circuit (about 9 or them) that fed off the ASD fuse. Been using it for 18 months, then a few months ago, this happened.
A probably 8 pointer decided it was smarter to double back across 2 lanes instead of running off into a field. So I went through my options. Thought about selling it, parting it, scraping it. Finally I realized I now have the reason to take the bed off and flat bed it like I wanted to do in the beginning. I search the interwebs and believe it or not found all the sheet metal for $150 bucks.
After a month or so I finally had all the stars align to allow me a day to work on it. And work on it I did.
Yeah the radiator is screwed up, when I bought all the parts, nothing was available. However a new one should be here Thursday, along with a new cooling fan motor, which I just found out was busted.
With the truck disassembled, I turned my attention to the door. I don't have before pictures, forgive me. The lower hinge on this door had ripped free sometime ago, limiting usefulness of the truck. So I set about to fix it. Added some extra material, and welded it in more spots than the factory did.
The old blue Harbor Freight unit burned it in well with the flux core wire (hence the nastiness). Found out the top one had started pulling away, bent it back down, tacked it, and added material and weld just like the bottom.
Then reassembly started.
I've got the rest of the lighta to put in. I have a grille, that is less broke than the original, but I'm thinking I may do something custom. Maybe some expanded metal or something along those lines. Also have the original bumper, but for my intended purposes with the truck, I'm thinking something heavy duty.
I'd like to get some more height out of the front, and I'm gonna need some weight carrying capacity if I do a heavy duty bumper. What would be my best bet? I was thinking finding some v8 coil springs. I've looked and can't find any air shocks, so I'm not sure how else to proceed there, any thoughts?
Note the wrinkle behind the light and the messed up lip.
The drivers door broke a hinge, and I fixed it. Then he gave it to me.
After chasing an electrical bug, that I still haven't found, I resolved to fuse every circuit (about 9 or them) that fed off the ASD fuse. Been using it for 18 months, then a few months ago, this happened.
A probably 8 pointer decided it was smarter to double back across 2 lanes instead of running off into a field. So I went through my options. Thought about selling it, parting it, scraping it. Finally I realized I now have the reason to take the bed off and flat bed it like I wanted to do in the beginning. I search the interwebs and believe it or not found all the sheet metal for $150 bucks.
After a month or so I finally had all the stars align to allow me a day to work on it. And work on it I did.
Yeah the radiator is screwed up, when I bought all the parts, nothing was available. However a new one should be here Thursday, along with a new cooling fan motor, which I just found out was busted.
With the truck disassembled, I turned my attention to the door. I don't have before pictures, forgive me. The lower hinge on this door had ripped free sometime ago, limiting usefulness of the truck. So I set about to fix it. Added some extra material, and welded it in more spots than the factory did.
The old blue Harbor Freight unit burned it in well with the flux core wire (hence the nastiness). Found out the top one had started pulling away, bent it back down, tacked it, and added material and weld just like the bottom.
Then reassembly started.
I've got the rest of the lighta to put in. I have a grille, that is less broke than the original, but I'm thinking I may do something custom. Maybe some expanded metal or something along those lines. Also have the original bumper, but for my intended purposes with the truck, I'm thinking something heavy duty.
I'd like to get some more height out of the front, and I'm gonna need some weight carrying capacity if I do a heavy duty bumper. What would be my best bet? I was thinking finding some v8 coil springs. I've looked and can't find any air shocks, so I'm not sure how else to proceed there, any thoughts?
