72 F250 4x4 Restoration

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Re: 72 F250 4x4 Restoration

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Getting me all excited to finish my 72 Jeep Wagoneer!!!! I need to cut out time for it. That's freaking RAD you're making time for this.
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Celebration day!!!! For the first time in over 20+ years, there’s an engine under the hood of my truck!!! Thanks to my wife, my mom, my brother and SO MANY of you in this group! Still a long way to go, but progress is being made!!!!
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Jasen,
Been following your rebuild on FB as well. You should be very proud, you've come a long ways in a short amount of time!
Keep up the good work, and we cant wait to see that shes in running order!
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Great work man! :pop:
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Changing that grill and hood made a huge visual impact.
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:clap: :clap: Congrats a major step in any project!! :thup:
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It has been an absolute whirlwind of a week! Exactly a week ago I decided to go ahead and start moving the motor over into the new truck. Since then we’ve had a lot of ups and downs, we’ve had some stripped bolts, we had the adventure of getting the exhaust lined up, Miss matched headers, installing a clutch, lots of learning, lots of failing, and lots of big successes. In the end we still had to worry about a possible head gasket leak, which we still don’t know what the answer to is on that, but it looks like it might’ve just been condensation or water that got in when I was power washing it. Here are some photos of the adventure, the motors in, she starts right up! Now it’s on to the drivelines, rear diff, brakes, a seat and a steering wheel!!!
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More photos! She has a hood attached!!!!
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Celebration day!!!! For the first time in over 20+ years, there’s an engine under the hood of my truck!!! Thanks to my wife, my mom, my brother and SO MANY of you in this group! Still a long way to go, but progress is being made!!!!
Dude...I would be sleeping in the truck after this accomplishment-congratulations! :thup:
We gotta' talk about getting you some disc brakes soon-you'll be so glad you made the small investment.
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Many Ford bumps / one 76' EB / and several dents through the years.
A lot of "oddball" Ford parts collected from working on them for 34 years now!
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Great looking motor and very clean engine bay. This trucks going to be awesome when your done!! Congrats on getting that motor in!
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Point me in the direction!!! What’s the rough cost?
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Re: 72 F250 4x4 Restoration
Celebration day!!!! For the first time in over 20+ years, there’s an engine under the hood of my truck!!! Thanks to my wife, my mom, my brother and SO MANY of you in this group! Still a long way to go, but progress is being made!!!!
Dude...I would be sleeping in the truck after this accomplishment-congratulations! :thup:
We gotta' talk about getting you some disc brakes soon-you'll be so glad you made the small investment.
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That's AWESOME!!! having a motor that is in a runs is massive. Proud for you not long you'll be driving around! :D
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Re: 72 F250 4x4 Restoration

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The easiest way to get the braking better for now will be simply to add a power MC that has a booster, (until you can find a disc brake front axle). The disc brake MC will still make a world of difference in the stopping power.
There's two options to get the disc brake master cylinder hooked up. The first is to try to find the original firewall booster brackets / booster / and master cylinder from a bump, (or dent) era donor truck. Go about half way down this page to see the differences-there are too many for me to list:
http://www.fordification.com/tech/clutc ... ackets.htm

Or like I see many folks doing-bolting up a new aftermarket brake booster and MV, (whioch usually requires making new brake lines from the combination valve, (down on the frame rail) up to the MC-which isn't all that hard once you have the double flare tool.
Try these guys to confirm if they have a new aftermarket booster MC assembly for your truck:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1957-77-Ford-F ... mm&vxp=mtr

Wildwood is a top name for the brake booster but you'll pay double the price for their name. :(
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Re: 72 F250 4x4 Restoration

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Congrats on all the progress! Just remember, all the road blocks that you hit are chances for you to learn and to further succeed in life. Your truck is looking good and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your progress!
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