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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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i skimmed through this build from page one and it took hours, but what an awesome build! i'm in sac, so maybe i'll see this thing around one day!
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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Maybe so! It doesn't leave Folsom much though. I take the light rail to school, and work down the street. If you plan on going by Folsom anytime let me know and we can meet up.

Spent 2 days doing body work on the hood with a buddy. It was miserable. Donor hood had some bruises that that soaked up some serious man hours to get straight again, along with welding up trim holes. It's now ready for paint, and i'm spraying it tomorrow. Can't wait to have the hood on!


Also got a steel instrument cluster shell from a fellow member for a good deal, and proceeded to butcher it up and add some bling bling. Just need to cram the autometer gauges in it now. Missing a couple that i need to collect first, though.
Will have 6 gauges i believe. No speedometer (or tach). Just stuff i care to monitor. GPS will do speedo work.
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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sweet to see it on the trails!
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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Love the project and the updates.

Do you know what kind of mileage you're getting with the Cummins?
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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photobucket's doing a voodoo whammy on this thread!!
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 9/1 wheeled rubicon

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Still have not the slighest clue on mileage. no odometer, so i haven't bothered to check being that it would be pretty difficult to calculate every single place i go. I'll do it with a gps sometime...

yeah, photobucket is absolutely terrible now. They dropped the bandwith limit big time. Too bad, because it would take 20 years to replace all the photos in this thread. I've started using flickr lately.
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Took her out for a great day in the mountains!

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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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The second picture looks killer
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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Cool pictures, thanks for sharing!
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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Great looking truck, I wouldn't have built it any different myself.
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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Thanks fellas!

I roasted the yoke/driveline on a gnarly section of rocks while on that trail (walked right up it a few years ago, when the truck was less built... but the wet rock killed me this time) and it took out the rear ujoint. Didn't notice till i got to pavement in the mountains after the trail. Ujoint was missing a cap! Dropped the driveline and locked the hubs. Drove and hour and a half home on the front driveline i made. 65MPH and no vibration out of my monster 1/4" wall front driveline haha.
Swapped the ujoint today. Turns out the rock i was on simply broke one of the nubs off the yoke that keeps the caps on the ujoint, allowing the cap to slide out and it was downhill from there.
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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1971ford wrote: Didn't notice till i got to pavement in the mountains after the trail. Ujoint was missing a cap! Dropped the driveline and locked the hubs. Drove and hour and a half home on the front driveline i made. 65MPH and no vibration out of my monster 1/4" wall front driveline haha.
Yeah! Do THAT with one of the new design vehicles. Love the old school technology. Great truck! :thup:
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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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Flexplate.

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Re: 1969 F250 4x4 Highboy 10/13 Trail run

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What happened Ryan...why's it going onto a tow truck? :(
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