Old Ford at work

[RumPunch]

Hauled the tractor and bush hog down the the girlfriends family farm and cleaned up for an evening of fishing. Pretty good for a 1984 that sat for an undetermined amount of time.

1984 (83 build) inline 6 4 speed manual transmission

 

[Josh B]

Where's the fish!?

 

[racsan]

hard to beat a 300/ 4-speed, not fast but reliable and awesome torque .

 

[RumPunch]

Where's the fish!?

They were dinner. Took the BII down last night meant to get pics. Forgot!

 

[Josh B]

Man, I loved that 300 in my old 73 E300

 

[RumPunch]

So have a few updates on this one. Truck is a late 83 build, 1984 year model. It had a 87-92 bed on it, even repainted inside and out brown took me a bit to notice with as much rust as it had beings most the fenders were gone. Once I noticed I couldn't unsee the body lines.. Started looking for a bed, and a title would be nice as well. Ended up buying a 1981 inlines 6 2wd explorer package with a title for $600. Undenounced to me Ford had 2 different browns in the early 80's, just my luck Either way bought it sight unseen and showed up about 45 minutes away with the trailer and a winch. Loaded it up, full of trash etc and carried it home.

Stopped at a friends for a brewskie and he was determined to see if it ran, winch battery a shot of brake clean and fire! Not that I have plans for any of the drivetrain but a running Duraspark inline 6 is not a bad paperweight! 2wd C6 free to a good home fyi!

Decided I was going to part with the front clip as a good friend needed it for his 1983 F350 7.3 / ZF swapped crew cab that somehow ended up with a brick nose front end. We agreed on a price and he had to help me dismantle and swap beds. (Always fun turning wrenches with an old friend, it helps when you have a free excavator from work too)

As soon as the hood came off we found a mr no legs in the cowl, which he needed so I couldn't sawzall it out.. So little brake clean persuaded mr snake to find a new home. Got the truck totally tore down in half a day and had a beer! Next day was swapping beds and my 84 in the meantime has quit running. (More to come further down) So moved trucks around removed the brick nose bed and come to find out the bed floor was rotted in the 81, but trucks more for putting around and whatever so not a big fret. Got the bed on after having to torch off most all of the bed bolts but much happier with the look now. Would love to get it leveled out but dred touching 40+ year old caster camber bushings in a TTB but we will see.

So on to the running issue. Once I started driving this the carb began having some issues, rebuilt that, fought vacuum leak after vacuum leak and finally it just quit running. It sat for at least a year before this bed swap ordeal but that motivated me to get it back on the road, specially now having a title. I'll swap the vin tag at some point, maybe Don't know much about these early 80's electronics and controls but I do know the factory carburetor had more electrical connectors on it the the ECU in my 2023 so I decided that needed to go. Got on eBay and found seller, https://www.ebay.com/usr/iceracer1995 they have tons of old stock carbs and parts, and looked up some specs in HP etc for carbs he had, concerned about jetting, and found a NOS Carter YF for a 73-74 Bronco or Commet and paid $100 for it.. Stole it! Last weekend was messing around the garage and was like whats the odds it just works. Capped off all useless vacuum lines, bolted the carb on pumped the accelerator, hit the key and fire. So made a few slight adjustments and truck runs like a top. My understanding is the feedback ignition system will revert to some preset data but worst case scenario I will put the Duraspark off the other engine on it or either an HEI distributor if I have issues. As of now, drove it 30 minutes one-way last night, other than the steering being scarier than a one-armed drunk person driving blind folded it was perfect!

 

[superj]

i love that body style. my 85 f150 had the same front end on it and i still think it looks better than that flat nose that was on the 88 models.