Hurdt299
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- Joined
- Nov 13, 2006
- Location
- Asheville, NC
I've been working on this project for almost a year. Been planning on doing a build thread and tonight I finally got around to it. I bought this truck last January. Here's what I started out with. 1986 F-250 4x4 300 4 spd. I bought it from the original owner. He still had the title dated 1986. The truck only has two spots of rust in the exterior about the size of a quarter and a small hole in the passenger floor pan. The interior was completely gutted but it came with most of it in the bed. It had 95-97 aluminum F-250/350 wheels, 16x10 steels, and factory steel wheels, 3 sets of tires, step bars, two bumpers, grille guard, and extra door panels. When I went to pick it up I found out it had a crate motor with about 25k miles on it. I brought it all home for $1350. I hadn't planned on putting a Cummins in it until one showed up at my house a couple weeks ago.
The original plan was to ditch the ttb front and semi floater 10.25 rear and go with a 60 front and FF 10.25 rear, keep the 300, convert it to a duraspark II distributor, 33" muds and drive it.
It now has a king pin high pinion 60 from an 89 F-350 up front, and a FF 10.25 LS 3.55 sitting behind it ready to go under it. About 3 weeks ago I bought another 60/10.25 combo with 4.10s and a LS rear for $300 so now I'm putting those under this truck and the 3.55s are going under my dad's 84 F-250 7.3 truck (and yes I said 7.3. It was a 6.9 but now has an IDI 7.3 in it).
Now that I'm going with the Cummins I'll run 35s with the 4.10s. I also had a set of 37" Goodyear military tires on aluminum wheels with better than 50% tread given to me so I'm going to run them until they wear out, then go back to the 16" aluminums and buy some 35s.
The Cummins shows up at my house out of an F-800 so now I'm in search of a Fuller FSO transmission. I already have a divorced Ford NP-205 to go behind it.
I'll update more tomorrow with some pics of what progress I've made so far.
Here's a list of money spent:
Truck-$1000 (after I sold what I didnt need.
Dana 60/Sterling 10.25-$300
5.9 P pump Cummins-$0
NP-205-$0
The original plan was to ditch the ttb front and semi floater 10.25 rear and go with a 60 front and FF 10.25 rear, keep the 300, convert it to a duraspark II distributor, 33" muds and drive it.
It now has a king pin high pinion 60 from an 89 F-350 up front, and a FF 10.25 LS 3.55 sitting behind it ready to go under it. About 3 weeks ago I bought another 60/10.25 combo with 4.10s and a LS rear for $300 so now I'm putting those under this truck and the 3.55s are going under my dad's 84 F-250 7.3 truck (and yes I said 7.3. It was a 6.9 but now has an IDI 7.3 in it).
Now that I'm going with the Cummins I'll run 35s with the 4.10s. I also had a set of 37" Goodyear military tires on aluminum wheels with better than 50% tread given to me so I'm going to run them until they wear out, then go back to the 16" aluminums and buy some 35s.
The Cummins shows up at my house out of an F-800 so now I'm in search of a Fuller FSO transmission. I already have a divorced Ford NP-205 to go behind it.
I'll update more tomorrow with some pics of what progress I've made so far.
Here's a list of money spent:
Truck-$1000 (after I sold what I didnt need.
Dana 60/Sterling 10.25-$300
5.9 P pump Cummins-$0
NP-205-$0
is that a Dana 60 sf rear?
