69' F250 Highboy "Crypticracer13" Update 8/4/14

[CrypticRacer13]

Well I figure its as good of a time for my build as any.
Picked this truck up May 11' found it on Craigslist while i was looking for wheels for my Ram
Anyways this is a slow build, The girlfriend (now wife) in late August 11' found out we where expecting our first child Got hitched in December 11' so as you can imagin all my funds for anything went to the wife,wedding,baby stuff etc. Our son came into the world May 3rd 2012 best day of our lives.The truck is still running an i work on it when i can an if im not thinking of my wife or son the truck is the other brain wash item haha.
Specs so far
1969 F250 Highboy
69' frame an running gear
69' front clip
68' Bed
70' cab
390FE
NP435
Dana 24
Hp Dana 44
Dana 60 Rear
Bald 38.5s

Current look as of 6/2/14


Pics from when i picked it up to now an a few things ive done in between
The day i drove it home





Mods done to the truck are the said the 390 internals MSD ign. Holley 750 bla bla lba

[CrypticRacer13]

The truck was used as a pismo truck from the PO. He had installed a hack job traction bar set up i took those off the first chance i got. He also had two front matching set of wheels he had them stolen while he was at work one day so i had a set of chevy wheels for the front to get me on the road.




Truck was like this for a while and it did its job of weekend fun truck to the store and dumps

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I later hooked up with our very own board friend Ryan(1971Ford) got a few goodies when he started his Cummins swap so i snaged what i could.
His old wheels an tires

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Truck was like that for less then a week before i found a new to me set of bald 38.5s from a fella on Pirate for dirt cheap $200
Pics with the my old DD and wifes new DD

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Made another trip to see Ryan for his old Manual steering box as mine was toast. Checked the new box out added oil drove it for a few weeks now its starting to crap out on me too, must be my little tires need to look into power set soon for it
Now just some random pics from when i picked it up

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While i had the box out i decided to rebuild the column, intall new steering wheel, new tach, aux gauges an what not

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Had to pull the carpet out to do the tranny drop

Fun day to work by yourself

Rebuilt NP435 on my lunch breaks at work




Nothing but the best for this one

Did all the work in the street

Few hours later had it on the road again

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A few weeks ago i attacked the carpet issue

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Going to have to wait till the wife lets me have some play money so i can order an OEM carpet kit and pick up some dyno matt or somthing similar to finish off the cab for now

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Still drive it around a few times a week i take it to work when its nice out
These two are how it sits now

[CrypticRacer13]

Future plans are
HP D60
GM 14 Bolt
42" TSLs
custom winch bumper up front an out back
re-work the suspention with all chevy springs an shackle flip rear with new air bags
Rear gas tank install

Building it as my Hunting/Camping rig that i can get in an go at any time
with wheeling inbetween. As rare as Highboys are im not affraid to beat the crud out of it on a trail because i can get all new sheet metal for it in one stop at the pick n pull.
So keep posted guys your up to date on how it is now an i work on it as time allows away form the family right now. This is all in the works to someday MAYBE give the keys over to my little boy if hes good.

[mcheath]

Wow, lots of work in a short amount of time. Nice looking truck, what trim level was it when new? I see that it had factory air, and all the gauges, must have been a higher end truck.

Can't decide if I like the skinny tires or the beefy ones better. The thin ones have such an unusual look to them, now that we are so used to seeing big tires on raised trucks. They really catch the eye. With the big tires it looks massive, and is. What size are the skinny tires?

[averagef250]

Like your truck and the work you've done to it.

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He's good to deal with and knows his stuff. I use his CLD tiles with mass loaded vinyl and closed cell foam sourced local.

[elgemcdlf]

Good looking truck. Your front bumper has to he higher than my hood!

[CrypticRacer13]

Wow, lots of work in a short amount of time. Nice looking truck, what trim level was it when new? I see that it had factory air, and all the gauges, must have been a higher end truck.

Can't decide if I like the skinny tires or the beefy ones better. The thin ones have such an unusual look to them, now that we are so used to seeing big tires on raised trucks. They really catch the eye. With the big tires it looks massive, and is. What size are the skinny tires?

Thanks,
The truck frame an highboy part was just a run of the mill Camper Special. The cab which is a 70-72' looks to be the XLT as it had the woodgrain dash an what not. I took that out since im not a fan of it to begin wit
The truck did have A/C at one point in its life. I picked it up with just the in cab parts still, no engine compartment parts. I just took the under dash unit out as that i thought that it was one on the ugliest things id have ever seen Im in no need of A/C in it right now so ill sell all the parts at a later date.I plan on making the inside of the truck just really clean an fresh, dont need no huge out of place box hangging down
The big wheels an tires are staying, they are going bigger as soon as im ready for them 38's now 42's later Ill have to double check as to what size Ryans old skinnys are.