72 F250 4x4 Restoration

turtlehead · Post by **turtlehead** » Thu Mar 08, 2018 2:42 am

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.

Stuntmonkee · Post by **Stuntmonkee** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 12:16 am

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!!!!

hdman90 · Post by **hdman90** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:44 am

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!

Bullitt74 · Post by **Bullitt74** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:32 pm

Great work man!

hfdco4 · Post by **hfdco4** » Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:50 pm

Changing that grill and hood made a huge visual impact.

cdnwillyg · Post by **cdnwillyg** » Tue Mar 13, 2018 7:00 am

Congrats a major step in any project!!

Stuntmonkee · Post by **Stuntmonkee** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:05 pm

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!!!

Stuntmonkee · Post by **Stuntmonkee** » Thu Apr 05, 2018 8:07 pm

More photos! She has a hood attached!!!!

basketcase0302 · Post by **basketcase0302** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 3:50 am

Stuntmonkee
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!

We gotta' talk about getting you some disc brakes soon-you'll be so glad you made the small investment.

Lone Ranger · Post by **Lone Ranger** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 9:35 pm

Great looking motor and very clean engine bay. This trucks going to be awesome when your done!! Congrats on getting that motor in!

Stuntmonkee · Post by **Stuntmonkee** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:19 am

Point me in the direction!!! What’s the rough cost?

basketcase0302 wrote:
Stuntmonkee
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!
We gotta' talk about getting you some disc brakes soon-you'll be so glad you made the small investment.

Manny · Post by **Manny** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:32 pm

That's AWESOME!!! having a motor that is in a runs is massive. Proud for you not long you'll be driving around!

basketcase0302 · Post by **basketcase0302** » Sun Apr 08, 2018 5:05 am

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.

popeyes71 · Post by **popeyes71** » Wed Apr 11, 2018 11:10 pm

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!