94cobra69ss396's Next Project: 1964 F100
 

Now that the Explorer's V8 conversion is done and Eric's donor Explorer is out of the driveway I have room to start my next project which is my wife's 1964 Ford F100. It was purchased new in 1964 by her grandfather who gave it to her father just before he passed away in 1981. Her dad gave it to her in 1992 but it didn't run. It has been sitting in his back yard since then.

Plans are to sand it down and prep it for paint. We are planning to paint it red and white in the factory style two tone design. For the powertrain I have a 1995 BBC 454 and TH400 that both have 16,000 miles on them. I don't plan to do anything to the engine besides change the intake so I can run a Holley 750 carb. The engine came out of a motor home so I think it should make plenty of torque.

Here's how she looks today.

I've been seeing a ton of older trucks like that look good.

Awesome! I love me some old trucks. I especially like old Jeep trucks.

Me too. We're excited to get started on it and I hope to get it done fairly quickly. My wife and I started dating back in July of 1994 and it has just been sitting at her dad's house this whole time. I'm going to start disassembly and sanding tomorrow after work. It is going to be a family project, her dad wants to be involved and this will be the vehicle my oldest daughter who is now 11 will be driving when she is 16.

But a Chevy engine in a Ford??

Yep. I have two Fords with Ford engines and two Chevys with Chevy engines. I couldn't make it uneven so I'm putting a Chevy engine in a Ford truck.

That's hot rodding.

:jester:

Good answer, carry on.

Your daughter's first car is going to have a 454? You are the best dad ever!

It's nothing too exciting. It was only rated at 230hp/385tq with the TBI. The only mods will be a Summit Stage 1 intake, Holley 750 and maybe a set of headers.

My first truck only had a gm 305...a very sad 305. I only have one car that has more power then that and thats the V.

Well maybe a small cam but we'll see.

The only thing I have with less power than that is the Explorer. The Cobra and Chevelle are way above that and even my Suburban has more horsepower. It just has less torque.

One truck has a little four banger (120 hp) and the other only has a V6 (170 hp)

:iagree::iagree:

My first car was a 94 Ranger with a 2.3-liter, inline four-cylinder engine which produced 98 horsepower and 124 ft.-lbs. of torque

And so it begins...

:smack:

Mine was a shit brown 89 f150 with a gt40x crate motor.

My first car was the Chevelle but when I bought it someone had removed the 396 and installed a 307. I don't how much horsepower it had but it only lasted a year before my dad and I yanked it and installed a 1969 396 out of an Impala.

Ha got you all beat my first car was a 90 Pontiac wait for it ... Sunbird with a whopping 96 hp and 118 lb-ft.

I was able to work on the truck a little yesterday and Kylie helped. How many 11 year girls do you know that think it's fun to clean up rat poop and snails? That's my girl!

I wouldn't want to do it let a loan a 11yr old girl haha. But nice can't wait to see this thing finished it will be cool.

I'd already cleaned 90% of it before she came out to help me, I wish I would have taken a picture before I started. I was still impressed that she didn't care.

I worked on it for about 6 hours today. I finished polishing the dash and started on the instrument cluster.

Here's the dash when I started today.



And after.




Today I got two helpers, well at least for 15 minutes then Mya was gone. Kylie helped for about an hour today.




At least I pay well.



Here's the before of what Mya did.



And after.



Here are the before and partial after of the instrument cluster.

Before.



After.





And then just some miscellaneous pictures from today.

Sweet. Looks like fun. That's gonna be an awesome F100.

Gas tank behind the seat, awesome idea back in the day :uh:

It also has two auxiliary tanks in the bed just in front of each wheel well. I'm not going to use the in cab tank but I'm going to keep the two bed tanks to use. The main tank is going to be mounted under the bed in the back. I've read that a 70's Mustang tank fits there but haven't looked into yet. I'm going to build a speaker box in the area where the in cab tank was with a couple 10's and maybe some storage.

It had three separate gas tanks? Was it used on bombing missions?

Her grandfather added the extra tanks because he had a camper shell on it and used it for traveling.

Another cool thing is that while cleaning it out we found the original service policy from the day he purchased it which was 1/17/64 in Glendale, CA along with the original operators manual. The ink on the service policy is too faded for me to read what the dealership name was though.

I finished up the instrument cluster tonight.





Here are the screws that hold the speedometer to the bezel. All four looked like the one on the right and the one on the left is after polishing.

Looking good Ron!

Just an FYI, we have acid at the shop, its what i use to renovate rusty hardware. Dunk, pull, wash done.

I've been doing a lot of sanding lately. I don't have the money to have the paint/body work done right now so I'm just taking the rusted sections down to bare metal, spraying them with an etching primer and then with gloss white Rustoleum. The rest I'm just roughing up the paint and spraying over it. Here is what I've done so far.

You can follow up with regular primer after the etching primer. I would even use white, this way you wont spend twice as much in sandpaper getting the rustoleom off when it comes time for paint.

I worked on it this weekend again. I finished sanding the cowl, A pilars and window frame. Next up will be the doors or the cab, I'm not sure which. Here are some more pictures.

How's the DA working?

Great, I hope you don't mind me using it but it is saving me a ton of time.

Not at all. It's kinda mandatory for the work you're doing. Harbor freight now sells the da sand paper rollsfor about $10. Incase I didnt have any in that box I gave you.

This weekend I finished pulling the engine on the Cobra and disassembled it and then pulled the engine and trans out of the F100. Next I'm going to clean up the engine bay and paint it black. Once that's done it'll will be time to measure for the BBC and make motor mounts.

There are a lot of folks that will pay good money for that old y block. I know I probably would have if I had my old 59 still