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Your truck is coming along nicely. Great work!

Eric

Thank you. I'm going to work on it again in a few weekends. That should wrap it up for the body work before paint.

I have some things like break lines, rear shocks, and a steering stabilizer to install. I have those parts on hand. I do need a fuel pump as well this one is leaking pretty good. That too is a quick simple change. I have all the interior parts including new carpet to install, but again, not all that difficult to do.

I'm thinking 3 more good work weekends and it will be done. I'm hoping mid September it will be rolling down back roads with the pipes rapping.

looks good Tom, wish i had a rig or time to do that too. keep it up. hope to see in our woods soon

I'm planning on being up there soon buschy. Hoping to have the truck there later this fall.

Looking very good! I can't wait to see you out driving this one.

Finally decided on a paint color. It's a 1977 factory ford color. Think the color of the hood a few pics up. It's a metallic
PPG paint base/clear. The paint is here so there's no turning back now.

I'm really getting pretty excited about it now.

Looks good. Didn't someone here once post pics of their original Bronc redo, in copper? Matched set. ;O)

Always liked the looks of the late 70s Fords.

One of my farmer uncles had a new '77 F150. It was his first 4x4. Somehow he'd made it into his 60s on the farm, without ever have owned a 4x4 pickup. His son bought a new F250 the following year, also 4x4.

The '77 lasted well into the mid 90s, although the original box had rusted off'n it by then. That thing was like a tank when in granny gear.

Nice work dude, dents are like scars, chicks dig 'em
Love them Fords My next project is gonna be a 67-72 bump side F250 with a 5.9 cummings, or a bobbed bump side with 3.9 (4BT) as a toy.

If I do the F-250 with the 5.9 it will end up my daily driver and I can ditch the Chevy. The Chevy's been a good truck but I have no attachment to it.

Those old fords with a 5.9.... I can't think of a more bullet proof truck really.

Yeah that granny low is a monster. You can crawl right along without touching the throttle.

One of the dairy farmers near my hunting camp, has had an 80s F250 since it was new, now a farm truck (and looks it, too).

Some years ago they were contemplatin' going up the west side of some mountainous ground and putting on a deer drive, but no one volunteered to haul 'em up there.

Since I'd already filled my buck tag, I offered to chauffer them up top and we did it in that fugly F250. Washed out, rutted, steep "dug road" going up through those woods. None were too happy with the trip up in there, but they all survived it (rolling around in the bed like bowling balls). So did the truck.

Granny gear, transfer case in FWD low. Took all of a half hour to get them where they wanted to be, took me longer than that to get back down outta there again. When they'd finished that drive and reassembled, the truck's owner fussed about me putting another dent in his truck.

Someone else said HTH could ya tell? ;O)

T, in the 77 F250 I gave to Nate, 3rd gear on the forest trails around camp, no peddle. It's like cruise control for grouse scouting in the fall, hilarious how that thing will chug down as low as 300 RPM and still power the truck down the trail. lol.

Funny enough that you say that. I goofed last week when putting it away and instead of second, I put in 4th. It took off but was real sluggish. Since the fuel pump leaks gas, I only put a little in at a time so I thought I was out of gas. I pushed the clutch to stop and realized it was a few gears too tall.

That old sucker has enough torque to move in 4th gear if a guy put his mind to it.

The old ford 78 ford truck is getting closer to running logging roads....











I'm half tempted to put the interior in, trim on, and run it as-is.

Stranger things have happened.

Looks like what it is. Clear coat it and go logging.

clear coat it first, I hate nasty primer messes

matte clear.

If I'm going to spend the time to clear coat it, I'm going to paint it.

yep