1970 F100 "minor fixes"

[Sarge4089]

Let me start by saying that I love this site, I've kinda lurked around for a few months ever since I bought my truck. Alittle back story, I bought the truck in march 2013 and its been my daily driver ever since. Its a 1970 F100 302/3 on the tree SWB. About four weeks ago the head gaskets finally let go and filled the number 4 cylinder and oil pan with water. It didn't hydrolock thankfully. I decided to do some "minor repairs" to get it back on the road.

This is how she looked when I got her.

The tear down began

[Sarge4089]

Everything came in from summit and the build began





Did an edelbrock e-street top end kit, edelbrock car, brand new water pump, headers, ford racing valve covers, new distributor.


Mock up



Got the headers on after I had to order another set since they sent me a set for a mustang

[Sarge4089]

Picked up a few things at the local pull a part the other day from a 1967 f100. I got a bench seat in great condition, side hood emblems, sun visors, headliner with all trim pieces accept one, tailgate, and full grill and lights. I got a three row radiator and fan shroud from a 1978 F250. The fan shroud was a mess of bondo but a good friend from church came and got it and cleaned all the bondo off and fixed it the right way.







I cleaned up the inner fenders, core support, and new grill then painted them all flat black to keep the rust at bay.






I also was able to slide in a new set of 15x8 black rims from summit





She ain't much but she's my baby, and I think I'm doing ok for a married 24 year old with kids and working only on the weekends I'm off and nights after we get the kids to bed.

[sargentrs]

Great work! She's looking good.

[jimmy828]

on project. Can't wait to see how you dress up the wheels. I'm thinking about going with those wheels and and paint them same color as truck.

[Sarge4089]

Thanks guys. I'm going to plati-dip the grille in the morning. I'm smoking my tail lights, rear marker lights, and turn signals. I got the 60/40 seat out tonight so I can put a my bench seat in. I'm gonna clean all the old dirt and dust out of the cab before I put the seat in. I had a buddy, that's an electrical guru, come and trace all the wires based off the wiring diagrams on here and they all looked good. I'm going to get the bumper off the 67 tomorrow I think it will go better with the 67 grill, I'm also gonna go ahead and do the 3G alternator upgrade also.

[max03]

great progress

[Sarge4089]

got the motor almost completely wired saturday and sunday, got almost the whole front clip back on. Have to do alittle radiator repair this evening then i gonna start putting the interior back in and we should almost be ready to start.

[sargentrs]

Beautiful engine!

[Sarge4089]

Thank you. I was surprised how good it looked with new heads and some fresh paint.