Mack
07-12-2010, 01:19 AM
First off I'd like to say thank you to a couple guys off of the site that helped me with this. Dave (DarkPrincFang) and Gary (ZJ_5.2_Limited). Thanks for all the help guys, you made the swap possible.
Here's the story. I bought a 1977 F150 with a 1972 Ford 360 (5.9 L) V8, 4spd, 4x4 on brand new 32x11.50x15s. When I bought the truck the guy said that it needed carb work and he thought it needed rings. I tried to fix the motor, until one day I tried to start it, it back fired and caught on fire. Then I said to Hell with it. Last fall I picked up a 1976 390 (6.4L) from my cousin's junk yard (Murphy's Junk Yard in Dawson, PA) for $350. He let me drive the truck around the junk yard so I would know if it ran. One of my dad's buddy's put main and rod bearings, put it in time, and replaced some gaskets for $20. (Just enough for a case of beer).
A couple months ago, we pulled the 360 and tore it down. Turns out, rings and carb work weren't the only problems. It had 7 bent push rods, excessive heat marks on the bearings, sings of water on the heads, bad timing gears, and so on.
One of the nights last weekend, Gary and I started on the 390 at midnight. We picked Dave up at 3AM and set the motor in. By the time Gary got off work that day, it was mostly hooked up. We were missing the wire that runs from the starter to the selenoid so we hooked up jumper cables and ran the positives off the starter bolt and selenoid, and the negatives off of the block and the negative battery terminal. The motor turned over, but not fast enough to start.
I let it sit until Friday night at 8 when I picked Dave up. We made a wire for the starter/selenoid connection and put a better battery in. The motor turned faster, but wouldn't start. Dave spent literally all night trying to figuer out why it wouldn't start while I put the grille assembly, bumper, light bezels and turn signals on.
We assumed that I had a bad coil. So Saturday morning we went to Sprout's Place in Hopwood, PA to find parts. We pulled a freshly rebuilt Motocraft carb off of a J10 pickup for only $30. On the way home I stopped at Autozone in Uniontown and bought a new coil, dist. cap and the little triangle piece, thing that goes in the distributor. Brought it home, put the coil, distributor cap, and triangle rotor thing-a-ma-jig on and it turned over faster and would now backfire. (Hey, it's progress from turning over slow)
Then we tried to catch it in gear. Still did nothing, but we did figure out, that with some assistance, a Honda 250EX will pull a truck.
Later that night my old man looked at it, and we discovered that it was WAY out of time. After we put it in time, it turned over three times and started.
It's not completely done now. I have to do some small things to the motor, new power steering belt, wire up the lights, fix the breaks, etc.
Lets add it up.
1977 F150 (with a bed full of parts) - $2,500
1976 Ford 390 - $350
Flowtech Headers - $170
Carb - $30
Coil - $23
Distributor Cap - $6
Plastic Triangle Piece That's Probably Pretty Important... - $5
Labor - $20
Junk Yard Admission - $1
Gaskets - $20
Oil - $15
Gas - $10
Burger King - $6.36
So far I have $3,156.36 (roughly) invested in the build.
I'll add pictures tomorrow after I get off work.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=28763238&albumId=3002358
You can see them on my myspace for now.
Thanks for reading my novel. Any advice for this kinda stuff would be appreciated. I'm still a rookie at all this.
Here's the story. I bought a 1977 F150 with a 1972 Ford 360 (5.9 L) V8, 4spd, 4x4 on brand new 32x11.50x15s. When I bought the truck the guy said that it needed carb work and he thought it needed rings. I tried to fix the motor, until one day I tried to start it, it back fired and caught on fire. Then I said to Hell with it. Last fall I picked up a 1976 390 (6.4L) from my cousin's junk yard (Murphy's Junk Yard in Dawson, PA) for $350. He let me drive the truck around the junk yard so I would know if it ran. One of my dad's buddy's put main and rod bearings, put it in time, and replaced some gaskets for $20. (Just enough for a case of beer).
A couple months ago, we pulled the 360 and tore it down. Turns out, rings and carb work weren't the only problems. It had 7 bent push rods, excessive heat marks on the bearings, sings of water on the heads, bad timing gears, and so on.
One of the nights last weekend, Gary and I started on the 390 at midnight. We picked Dave up at 3AM and set the motor in. By the time Gary got off work that day, it was mostly hooked up. We were missing the wire that runs from the starter to the selenoid so we hooked up jumper cables and ran the positives off the starter bolt and selenoid, and the negatives off of the block and the negative battery terminal. The motor turned over, but not fast enough to start.
I let it sit until Friday night at 8 when I picked Dave up. We made a wire for the starter/selenoid connection and put a better battery in. The motor turned faster, but wouldn't start. Dave spent literally all night trying to figuer out why it wouldn't start while I put the grille assembly, bumper, light bezels and turn signals on.
We assumed that I had a bad coil. So Saturday morning we went to Sprout's Place in Hopwood, PA to find parts. We pulled a freshly rebuilt Motocraft carb off of a J10 pickup for only $30. On the way home I stopped at Autozone in Uniontown and bought a new coil, dist. cap and the little triangle piece, thing that goes in the distributor. Brought it home, put the coil, distributor cap, and triangle rotor thing-a-ma-jig on and it turned over faster and would now backfire. (Hey, it's progress from turning over slow)
Then we tried to catch it in gear. Still did nothing, but we did figure out, that with some assistance, a Honda 250EX will pull a truck.
Later that night my old man looked at it, and we discovered that it was WAY out of time. After we put it in time, it turned over three times and started.
It's not completely done now. I have to do some small things to the motor, new power steering belt, wire up the lights, fix the breaks, etc.
Lets add it up.
1977 F150 (with a bed full of parts) - $2,500
1976 Ford 390 - $350
Flowtech Headers - $170
Carb - $30
Coil - $23
Distributor Cap - $6
Plastic Triangle Piece That's Probably Pretty Important... - $5
Labor - $20
Junk Yard Admission - $1
Gaskets - $20
Oil - $15
Gas - $10
Burger King - $6.36
So far I have $3,156.36 (roughly) invested in the build.
I'll add pictures tomorrow after I get off work.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=28763238&albumId=3002358
You can see them on my myspace for now.
Thanks for reading my novel. Any advice for this kinda stuff would be appreciated. I'm still a rookie at all this.