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This fun to read and be involved with Ted.

We will want to mock it up in the B2 to match the angle of the tcase output with the pinion angle at ride height. You might get lucky doing it the other way, but with the engine swap and axle swap let's just take the time to match it up so you don't have any harmonic vibrations when coasting.

It's an interesting mindset shift having grown up w the '70s pickups as cool and semi valuable and the '90s pickups as new. Now the '70s pickups are crazy expensive and some of the parts are getting rare. Now the '90s pickups are hot commodities. 🤔

I must have scrapped the ranks out of mine. I haven't seen them kicking around.

'71 F350 Napco 4x4.

I'm not going to plug up Ted's build thread w my bumpside collection. I think there are some pics of them in my Explorer build thread. This B2 build is going to be fun. We will be hitting you up knowledge Jamie. You are the guru as far as I'm concerned.

You're very kind Mr Fortune. You have been an incredible friend and asset to me over the years. "It's not what You know, but Who you know...." Ted n I had a good time yesterday. I'm sure pics will follow.

It's a sweet rig. You did an awesome job on it.

Right?!?!?

The earlier ones were 5 on 5.5

They had unit bearings by then.

The locking hub is too big diameter to fit through the center of the smaller bolt pattern wheels

Just tighten the bolt, there won't be any slop.

If only I could give them all a home

Real hotrods are never finished..... I love this little truck. It's so cool.

That thing screamed for 22 hrs straight from Nampa to KOH, only letting up to put gas in it. I was impressed.

You pay extra for them to open the hitch up. We may have far exceeded the suggested gvw.

This thing is my winter weather driver so I can save my '71 from the salt. I finally got tired of trying to hook things to the roof. So I've started the roof rack cage project. The easy part is almost finished. The cross bars should line up with where the verts for the cage should protrude...

AWESOME! Thank you Rick! Thank you @410Fortune for talking me into submitting!

The 4r70 has a much better 1st gear than the a4Ld does. Love it.

It pulls 37s w 4.88s like they are 35s

NeoMustangs on YouTube has a decent video on it.

It's an old poor man's HotRod trick. The piston pins are offset in the pistons. So if you swap sides and rotate them it increases the stroke and compression.

Yeah, I try to "fix" things better than stock. It even gained fuel mileage.

I also ported the heads and upgraded the valvesprings. Oh And a Jmod stage 3 valvebody out of a crown Vic.

I freshened the 5.0 before I stuck it in the hole. New bearing, moly rings, and flipped the pistons/rods and a mustang gt cam. It runs quite a bit better than my bride's '01 5.0 sploder.

I tried really hard to use the cast Explorer oil pan. Everyone was correct, it won't fit. I moved the engine back as far as I could and wanted it low. The humps and bumps in the pan will not clear the TTB crossmember and pivot mount. I trimmed the pivot and eventually cut it off and the pan...

The hearts

Well, almost a year ago, the heads lifted on the 4.0. Poor thing had been slowly burning water for the entire time I have owned it. So, to fix it properly, I swapped in a 5.0 4r70 out of a rolled early Mountaineer I had picked up just for this purpose and had stashed for a couple years. Mucho...

You got the goody out of those pads. I tend to harvest rotors/pads from the junk yard. I just watch for stuff in good shape. I scored a all but new set of rotors this last fall. Somebody had already poached the calipers, the emergency brake was on so the rotors were "stuck". I love that...

I'll just wait for this body to finish rusting out and then swap on a clean white body.

Wish mine was white

Or an action shot......

This one is from last winter. This winter is pretty lame as far snow pack is concerned

My old 4.0 would sputter and try to die when I was working it at low speed (rock crawling or snow wheeling) I figured it was getting hot and going into limp mode. I swapped a 5.0 into it to fix it. Now more sputtering.

The ecoboost 3.7 has been swapped into a ranger. There's a YouTube on it. I can't remember the name of the shop. It's a big high end shop. I bet the guy had $50k+ in the swap. It was super nice.

The 5.0 Windsor just sounds right. The "flip-track" makes all the right noises and manual tranny is stellar.

I've ridden in it. It is a legit good time. Ford should have built them with the 5.0 and the 5spd. If I didn't just get my 5.0 1st gen on the road I'd have to have one. Jamie is great guy and does good work. Wish I didn't live 8 hrs away.

That little pickup gets better every time you post something. Bumper looks great! Way to keep it clean and tasteful.