Figured in case of a phone failure and just for funsies I’d get a tread going on my 1991 F250. Here’s the day it arrived in my driveway in late August of 2024.
Long-ish story’s short version- man gets hurt and truck sits for many years. I saved it from the scrap yard.
This truck was bought new in Des Moines by a guy about a mile from home, fast forward to 2012 ish and the guy bought it new was doing some fence repairs and somehow got ran over by his little ford tractor. Thankfully he survived but wasn’t quite the same (understandably), still a very nice guy. The truck was in town getting a new clutch put in it at the place my old man drives for. While he was in the hospital they drove it home to him and gave the keys to his sons. And there it ended up sitting until I acquired it last August. I’d approached him about buying it in 2023 and he declined, then one day the local salvage yard owner called me after learning I’d tried buying it in the past. A quick deal is struck and I gave him his $50 he had in it and the next day he dropped it off in the driveway since it was still on the rollback at his shop.
For a good portion of the decade plus it sat next to the gravel road with the drivers window mostly down. Needless to say the mice and Mother Nature had a great time. The engine bay and interior were disasters.
Many people would’ve looked at this truck and happily let it meet the scrap man. And despite never owning one the 87-91 F series trucks have always appealed to me. Especially this one as it’s the perfect farm truck for me. Drivetrain is a 351, ZF5, and BW1355. Sadly the gears were 3.55 but that would be rectified in the future.
The very day it arrived in the driveway I dropped a battery in it, cleaned the air intake tubes out (full of mouse nests from throttle body to filter box), then tickled it with ether and it fired.
Will continue with this thread shortly and update it to get caught up to present day. Doesn’t hardly look the same anymore
Long-ish story’s short version- man gets hurt and truck sits for many years. I saved it from the scrap yard.
This truck was bought new in Des Moines by a guy about a mile from home, fast forward to 2012 ish and the guy bought it new was doing some fence repairs and somehow got ran over by his little ford tractor. Thankfully he survived but wasn’t quite the same (understandably), still a very nice guy. The truck was in town getting a new clutch put in it at the place my old man drives for. While he was in the hospital they drove it home to him and gave the keys to his sons. And there it ended up sitting until I acquired it last August. I’d approached him about buying it in 2023 and he declined, then one day the local salvage yard owner called me after learning I’d tried buying it in the past. A quick deal is struck and I gave him his $50 he had in it and the next day he dropped it off in the driveway since it was still on the rollback at his shop.
For a good portion of the decade plus it sat next to the gravel road with the drivers window mostly down. Needless to say the mice and Mother Nature had a great time. The engine bay and interior were disasters.
Many people would’ve looked at this truck and happily let it meet the scrap man. And despite never owning one the 87-91 F series trucks have always appealed to me. Especially this one as it’s the perfect farm truck for me. Drivetrain is a 351, ZF5, and BW1355. Sadly the gears were 3.55 but that would be rectified in the future.
The very day it arrived in the driveway I dropped a battery in it, cleaned the air intake tubes out (full of mouse nests from throttle body to filter box), then tickled it with ether and it fired.
Will continue with this thread shortly and update it to get caught up to present day. Doesn’t hardly look the same anymore
