ThinLizzy's '67 F250 CS

[ThinLizzy13]

Popeyes71- I'm probably going to end up doing the same thing. I really wish I could've saved the FOMOCO ones just cause I think theyre cool. Rear drums aren't too badly priced, but those front drums, wow

[ThinLizzy13]

Broke open the piggy bank and ordered some parts...
- New Drums/shoes front and back
- Soft brake lines
- Wheel seals
- Heater core
- Drag link
- Duraspark II stuff

Everything should be here before next weekend. With the brakes redone, the defroster working, and the new drag link I'll probably start using it as my daily.

Still on the fence about when I'm going to do the DSII conversion. Probably after I've had to adjust the points a couple times I'll get fed up and just switch it over .

I had my wheel hubs cleaned up in a parts tank at work and painted them. Nothing fancy. Figured since I had time to kill, why not?
I made buddies with one of the powder coaters at work and almost had them powder coated, but I was too lazy to knock the races out so spray paint it was

[biggene]

Truck is looking good man. Glad to see someone else is keeping one somewhat stock.

[ThinLizzy13]

Truck is looking good man. Glad to see someone else is keeping one somewhat stock.

Thanks man! I like to keep my trucks stock...ish .I got a Dana 60 3.54 limited slip out of a '72 I'm going to put in at some point and I think instead of a new radio I'm just going to add an aux input to the stock one. Aside from the DSII (which I'm reluctant to even install despite ordering all the parts) my truck is going to stay like it was in 1967. Stock rims are long gone too, but 16.5" rims are a pain and I don't wanna deal with split rims either. My A/C plans are more just wishful thinking at this point.

[hfdco4]

The simpler upgrade is to good with a petronix in your dizzy. That way you can get electronic ignition without replacing everything.

[ThinLizzy13]

The simpler upgrade is to good with a petronix in your dizzy. That way you can get electronic ignition without replacing everything.

I did think about putting Petronix in. It seems like people have good things to say about it. In the end I ultimately decided on DSII because I like that it's Ford. Also the DSII setup only ran me the cost of '76 360 dizzy. I had some old brain boxes laying around from previous projects.

[biggene]

I have a Pertronix setup on my 72 F100 that the PO installed and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Only issues I have had is when the top heater hose burst and filled the distributor cap with water. Other than that, it starts up and runs great every single day.

[ThinLizzy13]

The more I read about Petronix the more alluring it becomes .

I had big truck plans for Memorial Day weekend, but decided to order new wheel cylinders last minute and put everything on hold. I saw BENDIX stamped on the old ones and figured I should probably switch those out. Who knows how long they had been in there Still weren't leaking though...

Also had to order an outer tie rod in addition to the inner. The outer one was fine but I messed up the threads removing it

In addition to the above I'm trying to find the correct thread size for the manifold to exhaust pipe studs. It's a 7/16 variety but 7/16-14 and 7/16-20 don't seem to be quite right...

[Jacksdad]

One of my first modifications was an Accel supercoil and a Pertronix unit in the original distributor, and it's never given me any trouble

[ThinLizzy13]

Busted my hump and made a lot of progress on the truck today.

- New shoes, drums, and wheel cylinders all around.
- New soft brake lines up front
- New heater core installed and got the blower motor functioning
- New inner and outer tie rods
- Fixed passenger side exhaust leak at manifold (didnt break any studs!)
- replaced passenger side mirror and added round mirror

I bled the brakes and took 'er down some dirt roads. Tie Rods seem dialed in and the brakes functioned great. No pulling to one side or the other and no more (or should I say a lot less ) wandering steering.

Cleaned up the hubs on all four corners...


Here's my routing for the heat with an engine block heater spliced in. Don't need it in SC, but it was there when I got it and I didn't feel like taking it out. Sorry for the crappy pic, but I'm not sure if I have the hoses backwards or not, I've seen conflicting diagrams...




For the immediate future I'll need to get a new passenger side front tire, fix the backup light, and patch some of the exhaust out by the muffler. Then I'll be ripping out my hack job passenger side floor fix and doing it right. It also seems as if the kingpins are on their way out. So that'll be a fun project

As she sits now with the grill guard on ready to roll

[ThinLizzy13]

My muffler patch job turned into a new muffler and tailpipe job The truck had an old glass pack with no tailpipe and that thing was LOUD. I went back to stock exhaust setup.

I used the walker pre bent tailpipe. For a muffler I did some searching around, and found a universal type muffler that was almost identical to the stock one, and $40 cheaper than the "correct" muffler! The truck is so much quieter now, and there's hardly any engine noise inside the cab.

It seems like I'm a bit of an oddball wanting to make my truck "quiet" or going back to the stock exhaust, but if anyone is interested here are the part numbers:
- pre bent tailpipe: walker part#46326
- muffler walker part#17893

I've been driving my truck everyday for the last 3 weeks. I just turned over 71k miles and have been averaging 12 MPG with my stock setup. Not too shabby

[sargentrs]

Glad to see your hard work paid off. Keep the updates coming!

[ThinLizzy13]

Did some tweaking on the truck tonight with a vac gauge and dwell meter. Of course I forgot my timing light

My dwell is 28, RPM 650, but my vac reading is a steady 16. I'm at basically sea level. The vac gauge says late ignition timing. I can get the engine to pull a steady 18 by adjusting the dizzy but then I'm running about 850 rpm at hot idle.

The gauge reads fine under load and the truck never stumbles or has flat spots. I'm going to play with it some more tomorrow and then start working on the kingpins....

[ThinLizzy13]

Got my timing light and dialed everything as best I could.

RPM at idle 750
Dwell - 29
Vac - steady 18
Timing - 10 BTDC

[ThinLizzy13]

Made some good progress this weekend. Got a leaking freeze plug swapped out and finally tackled the kingpins.

The freeze plug between my starter and engine mount developed a pin hole. Luckily it was easily accessible. I punched the old plug in side ways, then pulled it out with pliers. I couldn't believe all the rusty crud hiding in there behind it! Put some sealant around the new one and tapped it back in.

50yr old plug vs New



New freeze plug in all its glory



My first kingpin job went pretty smoothly. I decided to go with the nylon bushings. I couldn't find a reamer and didn't feel like messing around with going to a machine shop.
Fortunately for me someone had already installed nylon bushings installed in my truck. Switching out the old kingpins/bushings and installing the new ones took me about 2 1/2 hrs. It would've taken less time, but one kingpin was quite stubborn.
Once the kingpins were out I could tap the old nylon bushings out with a screw driver.

Then I put the new bushing in...


And tapped it down...


Too simple. Put the new pins in, set the retaining bolt, and they were good to go

Up next is replacing my dry rotted passenger front tire and tweaking my tuning a little bit. I set my timing to 8 and it seems to be running without spark knock....