Ford F700 429 92.

Still watching enviously of clifford.

Today's project

Next week's project

This has made me want to check if there are any F700s or F600s on Craigslist - it's one of the more interesting budget tow vehicles I've seen in a while.

I really dislike monstrously big trucks, but this thing is definitely cool!

But it's not even a 2" lift.

Out with the old

(Rockwell 2 speed RS 15-210)

Out with the old

In with the new

Lower spring plates are too narrow by 3/4 of an inch

If at first you don't succeed

Try, try again

My sweet lord, look at the spring stack on that thing!

On the plus side, the old rear axle will pay for the swap in scrap prices alone.

Man that looks like a whole lot of NO FUN to work on...but cool though! Nice work on the custom plates!

I bet you don't use those jack stands on the RX5.0 !

Nice work.

yamaha wrote: Still watching enviously of clifford.

http://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/3936476990.html

I had to order new rear calipers, the old ones were bound up tight and one piston broke trying to back them off, so I got the replacements for them in today.

Brake lines to be run in the next couple of days.

Stay tuned for the next thrilling episode of Tonka the wonder truck

ultraclyde wrote: My sweet lord, look at the spring stack on that thing!

I'm not far behind.....he has 15(If I counted correctly), I only have 11.....Mine gets airborn every bump though. I really need to start cleaning mine up for paintwork and get the carb rebuilt. My family said they'd buy me a new flatbed if it were reliable enough to use on the farm.

EvanB wrote:

yamaha wrote: Still watching enviously of clifford.

http://dayton.craigslist.org/cto/3936476990.html

I wonder what type of engine you can fit in there. Possibly anything, I'd imagine.

DoctorBlade wrote: I wonder what type of engine you can fit in there. Possibly anything, I'd imagine.

Just about......speaking of which, I have a bench seat out of one of those big fords.

I worked on the F600 bucket truck I drove and it had the 370 gas motor. It may have been the largest lump of useless steel I have ever seen masquerading as a motor, but in that engine compartment it looked like a thimble in a ballroom. There's room for nearly anything short of a warp drive in that truck.

In reply to ultraclyde:

You can only fit warp drive in the L series fords.....

yamaha wrote:

ultraclyde wrote: My sweet lord, look at the spring stack on that thing!

I'm not far behind.....he has 15(If I counted correctly), I only have 11.....Mine gets airborn every bump though. I really need to start cleaning mine up for paintwork and get the carb rebuilt. My family said they'd buy me a new flatbed if it were reliable enough to use on the farm.

Wanna count those again

Oooooh parts

4 wheels disc brakes rock.

You need to steal a couple "Hybrid Synergy Drive" badges from a Prius and slap 'em on the truck.

Hybrid - burns fossil fuels AND RAW DINOSAURS!!!!!!!!!

I get 17 leaves. Bonus points that several of them look to be 1" thick steel.

Let's talk leaf springs. Do you need the load capacity that all those leaves allow you? Or are you doing it for lift? Any axle wrap? It seems like all those mixed leaves/flat bar is something I'd address. Good, until funds warrant a change, probably.

How many of those leaves aren't stock? Man that thing is big and mean. Again, I usually hate big trucks (and I still wouldn't want to put this thing on a lift or work on it), but it'd be fun to drive in big wide open spaces!! Nice brakes!

If you look back at the early pages, these are the reduced rate springs.

None of them are for height, this was a load carrying beast of burden, I had the springs thickness reduced significantly from the originals, didn't want to remove springs as the height would come down too much.

In reply to aussiesmg:

I think I was only counting those that extended past the plate on the axle.