1968 F100 6.0 ls build

[hackster]

Made a little progress on the truck the past few days.

Ordered in a weld on sump from Summit and it showed up a lot bigger than I imagined. Trimmed it down and rebent all the flanges to fit the back of the 70 mustang tank. Took it over to a buddies shop and got the tig machine out and welded it all up. Put the tank on a water test and all checked out ok. Need to order a sender for it.





So I got busy, self etch then some high build, got the tank pretty flat and shot on some single stage gloss black. Turned out descent enough for a gas tank hanging out under the back of this truck.









Rear brakes also showed up, Wilwood dynalite pro setup with the two piece rotors.

Assembled those with some help again from Asher, he did all the safety wire on the two piece hats while I put the rest together.

We bolted those onto the fully painted and assembled rearend.





Pretty happy with how the rearend turned out. Also got some shocks on the rear, s10 something or others, but they should do just fine.

[hackster]

Assembled the master cylinder, booster and powdercoated brackets and got to work on plumbing all the brakes. Had a couple of wrong fittings but all in all I think it turned out nice. Here a couple shots of the whole mess on the firewall.







Really happy with the lines we ran. They all look great and are tucked up and out of the way. Master cylinder is painted with a coat of rustoleum hammered gray. I like the look of the raw master but know it would rust. This is the closest thing I have found to keeping it looking cast.

Not really worth pics but the front suspension all got pulled back off, front framerails all wire wheeled down to bare metal and metal etch primed, primered and shot with the same alk200 I shot the rear frame with.

Front brakes all got cleaned up, painted and installed along with new rotors.....Not wilwoods but 12.5" brakes look big on an old ford pickup.

Front sheetmetal is all pulled apart and bumper got straightened out and ready to head out to powdercoat along with the grille and headlight bezel.

The first rust I have found is on the inner fender underneath the battery tray. Need to do a little patch work on that. Should be good work for this week.

Sean

[tubbed69]

Now that a cool project,like these trucks

[jarhead]

curious what the master cylinder is from? I need one that ports from that side.

Thanks, Joe

[aggie91]

Originally Posted by wanman

curious what the master cylinder is from? I need one that ports from that side.

Thanks, Joe

Trying not to hijack here, I'm not sure which MC he used, but I used a AC Delco 18M973 from a 2000 S10 with a 4.3L V6. It has a 1" bore and the outlets are on the right side like you need.

[hackster]

Tubbed 69- Your Camaro is unreal. I read through most of your build thread the other night. Amazing and good motivation for a guy like me.

Wanman- 75 ford two wheel drive f350. 1"bore as well.

Dropped off a load of stuff at the coater this am. Front bumper, grille, headlight bezels to get coated dull aluminum and cleared. Also the core support to get sand blasted.

Converter should have shipped from Chris at circle d on Friday.

Still battling a nasty cold so progress is kind of slow.

Sean

[jarhead]

Thanks hackster, and aggie91

[hackster]

Now after seeing some of the sheetmetal work that is done on these board, my at home hack job doesn't seem very special, but gotta keep the build thread going so bare with me.

Trying to get the front engine bay sheetmetal work done this week while I am waiting for the converter.

There was a good bit of rust below the battery box and that area was not very good looking and flowing with the rest of a pretty good looking inner fender. So I cut it out bent up some sheetmetal and welded it in for a nice straight and flush fender.

Here it is in raw metal, still needed a bit more metal work at this point but I was running out of time.





All bodywork and high build primer done. Still needs a little more attention before paint but its getting close.





The plan for the engine bay is just have mechanical parts in there, very little if any wiring. Going to tuck the headlight, turnsignals under the inner fenders and mount the battery in the rear of the truck. Trying to make it a very clean and pleasing engine bay.

Sean