Been hanging around here for a while but just registered. Thought I'd post a few pictures of my first FE project in about 15 years. I will say it was really nice finding this forum and being able to source parts from guys who still show an interest in supporting the FE. This sure isn't anything high dollar, but I couldn't bring myself to part out/scrap this thing.
So what I've got is a 73 F250 camper special that a mechanic that worked with me gave me after he couldn't get it running right and parked it in his yard for north of a decade. I originally thought it was going to be parts and scrap but once I saw the truck in person and started loading it on the trailer I realized it was actually pretty solid. Sort of an odd build too. It's got a lot of options, but didn't upgrade some of the obvious stuff. It's a Camper Special, has the narrow upper trim but with the lower trim. It's a factory AC truck, C6 but with a 360. Has around 73k miles on it.
The 360 was ring and bearing'd at about 70k miles. Some unknown (couldnt remember and he couldn't find a cam card) hyd flat tappet, S code iron intake, 1406 carb and a Unilite conversion in the stock distributor. I got it fired up and it sound ok. So I rebuilt the carb, swapped in a known good Pertronix billet distributor on my shelf that has been a test unit left over from another project, new fuel pump and cleaned the tanks and started driving it (slowly and not too far, bald, rotted bias plias and such). Turns out other than some worn king pins the thing drives like new. So I had to save it. The 360 does have some issues. I think they missed the cam gear by a tooth and I suspect it's just starting to loose a lobe on the cam. So I'm doing a low buck .060 over 390 with cleaned up C1AE heads (just ordered the cam from Brent) to throw in it and will probably swap the C6 for a 4R70W or 4R100 after its in and tuned.
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Patrick Oilnut, on Flickr
Bringing it home after extracting it from the blackberries.
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Patrick Oilnut, on Flickr
It was pretty crusty. It was free but I had to take the bed full of tires!
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Patrick Oilnut, on Flickr
The 360 after tuneup and carb rebuild. Couldn't resist cleaning it up a little bit.