Ross - that is what I thought (you have to swap the axle). I rather like the fact that there were on 465 F100 4X4s built in '69, but at the same time it does keep me from taking it too far from stock.
Was yours converted to 4X4?
I have owned my truck since 1984, when my grandfather passed and left it to me
- It was a 2 barrel 302/C-4 long bed 2WD Heavy Duty Special
- Next, a high revving 302, with 4.11 gears
- Next a 69 4V 351W
- Next, I put 4x4 under it, 360 Holley 500 2 barrel with headers, 3.50 gears, body lift, 38 inch mudders
- Next 4 inch suspension lift, canned the body lift
- Next 390 + .020, variety of configurations and gears, as mild as a 600 Holley with a Performer cam, as wild as a Predator carb with a 150 shot of nitrous with tank mounted in bed on the roll bar
- Next, cut the frame and shortened to 6 foot bed, took two cuts, one out back, one in the middle (been that way since 1990 or so)
- It worked for a living until 1995 when it went into storage
- "Restored" starting in 2009, and ended up as a 445, NP435, 3.50 gear, 33 inch tall tires, 4 inch lift
- Had some issues with the 445, it's on the engine stand, currently a tight quench 390, 9.5:1, Lunati mild cam, 750 Holley, Streetmaster, and sort of fun to drive in a moped kind of way
(Sorry 390 guys)
- Next iteration is either build the 445 as a 447, or build a 428 I have here as a 462.
Ironically, it will likely never see 4WD again, but it's been that way since the 80s, so no desire to go back to 2WD
