Mustang's F150 thread - It's got little glowy things on the roof! :D

[mustangGT90210]

Any offroading I do is sand, dirt and grass, so that sounds good. Just gotta save up. The wheels/tires are chillin' on a guy I know's Bronco. He's puttin' 35s on, so I could get a great deal

 

[mustangGT90210]

I know what tires I'm getting! And it works out great too because mostly everywhere here is sand. Here they are:

Nitto Dune Grapplers in the size 31x10.50x15

 

[Jim Prower]

interesting tread pattern. Looks very...firey.

 

[mustangGT90210]

It's badass in my eyes

 

[Jim Prower]

Heh. Oddly enough, there's an advert on the page right now, as I type, advertising Interco Super Swampers.

Who knows. Maybe you'll end up taking this truck to the sand drags, run the stock classes. Start hopping up that inline six! Hot cam and three Webers...

;p

Oh, yes. I love black steelies with silver center caps. so badass. That type of rim doesn't really need a silver rim or trim ring to set it off, either.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I'm gonna go for the black wheels when I get the tires. I want to get some 15x8 wheels with some mad backspacing, I want these to stick out a bit. And if all goes well, those will be black

 

[mustangGT90210]

Took my first road trip today in Bigfoot's baby brother, 6 hours in total, hauling an assload of bamboo back from the east coast of Lake Okeechobee. 3 hours each way, boring as all hell, all country, which I like, but it bores me to drive it for hours on end. Truck was running warmer than normal, and touched the A in NORMAL on the temp gauge on the way home, along with cutting out for a couple seconds (temp gauge) 3 times. It's probably on it's way out

Anyways, I spend all day listenin' to my true duals roaring, and I do mean roaring, as I was in the "drone zone," and drowning it out with open windows and loud music

Here's a couple pix

Before it was all wrapped up, and this is only 5 of the 8 plants that were in there when all said and done

All wrapped up and back at the nursery here in Bradenton. It ends at the little red flag, and the pots are backed up against my new-to-me toolbox. So I've got about 6 feet of usable bed space instead of 8 now

Sugar Cane as far as the eye can see. Hello Belle Glade and South Bay, Florida. About 3-4 miles off the south coast of the lake

And here's the toolbox! Got it for $75, it's a 6 year old Delta one. Lid is a little warped from always being closed from the driver side, but besides that, all is good, even has a sliding tray inside

 

[buickgnx88]

Anyways, I spend all day listenin' to my true duals roaring, and I do mean roaring, as I was in the "drone zone," and drowning it out with open windows and loud music

That's unpossible! (unless you have the right header)

 

[mustangGT90210]

Stock manifolds for a 300-6 are 2 3-into-1 headers. Then I've got an H-Pipe, no cats, muffler in each pipe, rear exit

 

[buickgnx88]

Hmm guess I'm used to the Jeep manifolds that are 6 into 1 haha.

 

[Zach9569]

Thats a clean f-150 dude wow. Where i am every f-150 i see like yours has rust everywhere.

 

[nitrorustler41]

what mph and rpm do you run on the highway.

I usually try n tuck up behind a semi trailer and do 60-65. if im runnin i jump in the left lane, spin er up to 2500 and run a touch over 70mph. motor LOVES it. makin 6 lbs of boost....just HHAAAAWWLLLLLIIIIN! haha

 

[mustangGT90210]

Thats a clean f-150 dude wow. Where i am every f-150 i see like yours has rust everywhere.

Thanks!

Sadly, it's not without it's rust. There's a hole in the back of my passenger side cab corner, a dime sized hole where the driver seat belt anchors to the floorboard, and a couple bubbles on 2/4 fender arches

what mph and rpm do you run on the highway.

I usually try n tuck up behind a semi trailer and do 60-65. if im runnin i jump in the left lane, spin er up to 2500 and run a touch over 70mph. motor LOVES it. makin 6 lbs of boost....just HHAAAAWWLLLLLIIIIN! haha

I was runnin' 66 at fastest, but normally anywhere from 55-65 (rural highways). On the interstate I do 65 to 70. RPM is unknown, tach is broken and stays 3400 all the time. I think just replacing it with a junkyard tach will work...

 

[Zach9569]

Thats still not a lot of rust compared to the f150's down in Milwaukee. Sometimes it looks like a brown paintjob .

 

[mustangGT90210]

I'm lucky, the biggest problem cosmetically with the truck is peeling clearcoat on the roof

 

[Jim Prower]

Do like the new thread title.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Thought you would. I finally named my truck

 

[Jim Prower]

Perhaps one of these weekends...if you're near Missouri...we oughta head down to Hazelwood near St. Louis, get some pics of it next to Foot 5...

and maybe Nina the Nissan.

 

[mustangGT90210]

Yeah, I'll get right on that major road trip

I'm in Florida!

 

[mustangGT90210]

I was at work today and thought the tractor and truck looked good together, and the bamboo around, so I snapped a few pictures

 

[mustangGT90210]

And in a not so startling turn of events, I need new brakes now. My pads are starting to squeel every now and then, the rotors have been warped since purchase, and the drums out back.... Well I don't know about those. Either way, this is gonna be expensive and really cut into the new tire/level kit fund

 

[Jim Prower]

Eh, in my experience, that's just the way vehicles of a certain age are. It's not so hard you can't do it yourself, though. With good metallic pads, and normal, OEM replacement rotors and (maybe...though I seriously doubt it,) Drums, you'll struggle to break $100.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I'm probably gonna have someone do it, because I can't have the truck on the road. My friend's '06 Silverado was 130 just for the fronts

 

[nitrorustler41]

I'm probably gonna have someone do it, because I can't have the truck on the road. My friend's '06 Silverado was 130 just for the fronts

forget about the back brakes man, these old trucks hardly used them. just drive in reverse pretty fast then slam on the brakes. do that a couple times to adjust your star wheel and adujust the brakes tighter. thats how you do it.

 

[mustangGT90210]

I don't know what a star wheel is, lol. And I'm only getting the backs done if they really need it, which I doubt they do. But I gotta prepare my mind for the worst before I get them looked at

 

[mustangGT90210]

BFLB got a nice treat today, a wash, turtle wax, and even some polish! It's amazing how much better it looks now. I washed and waxed, obviously, and then used some chrome and aluminum polish on my front bumper (ran out of time for the rest) and that thing is a mirror now! I can't wait to see what it's gonna do for my wheels. They look pretty good right now, thanks to being clean, but there's still a bit of room for improvement, they are supposed to be nearly chrome levels of shine

And, since any thread is worthless without pix, here's a few

This is me, taking a picture of me, in my bumper

And the best looking wheel

 

[mustangGT90210]

Triple post D:

Anyways, fixed my tachometer today. Went to the junkyard, grabbed all the gauges save for a speedo off an '87 and '91. Swapped in the '91 tach, and it works, swapped in the gas gauges, and they do the same as the current one, so it's not the gauge. The rest are going back, although I may keep the battery, and temp gauges for spares should I need them. Overall cost of this adventure, after I take back what I didn't need - $10. $20 if I keep some backup. And I learned a lot too

 

[nitrorustler41]

i use a little fine steel wool and a hose on my front bumper....that thing is like a striaght up mirror dude.

for aluminum wheels i love this polish called blue magic. works GREAT

 

[mustangGT90210]

The chrome polish on mine did the same thing

On the wheels, the actual polished aluminum part is wearing away, so the parts that still have the coating shine, the rest don't...



And for tomorrow I'm driving an old S10 while my truck gets a brake inspection.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Is it at least a stick so you can achieve MAXIMUM HOONAGE?