Truck Stuff

"Pickup_man" (zekeh) 07/20/2020 at 11:55 • Filed to: None

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Did some truck stuff this weekend. I’ve been selling off a few of my bikes and one of my old trucks in an effort to free up some space, time, and money to use towards something fun.

Figuring out what to do with the money has been surprisingly difficult, but I’ve somewhat committed to spending at least some of it on getting started on my 1950 Ford F3 project truck. So this weekend I did just that, I picked up an engine hoist that was on sale, and loaded up the 300 six that’s been sitting in dad’s garage for a year and finally brought it home, along with the hoist, engine stand, and a full set of wheels. This is why I like trucks, so much room for activities!

Final tear down and assessment of the engine should hopefully happen in the next couple days. Initial impressions aren’t great, it’s already a re-man motor with two or three brands of pistons (one of them broken) , silicone caulk on nearly every gasket surface, a broken intake, and exhaust manifold, and one rocker stud that’s bigger than all of the others. Supposedly the guy drove it home though, said it smoked but otherwise ran ok. At the end of the day I’m only into the motor and 4 speed trans for $200 so not a major loss if I have to turn it into a table.

MM54 > Pickup_man 07/20/2020 at 12:41

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It’s a 300, of course it ran

From the sounds of things, unless you plan on completely building the engine anyway, you might be better off to pick up another engine and hope it’s in better shape - parts add up quickly when it needs an everything.

Pickup_man > MM54 07/20/2020 at 12:59

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I’m somewhere in between, I want to build it up, but I also just want to slap the thing together get the rest of the truck road worthy, and worry about a performance build later. I’ll pull it apart, add up costs for a cheap rebuild, and keep my eye out for deals on running driving trucks at the same time.

MM54 > Pickup_man 07/20/2020 at 16:46

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I mean, even if you were just going to do a ball hone, rings, bearings, and gaskets by the time you buy a matching set of pistons (and probably rods because I doubt they will match when you get into it) you could get another core 300 to use the rotating assembly out of, plus you’d get to pick the best parts of each for everything else .