1973 F250 Prerunner Project

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Hey!
I am starting another project, I know, I've been struggling to work on my other project but hey here I am!

Anyway this time I have help from my friend, who is an excellent fabricator and our goal is to build a non-competive race legal class 8 truck that doubles as a fun prerunner and street legal in CA.

Well anyway this is day one.
We got hooked up with a truck that once had a camper on it but got stolen by some tweekers some time around 2000 or something. Anyway it was recovered but the camper was trashed so it was removed.

Apparently they stole the mirrors, radio and sunvisors.

Afterwards the owner parked it in the garage and it has been sitting for about 20 years... until today when we pulled it out and brought it to lake E to get beamed, linked and caged!

So I'll be posting update here to my favorite fourm!

Here are the pictures, wish us luck :

Old resting place:


towed home:


no smoking

 

[Turboyota]

I hope you find 3 more Super Swampers

 

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I hope you find 3 more Super Swampers

Haha well I got the truck from an awesome old lady and her late husband had about 6 tires and wheels that I took to get rid of for her that one included plus the old bed frames that where keeping the truck from floating away. Basically filled the bed of the diesel with a dump run.

 

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Today, We tired to get the cab and parts of the frame scanned for the cage build but my laptop ran out of ram and failed us partway into it. We are going to try a different computer but may abort the scan and fit the tubes the old way. Pictures for fun:

 

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First parts have landed! well, parts of parts? DIY offroad beam kit.

 

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Small progress bits,

Tested out the wheels, going with some stylish beadgrips from method. Guess we won't be cool. Oh well.

Removed the beams, My Friend preped the radius arms mounts and tacked them for now. He said he may make an account here.




This is just a picture of all the diy front beam plates.



And of course some fun AI renders

 

[Turboyota]

Renders are badass!

 

[Tree trunk]

Those wheels will look nice
Also what’s up with all the white dots in the cab? Is that for the scan process or did I rub my eyes to hard waking up?

 

[DesertGoat]

badass. that steering wheel is a solid come-up! assuming it's original ford that thing is worth big $

 

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Those wheels will look nice
Also what’s up with all the white dots in the cab? Is that for the scan process or did I rub my eyes to hard waking up?

Thanks I actually really like the wheels, especially with the 8 lug. The dots help align multiple scans together and maintain scale and orientation, at least as far as I understand... Im not actually proficient with the use of the scanner. I am being helped.

badass. that steering wheel is a solid come-up! assuming it's original ford that thing is worth big $

Unfortunately some tweaker has the OG wheel from when the truck was stolen. But maybe this is a ford replacement idk

 

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So since DIY-Offroad seemed to design the beam kit with the idea that the beam ends are boxed out instead of an I beam shape. My build master went ahead and started getting the beam ends in order so the the diy kit will fit up properly.

DiY off road beam cad, you can see its a solid box not an I beam shape.




So to mate the plate work properly here is what my friend did:

How I brought it to him lol


Clean up and box :

 

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Lets check in on this haha

The front beams are all tacked together, we need to install them and cycle then we can weld them up.

Vs : desolate radius arm

Vs : 44hd ttb


One thing that is slowing us down is that, it totally sucks having the truck on jack stands... so we are in the process of building some prep carts/truck mover.

One of two is basically done!
We are using 18000# house jacks

Frame sandwich plates

 

[DesertGoat]

I just noticed... but how come the center ribs in your breams are oriented parallel to the ground instead of vertically? Seems like you've got them going the weak way for the direction I'd expect most of the load.

The factory old school I-beams are shaped like an I for a reason

 

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I just noticed... but how come the center ribs in your breams are oriented parallel to the ground instead of vertically? Seems like you've got them going the weak way for the direction I'd expect most of the load.

The factory old school I-beams are shaped like an I for a reason

I couldn't say on the design, we are following the plans from DIY offroad. I will say there are several vertical overlays on the front and rear that have not been added yet, so they will be quite a bit more robust than what is show at this stage.