Hey all!
This is my old ford project!
It's a 1982 F250, engine is a ford 400, it has a T18 4 speed aka 3 speed. Dana 60 rear and 44HD TTB front.
I really enjoy driving this thing! I wanted to rebuild it into something to chill with and cycle into a daily driver, it's nothing hard core just a build I am doing for fun.
Starting in the back.
Because of an abundance of raptor parts around my house I decided to do a rear raptor suspension conversion, I mean it's really just shocks and leafs so pretty much the exact thing it came with from 82.
First thing was getting the leaf springs set up
I got some fabricated leaf mounts from desolate. The rear I keept in the stock location lwtting the shackle do the location work. The front I had to move forward a bit to compensate for the extra leaf length.
I made a doubler plate that will also serve to locate the fron spring mount. It locates off the OEM frame 3/4" frame alignment holes.
![1000003657.jpg 1000003657.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18542-020e32159468c5072b3266b6e5598bed.jpg)
![1000003658.jpg 1000003658.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18537-2fd826f11949c5627da27f41d0285c83.jpg)
![1000003659.jpg 1000003659.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18538-7089ac61d914bff32021b530a594a8a8.jpg)
![1000003660.jpg 1000003660.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18531-e66771def23dca13a7a388d1bc6fb53f.jpg)
![1000003661.jpg 1000003661.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18527-3a8b8669605cb3f3396b6e13ff074433.jpg)
Then on the axle, I needed to convert it to a 2 pin leaf mount, I figured for sure the the pinion angles would be spot on form the two tucks so I based the sprin mount off the stock forged mounts on the axle even though they were in bad shape.
![1000003653.jpg 1000003653.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18536-45aa84da37dfe3d49b79a9a2759f2c6a.jpg)
![1000003654.jpg 1000003654.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18532-48fe61a0ab4896048772c5c085bba259.jpg)
![1000003655.jpg 1000003655.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18533-d0b270980de914baebc3ef8761113e21.jpg)
![1000003656.jpg 1000003656.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18540-7790c49c60a5c03a174804f891c9a958.jpg)
Well that was dumb and didn't work. The pinion angle was not ideal plus I just thought it was sketch.
So I Haddadddd to grind off the dang spring pearch. I got a new 3" wide pearch from barns 4x4 and tossed on a 2 pin top, set the pinion angle and was gtg. (This was wayyy later after pretending the original set up was good to go).
![1000002856.jpg 1000002856.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18541-86dcaf5948b3fe7af0d1fc201e71d29d.jpg)
![1000002858.jpg 1000002858.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18544-8c6536fe48ed17227c87e07009e69206.jpg)
![1000002859.jpg 1000002859.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18545-e6e47a90c1c1c9ec1aa28597f8923409.jpg)
Mean while, I made a upper and lower shock mount. Now that I am confident in the spring cycle I locked in the upper location.
![1000003689.jpg 1000003689.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18539-62f6228c94c62e090dda57a404c68339.jpg)
![1000003664.jpg 1000003664.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18535-2c5e9d13f5f9dd9b3c81e87d4acdc6db.jpg)
![1000003686.jpg 1000003686.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18534-e591c3a0ff024b89078cb60478dd5ee5.jpg)
![1000003670.jpg 1000003670.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18528-ec72c7102d4590386627d06b2a3fcf97.jpg)
![1000003681.jpg 1000003681.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18529-76a0f7622eb575b42e1d8d6594f05bb8.jpg)
More updates to follow!
This is my old ford project!
It's a 1982 F250, engine is a ford 400, it has a T18 4 speed aka 3 speed. Dana 60 rear and 44HD TTB front.
I really enjoy driving this thing! I wanted to rebuild it into something to chill with and cycle into a daily driver, it's nothing hard core just a build I am doing for fun.
Starting in the back.
Because of an abundance of raptor parts around my house I decided to do a rear raptor suspension conversion, I mean it's really just shocks and leafs so pretty much the exact thing it came with from 82.
First thing was getting the leaf springs set up
I got some fabricated leaf mounts from desolate. The rear I keept in the stock location lwtting the shackle do the location work. The front I had to move forward a bit to compensate for the extra leaf length.
I made a doubler plate that will also serve to locate the fron spring mount. It locates off the OEM frame 3/4" frame alignment holes.
![1000003657.jpg 1000003657.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18542-020e32159468c5072b3266b6e5598bed.jpg)
![1000003658.jpg 1000003658.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18537-2fd826f11949c5627da27f41d0285c83.jpg)
![1000003659.jpg 1000003659.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18538-7089ac61d914bff32021b530a594a8a8.jpg)
![1000003660.jpg 1000003660.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18531-e66771def23dca13a7a388d1bc6fb53f.jpg)
![1000003661.jpg 1000003661.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18527-3a8b8669605cb3f3396b6e13ff074433.jpg)
Then on the axle, I needed to convert it to a 2 pin leaf mount, I figured for sure the the pinion angles would be spot on form the two tucks so I based the sprin mount off the stock forged mounts on the axle even though they were in bad shape.
![1000003653.jpg 1000003653.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18536-45aa84da37dfe3d49b79a9a2759f2c6a.jpg)
![1000003654.jpg 1000003654.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18532-48fe61a0ab4896048772c5c085bba259.jpg)
![1000003655.jpg 1000003655.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18533-d0b270980de914baebc3ef8761113e21.jpg)
![1000003656.jpg 1000003656.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18540-7790c49c60a5c03a174804f891c9a958.jpg)
Well that was dumb and didn't work. The pinion angle was not ideal plus I just thought it was sketch.
So I Haddadddd to grind off the dang spring pearch. I got a new 3" wide pearch from barns 4x4 and tossed on a 2 pin top, set the pinion angle and was gtg. (This was wayyy later after pretending the original set up was good to go).
![1000002856.jpg 1000002856.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18541-86dcaf5948b3fe7af0d1fc201e71d29d.jpg)
![1000002858.jpg 1000002858.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18544-8c6536fe48ed17227c87e07009e69206.jpg)
![1000002859.jpg 1000002859.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18545-e6e47a90c1c1c9ec1aa28597f8923409.jpg)
Mean while, I made a upper and lower shock mount. Now that I am confident in the spring cycle I locked in the upper location.
![1000003689.jpg 1000003689.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18539-62f6228c94c62e090dda57a404c68339.jpg)
![1000003664.jpg 1000003664.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18535-2c5e9d13f5f9dd9b3c81e87d4acdc6db.jpg)
![1000003686.jpg 1000003686.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18534-e591c3a0ff024b89078cb60478dd5ee5.jpg)
![1000003670.jpg 1000003670.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18528-ec72c7102d4590386627d06b2a3fcf97.jpg)
![1000003681.jpg 1000003681.jpg](https://forum.badlinesgoodtimes.com/data/attachments/18/18529-76a0f7622eb575b42e1d8d6594f05bb8.jpg)
More updates to follow!