Just another old beamed ford

[zachwabbit]

Thought maybe if I make a thread for this thing I’ll be more inclined to keep chipping away at it. I’ve owned this truck for about 8(?) years, it’s been a long term project, spent a couple years partially dismantled in my backyard because I didn’t have the time or money to get it back together. Now she’s running and driving again but will need a lot more work soon to ensure that it keeps going. At a standstill till I figure out what direction I wanna go but it’ll need the motor gone thru since the crank is walking pretty bad now. Anyway it’s a 1993 F150, original 5.0, and supposedly its 2nd e4od. Frontend is on stock beams, with Broncograveyard drop pivot brackets plated and gusseted by my buddy Garrett at Corrosive Design. Hooked up to Threat heimed radius arms, Solo MS 4” coil springs, one Bilstein 5100 per corner, Desolate MS extended/braided brake lines, and Moog F250 ambulance steering. Rearend is stock for now. Engine is stock with a UPR billet smog pump bypass pulley on a cleaned up stock bracket courtesy of Tommy Trego. My whole plan for this thing was to always stay stock width and keep everything relatively simple, and to be honest I have a bad habit of getting sidetracked with other vehicles occasionally and then this thing sits neglected. And now that I’ve bought a new Bronco and sold my Jeep Commander, my attention has been all on the Bronco lately. Whether I rebuild this motor or buy a junkyard motor to build the truck will still have an old 5.0. It was on 15x10 Methods and 33s for awhile, but recently swapped back to factory Alcoas and 35s till I figure out if I wanna refinish the Methods. Its a greaseball of a truck.. and now I’m realizing that I don’t have that many good pictures of it haha

 

[Brett_408]

where'd the smog pump delete bracket come from?

 

[zachwabbit]

 

[zachwabbit]

where'd the smog pump delete bracket come from?

The alternator/pump bracket itself is just an old factory one I bought off Tommy and cleaned up and spray painted. The bypass pulley and attached billet bracket came from UPR, they sell ‘em for old 5.0 fox mustangs and it bolted right up. I did have to space out my alternator with washers though to take up some of the slack. Honestly if I was to do it all over again I’d just go with the plastic Dorman bypass pulley and bracket like a lot of other people have. Haven’t heard of anyone having to space those out