1966 F100 EcoBoost Engine Swap (EcoBoosted)

[TimeWarpF100]

My dad had a 66 back in the day, we drove that back and forth to MN quite a few times for summer vacation to visit family. Can't wait to see this one finished. Hey...I'm in the market for a truck, is this one for sale?

Yup its been a while since I posted . . .

Robert, I have a yard full of trucks just come take one off my hands! LOL

Which one do you want me to send you? How would you go about doing the body work if there was no rust to fix? LOL

Take your pick

Ecoboost '66

482" Side Oiler '66

Original plain wrapper '66

1970 F250 Ranger 390?

All Dry Arizona Trucks

Sold the other 4. Daughter has one . . . When I asked her to sell she said something about her cold dead fingers . .

A note to all: My Photobucket site is a absolute mess, I have finally learned how to use the "new" PB system. I will be updating pics starting this week. I have already re-uploaded around 700 pics of the 482" Side Oiler truck. I just need to sort them somehow. With over
100,000 pics on this computer its no easy task . .

Happy to have it back in Fab

 

[1949 caddyman]

How are you feeling?

 

[HOTFR8]

How are you feeling?

I am guessing he is feeling annoyed with photo bucket.

 

[1949 caddyman]

I am guessing he is feeling annoyed with photo bucket.

I was asking about his valley fever illness.

 

[HOTFR8]

I was asking about his valley fever illness.

I was answering seriously as well. As photo bucket has not been so good.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

I was asking about his valley fever illness.

Caddyman,

The VF was much lower at one point but came back stronger. Still have it. 1.5yrs now. Its much improved to the point I can do stuff again.

I cannot take normal meds so the healing slow, only natural type stuff.

If ya ever get bored . . . So many projects so little time! LOL

Busy today trying to get the 390 Back into the '70 Ranger. Hoping later this evening will see if I can get it in place without help. Typical me getting a "bit" carried away on this project.

I want to get the '70 Ranger back on the road so I can get going on the EcoBoost and 427 Truck projects. Really chomping at the bit wanting to work on them again.

And yes my photobucket has been a real sore spot ever since they did the newest version. After months of messing with it finally getting the hang of it.
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I do not have fast internet here, no cable or even dsl so uploading pictures is a real chore.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

So sorry to hear about this. I live in Mesa, not too far from you. If there is anything I can do or help you do please let me know. I am retired and have all day.

I always need a hand around here. Some of this stuff is difficult with only one person. I usually have to wait for a friend to stop by to help.

I have 4 of my own HUGE projects. My ADD kicks in and I start another before getting 25% on the first . . . THen they all just get stuffed in the corner.

 

[STANIMAL]

I was asking about his valley fever illness.

Had to look that up . Never heard of it.

 

[1949 caddyman]

I always need a hand around here. Some of this stuff is difficult with only one person. I usually have to wait for a friend to stop by to help.

I have 4 of my own HUGE projects. My ADD kicks in and I start another before getting 25% on the first . . . THen they all just get stuffed in the corner.

Pm sent.

 

[383]

I've only subscribed to 2 threads here, and this is one of them. Really enjoyed watching your progress on the '66, thanks for posting. Praying for your continued recovery.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

I've only subscribed to 2 threads here, and this is one of them. Really enjoyed watching your progress on the '66, thanks for posting. Praying for your continued recovery.

Again, Life & health have gotten in the way. Still plugging along.

Spent most of day yesterday uploading pics.

Now I see when I uploaded the box was checked for scramble file names.

Problem is PB scrambled not only all my new uploads but re-scrambled every single pic in all albums! Not sure why it would re-scramble all pics already scrambled. Starting now am making a attempt to restore the pics.

Not only did they get scrambled here but also in the 1970 54k mile build. Albums were not moved they are the same but they all got scrambled. Dont know why I keep using PB, thought i had it finally figured out. Paid account I guess.

I am also a bit at a time trying to get shop cleaned ~ organized so I have a decent spot to work in for my now 3 projects.

Back to restoring photo's . . . Starting on page one.

 

[nit2wn]

Glad to see your still at it. I really want to see your truck finished since my dad had one of that vintage. You have way more patience than I have trying to fit old and new together. I'm curious to see how well it come together and performs. The amount of detail to small stuff you pay attention to is amazing.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Glad to see your still at it. I really want to see your truck finished since my dad had one of that vintage. You have way more patience than I have trying to fit old and new together. I'm curious to see how well it come together and performs. The amount of detail to small stuff you pay attention to is amazing.

Thanks!

I am now 10% done with fixing photo issues . . . LOL
Thru post 60 now

Its been tough putting this project on the back burner.

Hope now is to have it at least running by the next SEMA show. Maybe all in bare metal but together~fitted.

I really should not have taken on the 1970 Truck project at this time. Thought it would be a couple week deal. Now its been 30days with not so much progress.

The '66 427 Truck box~bed has been sitting in middle of shop floor for a long time now. I really need to get the floor welded in place so I can move it or at least stand it up . . . More soon!

 

[DoyleDee]

Hope you are doing well, your health is your priority.

 

[amlv20]

Great news, hope you get well and back to wrenching.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Another Item I do not think I have ever mentioned on this forum is:

Spring of 1964 My dad bought a Montgomery Wards Scooter. Me being only 7yrs old I do not remember exact details but can still remember the house location where we bought it along with a go-kart.

The go-Kart caught fire with a relative driving it so that was enough for dad and he destroyed and or got rid of it never to be seen again.

Well, Its going to be 50yrs this spring that dad bought that MWS and I still own it!

Somewhere in the middle of all these resto's I want to get the Scooter done for its 50th year of my ownership. I believe it to be a 1955 or 1956 Scooter.

As I remember it was bought as a "Police" version and was painted Black & White a "not normal" color.

I had hoped I could get the scooter up and going for my kids but the youngest is now 13.

Plan is to make it look as the best I can remember it being. Black with White fenders, red handle bar grips . . . Red Double Brake Pedal assy.

So in between the 3 Project already going plan on doing a bit of resto on the scooter.

If anyone out there is familiar with the Monkey Wards scooters from mid 50's let me know. At one time I had a pic of me standing by the scooter shortly after purchase.

Hoping to restore more photo's here this week.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Scooter pics. Not mine . . The white one appears to be a year or two newer than mine.
The green one very close but a few minor differences.

Anyone out there familiar with these scooters? Better yet own one or in the past owned one?

 

[gordyy]

My Folks owned a Montgomery Ward catalogue store along with a gas station and light duty shop back in the dark ages. My first job other than lawn mowing or delivering papers was doing repair work on Lawn Mowers and small engines. I overhauled a few of those engines and rebuilt the mechanics on those scooters in the late 60s and through the 70s a fun little unit that's for sure (I also owned a MW mini bike in the late 60s a 4 or 5 hp) and there lil blurb from the catalogue page about not being overpowered is true I bet they were under rated by at least 40% compared to a briggs or a techumseh of the time. Continental was like Clinton engines there 2 hp units had more power than a 4 from the other 2.

 

[amlv20]

Nice!

 

[MP&C]

Yup its been a while since I posted . . .

Robert, I have a yard full of trucks just come take one off my hands! LOL

Which one do you want me to send you? How would you go about doing the body work if there was no rust to fix? LOL

Take your pick

Ecoboost '66

482" Side Oiler '66

Original plain wrapper '66

1970 F250 Ranger 390?

All Dry Arizona Trucks

Sold the other 4. Daughter has one . . . When I asked her to sell she said something about her cold dead fingers . .

A note to all: My Photobucket site is a absolute mess, I have finally learned how to use the "new" PB system. I will be updating pics starting this week. I have already re-uploaded around 700 pics of the 482" Side Oiler truck. I just need to sort them somehow. With over
100,000 pics on this computer its no easy task . .

Happy to have it back in Fab

Well as much as I would have loved to get another 427 (here's the old one)

....the boss lady was having nothing to do with old vehicles. Here's the dually's replacement. And I will say the new 6.7 is just plain nasty over the 7.3

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Well as much as I would have loved to get another 427 (here's the old one)

....the boss lady was having nothing to do with old vehicles. Here's the dually's replacement. And I will say the new 6.7 is just plain nasty over the 7.3

Very Nice! A Uni at that . .

Center or Side Oiler? Any problems fitting the Galaxie 427 Exhaust Manifolds?

Gotta love the new 6.7 trucks. A red one like that would be my first pick.
I usually keep a daily driver type veh for 2yrs max. My current '02 7.3 is going on 8yrs of ownership now. Ready for something else but no $$

 

[MP&C]

Engine was a 64 LR center oiler, IIRC. The Galaxie manifolds fit perfectly, it has a Galaxie front clip.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Engine was a 64 LR center oiler, IIRC. The Galaxie manifolds fit perfectly, it has a Galaxie front clip.

What year front clip? 63-64? Or later with disc brakes? Back around 1975 I put a 68 Galaxie Clip in my '46 Ford Coupe (more older brother than I) Also dropped in a super low mile 429 out of my T-Bird.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

While I am gearing up to get back on these 2 Projects how about a couple other builds to add to the mix? I was reviewing a couple pics of my 100,000 plus photo's on my desktop and started thinking about results on other cars as the '70 Ranger.

Not only to share but it also keeps me motivated by looking back at other projects vs the being way overwhelmed and just sticking it in a corner.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Namely this one for starters.

A super Rare 1969 Cougar Eliminator with the desirable 428CJ Ram Air

40k original miles and had sat since early 80's. Car bought new in Texas then to phoenix in early 80's. Car was literally sitting on blocks when I arrived after chasing after the car for 20 yrs.

It was supposed to be a nice original paint car but turned out it had been bumped front and rear. ANother story for the Magic Soap . . And what it helps me do.

 

[MP&C]

Wouldn't that CJ be nasty with a 4 speed!

 

[liquidh8]

MAn, I wish the pics were working!.

 

[MP&C]

What year front clip? 63-64? Or later with disc brakes? Back around 1975 I put a 68 Galaxie Clip in my '46 Ford Coupe (more older brother than I) Also dropped in a super low mile 429 out of my T-Bird.

I didn't install the clip, bought the truck in a dee-vorce settlement. I believe it was either late 60's - early 70's Galaxie/LTD clip with discs. Truck has tilt, pwr window, etc........ and cruise control on the 2-4's. 12 mpg on the hwy at 70 mph..

That 429 should have sent the 46 down the road nicely..... until it got to a gas station! kinda like my 427 was.....

 

[TimeWarpF100]

I didn't install the clip, bought the truck in a dee-vorce settlement. I believe it was either late 60's - early 70's Galaxie/LTD clip with discs. Truck has tilt, pwr window, etc........ and cruise control on the 2-4's. 12 mpg on the hwy at 70 mph..

That 429 should have sent the 46 down the road nicely..... until it got to a gas station! kinda like my 427 was.....

Actually the '46 was so light I was getting 18mpg with the 429. I remember doing a compression test and had 230 lbs cranking compression! Had a pretty tall gear in it. For sure one of the many cars sold wish I would have kept. Bought it at 15yrs old with paper route money.

Some More Cougar pics Before:

In trailer shortly before unloading and in shop up on jack stands looking it over. Car was supposed to be original paint but actually had been bumped front and rear at one time. Very very original car and no doubt original 43k miles. Under carriage never had a wrench turned, complete mint original exhaust, valve covers and oil pan had never been off.

Pulled pan and a main brg for a look see. Found as suspected original bearings with a Feb 1969 date code and still looked new.

Anyone with a good eye know what the engine on stand is in front of cougar? (in trailer) Picked it up for a song same trip. How about behind engine there is a intake and carbs there. Anyone know what that is?

 

[TimeWarpF100]

The excitement builds looking for the build sheet!

FOUND! Under back seat one build sheet each side of hump.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

The car was so loaded with options the Dealer Invoice (which I tracked down later) and the Window Sticker were 2 pages!

With a dash or 2 of "Magic Soap" here and there the interior looked like this!

Of course this was after it had a chance to get a bit dirty again... I lost a hard drive and thousands of pics of this and my 70 SuperBird

 

[TimeWarpF100]

A bit of Magic and elbow grease on engine compartment and it looked a tad better.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

A bit more "Magic Soap" and a little 3m Compound, more elbow grease.
I took some of trim off like taillights took them apart, polished chrome, polished lenses etc trying not to disturb much just a bit of spit shine, elbow grease, magic soap, EvapoRust

No changes made to this page and now some pics are not showing up?

I just uploaded 446 Pics to my PB page and the links do not work. Irritating . .

 

[TimeWarpF100]

I did have to go completely thru the Power steering, hoses were cracked, valve and ram were leaking, the sitting for so many years took a toll on seals. I was able to find all NOS parts to rebuild them vs just replacing stuff. The NOS parts search was on!

The grille assy I also took apart, detailed best I could and replaced the pivot bushings with NOS, repainted black etc.

New set of Goodyear Polyglas as stock helped the "new look".

Unfortunately this was one of the vehicles at R-S Auction when the tent came down in tornado. Got a bit of damage that someone else fixed as I had sold the car prior.

Have a lot more "detail" pics but so far unable to find them.

Just a bit more "Motivation" pics for me . . Need them to keep me going.

Most expensive part of this job was the Plastic rear spoiler had cracked on front drivers side about 2' long. I purchased a Plastic Welder for 900.00 so I could fix it myself, did not trust to send it out as it did not have the typical warpage etc.

Anyone want to buy a plastic welder used only a couple times? LOL

 

[CNGsaves]

Geat work on the rare Cougar !!

I'll take a guess at "Magic Soap" . . . . is it a mix of Ivory Soap, water and LOC (liquid organic compound . . . . the great stuff from Amway) ?? Thus what you end up with is water-base lanolin cleaner . . . kind of like the Goop in plastic tubs.

 

[sxk122]

CNG, care to explain what a water based lanolin cleaner is for us neophytes......

 

[tommudd]

Love the Cougar, had a couple of them over the years and kick myself for selling them

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Geat work on the rare Cougar !!

I'll take a guess at "Magic Soap" . . . . is it a mix of Ivory Soap, water and LOC (liquid organic compound . . . . the great stuff from Amway) ?? Thus what you end up with is water-base lanolin cleaner . . . kind of like the Goop in plastic tubs.

Magic Soap is a mix of 2 of the three soaps in my prior picture depending on what I am cleaning and some times use the Ivory Liquid in a bucket with hot water, spray magic soap on what I am cleaning then wash with the Ivory ~ Hot Water solution. Most of the time the Magic Soap mix will take it off on its own.

The White tire cleaner can dull aluminum if it sits for more than a few seconds, same with some automotive paints. One has to have water to rinse very quickly. Again it really cleans aluminum but not for use on polished aluminum wheels or valve covers with no protective coating.

 

[TimeWarpF100]

Love the Cougar, had a couple of them over the years and kick myself for selling them

A great Cougar with the 428CJ Ram Air and power windows, A/C etc

Sure wish I still had it . .

 

[TimeWarpF100]

I sure wish I could get back on the 427 and Eco projects now but I have less than 15.00 combined in checking and savings.

Time for a good spring cleaning in the shop.

I will start on box floor replacement now on the 427 Project until I need to buy something and that includes any type of supplies. Its plugging up a HUGE part of my floor space not to mention it has turned into a junk collection spot.

A 1956 Belair sits in a corner waiting for attention too . . Be nice to get that out of here and over to a upholstery shop. Started it nearly 20yrs ago.

If anyone here from Phx knows of a good upholstery shop let me know.