Full Build: Reinventing a 1964 Ford Flatbed Shop Truck

today on Music City trucks we find a 1964 F-350 flatbed and see if we can bring it back to life [Music] Welcome to Music City trucks I'm Brandon Burke and I'm Mark Crist now you've seen us through a bunch of driveway rescues over the years with our friends at rockauto.com well this time we wanted to do something a little bit different so we took our rescue van and our tow rig out to pick up something for ourselves we're calling this project ranwen Park you know the truck that's sitting in a field or behind a barn for five or ten years well it ran when it was parked there but you don't know if it still does today well that's exactly what we did with this 1964 F-350 flatbed and here's how we got it [Music] Our Journey Begins about 30 miles south of Nashville in Columbia Tennessee I actually found this truck on a farm on the way home from work [Music] and it looks like a few roosters have called it home the guy says it hasn't run in the last six years [Music] we like what we see but the truck definitely has some age issues and some obvious rust problems so this is a 64 F-350 one ton obviously but it's a dually and it's a flatbed the owner that we bought it from made this flatbed because it used to have a water tank on the back of it once he bought it from the county he ripped it all out and put this bed in here so as we move the rock auto van into place our goal here is just get it started in a situation like this the first thing we'll do is check all the fluids like oil the air filter [Music] radiator and wiring now the moment of truth [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] not surprising she didn't start that's to be expected we next try spraying starter fluid directly into the car [Music] another start attempt not happening so our last recourse is to take apart the carburetor right there in the field we found the float spring was jammed so we sprayed a lot of seafoam deep creep into the springs don't let that spring go bye-bye the last thing we want is to drop one of those small Springs or screws then we cleaned out the old gas in the bowl and put the 57 year old car back together and on the engine that's the sound of success it seems we do have a vacuum leak so placing your hand over the intake acts as a restrictor to keep the engine running we had to be careful to drive the truck onto our hauler because with the engine leak and no brakes whatsoever this is trickier than it looks foreign [Music] mission accomplished so now all we have to do is haul it back to the Music City truck shop to make it safer and drivable you know there for a little bit we thought maybe we wouldn't get it running but I mean who are we kidding these old Ford straight sixes are tanks well just because it's running doesn't mean it's actually Road worthy there's a couple things we got to check off the list because this thing's been sitting for six years like tune-up brakes and anything else to make sure this thing's safe for the road all right let's get this thing on the lift all right smells good coming up on Music City trucks tear down we're working on our Railway Park project trying to get it roadworthy to 64 F-350 flatbed and if there's one thing we want working on this truck it's going to be the brakes yeah and this wasn't really a great braking system from the factory I mean you've got a single pot Master drum brakes all the way around on an F-350 so either way we need to go through all the brakes it doesn't help it's been sitting for six years you ready yep raise it up first things first all the tires come off including the dualies in the rear [Music] and since our goal is to just make the truck drivable we're going to keep these tires otherwise they'd be in the recycle bin the axle comes out surprisingly dry then it takes two of us to lift this 50 plus pound rear hub off and not uncommon on these trucks this sold that have been sitting this long [Music] We've Got Dirt dauber's nest on the backing plates Brandon makes quick work of evicting our squatters and yes those are live bugs the more we tear into this thing the more Critters you find while Mark forges ahead and starts installing the rears I'll work on the front brakes [Music] not too dirty [Music] drum brake installation calls for a special tool I'm using drum brake spring pliers now if you've never replaced shoes before it's a good practice to do one side at a time so you always have a reference for how they go back together there's 57 years worth of dirt grime and rust on this thing so I'm using a wire brush to knock off all the flake I'll follow that up with a good coating of crc's brake clean to get the rest [Music] and that's why we wear safety glasses [Music] we're using replacement brakes we got at rockauto.com and like Brandon said earlier it helps if you keep one of the old brakes intact as you install The Replacements so you have a guide to work with first things first is that retainer and spring sometimes those Springs can be a little tricky to get in it's a lot easier with the right tool this is the part where you need to wear safety glasses [Music] because I have hit myself in the face multiple times with these Springs it's not fun one thing to make sure the Springs don't come off that pedestal is crimp them down with a pair of pliers it's always a good idea to run in the adjuster all the way that way it's a little easier to get the spring on with new shoes all right now that we've got the front brakes done and Mark's got the rear brakes done all we got to do is get this front hub installed and then get the front shocks on that we got from Rock Auto get this thing on the ground with the front back together we can lift our wheels back onto the axles [Music] now we can concentrate underneath the hood [Music] with the truck back on the ground we can now start working on what needs to be done under the hood the main thing we saw that this truck needed was ignition components especially anything that's been sitting for a long time the short list would be plugs and wires you go from there maybe do a cap and rotor and even a coil a truck like this being 57 years old surprisingly a lot of these parts are still available and affordable at rockauto.com they even had the rebuild kit for the carburetor so I went ahead and got that rebuilt now we just need to get this stuff installed we'll be long we'll be on our way foreign the new plugs go in with a little anti-seize and get torqued in followed by the coil and the plug wires [Music] next the rebuilt carb goes back in its stock location with a couple of nuts and two lines all right Brandon go ahead and run the throttle through its paces feel good yeah I like that all right well we got it all wrapped up getting ready to put the air cleaner on here and then we can fire this thing up I'm going to give her about a quarter quarter choke okay go ahead yeah let's take Furs like a kitten okay now I'm excited about it we got to take this thing out yeah let's have some fun okay with our vacuum leaks fixed all new brakes front and rear and some of the engine refreshed now it's time to have some fun like how much horsepower can this thing make foreign coming up on Music City trucks that's right chassis dyno well we've got our flatbed all up and running and we could have taken it out on the street but we wanted to make one more stop before we did that so we've got it here in probably the least likely spot you would expect to see this truck strapped to the chassis Dyno down here in engine power we've got Pat and Frankie going to help us out and spin the rollers on this thing yeah I didn't think I needed to see a flatbed on a dyno this is awesome this is uh this takes me back this is a a big whiff of nostalgia for me because I grew up with Ford trucks right from the 50s all the way through you know the 70s and 80s and a straight six in this you know these are workhorses right uh dually with a 233 um you know this is a this is things these things last forever this is proof positive because not only does it run we're gonna see how much power it makes awesome well let's do it all right here we go exciting I know I know we have tax signal yep you see that yep yeah there's no there's there's one gauge in here there's nothing else it's all you need that's all you need all right all right I'm not gonna I'm not gonna put it in creeper gear clutch is a little a little squashing are the tires are they oval they're a little cup they're octagonal [Music] [Applause] that is amazing that's the heat right there what is that [Applause] 69.33.29 pounds the engine was glass smooth the whole time yeah the tires not so much all right everything seems good nothing flew off it who's gonna be first well if Mark doesn't mind I would like to okay get her about uh there's somewhere in there green button [Music] [Applause] perfect you did it this is the greatest day ever heck yeah what do you get 70.81 a little bit more than you broke the 70 still dang dude that's awesome see now Mark's an Old Pro with the dino he's dying it all up crazy mustangs from this bias ply that's shifter obliterate itself are you guys ready yep am I in a good spot [Music] foreign [Music] foreign that's got a heinous sound to it doesn't it it'll shut off at the top of the pool shut up yeah no uh right there 77.17 horsepower that is that is pretty cool though yeah I don't know why you know what I'm impressed with none of the tires came apart yeah I'm not particularly worried about the engine because those are hard to kill with no oil pressure overheating or whatever I was worried about something in the drive line flying out whether it be a U-joint whether those field setting dry rotted snow tires whatever the heck they are I thought something was going to come apart so success yeah I'm I'm a little envious because I I love this truck you know when it first came in here I'm like yes this is uh this is gonna be a great project so well what we love about it I mean we kind of lean toward the old Ford trucks anyway um we like a little bit of everything but there's something about these trucks that's just so attractive and this is like a clean slate you know it's like we could do whatever we want right with it but it's just cool the way it is it is I hope you keep the flatbed that's I mean maybe not wood but I think that just like goes with the look of the truck super cool I think there's actually one thing that could be improved on since look what shop you're in yeah yeah engine wise hold on we haven't even driven the truck well the options though we have options if you perhaps want to upgrade that 78 horsepower 77 horsepower or whatever this thing made so uh well let us enjoy it the way it is and let the new wear off and then we'll check back with you on that yeah later this would be a great shop truck yeah this is and it's got the look and the potential and you can go any direction you want to with it no no that'd be sweet we'll just see where it goes but we'll check back with you all right well there's nothing on the ground there's nothing on fire success success all right off of here so we can get it out on the road coming up we attempt to drive our F-350 into downtown Franklin will we make it well we finally got our 64 F-350 out here on the road this was our driveway rescue what we call Rand win parks that we picked up for ourselves yeah and for the little that we've done to this truck it's driving pretty nice the tires are completely out of round but other than that yeah no complaints here not yet what was nice is we went to rockauto.com and got a bunch of little stuff that this thing needed really just a few things to get it up and going because it had been sitting for six years yeah so I actually found this truck driving home oh yeah in a field yep and the guy was like yeah it was a highway truck for 40 years and then he had it from an auction and he hadn't driven it in six years wow so literally went out there got this thing running with very minimal stuff right so we got it running brought it back to the shop did some more stuff to it got it drivable dino'd it yeah which is the most ridiculous and awesome thing yeah I've seen on a Dino but it was it was good because you know this is a this is one of those vehicles that you don't expect much out of it you know no one's like oh 77 rear wheel horsepower that's it you're kidding me yeah there is no expectation no so what you get is actually probably a little bit higher than you thought exactly yeah so there's no no disappointment here and I'll be honest I mean after bleeding the brakes it's not bad you could obviously tell it's drum brakes all the way around but I mean feels good there you go that's how you find third double clutching so so yeah so I'm just watching you over there it's like you're like the uh oh it's Professor Marvel at the Emerald City over there it's you could say it's a two-handed driving truck the only thing you're missing is like the throttle lever like I mentioned to Pat you know that's the only thing that would make it more interesting yeah if there wasn't enough going on in this truck there's a reason why there's no radio yeah you don't have an extra hand to change it oh we're gonna go now yeah oh yeah Power shipped it maybe there it is practical I mean it's not gonna be a a flatbed one ton anymore right you know no but it'd be a cool driver look plus if we're gonna hang on to it if we could use this as our shop truck yeah that's like that that's my main like in my head that's my main Vision if we could use this practically as a shop Truck Yeah I mean how it doesn't get any cooler than this right oh no no it's got that look you know it's like you look at that truck you're like oh that's a farm truck or a shop truck or whatever it's kind of like you said a blank slate we could just kind of do whatever we wanted to yeah for this to be drawn daily bare minimum would be an Overdrive okay obviously tires and I would lower it to me there's like a top five things a daily driver needs this breaks electronic fuel injection that would be a nice upgrade would you keep it two wheel drive uh to me it could be either so two I'd keep a two-wheel drive but I'm with you on the overdrive so electronic fuel injection disc brakes Overdrive climate control what am I missing tires oh yeah but I think if you did all those things to this truck it could be easily daily driven you know maybe do some restoration on the paint and kind of go for that oh I would totally keep this paint as close to this patina as possible so when I mentioned to Pat you noticed that when I mentioned a pat that we may keep it he like hey we [Music] yeah which says a lot which I mean if he's got an engine to throw in this I'm I'm All downpouring what if we do this what if we let him pick he says he loves the truck just as much as we do yeah we should let him pick what goes in this that's actually a really good idea that is just be like Pat whatever yeah just tell you what we're gonna go pull the engine out and you give us something to put back in it and we'll figure out the rest of the drive line after that perfect no it's this is this is a perfect shop truck I love it yeah we have to keep it for more about this and our other cool truck builds go to powernationtv.com today on Music City trucks we're bringing back our 1964 F-350 flatbed shop truck we get a new engine from engine power we'll tear out the old one along with some other odds and ends plus we have a little fun solving a major transmission issue then we'll bring in a new clutch and put it all together sounds like fun show [Music] laughs [Music] Welcome to Music City trucks I'm Brandon Burke and I'm Mark Crist and as you can see we're not in our shop we're actually right next door in engine power Pat Frankie thank you guys for having us of course yeah anytime well the last time we had our dually in here I think you guys had just as much fun as we did playing with it and so I figure give you guys the honor of laying out some options for us for engines yeah we got a good amount of Ford engines in stock we got a couple different ones here I mean each of these engines are unique in application and power levels and you know we got a fe a windsor and obviously our inline sex Ford 300. I'm glad that they're all blue oval engines I appreciate that me too but I have to say I'm partial to the Windsor just because I've just got more experience knowledge about the Windsor and I know this particular one is pretty spicy right that's a great engine you know that engine is 408 cubic inch it's got a 225 CC trick flow High port on it the engine is uh very powerful as far as high specific output right that engine makes 618 537 pound-feet of torque but that thing also if you keep going that engine is still making over 600 horsepower at 7000 RPM so if you're if we're building a drag flatbed dually maybe this would be the engine that would be the heat we'd have to take some gear out of that truck yeah among other things among among changes much other things that won't snap yeah got it all right well option number two option number two 445 cubic inch Fe this thing is no slouch either it makes 586 horsepower 566 pound feet it's got this cool Nostalgia hot rod type book we got the trick flow dual 4150 manifold with dual phytek throttle body injection this thing ran great on the dyno it makes great power it's a stump puller for sure I think if you open the hood of this truck and this thing was sitting under there definitely has the wow factor uh you know I mean it has the right look with the the Fe valve covers and of course it doesn't hurt that they're Chrome and you know it's got dual quads and they're EFI but still cool I mean just great engine uh what's bad about it well there's nothing particularly bad about it is set up to be like a Nostalgia muscle car engine right but still it makes power in the upper RPM range I mean this thing makes Peak torque at five thousand nothing wrong with that but in a truck if you're looking to pull stuff at a lower RPM maybe not the right application if it's if it has a stick in it anything will work right but this is set up more for something that's a little bit lighter not as much setup for a towing application it does have a hydraulic roller in it but uh I'm not saying it's the the perfect operation for that but we do have something that might in our opinion might be just what you want and that is our turbocharged 306. now this engine itself this was pretty uh this was pretty fun build this we built this so you could do these modifications did this about any 300 if someone has a 300 they can do this thing and achieve the same power this thing has a 72 millimeter turbocharger on it this thing has it still has a flat tab at Cam and aftermarket head but the nice thing about this this engine kind of beats the crap out of both of these in torque this has diesel level torque it makes 597 pound-feet of torque and only 13 PSI we can turn it up higher but this thing also makes 522 horse and it does it all below 5000 RPM yeah so that's that low RPM stump pull and torque that you're looking for so if you want to adjust the power you can't really adjust the power on these unless you just crank a bunch of timing out of them and stick a rag in the top of one of them this thing you could actually dial the Boost down by a spring by your Boost controller so the engine is very versatile it's very durable and I think because there's a six Banger in already you could put this in and it would be perfect you could just take the old one out put this one in you're good it's also very swappable because the back end is the same as a small block Ford so Transmissions flywheel stuff like that really easy to get really easy to swap in yeah and that's kind of the problem with the Fe is you kind of have to have a specific transmission and setup because it's and an older bell housing style yeah so depending on your guy's transmission transfer case you know whatever application you're doing if it's four wheel drive or two-wheel drive you could run into some problems on this one just finding parts that will work transmission wise that bolts in the same place that does you know so that's the the commonality is there I just think this was the right application and this will be the right choice for that truck I mean what else were you going to do with this thing well we may or may not have plans for it and we may or may not have parts for it Parts already in Stockport so uh put it in get it running and when you want to raise the horsepower level at some point uh give it back and we can we can tune you up on that so what you're saying is we can borrow it yes it's a key word we need a bigger drip yeah I yeah that's that's that's about the size but yes but uh I think this would be pretty fun to do I would love to see it in a vehicle I think this is a great application I'm partial to the straight six I'm down I'm down for that I'll just say this it looks like we have an engine up next we're tearing down our County truck and pulling out the engine and trans well now that we know what engine we're going to be stabbing in this old Pig it's time to remove all the old stuff and that's going to start with this Hood you got help some help take her away [Music] now that we know what engine we're running we're excited to be jumping back on our flatbed shop truck going up oh and just for funsies we thought we'd see what it looks like to live as a socket [Music] cool right [Music] well let's take a look under here see what we're working with and get a plan well the biggest question is transmission what are we going to use are we going to get a transmission that's going to fit with the 300 small block bolt pattern or are we going to try to adapt the t98 to the small block which they have adapter bell housing okay does old Ford pattern on the bell housing and small block on the Block so well I mean there's a lot of Transmissions out there that we could get to bolt to the 300 but if we could use this if we could use this transmission and keep everything from the trans back stock to save a lot of work save a lot of work and it gets us a turbo 300 in this truck and we can always swap the trans later yeah well even still even if we are going to reuse this trans we I think we should still pluck the engine transmission out together take it out as one unit yeah we can fit the trans with the adapters and all that to the engine outside of the truck save a lot of hassle stab it back in and be done with it yep so drain fluids and disconnect the eight different things that hold this engine in the truck if that I'll get the drain bucket first thing we need to do is get all that old oil and coolant out of the way Mark leaving me with the hard stuff yeah there we go saws all the time tossing all that old exhaust get this drive shaft out of here foreign to access the top of the transmission by removing the transmission tunnel it's just a little puzzle this is what I like about Ford floor pans is you can take the trans tunnel off and access the transmission disconnecting the brake lever undoing the shifter and then getting this engine and transmission out as one unit [Music] so that's your shifter it's just this ball and socket voila well now that the transmission is completely disconnected everything on the engine is disconnected both of these could come out as one unit and make room for some big Power okay all right let's give it a try this thing takes up a lot of real estate yeah yeah here let me let me pop that drive shaft completely loose swing it right [Music] oh there we go she's out that was tight ambitious to try to take this out in one swing we did it well we did it now that we got the engine and trans out of the truck it's time to divorce them for possibly the first time in 60 years ever ever yeah [Music] ready yep [Music] there it is wow look at that rat nest oh that's awesome now that we have our engine out and transmission divorce let's do a little comparison between our original six and our 300 we're putting in it now this is a 223 cubic inch Ford second gen inline and this engine shared a bunch of parts with the Y block family and subsequently had the same lubrication problems as them but it's really the only downside one way to identify between the two is that the intake and exhaust is on the driver's side and the distributor is on the passenger side now moving on to our Ford 300 they made this from 1964 to 1996 and this is considered their fourth gen inline now this has the intake and exhaust on the passenger side with the distributor on the driver's side the one thing that makes these engines a little bit more desirable than an original one is that they put them in a bunch of vehicles it's got a gear driven timing set and seven main bearings so this is a really indestructible engine so you could tow with it you can abuse it throw a turbo on it and then those are the main reasons why we're throwing it in our truck and we had it up next our transmission situation didn't turn out quite like we planned well since we're reusing our t98 four speed here there's a few things we need to do to get it ready uh one main thing is this bell housing will not bolt up to our 300 so we're going to be unbolting that and as you can see it's got a bunch of dirt mud and grime built up over the decades we want to go ahead and get that cleaned up the best we can get this thing prepped to get mated to our 300. [Music] I think we need a new parking brake shoe [Music] scrape coat [Music] you didn't see it working too foreign [Music] all cleaned up and it's actually in really good shape inside looks really good and we could probably use this transmission which is uh a great relief but the only way to get this transmission adapted to our 300 straight 6 is going to be with this QuickTime bell housing that we got from Summit Racing it's made to adapt to the old Ford four-speed top loader Transmissions it's got several different patterns here and then also it's got the bell housing pattern for a small block Ford or 300 straight six now the bore on this is the exact same size that's going to fit our input bearing retainer here which is great news and then the top bolts line up perfectly however down low here uh the holes don't line up at all now we could probably adapt that it might be a little difficult but then once you go inside here you can see our input shaft this is a kind of an odd ball size it's like inch and 3 8 10 spline in order to get a clutch that'll work with that input shaft and our 300 straight six practically impossible nobody ever made anything like that so really at this point although this is a nice bell housing we might be able to use it we really need to go back to the drawing board and go with a different transmission well that's how it goes sometimes mix matching old Ford stuff sometimes things just don't fit and that t98 isn't going to work for our 300 so I'm at a place that has a bunch of Ford stuff Transmissions transfer cases pretty much anything and we're going to try to find a t18 or a t18 for this thing [Music] [Applause] [Music] but we got some different options for some Transmissions t18 t19 mp435 this truck right here has the t18 detailed by the shift pattern two-wheel drive truck this would work for us if we wanted it's behind the 300. so that might be a it might be a candidate for us keep looking [Music] here's our solution to our transmission problem the Pinnacle of Automotive Engineering well it looks very similar it's similar it's a t19 so similar to the t18 but this one is fully sync Road this one no synchros First In Reverse full sync Road and this is out of a diesel or a 460. that means it's got a higher first gear a four four to one instead of like a six six nine to one okay um so it's gonna be better on the street better for a horsepower still just as strong as our t98 or a t18 and the best part about this one is got a 10 10 count input shaft yep and our small block bell housing will fit to it sweet now all we really need to do is put the bell housing on make a cross member Drop it all in let's do it let's bolt stuff together oh that is a premium fit nice fit it's like it was made for it you make quick time of the spell housing install yeah we did [Music] up next we drop in our turbo 300 and marry our transmission now that we got our engine precariously placed in our engine bay it's time to address motor mounts now just because this is a straight six doesn't mean it mounts the same as our original straight six did so we're gonna have to make a little bit more traditional motor mount pedestals see the problem with the 223 straight six that was in our flatbed here is that it used this bracket here which bolted to the front of the block and the balancer would have been somewhere in this area and then it bolted to the cross member that was basically underneath the radiator now the rest of the support came from the bell housing here this would have supported the rear of the engine as well as the weight of the transmission and you can see that they're splayed so that would have also kept the engine and transmission from rotating during acceleration and D cell but because we're replacing both the engine and transmission with completely different family we got to put all this stuff in the scrap bin so this is what we came up with this inner plate is going to get welded to the frame and then we welded some flange nuts on the inside that way we don't have to use a a wrench on those and then this outer plate gets sandwiched with these four bolts then we're going to weld a tube that goes to the engine that way we could take this engine in and out pretty easily foreign [Music] we've got the engine mounts made the engine is hanging in there we got the truck back up in the air because we're getting ready to install our transmission but before we do that there's a major component we need to address and that is the clutch so with our local AutoZone store and got this brand new Duralast clutch set all of these parts are Precision matched and tested to provide outstanding performance and durability now this friction material is engineered to meet or exceed OE specifications not only does the set come with the disc obviously comes with a brand new pressure plate as well a clutch release bearing or throw out bearing alignment tool you got to have that a little bit of spline lubricant so it goes in nice and easy and then of course I can't forget this one pilot bearing which Brandon's gonna install first now I'm kind of Backwoods so I just use a socket to drive the pilot bearing in and remember it's got to go in straight foreign [Music] got these ARP flywheel bolts I'm gonna put some of there assembly Lube on the head of the bolt not too much though and then some threads sealant thread Locker on the end now there's certain times when torque sequence and ensuring you got all the bolts tight is crucial and the flywheel is on that list for me that's why I put witness marks now for the clutch [Music] torque in a pressure plates a little different than the flywheel you wanna cinch them down slowly that way it goes evenly because it [Music] draw it in slow make sure they're all snug it is gonna be a little easier getting the transmission there do the bell housing first oh for sure especially since this cross member is still here t19 enough time it's pretty close right there all right let's just figure out what we need to do for a cross member it's in there and they're like swimwear about 33 yeah 33 ought to do it this is what a turbocharged 300 inline six with a four speed looks like in an F-350 flatbed I don't mean to rain on your parade but uh there's no turbo there well in spirit but we'll get to that next time we'll get the turbo in there all the plumbing for it uh cooling system fuel system we've got plans for a cool EFI kit on this thing and then we'll take it out and do some donuts and burnouts maybe yeah oh we need to get Pat and them to let us use the dyno again oh the chassis Dyno yeah last time was embarrassing yeah this thing definitely needs some Redemption today on Music City trucks we're finishing up our flatbed with a new gas tank a Nifty intercooler setup a Phi Tech EFI system and some other touches and then we crank her up do some spicy Dino pools oh yeah oh my God [Music] Welcome to Music City trucks I'm Mark Chris and I'm Brandon Burke and the last time we worked on our flatbed we got all the old drivetrain ripped out we put in our 300 from engine power we installed a t19 4 speed and then we mocked up all the motor mounts now since last time you guys saw it we got everything fully welded everything's fully bolted in and this engine and transmission is in this truck permanently but there's still a lot of work left to do yeah for sure anytime you do an engine swap even if you're just pulling an engine out and putting it back in there's a lot of things that need to be disconnected and reconnected especially when you change the engine completely like we've done well there's a lot of eyes to Dot and tease to cross the main thing would be Plumbing uh we've got a cooling system we've got to do fuel system this thing's getting a turbo so we got to do all the hot side cold side and exhaust for that but other than that I think we'll have this thing running and driving maybe chassis Dyno it and take it out on the street burn some dead dinosaurs oh that sounds great I think we should divide and conquer I'm going to start with the turbo I'll start with fuel system all right let's do it [Music] all right we're gonna use the well we're going to start with the plumbing that engine power made the problem is it's too close to the axle so we're gonna have to cut it up and re-fabricate the hot side [Music] now I don't really need to do this at this point not to plumb the hot side but I just can't wait any longer to see what it looks like with this turbo hanging on here then it's just as glorious as I thought it would be since our original gas tank is 75 percent rust we figured we'd go ahead and replace it with a new gas tank that we got from Rock Auto that way we don't damage any of the new fuel system or that precious turbo 300 but before I put this in the truck I want to go ahead and install this sending unit the gasket on there one cool thing about rock auto is it doesn't matter how old the vehicle is that you're working on you know what I like about a new gas tank is the fact that there's no dirt and debris in it yet chances are they got enough parts to keep your ride and Tip-Top shape like this gas tank and sending unit seat ever been out before this seat probably not all right stop right there oh hell yeah hell well the cool thing about having a gas tank in the cab is it's super easy to take out and put back in careful that wire harness you don't want to rip it it's original it's original oh listen to that sounds like the ocean [Music] the tanks are manufactured with a 360 degree Weld and are individually air pressure tested to ensure their success before leaving the factory fuel tanks are powder coated or painted with anti-corrosive paint 19 and a half gallon capacity perfect yo you mind if we go up with this since I got the gas tank in yeah fuel pump on sure yeah I can work on this from underneath that good good for me [Music] Perfection let's see here awesome well one great thing about being able to take engines that were built here in-house down in engine power and and dynode is that a lot of the hard stuff is already done like this one for instance um this merge pipe on the hot side of the turbo uh this 300 straight 6 has got two collectors so Frankie went ahead and made this merge pipe two into one three inch but the problem is where it kicks over here to go under the pan to the driver's side it's really close to our I-beam front axle here and this front suspension is completely unloaded so that's going to be a problem and because we've got this pipe here that's going to come under the kick up of the pan here I think I'm just going to go ahead and modify this and turn this forward and maybe tuck it up a little higher so these two pieces can meet right around here in the front of the engine I think it'll work all right thank you [Music] all right well the hot side is all tacked in just need to take it all back out and finish weld it on the table up next we're doing some pretty gnarly things under the hood and it's awesome fuel system is pretty much buttoned up the new tanks in the new pump all we got to do is run the lines to the EFI right yeah and on the turbo got the turbo mounted the hot side's all done it's all final welded we've got the wastegate in there as well what we need to do on that still is we need to figure out what we're going to do about the downpipe it's kind of up in the air you can say that we need to have some filtered air go in the inlet and then we need to plumb the cold side which is what I'm going to work on and I'll alternate between the charging system and the cooling system see what you did there uh well while you're doing that I'm going to work on some planning uh because we've got to figure out where we're going to mount this intercooler it's going to be cool I think we probably find a place for it we're going to put an oem style thermostat housing on our 300. we'll put a little RTV on the gasket and since these are through holes you're going to want to seal the bolts that go into the head foreign [Music] nothing like recycling old parts oh cool you're really radiating off some good vibes well there's actually more room there than I thought looks like the radiator hoses aren't going to be too bad nah probably piece those together pretty easily I think Now's the Time where I need to step in here and yeah if you need some room to kind of work around and get the intercooler and I'll go do some other stuff yeah I'll do the cold side and I'll just figure out what we're gonna do about a downpipe or something and if you want me to make that decision I'll let you yeah all right let me get the cold side down all right well we've got this air-to-air intercooler that we've got from Summit Racing that we're going to use here this is actually pretty small but not small enough to fit in between the radiator and radiator support here and even if we did have one that would fit down inside of there the problem would be cutting holes through the radiator support which we don't want to do to get the plumbing run we could also mount it down here in front of the Grille which is not ideal because well it looks kind of silly and then also if we were going to Route the hoses we're either going to have to cut through the grill or run them in a hilarious manner which we don't want to do that either so what I think we're going to do because there's a lot of room between the top of the valve cover and the hood I think I can just mount it this way above the upper radiator hose figure out how we're going to mount that and then we can Plumb into it here with like a 180 and then we come right out and head toward the throttle body injection which we're to install here shortly so I'm going to figure out what we're going to do about brackets for this and get this thing mounted well here's what I figured out for this is um got these little L brackets that I'm going to bolt to the mounting points here on the intercooler that are existing um the reason I'm going to do this is we need something heavy duty to support the weight of this intercooler although it's aluminum and It's relatively small it's still pretty heavy and since we're going to be mounting it horizontally instead of vertically the way they normally are we need something that'll support the weight so we're going to start with this and then it needs to be kind of in this area here so in order to mount it to the radiator here can't just put bolts or screws right through the top of the radiator which actually went down to engine power and Pat made these little standoffs here that have 5 16 holes already tapped in them here this is super handy because I can take these pieces of aluminum and TIG weld those to the radiator tank there so what I'll do is I'll just go ahead and bolt these in and figure out where it needs to go and then Mark them and then I'll go ahead and weld those standoffs to the radiator we get this thing mounted all right so this is about where it's going to end up here I want to get it pretty close to even with the outlet of the turbo housing [Music] normally we weld in DC TIG because anytime you're welding steel or stainless steel you weld DC but anytime you're welding aluminum you have to go to AC so we have to push the select button there to go to AC Tig [Music] set up [Music] 220 AC DC TIG welder is our go-to we've used this machine for all sorts of projects from mild steel to stainless exhaust tubing and now we get to stretch its legs on some aluminum [Music] 4220 AC DC strikes again with the forward mounts done we're going to use this brace to support the rear of the intercooler now it's time to plumb the cold side give this a little test fit oh it's gonna look cool [Music] oh yeah a couple of clamps we're good to go well we already know that our flatbed here is not going to win any Concourse shows but we think it's going to be super cool either way this is the piece of tubing that they use for the blow off valve here when they Dyno the engine down in engine power we have to modify this so we're not exactly sure how we're going to make this work we just need to get over there toward the EFI system which is going to be next and then we'll get all of our plumbing buttoned up up next gentlemen start your engines we're on the final stretch of our 300 turbo swap into our flatbed and it's time to address fuel injection now we already installed that phytek fuel pump on the frame rail now it's time to actually install our EFI now some do consider when you're running a boost application whether it's a Turbocharger or supercharger then you have to have a system that can handle the Boost you're gonna be pushing through it that's exactly what this fight Tech go EFI power Adder can do now this particular model can handle up to 600 horsepower on a boosted application [Music] wiring is always intimidating but this fight Tech system makes it extremely easy to figure out [Music] the majority of the wiring on this Vite Tech is plug and play but there are a few things that you need to terminate like the main power and fuel pump feed and as with any project you got to figure out how to route the wires your own way [Music] this system is capable of 25 pounds of boost right out of the box and can be used with a blow through turbo or supercharger setup you can also run a single stage of wet nitrous and control your air fuel ratio as well as ignition timing all right that looks good you ready for this thing yeah look at this contraption I made it's pretty nifty let me get this hat a little tighter okay all right there dude not gonna lie yeah those things uh pretty gnarly if I take Zone Blast Off yep hit it all right ready yep oh yeah go ahead it wants to it's gonna have to learn awesome sweet sweet all right well we definitely want to dyno it right yeah we need to get it tuned all right but we're not going to roll it down there on the drums no we probably should put tires on it all right let's do that this might be the coolest thing I've ever seen in my life these General Grabber HDs should ride pretty good compared to the rest of this old truck [Music] well our flatbed made it the 125 feet down to engine power and I gotta be honest I didn't think it was actually going to go back on the dyno yeah I don't think we really planned on doing a before and after with this but here we are and hopefully it does better than it did last time right Pat well it made a double digit horsepower last time it was a 70 something and if it doesn't make more than that this time I think I'm going to switch careers and I'm going to become like a florist or something because it should do better than that it better make exponentially more I think it's going to be good and everything's all hooked up and everything looks great you guys did a great job appreciate it thank you uh we got the fans on it's all strapped down ready to go Pat you do the honors you don't have to ask me twice on that one all right oh gotta turn the fan on heck yeah I want to see some numbers I'm excited oh you look good in there man I I uh I get a lot of experience in Old Ford trucks I've been telling you that here we go wow so you got that all programmed up right yeah yeah oh man that's crazy this is what every Farm needs yeah struck like this yes this is like all all feeder farm truck I love the hood sack just coming right out spicy [Music] good [Music] oh yeah [Music] yeah wow see what we got first run out of the box we are at 377.7 horsepower 377. 377. that's the first ball we got a couple Walkers what's that 373 torque nice okay now the turbo has got to get a little bit more heat out yeah I'm gonna make two bulls in succession here yeah uh but when that thing can start boosting you're just oh yeah yeah it came to life it did the same thing on the engine Dyno yeah it just takes right off it sounds like it's getting ready to just like go to the moon and then you end the bull I'm like no stop [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] I know that sounds crazy but I don't want to actually take it over 10 pounds this this rear end this thing's got like a 587 here in it yeah and uh I said you're turning 5500 right now which is more than we did on the dyno all right well what we got we gotta do one more yeah make one more I mean this thing is unkillable so it makes it so hard to dino because you have to load it so much just to get it to climb at a reasonable rate [Music] foreign [Music] engine mounts and trans mount it's just shaking Decades of dirt yeah from underneath this truck it's just all over the floor it's about selling Brandon's at least definitely good that you guys switch the tires from those last ones you had the farm ones have been sitting on there for forever dude that's mean right there okay so think about this for a while you're almost at this point five-time demon horsepower that I had before five times when you look at it that way I mean mission accomplished mission accomplished I think the only thing I would change is the Steep gears in the rear the 587s in the rear I'd go to like a 410 and this thing would just scream down the highway yeah I tell you what this is uh this was a lot of fun great install like I like to say nice hustle yeah yeah thanks for your help thank you guys yeah what was that whatever I'll do the fist buff here today on Music City trucks our flatbed is back we'll show you a traditional way to lower a truck plus welding tips from forney's Gabby Nieto then we test drive our F-350 with that sweet turbocharger [Music] oh [Music] [Music] Welcome to Music City trucks and I have to say I am very excited to have our 1964 F-350 flatbed back in the shop well this thing has led a couple of lives previously but then we got our hands on it I found this old truck in a field where it had sat for six years untouched we went through the old dually's Mechanicals to see if it was fit to start and we ended up having to repair the car right there in the field it eventually started up and drove under the trailer at least and then we dropped in a turbocharged for 300 and took it next door to engine power's chassis Dyno and it rattled and Shook and smoked Stockett made a whopping 77 horsepower now it made 373 horsepower well I gotta say I love this old flatbed truck it's this old uh County truck turned farm truck turned shop truck it's just really cool it was cool getting it running and driving cruising around town but it was even cooler to get 300 turbo under the hood but you know how we are around here we can't leave well enough alone now I like to imagine this truck sitting in my driveway because it's got the perfect amount of crust that I like in all my vehicles but I think there's a problem with the attitude and that's the altitude and I think we need to drop this truck in the dirt maybe Bob the bed put an exhaust system on it put the hood back on it and pretty much that's a daily driver I don't know about daily driver nor getting it in the dirt but I think lowering it and changing the attitudes doable on this thing uh my only concern or I'll say my biggest concern is this front axle now the problem with these little straight axles is when you go to lower these things you're going to usually do what they call a flip kit which is putting the axle on top of the leaf but these cast iron axles actually have the pedestals cast into them so we're gonna have to make a cradle that goes on the bottom once we get it on top of this Leaf so the axle doesn't rotate around on us and then it should be fine I'll go get the Deep creep all right with the suspension bolts rusted on for 58 years we gave them a shot of seafoam deep creep to loosen them up a little bit of Nature's thread Locker on there [Music] as we move around the front suspension everything is starting to get more difficult to remove requiring more persuasion and the rust dust is flying might need the heat for this one [Music] oh [Music] got it yep [Music] all right all right the axle is hanging free now now we start putting the front suspension back in using the original Hardware [Music] no shackles rubber roller so simple now the axles on top of the leaf we're just going to take these Universal axle perches and stick them right there on the center pin and then we're going to lower it down so it's centered and then as you can see there's nothing holding this axle from rotating back and forth so we're gonna have to make a little pedestal and then just put the u-bolts in and this thing should be done there's really no rule book on how to lower these old trucks and uh the best thing to do is just try to keep safety in mind so this is the old Bump Stop which actually kept the u-bolts in line with the leaf and the axle so we're just going to go ahead and use that at the bottom like that but we're just going to take the bump stop off and that way this u-bolt stays straight and we don't spit a spring out or roll an axle and it's a good idea to always use new u-bolts [Music] let's see the new hardware goes on and everything gets tightened down as we keep checking for level well this is what I came up with a tight fit coming up a traditional solution to lowering a truck how low can you go now that we're done with the front suspension we're going to be moving on to the rear and we're going to be doing something a little simpler than doing a flip kit we're actually just going to be pulling Leaf out of the leaf pack now that's going to lower the spring rate and soften the ride which let's be honest probably not going to tow anything with this truck in this configuration so first thing we need to do is get these mud flaps off [Music] foreign [Music] with a 58 year old truck like this one some of the parts that have never been off don't want to come off three quarter inch isn't touching it you want to give it some heat with a stuck bolt like this a little heat persuades you could do the trick you watch that we work on this one those two yeah and the other side needs some help as well [Music] careful with that one it was a little warm that's a hot tamale [Music] I have a feeling those u-bolts might be a little warm not too bad the tip just a tip [Music] take these overload Springs out ain't gonna need them check that out broken Leaf yep look at that broke a leaf spring it's part of the overload that's when you know it's had a load on it you got a broken leaf on your overload you had some weight in the back so what we need to do is take the axle away from the Leafs unload them and then load them apart C-clamp the Leafs pull out the center pin and then open up the C-clamp and take what we need out got it so the least we're thinking about keeping are obviously the main leaf and these two longest leaves right we might keep the four but I think taking the rest of the short ones out will one lower it two inches just in the thickness but also soften everything up and hopefully lowered another inch and a half or so get some weight transfer [Music] you know it that one's gonna drop yeah I was gonna pull my clamp off [Music] ready yep so the question is do we want to just keep the three or do we want to add the four I say we start with the three okay see what happens but I'm pretty sure I'm probably gonna have to put the fourth one back in you think it's gonna be too low I think it might be too soft I think it's worth trying it's worth trying [Music] foreign [Music] can you go we'll find out [Music] all right moment of truth you ready for this Brando I'm ready all right make sure it don't touch nothing okay oh that it dude we're golden dude it looks good it's still pretty stiff don't even need any shocks we can get away it looks really really good we can get away without bombing that bad yeah but why not just cut it you know I want to get the Sawzall out let's do it let's cut it all right well let's take a look at what exactly we're gonna accomplish here the leaf perch is really going to be our limiting factor here it ends about right here and we don't want to move the axle forward so let's see about how much of that we're going to be able to cut off oh about about 10 inches uh so the next thing we have to consider is this board here needs to get out of the way because all that did was hold the mud flaps and then we can move this I-beam further forward in front of where we're going to cut the bed off so get this thing off we'll go up in the air and get that I beam out of there [Music] [Music] all right so we don't want to go past the hanger I'll go right there well with the beam where we want it I'm just going to tack it in place that way when we're cutting everything it doesn't move coming up welding tips from forney's Gabby Nieto well we're getting dangerously close to bobbing the bed on our flatbed shop truck here and here to help us out we got Gabby from Forney Industries not only is she going to help us with working on the truck but she also brought us a new toy Gabby thanks for being here yeah of course thank you guys so much for having me so I know you already have your 20p plasma cutter but today I brought you a 40p plasma so this machine is actually a 40 amp plasma cutter it will clean cut through half inch mild steel and sever cut through three quarters so even though this machine may look really small it actually packs a really big punch another cool thing is that this machine is dual voltage so it'll run off of 240 volts or 120. Sweet let's plug this thing in and start cutting this truck up sounds good just need to grind a clean spot off for the ground [Music] so with the plasma cutter you want to make contact with the tip to the material you're cutting also you want to pull the torch towards you so that you can see the area that you are getting ready to cut and you can also kind of determine the speed and how far you want your cut to go so you have a better start and end point you also always want to make sure that your consumables are fresh and if they start to get worn and the electrode starts to pick you want to make sure that you replace those foreign [Music] made quick work of the second frame rail then using the Forney flap disc she ground up the ends for a smooth surface well Gabby says she's better at working with metal than wood so I'm going to give carpentry a try [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oops we need a new tail light [Music] wow Brandon you're a regular old Bob Vila I have no clue who that is Norm Abrams nope nope okay well no no it must have been before your time I'll fill you in on that later it looks really good though yeah a couple self-tappers this thing's pretty much done back here what do you think Gabby I think it looks good but uh these cuts it looks like you can take a couple lessons from mine because they look a little better so the shade she just served that right up well if you're gonna keep that up if you have time to hang out we've got one more project sure let's check it out we could use your help on it's up front all right Gabby here's what we've got going on as you can see we've got a lot of Plumbing going on here with our turbo 300 don't look at the welds too closely all right those are mine uh but we don't have a hood and we can't put a hood on it yet because we got the the hater pipe there the hater pipe is kind of getting a lot of hate so we probably should take the turn up and turn down yeah we want to run just more of a traditional exhaust system it doesn't have to go all the way to the back of the truck um back of the cab would be fine but maybe we'll put a muffler in there or something like that okay and since Mark does all the TIG welding and I'm not that great at TIG welding and since you're an instructor maybe you can teach me some things on TIG welding all right I'll give you some pointers let's weld it up all right let's go get you guys with it all right so I mean you know the basics you can melt some metal together so that works but um what we'll do first this material is pretty clean we just have a little bit of soot from where that mig weld is from if we have any grease or anything we just kind of want to clean that up so you just take um a Brillo pad or you could take a little disc or yeah anything really that you can kind of just scrub that surface up a little bit so kind of as I'm welding I kind of just like talk to myself as soon as I get that puddle to melt then I'm going to add my filler in there and then every time I add I'm just going to move forward with my torch because everyone's technique a little bit different or yeah um with welding it's really really very dependent on the welder and how they're gonna go about it also the job every job calls for different things so it's really just dependent on on what what you're doing obviously something like this um most people if they're TIG welding it they're not going to really put a whole lot of motion in their torch and they're just going to kind of dab that filler rod in some people also like lay wire technique so sometimes instead of coming through and adding that filler Rod by dabbing it in there they'll just lay it down and kind of run over the top of it now we're starting the process of fabbing up our own custom exhaust first we measure something like that yeah looks good to me then we cut measure again cut another [Music] tack that in well rinse and repeat [Music] will it make it hold on [Music] perfect there we go then Gabby lays down some more TIG welds [Music] now my turn let's see if I learned anything I admit I'm not that great at TIG but like anything practice makes a difference and a mentor like Gabby is a huge Plus coming up payoff time with our flatband welcome back to Music City trucks and we are on the road with our 1964 F-350 flatbed well I finished up and installed the exhaust thanks for Gabby for our help but now it's time for us to enjoy our turbo 300 swap flatbed shop truck [Music] that thing is awesome it takes so long for it to build that new stuff but when it does and it just like goes and then it's there it's like oh this is awesome God that steering is just like oh and as soon as you let up it like darts over what do you think is it still sounds it smells like a farm truck I feel like it though now this thing is as Rowdy and more scarier way more scary I'm trying to find the force I don't want to accidentally throw it in second oh man way scarier than trash out and not nearly as fast at the wheel so let's talk about what we've done to this thing so far all right so [Music] we went found a truck sitting in the dude's field right by his barn left her dead left for dead literally we got it running out in the field then we put brakes on it got it driving went around town that was fun yeah but we couldn't leave it alone so we came back we threw the turbo 300 in it right put a trans in it put it on the dyno I mean five times as much power as they used to have yeah lowered it Bob the bed and actually made it drivable per se yeah so I mean it's this is the best iteration for me yeah how far for sure yeah I mean if you asked me to tell you what I would do differently I would I'll definitely do something different with the gearing oh yeah sure because yeah I mean we're it really 2500 rpm right now so it's a 40 mile an hour truck really yeah yeah it's a cool truck to take to Cars and Coffee or like a local Cruise in to show it off this just shows you you can have a lot of fun without going overboard I mean really what did we do we got the brakes working we put new tires on it I mean sure we put a turbo 300 in it you don't have to do that you don't have to you can just put a turbo on a 300 or just leave the 300 in it yeah um a little bit upgraded trans from the older one easier to get parts but I mean overall we really didn't spend a crazy amount of money to have a crazy food truck yep that's right yeah people can take what we did and modify it because to fit their budget we love it and we still have more plans for this old truck so you'll see it again you can find the parts we used and check out the build page on our website but for now on to our next project foreign [Music]

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Keywords: Car, PowerNation, howto, how-to, diy, automotive, cars, trucks, automobile, do it yourself, automobiles, auto, powerblock, ford, flatbed, ford flatbed, music city trucks, full build, 1964 Ford Flatbed Shop Truck, shop truck

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Length: 85min 36sec (5136 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 29 2023