BUILD Ford truck 460

sktchy3.8

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Looks pretty good, I'd be half inclined to pop the caps on the rusty journals and be sure the bearings weren't riding on spot rust but I don't see any reason to have one's undies in a bunch.

I'd probably also shine a light in the spark plug holes and just be sure there's nothing crazy on the cylinder walls.
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I wish I had done more to store it....didn't expect it to sit for 8 years.

The sludge buildup around the pump body indent isn't ferrous, I dragged a magnet through it.

I'm gonna put it at 80-120k, he told me it had around 100k when I got it.

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sktchy3.8

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When I was younger the big thing here was putting pivot tires, basically small tractor tires, on the old highboys and feeding the 460s in them propane and taking them mud bogging. It was actually pretty cool but at that age I didn't know much better than to think they were monster trucks.
 
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GTPpower

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When I was younger the big thing here was putting pivot tires, basically small tractor tires, on the old highboys and feeding the 460s in them propane and taking them mud bogging. It was actually pretty cool but at that age I didn't know much better than to think they were monster trucks.
I had a friend in college that was into mud bog racing. In the middle of winter they had races in one of the buildings at the fairgrounds at Kearney, I think. That was a blast.
 
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I had a friend in college that was into mud bog racing. In the middle of winter they had races in one of the buildings at the fairgrounds at Kearney, I think. That was a blast.
There's usually a big one northwest of here every summer and then scattered smaller ones yet. Doesn't seem like they do much at the fairgrounds but have a couple demo derbys, a few shitty concerts or try and have expos to get farmers to buy shit anymore.
 
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