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Vince, we'll see but I ain't much on Ford.... just cause I have a mustang don't mean I like Ford... lol

I may have lost my everloving mind... I just bought another truck... 86 ford dually with a 6.9 diesel manual tranny. I bought it cheap without a title. I want the bed off it and will probably sell the rest.

where is ole mikie anyway?

Once you have hydro angle, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it. Very well worth the effort to install dual hydraulics if you do much blade work.

I hear you BM, and undersand what you are saying. The investment in all of this stuff is very minimal, and when I am done I think I can sell off the excess parts and maybe even come out even with a free or nearly free truck, before I start on body work of course. I think at this point I am gonna tak...

I really want a 4x4 dually with a 5 speed and a big block as a bonus, so not for sale yet.....

BM as in? sell it tomorrow?

I'm sure it's a quadrajet. Good deal on the rebuild! Yeah I figure while I have it apart I'll get a new clutch and throw out bearing. This will be a spring time project I currenlty have a mustang torn to pieces in the garage!

Frank, the 454 is complete and running.... and the whole truck was 300 bucks, so yeah gonna use the 454, and this is a farm truck not a dragster!

My buddy seems to think changing motors and cabs is the easier alternative to end up with a 454 powered 4x4 dually which is the end goal.

Nope want a dually and I have a flat bed I bought this weekend. I am gonna keep looking for a bed though as the one I got will work, but there might be a better one out there and the one I got was cheap. Plus the rear in the 86 is an open diff the dually diff is a locker.

Ok so it turns out the 87 is really an 86, but it is a big block 4 speed, and structurally is in decent shape. So just looking a things, I think I want to put the dually rear axle under this truck and 4x4 front end under it as well. From what I have read I will have to cut the hump out of the floor,...

I knew you guys would know these trucks! And Todd thanks for the forum link I signed up today and have been reading.

I appreciate it. I actually hope it is fuel injected and I will just use the 87 cab with the motor in some form. And I appreciate any help with this.

the 87 is supposed to have a carb.

The 77 started life as a dually, I do not know where or why the front hubs were changed. The 87 I am going after tomorrow is a 4 speed manual just like the 77. I figure if the bed is in decent shape it alone would be worth nealry what I am paying for the entire truck and then I have a nearly free 45...

I'll just have to look it over real well and see. Isn't it funny how projects get bigger? It seems to me to possibly be easier for me at least to put the 4x4 stuff on the 2Wd frame, especially if it's in better (not as rusty shape). I have been reading up on this and it seems possible.

The paperwork in th truck lists it as a dually. The story I got fromt he guy was he sent his buddy to pick the truck up over by lexington. He came back with it with those oddball front rims on it, due to the dually tire being flat and he just swapped the rims over to make it roll. I got the dually f...

Ok so it looks like I just bought a complete running 87 GMC single wheel 1 ton with a 454 and 4 speed. I havent' seen pic, but he says the cab and truck is in pretty good shape. it's only 2WD, so can I take the 4x4 stuff and dually rear end out of this truck and put under than one if it's in better ...

I got a lot to learn... I am so intrigued by this big block idea.....

Next question is a freind of mine has an 87 GMC with a 454 Big block. I don't know much else about the truck at this point other than he wants 300 bucks for it, and it's suppossed to run good. Are the small block and Big block bell housings the same? As in, can I take the 454 and simply bolt it into...

Todd, really????? Grr...... where am I gonna get the correct hubs then? That there just makes me wanna scrap the whole thing. I don't like already worked on changed stuff.

I haven't had the front wheels off and at this point I would not know the difference, but I think it still has the dually front hubs as those rims are just on it to make it roll as one of the duallt rires is flat.

The correct front rims are in the bed of my truck in case anyone was wondering!

I am going after a flat bed tomorrow. No headache rack on it, but the price is right and I can make the headache rack pretty easy! I doubt I will ever have a plow on a truck.

And most one ton's of that vinatge were 2wd. don't see too many 4x4 ones in tha body style.

Good looking old truck Rich, and I hope mine turns out half that nice. Plates here aren't that much, and insurance shouldn't be either. I want/need a good truck up at the farm so I don't tear mine up, and with it being a 2 hr trip each way the gas it takes to drive mine up and back gets expensive, s...

BM, I don't know if the 782 is sold or not. I don't really know how to get it to the guy. You are right I could weld up my own, but I might be able to find one cheaper than I could build my own?

I know a few of you guys have old trucks.. I bought myself an older project truck today. It's a 1977 GMC K35 1 ton dually. It's a 350 gas with the 4 speed behind it, and also 4 wheel drive. or is that 6 wheel drive? :) It's gonna need a lot of work and I want to find a flat bed for it, but I plan to...

Adrian, your tractor has a shortened 1872 shaft in it. It did have the clutch in it, but it was loose and sloppy and it appeared to me it would cause more driveline wear than it was worth so it got a straight (unclutched) shaft.