John Deere 755c track Loader, John Deere 755bCase 431, Ford 2600, Taylor 25000lb forklift Ford 755 , Schramm 300 Pneumatractor, 8N Ford , Gravely 10A Kubota KH191, 1970 John Deere garden tractor with blade, 1985 John Deere 265 garden tractor Case 431
Recently an older 1991 F250 extended cab diesel pickup was added to my cadre of vehicles
First off it is an old beater of a truck but runs great perfect for use around the farm or going to town and back for supplies but it needed protection for the rear window so I cut the headache rack window guard off of a flat bed I have which came off of a larger truck then cut it down to fit the pickup, Here are some pictures of it
As cut from the flat bed
The removed bits
Modified
then I bolted 3 x31/2" angle iron to the bed sides and welded the rack to them
I used 1/2" electric motor lifting eyes as the bolts to anchor the rack to the bed under the bed side rails I used lengths of 3/8x 1 1/4" flat bar as stiffeners allowing me to use the eyes as heavy duty tie downs
John Deere 755c track Loader, John Deere 755bCase 431, Ford 2600, Taylor 25000lb forklift Ford 755 , Schramm 300 Pneumatractor, 8N Ford , Gravely 10A Kubota KH191, 1970 John Deere garden tractor with blade, 1985 John Deere 265 garden tractor Case 431
Yeah I guess you could of you are 6'5" tall and have a habit of leaning up against the cab those bars don't extend beyond the width of the bed.
Bid on truck auctions quite often running or not this was one of those NOT. So I make whatever the minimum set bid is mostly so I can keep tabs on what old trucks might be selling for as by bidding on them if I don't win the bid it will be logged in my bidding history and I can go back and look them up. Sine not many people care about owning older vehicles that don't have all of the fufu in them, if they are ugly old beat up things and not running to boot unless someone is just needing a particular part off on one they don't buy them.
This one the bid was $350.00 Once I got it home I had to put 2 batteries in it that I had already, the front tires were worn to the cords on the outside and one was blown out, the back tires were nearly new but the DOT code shows them to be 3 years old. I adjusted the toe in. replaced the fuel filler hose so I could fill the tank without pouring half the fuel out on the ground replaced the tires with a good pair that I had, bled the fuel system replaced the license plate light cranked it up, insured it had it inspected then registered it and am driving it. I guess I might have a little over $500.00 invested in it. I only bid on it because I was taking a chance the transmission might be good because I need to either pull and rebuild the one in my 93 or replace it. I can buy a rebuild kit for the tranny in the 93 for $400.00 and rebuild it myself so the 91 could have been a donor truck but as it turns out it is a good runner probably with fewer miles on it than my 93 and just as ugly.
John Deere 755c track Loader, John Deere 755bCase 431, Ford 2600, Taylor 25000lb forklift Ford 755 , Schramm 300 Pneumatractor, 8N Ford , Gravely 10A Kubota KH191, 1970 John Deere garden tractor with blade, 1985 John Deere 265 garden tractor Case 431
There are a lot of tattle tail signs one can look for in an older full framed vehicle which will not only give an indication of the actual mileage since this one has the old style odometer that only rolls up to 100K then starts over. and there is only 48K on the clock currently. So that could mean 148 248 or a million and 48 for that matter. So one of the first things I noticed was how the doors shut, there was no need to slam them as most older vehicles require the doors to be done Door seals and door latches begin to deteriorate with every closing and after say 30 years the age this one is almost and with over say 200K you would expect to need to pretty mush give them more push or pull to get them closed.
Body mounts and bed mounts are another indictor of how a truck has been used. There is no getting around them settling with age but these should all settle evenly unless the truck was continuously used to haul lots of heavy loads. This one does not even have a hole in the floor of the bed to indicate it ever pulled a goose neck trailer and there is nor has there ever been a receiver hitch mounted. The factory rear bumper has had a stiffener plate added to where a trailer ball is mounted but this is to be expected as factory bumpers were never all that strong anyway they will bend just pulling a stupid bass boat the vehicle ride height when empty is another indictor of how it had been used sagging springs worn bushings and several other things show use as well as mileage. The way an engine starts and sounds is the biggest indicator of how it had been used and high or low mileage. This one being a diesel has glow plugs these usually last a couple hundred K then will need replacing and possibly even the controller as well.
the fuel pump on those old IDI International 7.3 engines were notorious for getting weak with age if the fuel filter was not regularly serviced. Proper servicing and regular oil change intervals and those engines were good for half a million highway miles or more City miles significantly less. A truck that has spent it's life running a couple blocks to a conveyance store and back and little else will develop a host of problems very early on in the life ot a truck.
There are many more indicators far too many to make a complete list of their causes and effects so I will give a not so brief account of how I found this one to be so far after having driven it only a couple thousand miles.
As I mentioned it has roughly 48K on the clock But I personally believe it to be more entuned to having around 248K but not abused other than cosmetically IE lots of exterior sheet metal damage and scratched up paint. the peddle pads are would have about as much wear as the ones had on my 89 Dodge Diesel that I bought new and rolled 280K on it in just over 3 years. The driver's side of the seat is worn and has a hole in the cover indicating someone was in and out of it a lot over the years but that doesn't mean miles the doors as I stated close almost effortlessly, the Engine starts quickly even if I don't wait for the glow plugs to fully cycle. The oil pressure still shows in the high normal range either cold or after being driven a 100 miles at 75MPH the transmission shifts as it should and the overdrive functions correctly even though the switch has been replaced with a toggle switch Ford Electrics just like GM and Dodge have always left something to be desired. The steering leaves a lot to be desired though as when I got it the toe in was so bad the not very old looking tieres were so worn that one of them had steel cords showing so I put a pair of good used tires on it that I had and adjusted the toe in but it still needs more tweaking as it road walks. I suspect this could be due in part to a lot of pothole driving as the steer shaft where it telescopes into the column had a lot of wear and play that I have mostly corrected and the steering gear had a lot of play in it. I've adjusted that out as much as possible but any more adjustment will only cause it to have binding spots so I will be replacing that with a new one then will take it to a friend who for the past 40 years has done mostly Ford truck alignments. You need someone like that to properly align the twin I beams on Fords anyway. Other than that the old truck is in my opinion a keeper which is too bad actually as now I am faced with kitting the transmission in my 93 F350 or deciding if I really want to drop in my IH E444T with the Allison transmission in it the E444t Ih engine is the same as the Ford power stroke that came out in 95 or 96 with the turbo on them. only Ford used a fuel pump which ran off of engine oil pressure while IH used a gear driven pump to fuel the electronic common fuel rail system
