'56 F100 bagged and linked

[7075x4130]

why u no equal 4 link but man i love the truck! it makes me really happy you kept it original style and sizeish on the wheel, no hideous 22 billets!

[Lukey]

fucking amazing!!

[Belvader]

this is such a beautiful truck

[mullet]

this is wonderful

[tscharf18]

Beautiful truck!

Love the shine the wood has, real nice contrast between the dark blue.

thanks man!

why u no equal 4 link but man i love the truck! it makes me really happy you kept it original style and sizeish on the wheel, no hideous 22 billets!

On a straight 4 link the rear end shifts a little when you air out, I have really tight clearance with the rear tires so I went with a triangulated 4 link.

[tscharf18]

So to continue the story and to get to where we are now.
The truck was now broken down on the side of the road and I had to decide to continue forward with the group or to wait for the tow truck and go back home and get my daily driver and then head to vegas. I decided since my girlfriend was waiting for me in vegas already at the airport I had better continue to vegas. We had a friend come pick up the truck on the side of the freeway. There was the dilemma now of what do I drive in vegas but luckily I have very good friends that lend me very cool cars to drive around. Brian the owner of mackeys hotrods lent me and my gf his roadster to drive since we now had no transportation.




When we got back from vegas it was now time to find the cause of the failure. I already had the 351w that was fresh so I was planning on just swapping the motors. While pulling the 289 that had failed on me. I found our failure. It was a grounded ignition wire. But that wasnt it. upon pulling the old motor I found multiple things that had to be changed. The starter was cracked, engine had a blown head gasket, had a stuck valve, broken motor mounts, grounded headlight harness, the flex plate was on backwards, cracked shift linkage, and the piston rings were toast. So instead of trying to salvage everything from the old motor I decided to spend the money and just go brand new with everything that way I wouldnt have any unexpected failures. This is what I was looking at:
-change fuel pump from mechanical to electric
-change distributor from points to electronic
-new water pump
-new radiator
-new valve covers
-new starter
-new motor mounts
-new plugs and wires
-new alternator
-new battery
-new headlight harness
-new radiator supports
-new shift linkage
-new dipstick
-new edelbrock intake manifold
-new edelbrock 650 4 barrel carb
-new harmonic balancer
-new flex plate
-new headers






With the new engine in it was time to start bolting everything up. passenger side header went on fine. But when I tried putting in the driver side it couldnt even get close to fitting. It was hitting the steering linkage and couldnt even get close to mounting in place. So the only option was to pull the column and linkage to get a part number. Once I got the part number I looked it up and it was out of a chevy C10. The previos owner apparently decided to put a chevy steering system in the truck and now my ehaders werent going to fit. I decided to buy a pair of Summit racing Block hugger headers thinking that would solve the problem, and now with the new headers it cleared the steering linkage by almost an inch. With one problem solved another arose. Now we didnt clear the starter on the other side. I decided to ditch the big oem starter and pick up a high torque mini starter in hopes that now I can clear the header and finally fire this engine up.




I should have some time this week to try and get everything bolted up and get her fired. I'll keep you all updated as I go.

[MrViicc]

this is so beautiful.

[oHSo EuRo]

This is fanfuckingtastic.

[tscharf18]

this is so beautiful.

This is fanfuckingtastic.

thanks guys, appreciate the kind words

[tscharf18]

UPDATE:
So it turns out that even thought the starter I bought was a "mini" starter it wasn't mini enough to clear the header but I was able to find a starter a little smaller that cleared. Now we ran into another issue. (nothing new at this point) The engine sits too low in the engine bay that a mechanical fan isn't going to sit directly behind the radiator so its not gonna be sufficient for cooling. So I shimmed the pulley and deleted the mechanical fan and ordered a 2500cfm flex-a-lite 16" electric fan. Hopefully it will do the job. Then we can fire it up.

[loudest03cavi]

Beautiful truck, sorry about your luck with all of the mishaps, but that's kind of how builds go lol.

Excited to see it done (and a video of a burnout please) kthanks.

[99sil-teg]

This is turning out so well!

[aLaFleur]

This is a really great looking truck man! Get it running now!

[DutchieSaxo]

shit what an amazing build, the endresult is stunning,

quite a shame about the brakedown, hope she's up and running again soon,

[fuhfuh.Focus]

This is a badass truck. Good luck with the rest of the build.