I posted last night that I need a Steering box or sector for a 75 Ford F150 4x4, which is my current project, and the thread disappeared for some reason. I can't find it today. If someone has one or knows where to get one cheap, I sure can use it. I want a Power Steering box with Pitman arm. I imagine a Bronco one would work for me too. I am building a Yard Horse, or Doodle Bug, for moving cars, pulling and moving engines, and for a snow plow. I am looking for an older small block engine also for it. 289 or 302. I could only find one truck on ebay and it is almost 500 miles from here, it would cost more to go get it than what I paid for it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Jim. ###
Cause it's not "traditional Rodding". No where on this site will you find information reguarding 70's ford pickups. That's why your thread was deleted.
That is strange, I had a thread going about my 400 engine for my 53 streetrod pickup. IT is not traditional, AT ALL, either, but still a street rod pickup. This 75 chassis is also a ROD of sorts, only I won't be driving it on the "street" Just on my ten acres here, I think. So are you saying because it is in the "seventies" that it doesn't qualify, or because it is a Truck it doesn't qualify, or because it won't be driven on the road it doesn't qualify, or what? I am real confused on this one. IT will have a 55 F250 cab and front clip going on it, so that takes it out of the realm of anything stock for the seventies. I also have a title for the 55 truck that I am transplanting on it. To ME, it IS a streetrod by all definitions. So I am really confused why it would have been deleted. Thanks for any info. Jim. ###
Go back to the Classified section and read the guidelines for the H.A.M.B. Cutoff is 1964 and subject to Moderators interpitation. I'm pretty Broad minded and Love 53/56 F-100's but not on a 4X4 chassis. There is a place for everything but not everything has a place here. Sorry, I half to agree with the add delete. The Wizzard
Before you get your feelings hurt, there have to be limits on the years we get into here. Both my car (Galaxie) and truck (F250 4X4) are '65s and not HAMB material. But, I like it here because of the people and the cars they own. I am doing some rod project work that is HAMB friendly but they are my father-in-laws that I will likely take over someday. I share what I can there, and on tech relating to what I know about things that get transplanted into rods as updates for driving. As for your question, get in touch with this guy. He knows steering gears, the site is Mustang related, but he knows more than likely what you are needing. Good Luck. http://www.stangerssite.com/
Hey, thanks for the scoop guys. I had no idea there was a cutoff on this group as far as years. I guess because my first thread was about my 53 F100, but it has a custom homemade frame and Pinto front suspension, so I guess that must be okay, here, huh? I will be careful in the future not to mention 4x4 in my posts. Even though they did have them back in the 50's and certainly in the 60's. This chassis I was talking about here had a 40 Ford Car on it before I bought it. ANd I had put a 36 Truck on it, but sold that too, then I put a 38 Dodge truck on it; and now it will have the 55 truck on it. This time for good though. But we must remember, I am from Wisconsin, and we DO get snow here. And plenty of it some years. Thanks again for letting me know we have to stop at 64. I think older is better anyway. Heck I am 67 now and just getting back into streetrodding. Jim. ###
You probably didnt word it that way. Example, a lot of us custom guys use later frames but depending on the build it can still be traditional. Good luck with the build either way.
Boy, now I am even more confused????? If it isn't a streetrod site, and you have to stop at 64, just what kind of site is it exactly. I came to it, as I had googled Ford 400 engine and found an article on it here, and decided to run my own post to see about the oil filter mount for a 400 engine for my 53 F100. Are all different brands of vehicles from say 1950 to 1964 allowed? I guess I have to go someplace on this group and see just what it really is. Jim. ###
Street rod = Billet wheels, pastel colors, IFS on fenderless cars, digital guages, most likely built for the owner by someone else for rediculous sums of money. This site is for traditional hot rods and customs and the people who build them, usually in their own garages. You know, Dago axles and juice brakes, flatheads and Zephyr gears, all that good stuff. If you're sixty seven this site should be right up your alley. Check around a little bit you'll see what I mean.
Here's a forum that's as good any for information about your '75 F-100 chassis: 1973-1979 F-100 And Larger F-Series Trucks http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/forum38/
Thanks Lucky77. MY idea of Streetrod is a vehicle I have built to drive on the street. Mine does have a custom frame, but I bought the cab, front clip and frame for $500. It has a Pinto iFS front suspension, but I am pieceing it together. THe guy did a pretty decent job on the frame build, except for the rear spring rear mounts, which I will be changing. ALL my stuff is LOW BUCK. I started streetrodding back in 1959. I guess we did call them hotrods back then. we never heard of Rat rods then. We customized and scrounged the junkyards and put together whatever we could come up with. I have built houses the same way. Tear down houses, barns, chicken coups, whatever and build a place to fit the materials. More work, but more fun and one of a kind, usually. I like to read the Custom Classic Trucks mag when it comes. BUt I do get tired of the same old, same old, Chev engine in Ford truck, (or car), etc.. And there is NOTHING billet on MY vehicles. I am amazed at the prices they seem to get for things nowadays, Amazed. Take care, jim. ###
Sorry to hijack your thread Jim, hope you find the info you need. If you were building hot rods in the 50's then you're definitely welcome here at the HAMB. Its always great to hear from guys who were really there. Don't worry, we don't call them rat rods either. That phrase stirrs up more shit than the street rod stuff does. It's just a catch phrase that unfortunately is probably stuck on a lot of our cars. At a local show last week I don't know how many times I heard "Honey, that's one of those rat rods" by guys in Hawaian shirts just before they got into their tuned port powered, Easter egg colored kit cars with Corvette suspension, and billet wheels. Absolutely clueless
## Lucky: Maybe I should clarify it. I actually built what would be called a custom today, back in 59. A 51 Ford Victoria Hardtop. Spent a lot of money on it, about $3,000 total donig it and redoing it. Then in 61 I got married, had a kid on the way, but always wanted a Hot Rod, so bought a 1930 Model A coupe for $90, and took the souped up flatty from the 51, which was a rebuilt 53 that I bought from Montgomery Wards, and had put a cam, Johnson lifters, Offy aluminum heads, three dueces, etc.; and put it with trannie, rear, etc., into the coupe. Then cut the top off the 51 and grafted it to the top of the coupe, etc.. In other words I totally ruined a totally good 51 Vicky Hardtop. People would shudder today at that. LOL. I learned body work, painting with an Electrolux vacuum spray gun, (bad, but was lacquer and when sanded and rubbed out, looked great). I couldn't leave well enough alone, so later in 62, I channeled the body, took off the stock front fenders and running boards and put on "cycle" type fenders I got from Warshawsky and Co., and it was Kool. THen in 63 I cut off the top and made a roadster out of it. (Wish I had never done that). But I was getting a lot of bodywork experience, and got better at painting too. Next project was a 57 Ford that I fixed up; bodywork, custom paint, etc.. Well, enough of this for now, I guess, off to my current project. Jim ###
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