WHYDTYTT: What Have You Done To Your Truck Today?

[FordFETruck]

How old are these really? I've never seen a condenser with the red epoxy on the end other than these.

[85lebaront2]

That looks very much like the orignal Ford design that were single breaker point units. I havent had a vehicle with breaker points in years, last one was my son Matt's 1965 Corvair Corsa and that was taken out of service in 1996 after he graduated from high school. He inherited my 1987 Horizon after that.

[FordFETruck]

Seems like the same concept as the early Ford breaker plates, perhaps made a little different. All 3 that I bought I had to take the bearing cage out and clean the old grease out. What was left of it resembled what you scrape out of a chainsaw bar groove.

[salans7]

I have recently been on a buying spree for my F350, and one of the purchases was an OEM set of door panels. They aren't the same ones that were in my F150, but they're black XLT/Lariat panels which is what I wanted. I've been working on cleaning them up, and at some point I will need to add the 1980-only Lariat trim panels (above the armrests) that I have for it.

One of the new door panels with a map pocket from my old F150:



What the door panels looked like on my F150 (same map pocket in both photos):

[ArdWrknTrk]

That's got to be tough to find XLT panels with manual windows.

Rosewood looks real nice, not all faded or chewed up by the door handles!   🤩

[salans7]

ArdWrknTrk wrote

That's got to be tough to find XLT panels with manual windows.

Rosewood looks real nice, not all faded or chewed up by the door handles!   🤩

Locally, yes. Ebay, not really. I see sets come across there from time to time. The ones on my F150 were "clones" as I added the woodgrain and the Lariat trim panels myself. They originally were just Ranger/XL panels.

The rosewood panels are just like my last set, 20 footers. They're torn up in places. I may decide to have them vinyl wrapped at some point but I'm not sure how I would do the speaker area.