We'll call her Rahab

[ArdWrknTrk]

My covers were used.
They cleaned up nicely, and really set off the engine

[Gary Lewis]

Yep, my valve covers for both Dad's and Big Blue's engines were used, but turned out pretty nice.

Here are BB's:



And here's one of the covers for Dad's truck:

[tdm3]

Hey Gary, How 'bout not posting those kinds of pictures on my project page...you make Rahab and me both look bad.  There's no way my build is going to be to that level.  

[tdm3]

And is that last picture taken in a local hospital surgery?  Goodness!

[ArdWrknTrk]

Not to worry.

Nobodies build is taking it to that level!  🙄

[1986F150Six]

tdm3 wrote

And is that last picture taken in a local hospital surgery?  Goodness!

Nope, that is Gary's Garage... aka the Garagemahal!!!  

[tdm3]

I thought as much.  Wow, that's nice.

[Gary Lewis]

tdm3 wrote

Hey Gary, How 'bout not posting those kinds of pictures on my project page...you make Rahab and me both look bad.  There's no way my build is going to be to that level.  

Sorry.  

Yes, that's the Garagemahal.  It really isn't that clean, but it sure is fun to work in.  

[tdm3]

Not a whole lot to report on Rahab.  My mother died in December and have been very busy trying to get her affairs all sorted in another state.  Hopefully, I'm about to the end of that road.

I did purchase some tires and rims.  Now remember that this is going to be a working truck.  It may later morph to something else, but she's going to be used heavy.  As this is an '80 F100 it has the passenger car bolt pattern.  So a trip to the local salvage yard secured a set of 16" steel wheels from a Crown Victoria to which I mounted a new set of Westlake 235/70-16s.  

Under the hood I have the 5.0 all disconnected and ready to pull.  289 is ready to go in.  Just a matter of getting to it now.  

By the way, in Sparta Tennessee there is a salvage yard by the name of Mahan's.  He has a yard full of F series Fords from the 60s through the 90s.  I have no affiliation with him other than I buy parts there. Good source of used parts if you're close enough.  Lots of Bullnose bodies.

Hope this finds all the forum members well.

[FuzzFace2]

Sorry to hear about your mom.
My sister took care of the paperwork for mom & dad but I had to do the lifting & moved of dads things, mom was in a nursing home for years so we gave away here things us kids did not want but it was still a lot of work.

CV wheels never gave that a thought and 16" to boot!
How wide or the wheels, 6"?
Dave ----

[tdm3]

Thank you.

From bead seat to bead seat they are 7".

[FuzzFace2]

7" is not bad but 8" would have been better but we are talking car wheels
Dave ----

[ArdWrknTrk]

I'm sorry to hear about your mom. 😟
But glad to hear you still have a yard where you can get parts.

I'm well and hope you are too!
Thanks for the update.
Glad your truck is coming together.  

[Gary Lewis]

Yes, sorry about your mother.  That hurts a lot, for a long time.

As for the truck, your plans appear to be coming together.  Just do it as you can and eventually you will get there.

[tdm3]

Thank you folks.

[tdm3]

A hole where a worn out 302 used to be and were a fit 289 is set to go.  Progress, but slow.

[tdm3]

I do not know why that image is upside down.  Tried to upright it but to no avail.

[ArdWrknTrk]

The forum doesn't recognize the metadata in attachments.

You need to rotate it on your device and save it.
Then link or upload the saved image.

So, tell us more about your 289!  😉

[tdm3]

Thank you for that.  Not sure I understand metadata, but I'll play with the image next time.  It showed to be correct when I downloaded to my computer but then posting here it rotated.  First time I've had that problem.

As far as the 289 goes: The engine is bored .040 over with flattops and a little bit of a bumpy cam but nothing radical.  Also have a 1850 list holley 600 cfm to round out the picture.  I had a bigger cam selected but I'm using the factory '65 heads and they have limited room in the valve spring area.  Engine builder caught that.  Specs for cam said it would work with stock springs and heights, but taint so.  So I bought another and have one I need to sell that's never been spun in an engine.

Also had the valves enlarged as the older, smaller ones are getting hard to come by.  Not that I didn't want more flow, but I also didn't want to pay the machining costs.  Oh, well.

David

[ArdWrknTrk]

David, embedded in the photo file is data not only about the camera orientation, but time and date, GPS location, the device used to take the picture, ISO, shutter speed, etc...


Lots of devices are 'smart enough' but since this forum doesn't understand that you have to save your picture in the proper orientation.

Glad your engne builder caught that.  😳
You have a lightweight truck, so the ol' 289 should do just fine in there.