Wheels

I wanted the old school look of the smoothie wheel.
After a bunch of searching, I found that some of the vendors sold their wheels and center caps seperatly. I ended up picking a Cragar 15x8 5x5.5 all the way around. I will run a larger tire in the back to give it the look I am hoping for.

I ended up at about $345 delivered for the 4 wheels from Summit Racing.

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/crr-3135853/overview/

While I was surfing the Ford Truck Enthisiasts forums I found a user named Trozi (Jackson) who had a 69 F100 that was beautiful. It became the inspiration vehicle.

DJM limbo... How low can you go...

I was deciding what way to lower the F100, Crown Vic front end, cut coils, DJM or AIM lowering beams. For the rear, remove spring, hanger flip or shackles and hangers.

I came across someone on FTE that was selling a slightly used kit. He had bought the DJM beams, shackles, hangers and shocks. All in the kit was over $900 and he wanted $600 shipped. I bought it and he shipped out to me quickly!

So, DJM it is!
DJM 3/4 drop kit

Disc brake swap

1967 F100 came with all wheel drum brakes. It works, but not the way I would like it to. So the answer is to find a donor 73-79 F100-F150 and take the disc brakes from it and transplant. I found a Craigslist ad for just what I needed. The cost was $300, and then the new parts I need to make it safe.
So for $300 I got the radius arms, beams, spindles, and calipers. There was no proportioning valve, master cylinder, or brake booster. I ended up sourcing those items from O'Rielly's around the corner from me.

Airflow

The weatherstripping on this truck is old, cracked and hard as a rock. I ordered a kit that included door and window replacement rubber. Also ordered a front and rear window seal. I can't wait to get this installed.

Rust... dang it.

The truck has a couple of small rust spots. It looks like a floor pan will need to be fixed, and the drivers door has some rust on the inside and outside of the front corner.
I found someone selling the floor pans on Criagslist, he took $70 for 2 floor pans. My buddy Dean lives near him in Northern Arizona and picked them up for me. When he brought the box over, it had floor pans, cab corners and cab mounts as well. SCORE!


I picked up the door skins from Summit Racing

http://www.summitracing.com/parts/GMK-3144-455-67

I got the inner sheet metal from Jegs.

http://www.jegs.com/i/Sherman+Parts/455/573-20L/10002/-1

Plans

Plans for the truck

DJM Dream Beams / shackle and hanger kit for a 3/4 drop
Air conditioning
Chrome Smoothie wheels
Spray in bed liner with wood overlay
Disc brakes
headlight relay

Purchased!

I had a 1969 F100 in high school. Primer grey, AC (not hooked up), straight 6, and long bed.

I got nostalgic and bought a 1972 F250 long bed. That lasted about 2 months and I realized I wanted a short bed if I was going to keep it for a while. So I sold the 72 and found a 67 in California.

My friend Rusty went to look at the truck for me, and said it was in pretty good condition.
I wired him some money and he picked it up for me.

A couple of weeks later, I took a flight to Irvine and drove the truck home.
It made it all the way to Goodyear, and the steering started to get a little rough. I powered through it and got home. I didn't want to risk getting stuck somewhere.
Once home I looked under the hood and found the power steering belt had come off and broken. Not too bad for a 7 hour drive in a 40+ year old truck I didn't know much about.

So here is how it looked when I bought it.