Excursion body swap

[Tiha]

Come so far, but so much left to do.

It is actually farther along than any of these pictures. the entire interior is in, except for the front row seats. Guess I didn't get a decent pic of that ever. Weather is getting better though, have to get it outside more.

 

[wyo58]

Its looking great! Tiha is that the 6.0 diesel?

 

[L\Bronco]

Looking good Tiha!!
Man, that is a ton of work!
Doing a stud kit and oil cooler plus standpipes, etc…etc…etc…on the 6.0L?
The “everything is different is so Ford!
We have run into it so many times here in our adventures!
Nice work!
Cheers

 

[Tiha]

The 6.0 dropped a valve a couple years ago. It has new O-ring heads. Studs. Had a couple oil coolers now.

Actually found the turbo was junk, shopping for one now. But he has spent a ton on engine upgrades. We were just re sealing it. Put a new oil pan on it. The oil pan had rust, but more than that it had dents and gouges. Something happened before he bought it.

I am not a 6.0 fan, but he loves it. So far he doesn't mind working on it. But like now, even the IPS was new, but we found it leaking oil into the pigtail, so I had to get another sensor and a new pigtail.

The Axle donor truck was a 2006. with a 6.0 the intake manifold was different, there is no rear cross over, so we swapped it out. Makes it easier to work on the IPS, pull the turbo, tighten the up pipes.

It is ready to fire up if I had a turbo or some way to plug the oil feed line to the turbo, but until I find one we will just keep plugging away.

One thing about this project, everything is the best it can be. The wires are routed properly, ******* properly, all the hoses and lines. The bolts that didn't get put back over the years are back in. Fixing all the broken wire plugs and clips. All those little details.

If you ever wanted to build a project from scratch, every nut, every bolt. this is a lot like that.

It will be fun when it is over.

 

[L\Bronco]

I hear that! My Frankenbronco was much like that!
But, when its over, you can have confidence in every part cause you were in there!
Loads and loads of work though!
Cheers

 

[Tiha]

Couple teaser shots about how this project is going.

 

[L\Bronco]

Very cool!

 

[Jimbo26]

That's a strrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrretch of the imagination & then some.
& about as serious as it gets.
Be looking forward to the finish.

 

[wyo58]

Couple teaser shots about how this project is going.

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[wyo58]

Looks pretty dang cool!

 

[Tiha]

All tacked up. Now we have about 10 hours of welding to do.

 

[L\Bronco]

That is a job and a half!
Nice work Tiha!!
Cheers

 

[wyo58]

All tacked up. Now we have about 10 hours of welding to do.

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Thats almost long enough to require a class b license, lol. Looks amazing Tiha!

 

[Tiha]

Getting near the end of this. Just got the nickel and dime stuff left and there is a lot of it.

Electrical bugs have been a nightmare. Not anything we caused either as far as I can tell. Like the VSM went bad, just from sitting? The interior light relay in the dash cluster went bad, just from sitting? The multifunction switch went bad, Just from sitting?
I question my wiring first so wasted so much time troubleshooting the wrong things.

Getting close though. Need to bleed the brakes again. Put the mirrors on, new rear AC lines. But starting to feel like we are close to the end of this project.

 

[wyo58]

That is a whole bunch of work you have done there, looks amazing!

 

[L\Bronco]

Getting near the end of this. Just got the nickel and dime stuff left and there is a lot of it.

Electrical bugs have been a nightmare. Not anything we caused either as far as I can tell. Like the VSM went bad, just from sitting? The interior light relay in the dash cluster went bad, just from sitting? The multifunction switch went bad, Just from sitting?
I question my wiring first so wasted so much time troubleshooting the wrong things.

Getting close though. Need to bleed the brakes again. Put the mirrors on, new rear AC lines. But starting to feel like we are close to the end of this project.


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Very nice Job Tiha! You should be proud!
I hope you and your boys made a bunch of memories!
Cheers

 

[Tiha]

Time to update the build again.
Truck actually has gone home with my oldest son. It is far enough along that he can finish it how he wants it. We will still have some work days together with it. Right now I am working on some ranch hand bumpers for it, we are going to color match them.
but for the most part the project is handed off and i can move onto other projects.
on to the show.

We were going to reuse the carpet but it has so many holes in it from originally having a bench seat in the second row it got new carpet.




I think this was our second test drive. I rode in the 4th row. Crazy quiet in there, the stares and looks this thing gets is nuts.



My youngest son and myself took turns daily driving it in the end of June. Working the bugs out. Did not tell my oldest son we were doing that.

 

[Tiha]

My oldest son and family came down on July 17th, not having any idea the truck was ready to go. So we surprised him with it.



We were not sure how he was going to react. As much as we prodded him he didn't give us direction on wheels and tires or running boards. The bumpers were not the final bumpers he wanted on there.
But they were happy. they drove it home, 3 hours away.

This is now where it will spend most of it's time. In a machine shed. Ready to drive. I think he has already picked out new rims and tires, waiting to have them mounted. They have been using it for family trips which is exactly what it was built for.
Good results so far.