1978 F250 The new Shop shovel!

[M4wdFab]

blew the reverse shifter fork apart in this unit.  Fuck



didnt make it over to my drive way before it happened.  no good.  lots of snow. bah


looking for a ford T18 top end (3 fork version 79 and newer T18, cast iron top not alum (NP435))

[rejeep]

nothing I would have here..

[M4wdFab]

fork pulled this afternoon and given to the tig surgen,  hoping to grab tonight.  The driveway situation is terrible with morons



as a back up i found a company in Florida that had the fork and pad in stock for 34$ shipped.  sadly any kind of expedited shipping was 100$ or so more/  bah

[TrailTamer]

fork pulled this afternoon and given to the tig surgen,  hoping to grab tonight.  The driveway situation is terrible with morons



as a back up i found a company in Florida that had the fork and pad in stock for 34$ shipped.  sadly any kind of expedited shipping was 100$ or so more/  bah

I think you have time to get that $34 one from florida now

[M4wdFab]

I have a welded fork back in hand now ill thow in this afternoon if i can cob up a fork pad from 231 parts or try to dig the original out from the bottom of trans sump

[M4wdFab]

tried to cob a 231 pad onto the welded fork would not work.  ran it with no pad, works fine.  back in business


new fork and pad shipped today so ill swap it out next week or whenever it decides to fail again. 

adjusted the clutch linkage which so no more grinding which is probably what caused the failure in the first place. 



back to a snow pushing machine! 

[M4wdFab]

this thing has been working hard this week-  picking van cabs up and pushing truck chassis's around. 

working well.  May need a in cab carb shot system installed soon for cold starts

[M4wdFab]

this thing let me down tonight.


cranked with fuel dumped in carb and fired up.  looked like a fire work show under hood near battery cables and starter solenoid so i keyed off after 20 seconds of running.  then dead. 


no key tocrank, jumped starter solenoid for crank but no ignition power.  bah.  if its more than wires or fuses its getting the torch.  sick of non fuel injection no heat pos.  might need to build a shop truck. 

[mr.mindless]

wonder if it just killed the battery or the solenoid with a dead short?

[M4wdFab]

it cranks fine with a crescent wrench handle against the starter solenoid, but no fire with key on, so i suspect what ever blew killed the feed to the key which feeds sig to the starter solenoid and the coil.

no crank signal and no coil power.

was cold and dark so it got the hood shut.  have about 5 heavy things needing moving, but i guess i should have pulled it out of hypernation before we see 20s earlier

[mr.mindless]

Sounds right and likely.


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[M4wdFab]

had a half hour of day light yesterday and found the charred wires / sparky area.  looks like it was just a wadded up junction of alternator feed, dash feed, and other power feeds that had failed.  Fixed and now its back cranking but no fire.

verified key on power to coil


must have fried distributor or duraspark module.



looks like there are some tests but they require pulling the distributor.


30$ for a new module (wiring looks suspect everywhere)

48$ for an Hei one wire distributor to bi pass it all.......


need to identify motor if its a small block or big block, and what displacement i guess. 

[TrailTamer]

If I remember correctly it's Ford 400m small block.

[M4wdFab]

thats what i was told, but who knows

http://www.fordification.com/tech/engineID-V8.htm 


i hate fords

[M4wdFab]

confirmed its a 400 as best i can, ordered a 41$ HEI distributor for it lol