Diesel Bombers - 1987 f-150 conversion to 4bta?

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Originally Posted by tiremann9669 (Post 939820)

I'm not waiting for the day someone cracks a spindle, I was just curious as to your experience of how your frontend is holding up. You're only the second one I know of with a 6bt in a half ton. and as far as the 4wd ttb yeah it's a pos :moon:

I know you werent, ive just heard alot of people on different forums, who talk endless trash about putting a 6bt in a half ton, so i was just preparing him for that, now i will say with an aftermarket lift and bigger tires, on a truck to run in the mud, all bets are off, my truck is stock suspension with a 3 inch body lift, but my plan to lift it if i ever do is solid axle with leaves up front, even if i keep it 2wd, just because i like how it looks, and of course i wouldnt trust the drop down brackets with the extra weight. what i wanted to do was build a non driven axle out of thick wall dom tube and weld the ends off of a mid 80s dodge dana 44 to it
so i could stick with the same lug pattern,

to the original poster, if you are broke, you may want to wait on putting a diesel in, when i did mine i waited until i had researched every thing down to where i knew every part i needed and i built what ever i couldnt get from free material, and i was able to literaly do the entire conversion by myself, from start to finish.