Honorable mention to the 75-76 factory fuel savings light. I couldn't find mine unfortunately. It was a little vac gauge that replaced the oil warning light on the gauges.
In Australia Canadian import F-250 Hi Boys came as right hand drive, the dash gauge clusters were different from US and Canadian trucks, we have F-500/600 steel gauge clusters. Australian assembled F-100 -F-350 trucks had different dash inserts again with Ford Cortina gauge clusters. Steering wheels and columns on dent-side trucks were also different utilising Australian Ford Falcon /Fairlane units with horn on end of indicator stalk with headlight dip also on stalk from late 1973
Drop down tag because some states the original location didn't meet visibility requirements when towing, the fender bar because they would sag with some aftermarket additions because brace removal was necessary, thinking it was plow related
That license plate bracket and light was for vehicles with NO bumper. Dealers often supplied their own branded "step" bumpers so they were ordered without any bumper. This bracket and light was included on those vehicles.
One of mine has the original dealership warranty tag. It's in the one I've had the longest since 1996 when I was 17. I didn't even know it was in there till my son found it just a few days ago. I'm the second owner of that truck. It's my 78 F150 Ranger Lariat.
A buddy of mine had a loaded 1979 Bronco. He worked at the local Lincoln/Mercury dealer in their parts department and he bought it from the Ford area service rep who had it as a Ford company car. It literally had every conceivable option available for that model year. This was back in 1980.
Great video, I have the original warranty card in the dash pocket of my 79 Bronco, and 79 f700 I'm the second owner of both trucks, my Bronco has a 100 miles per hour speedometer don't know why,came that way when it was new?
203 lock light and digital am radio are both new to me. I never knew the purpose of that cab plate either, despite having owned a few Dents with them. What I find interesting are the fender braces. You say oddity yet every 78/79 I have owned has had those braces. I assumed it was just a 78/79 thing as all mine had them. Now I want to learn more about them , along with what trucks got them and why.
I would like to know if anyone has seen this one, 1974 Ranger XLT, with A/C and radio delete. The panel around the gauges has the simulated burl wood, and AC vents, and where the radio would be say ford.
The step sides came with a rare illumined license plate bracket for the 76.5 to 84.5 ford Flair side trucks , Good luck finding one in nice condition !
Great video! Also, some dentsides have an extra hood hinge brace on the hood, mounted between the hood and hinge. I've owned a 77, 78 and 79 F-150, my aunts owned a 78 and 79 F-150, and my son owns a 79 Bronco, and I've only seen those hood side hinge braces on one of those, and they had factory part numbers. If I can, I'll email some photos.
@@DentsideDepot No, you showed the ones on the inner fenders. I'm speaking of braces that were mounted between the hinges and the hood, on the hood side, not the inner fenders.
85 mph speedo was a federal mandate, all manufactures had them.. lasted until the early 80's.. It's odd as some vehicles never had the 85 mph speedo while others had,I guess it might be a state to state deal,but the Federal Government did mandate 55 mph and cars with 85 mph speedo's...
I searched for information regarding to the rear bumper light but unfortunately I didn't find anything, if someone knows a link or any kind of information of this light, I would like to know.
actually that license plate mounting bracket was put on trucks that did not come with a bumper from the factory, as some dealerships stocked their own bumpers that had their dealership name stamped into the steel bumper. An example of that might be: Weatherby Ford Brownwood, Texas or say Johnson Ford Dayton, Ohio, or even Carlton Ford Miami, Florida. In those cases where the dealership ordered the truck without a bumper, Ford put a bracket with a license plate light on it to comply with federal regulations and it would come on both a stepside or fleetside bed. Most dealerships just did not remove them, but disabled them after installing their branded bumper.
That speedo is NOT rare, they are in every Canadian 77.5 and up dentside. Trudeau senior brought in the metric system in Canada and I don't know why they dropped it to 85mph or 130 kmph. As for the low fuel economy light. My 75 F100 had it and the darn thing would give me sunburn it was on so much. 390 truck.
The 85 MPH speedometer was a result of Federal law mandating 85 MPH speedometer. Fun fact I have a 1986 Mustang SVO. It has a speedometer where the numbers go up to 85 MPH but there’s hash marks all the way up to 150
46 '77 2.72 3.3M Dana (Spicer) 44 47 '77 3.07 3.3M Dana (Spicer) 44 non-locking those were the only two rear 44 option codes. Most had a 9", so that would also be more on the unusual side. I didnt even know until a few months ago you could also get a dana 61 rear, also very unusual
@@DentsideDepot Yep. I had never seen one before. It looks factory since all the e-brake cables and everything looks stock. Doesn't look hacked up or anything.
@@terrellfarms1 It is, they were equipped with it as shown in the codes above. Look on yoiur drivers door tag, if the last numbers on the top line are 46 or 47, then its a factory dana 44 rear F100. Why did Ford do that? I have no idea, the 9" was more than capable to do anything you threw at it.
@@DentsideDepot So it is most likely a swapped rear end from a 77 f100. I have a 3.50 geared traction-lock 9" to go in it since i don't think the 44 will hold up very long behind the 460 we are building.
I just recently bought a 76 f150 4x4 with the np203 and the little silver thing had read "locked" on it while i was driving. The truck has the warn conversion on it too.
I have the exact same spec light blue 79 explorer as you! Short bed single cab. Mine doesn’t have any residual metallic looking stripes though, mostly white with some orange. really strange how those age.
@@DentsideDepot will see if i can find it. In process of major shop re-do & everything scattered about. Boxes of stuff everywhere. I also ordered a new 1979 F150 460 with all options. It was Black also. 7250.00 and it was 4x2. What a great truck it was.
I don’t understand why modern vehicles you can’t delete the radio in the entertainment system. I haven’t used a radio in 20 years and I find it really weird that people still use them
Cost. It's very rare that someone wouldn't want the radio, and it would cost too much to do it for a handful of vehicles. The only place that you (occasionally) see a radio delete option today is in a heavy duty work truck.
@@mikesmith-po8nd I don’t understand why on the infotainment screen you can’t just delete the radio all it is is an app. In my opinion there should be no reason they can’t have that as an option to delete.
I agree that they could add a software delete option, but how many people would screw up and delete it by accident? And then want it fixed under warranty. Too much money and hassle for the company. But there's a simple solution: if you don't want to use the radio, just don't turn it on.
@@DentsideDepot I use that VERY SAME excuse for EVERYTHING I "save just in case". And just like me, I bet you can't find a damn thing when you really need it, and buy MORE 😀
I have to say I like all your short videos and the longer ones where you are working on you project truck. But this one was Great. I worked for a Ford Truck dealership ( eventually a Sterling dealership when Ford sold the heavy truck division) in receiving and shipping truck and car parts all over the world for 31 & 1/2 years and I never knew about that fender bar or the back of the cab sound deadener. Thank You for the very interesting and informative video.
