The owner bought a house with this truck left abandoned in the yard. It was once a beautiful two-tone green XLT. Now it is left to rot in the mud, and the owner wants it sold. Will it start and drive again? Update: The truck is sold.
This year and model, 1978-1979 Ford F100 XLT Ranger is one of my all time favorites. Especially in the optional two-tone Light Jade Green over Jade Green color scheme. Glad to know someone bought it and hopefully they restored it back to it's former glory. Great video.
I also run this type of cars, the important thing is to run them, the language is important, this is what you did, giving the cars the value they deserved and making revisions. If the society puts you where you belong, if you put your hands on the cars, leave them where they belong, good luck with your efforts.
I had a 78. It started like a charm at -30. There is a reason I like old Fords. Perfectly normal for the choke to want to close. That's it's job and why it is running so smooth when cold. You had more problems when you stuck the screwdriver in there. Let the choke do it's job. It will also speed up the idle on a cold engine. That tiny spark at the battery may have been the interior light. I noticed the door was open. Maybe the switch actually worked.
I daily the old girl, give it bath, tail gate. sounds really nice and healthy. Nice revival. 3k little steep, this is the reason why they go to waste in these old man's yards and wrecker yards. way overpriced, it's not even 4-wheel drive as you showed allot rust. people want way too much money for the parts that are bad, like think their sitting on national treasure. just let it go.
Right, it is better as a beater than anything to restore but it has a lot going for it. I am thinking the price will come down after a couple of weeks of listing it.
Where I live that's actually a better deal than normal. Normally you'd pay that for the same truck with no engine, a blown engine, etc. Or you'd get a base model or something with an engine in unknown condition. Although the beds are never that bad. For that reason it should be a little cheaper.
I owned a 2 tone blue and silver F 100 Ranger Lariat. Junked it at 347,000 miles due to frame breaking. I still have the 351 engine sitting on my property. It was one damn good old truck.
The engine on the Ford pickup looks exceptionally clean from just about any angle that I look! I say it couldn't have more than the 68,000 miles it's showing. Good old Ford, I think.
It needs some TLC, but it will make a good daily driver or work truck for someone. It runs great, considering that it sat for years and hasn't had much work done on it yet. With tires, a carb rebuild, and some brake hoses, that truck will be road worthy.
I currently have my late uncles 78 and 79 ford trucks coming cross country from Virginia to me. 1 of them he had when I was a kid. I am looking forward to fixing them up in his honor
the brake pedal pad has been flipped over, it's upside down. That's why the bottom right corner isn't worn, it was at the upper left corner before being flipped. And another good little 302... such good engines.
@@whattherust Hey, I just noticed that you’ve got over 20K subscribers. Excellent work! I’ve been enjoying watching this channel grow. Keep those vids coming!
Looks like there is a major soda can leak from the bed......This pickup truck is AMAZING!!!! Good deal getting this running !!!!! AND a POSI rear to boot !!! OOOhh, btw,, HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Might be worth $3K with a front bumper, decent tires, and a tailgate. I sure missed Christine and her soothing voice, hope everything is well with her. Thanks for taking the time to make the video in crappy weather.
I have in one way or other owned every year of ford trucks starting in some of the twenties and a T that I never did find a date on..... all that said, from nineteen forty one through two thousand, I have had in one size or the other meaning some were in the larger size F450 and up including a few cab over series with cummins or detroit, a bunch of cat engines for our dump trucks. I put over three million miles on a seventy two highboy. I would still own it but my ex wanted it worse to take anything I loved.... "You've heard that song".... mommas in the cemetery, daddies in the pen... It was a close one and thirty four years later.. I still love her. Mother of my kids.... which I don't want to know which are and those that are not. I have to say the true lock positraction rear end in this truck here in alaska sells for 1750.oo dollars from this years of truck.... Kinda a no brainer that truck has a lot of value were you to just part it out which would be a crime. A good bath and two months in my old shop... I have been crippled for the last seventeen ... make that eighteen years (happy 2023) and have not taken more than a dozen steps in excruciating pain... My care attendant worries that I will take my life as I value life very little anymore. I lost everything to the bone pickers... my words for family who loved me till they had it all. It took me a long time to come around liking the big change in the grill on this year of rig but once it did, kinda funny how it works like that. If your going to do the top to get the valve seals right again.... it would just put pressure on the bottom end and be its demise so a pull, clean, reseal with new rods an mains... cam bearings get less wear so doubtful they need touched. I have built so many ford engines that I now have come to the conclusion a new cam with solid lifters and adjustable rockers is the sweet spot for a power and fuel increase big time. I don't care if its the 302 or 351w, those engines were some of ford's best hour. I tried my hand successfully at turboing the three hundred six, used their nineties split manifold for exhaust and a large two barrel carb... that gave me almost four hundred, went to the four barrel with a turbo and over six hundred horses to the rear wheels. That six is probably the very best and some bad design flaws like a water pump that is a quarter inch from the first cylinder... a gentle bump into it was death to that cylinder. .... oh and cavitation issues as well on this engine. We used this engine to power a mill on just all stock setup... used the dry sump oil pan so we could change oil while its running, and hooked it to a five hundred gallon fuel tank. I would run 24/7 on this amount and powered a mill that had two circular saws, a planer for lumber plus blowers for sawdust and such,... so at two weeks was the official shut down and a fluids complete change then. Every five hundred hours on it running was oil change running. That engine never gave any troubles with a fuel pump failure in two years was all. It stayed on the mill for five years so you figure that engine was in the millions of miles. What saved it was being on a governor and so no up and down,, just run. Somewhere in that five years we sold everything and they pulled the engine for diesel power. The engine was just tossed into the scrap pile as no one but me believed in it.... so I did the customary questions like how's this mill doing for you guys and what is your lumber output like... they were just bragging about how many thousand feet a month it was producing... I did not have the heart to tell them the old motor they scrapped did that same or more in three weeks. FOR LESS MONEY. They were just all about themselves and what do you prove, oh, I know... first liar doesn't stand a chance. I'm thinking that if the truck has a oil cooler on the filter system, a seal goes out and mixes oil into the water system. It will get worse over time just to prove a point. Don't have a good argument for why I like solid lifter engines better but being old should lend reason enough. In seventy seven, end of and start of seventy eight several design changes were done, called their transition years or about every ten years was the same kind of thinking by the big three. From carb to throttle body fuel injection about then. along with the duraspark to another system I don't remember too much about. I was glad though to get rid of it. Seems as though the box would give up so swap the box right?? Yeah but leave the old one on and when the new one gave up, plug the old one back in and it would do fine for a good while... never did try to figure that out. Sorry for the long winded comment... sure that you got tired of reading it for sure
Really cool old Ford! And she runs like a charm! The rust, hole in the floorboard and bad bed are the only drawbacks, but those can be fixed with enough time and effort. Excellent job getting her running again, Richard! Thanks for sharing! 😎👍
I'm gonna say 167k miles on that one. And the driver was a left-foot braker, like myself! LOL. Thanks, Richard, for braving the cold to bring us this video. Happy New Year, and stay safe, my friend.
@@whattherust I just want to say I am a huge fan of your videos. I've learned so much fron you, and Rev, Derek from VGG, Junkyard Digs, Thunderhead 289, Scotty Kilmer and others, I've started to do some maintenance on my Focus rather than take it to the dealer and wait 6 months for parts (it's still under warranty) I'm 61 but still doing it. I'd love a classic but keeping in practice on my little gas sipper 2.0 VVT etech 4. Thanks for doing what you do!
Love what you do an your infernal optimism to see something good in each vehicle you resurrect. Some of those vehicles were ugly off the production line but hey, beauty is in te eye of the beholder.
Back in the 90s I had 78 with the same color . I got it and changed the icm under the hood . It ran me for a couple of years . The family got to big so it had to go . I loved that truck . The AC had nice cold air .
I sure hope that ol' girl went to a bumpside Ford fan who will give it the love it deserves. Such a nice, high-option truck with good bones. Would be a real looker with some body and paint work.
Runs, and Rolls’ It definitely worth 3 grand;Another Great Pickup! Working in the elements is never ideal, but you got er done!Great Video,Take Care, Your Oregon Friend ☮️
Years ago, I had a 77 F100, that, had a bad egr valve, so, I just took it off, and, soldered a penny over the hole, and, voila, it sounds and ran great.
Likely only worth half of that three grand he is asking. Maybe worth two if he has a replacement box and the front bumper. I was surprised how easily it started. Always enjoyable watching you work. Missed the the lovely Miss Christina. Hope you health and happiness for the New Year. 👍👍🇨🇦
I think $1000 would be fair. Seeing oil in the coolant is a sure sign of major issues. Cracked head or blown head gasket for sure. Gotta love them old fords. Great video, ty
That's what barrs leak looks like in the coolant if you put a couple cans of it in. Remember the water pump in the cab? Not so sure that's oil but it could be. $3000 is dreaming.
@@lessharratt8719 Stop leak is the first thing I thought of too... oil that thick in the coolant would be some boob pouring oil into the radiator by mistake/on purpose OR... possibly a cracked block. Of course, the "goo" would obviously look, smell and taste like oil. Based on what I could see, that wasn't oil but that's MHO. - Max Giganteum
What’s crazy is that the reason it was parked all those years ago was probably the fuel pump, especially as good as it runs. This will make a great little project for someone. They don’t all need to be restored, they just need to be driven!
Nice one Richard, you showed that who`s boss, lol. I notice you are having some weird weather in the U.S. at the moment, all it does in England is rain!
Glad your back for the new year, sorry christina wasn't helping you. That was an easy fix, i second Dan's assessment of it's value, at least it's running & driving. Keep the video's coming
I owned a 1999 F150 with a 4.6L V8 and a 9 ft bed and extended cab. I was the 2nd owner and it still had warranty when I bought it. I sold it for 600.00 on craigslist because gas got so high.
We had some rough weather in TN the last few weeks. Thanks for going through the trouble to make us a video in this weather. You didn't have to do that.
I would keep the original patina, wheels and tires, 2.5 exhaust, fix the floor board, tailgate.... And this would be an awesome daily driver. For 3 grand....you can't go wrong. The sound of these old ford engines is amazing... I love your channel man. Keep it going for 2033. Happy new year
when you get one of those fords that won't charge try un-plugging the voltage regulator and replug several times just in case corrosion is on the plug and terminals, it is the small rectangle box on the fenderwell near the stater relay. A bad wire connection is the usual cause. A quick test of the alternator is to unplug the regulator and bridge the A+ to the F this feeds the field with battery voltage, the alternator will draw the engine speed down as it generates electricity, if it is a good alternator. The other way is to unplug the regulator and use a jumper wire from the output term on the alternator to the field term on the alternator, this is also feeding the field and is actually better than the former method because you are bypassing the wiring harness where there may have been an open or high resistance circuit.The old engines sitting unused for so long get the rings jammed up, will cause the excessive blow by out the crankcase, add a quart of automatic trans in the oil to help free them up.
Thank you for being brief when showing vehicles!! I'm glad it's not a two hour video with eighty to ninety percent of the video talking!!! The title does say, will it run, not let's talk all day. I like long vids don't get me wrong, I can just do without the car salesman nonsense!! So again I thank you very much. Happy new year folks!!! Can't wait for another great year of videos!!!
Well Done Richard :) yes those old Ford Truck live for years and remember my 1972 Ford F350 extended cab long box type also Restoration in 2005 fully and sold for nice $ in 2007 ! My cousin bought new in 1972 to also used tow truck all life too and myself to ! Think owner get someone to enjoy too take care of too and Happy New Year 2023 to Richard!
Wasn’t just these models. It was all fords in this era. Those ignition modules were crap. I had a Fairmount that would just die. Sit at the side of the road for an hour or so get back in and it would start right up. Got smart and started carrying an extra one in the car. Two bolts and two plug ins and it was changed. They would get hot and the contact points on the board would separate, reconnect after cooling down. Weird but that was the fix for me. 👍🇨🇦
@@danobrien3109 yeah they would stall at random times with no warning. Ford got sued over it when someone got killed in a accident when their car stalled
Everything sucks now with the country nose diving I love to take my mind off of it watching your videos. I have a suggestion for you it your not aware for you and your super nice wife it's a RU-vid channel cold war motors can't wait for your next video . I'm working on a 79 Camaro Barn find original paint car only one small rust spot already well under way off the road since 07 suped up 350 ready to register I do all the work engine and paint and body God bless
A ford starter solenoid, that’s what it looks like my friend! I can see the existing one on the side wall passenger side! Looks like a 360 or 351 engine! My best friend lives in Sparta Tennesee and has a river house in Chattanooga! I’m hoping to visit him and his family on day, he texted me before he flew out before the freeze telling me it was supposed to get down below 0 degrees while he’s out on his flight, he’s a pilot captain for United Airlines! Great job, awesome save! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸. Kirk from Louisiana!
