Time to cut up the rear wheel wells. The stuff to make a cardboard template: 001.JPG Deciding on the shape of the curve and marking out on the template. 002.JPG Transferring the cut line onto both fenders. The right side will cut through more complex metal as it's tight in this area due to the slidi...

I believe the ABS light and brake light on together is the classic symptom of ABS module solder joints with cracks. And when temp changes the joint "heals". I did the DIY solder joint repair and it's been good ever since.

A picture of my air intake housing support bracket. I'm not sure I'll keep it but for now it's good enough.

Steve, awesome thread, thanks! When you were going to do the V8 swap, what all equipment did you use to lift the body? Thanks Cribbing Blocks under all 4 wheels to start with. 006.JPG Then higher up on these freakishly tall jack stands I made. 008.JPG All with the help from my favorite floor jack. ...

I finished plugging up the remaining holes on the air intake housing. 001.JPG 002.JPG 005.JPG 007.JPG And finished the installation of the temperature switch that will control the fan speeds. 017.JPG And started cutting up a practice body trim to see how "clean" I might be able to make the...

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would read the words "Faraday Shield" on this forum.

Oh yeah I forgot about this other mod to the exhaust pipe. I broke off 2 of the three studs on the muffler half of the connecting flange so I decided to just chop off the factory flange, weld a little bit of pipe back in and use one of these aftermarket couplings. The exhaust hangers were also exten...

Like many of you before me, I removed the 3 side molding pieces (that are easy to take off). Then I made my initial cuts into the rockers. These were not intended to change anything but just so I could verify what was inside the rockers before I made more serious cuts. 004.JPG 005.JPG After mounting...

And last but not least, "It will turn!" I've done my preliminary fender clearancing - but first some glamour pics.



And some details of the current shape of the fenders.

With the e-fan mounted and the radiator being about 1.5" higher after my 3" lift but 1.5" motor mount lift, I needed to scallop the bottom of the air intake /filter housing a bit. A shot after I cut open the bottom of the housing and then added a layer of thick cardboard to create a s...

Here are some more pictures of my e-fan installation. The yellow things are my weird mounting brackets. I am proud of how they turned out. They had to dodge a lot of hoses and stuff and were a real challenge to mock up and create the threaded mounting points. 017.JPG 019.JPG Here's the humble origin...

Back to the 4 wire vs 3 wire question - perhaps the 4th wire is for a heated mirror?

dcsleeper wrote:> Did you preheat the work?

I have a MAPP gas torch so I used that to preheat - but also to keep it from cooling as best I could after the weld. Tack welds and shorter beads tended to crack at the end but a long bead and a bead that ended at solid metal did just fine.

Other potential Ford 8.8 donors with posi are Aerostars and Mustang V8's. Both of these axles do not have perches for leaf springs but since you need to relo the perches anyway... The Aerostar 8.8 axles were attached to a 3-link so the pumpkin has a weird "horn" off to one side. But easy t...

As I went to reinstall the V6 exhaust manifolds I ran into what the internet says is a somewhat common thing The manifolds "shrink" enough that you can't get all the bolts back on. And the internet says I can buy a "stretcher" that looks like a heavy duty turnbuckle. I thought th...

So back to my brain fart about where/what was causing the coolant leaks. When I replaced all the gaskets I put in new TTY head bolts. These bolts came "pre-loaded" with what I ASSumed was thread sealant. So I didn't add anything else to the threads and just proceeded with the proper TTY pr...

Before I forget here's how the sliding door does with the new tires and wheels. 002.JPG And I even remembered to swap the spare tires between the Burner and my van. The spare from the Burner is not the same brand or width as the meats on the wheels but it is the same diameter - about 31.5". Her...

Back before Labor Day weekend in the year of our Covid, my van started dripping coolant off the left side cylinder head around the middle cylinder. At the time I ASSumed it was either a head gasket or LIM leak. I eventually dropped the subframe about a foot so I could work easier on the motor and di...

Over the holiday weekend I wrapped up the 3" lift portion of my van. First I added a gusset plate to the forward spring perches. 009A.JPG And then I did the rear axle shock mount bracket mods. I had read the other threads about bending the stock bracket somehow but the pictures were links and t...

My brain interprets that sketch to mean that the rear end is jacked up in some manner and is causing the van to want to track to the right when its moving.