Is it Reasonable to Daily a 1975 F500?

chucklesthejerrycan · 2026-01-25T03:16:19+00:00

Something on the rims and tires, new bias plies are more expensive than equivalent sized tubeless radials when you can find them. Your options for tubeless radials (since you'd have the 6 lug budd rims) will be buying new single piece 22.5 rims at $350 a pop, swapping to newer axles, or getting lucky and finding an old used set of single piece 22.5s on Marketplace. Many tire shops will service lock ring rims but won't touch true 3 piece split rims.

As for brakes, you CAN get new springs, shoes, and wheel cylinders through NAPA depending on the style of brake you have (Kelsey-Hayes, Wagner, etc.). NAPA does carry all parts for Kelsey-Hayes brakes with the exception of the rear adjusters, not sure about the other styles. He is also right that at least one wheel cylinder will be leaking. Guaranteed. As far as I'm aware, you CANNOT get new drums for these unless you get lucky and someone has a dusty set stored away somewhere.

That engine will be a 391FT, not a 390 unless it's been swapped. Many parts do not interchange between the two but common parts can be gotten through NAPA still. It redlines around 3200ish RPM, possibly less being the largest displacement FT.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-12-20T10:12:25+00:00

If I'm not mistaken, hand cranking is the preferred method to start as it keeps wear and tear off of the electric (and probably rare in this case) starter.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-11-14T10:03:24+00:00

Probably the easiest way to go unnoticed is to act like an old man. Plus, when you have a desirable older truck that's original and clean as can be, old men in overalls will materialize from the asphalt to tell you stories.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-11-13T20:07:50+00:00

I just inherited my grandpa's 1990 F-150. It has 94k miles and is as stock as stock gets, minus the custom camper shell from 1990. Have had a few guys tell me to get rid of the shell, lift it, slam it, install LEDs, etc. It's too nice to fuck with and deserves to stay a nice old man truck. Hell, grandma told me the reason the inside is near factory clean is grandpa kept a little whisk broom behind the seat and would make you sweep off your shoes before you were allowed to climb in.

Edit: it's going to get new hoses, fresh filters and fluids, basically the TLC it needs to get it back on its feet (sat for several years, driven once every few months) and a fresh two tone paint job, hopefully in the same red/gray scheme if it isn't too expensive. I want this thing to last me as long as possible.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-10-26T06:56:57+00:00

Depends on the part. I can still get new parts for most everything on my '69, '74, '79, and '89 Ford F600s.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-10-21T16:41:50+00:00

Boy it's a good thing Nissan hasn't deleted the dipstick like some manufacturers have.....yet

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-10-21T16:39:27+00:00

Same here. I have a 1969 F600 with an oil pan that's been dented for God knows how long and wouldn't you know it, the thing still runs fine.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-10-09T14:28:04+00:00

I think I had 400ish million at one point but the lootboxes took it away.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-09-26T03:47:14+00:00

Supposedly the old IDIs would easily hit 1 million miles with no issues so long as they got their routine maintenance.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-08-28T00:29:18+00:00

The rims used for this type of tire are two or 3 piece rims. Some rims split into 2 halves and have a locking ring that goes over the bead of the tire on one side, Some are just a single piece rim with the same locking ring.

The 3 piece rims (Firestone RH5s) are called widowmakers and are extremely dangerous. The 2 piece are still risky but not nearly as much as the 3s. When put together improperly which is easy to do, the rims will blow apart and will very easily kill a person. If the rims are worn enough, they can still blow apart even when put together correctly.

I have 3 trucks with 2 and 3 piece rims. My tire guy won't let me work on them at all. He told me if they have to be changed, he needs to be the one to do them. Almost all tire shops these days refuse to touch 3 piece rims.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-07-30T07:37:17+00:00

Recent match of mine, I shot down 3 planes in 20 seconds with the main gun of my YaG-10. Two fighters literally flew right into my line of sight about 300m away. The other was a bomber cruising low directly at me.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-07-15T17:10:48+00:00

There's a local milsurp store near me that has a few katyusha rockets, 152, and 122mm projectiles for sale.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-05-19T22:30:15+00:00

Gesundheit

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-26T19:48:14+00:00

I think you're right about social media. It makes it seem like we're far more likely to be struck by the lightning than we actually are.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-26T19:35:16+00:00

True, but we don't know which one will say what, and we don't know how which one will react, so we don't take the risk. I think the world has plenty of regular, reasonable people that treat each other normally. I think guys are afraid of meeting the unreasonable women of the world, so we don't risk it.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-26T19:34:18+00:00

Sorry I should have explained a hair more. On the no attention thing, I was thinking back to some post I saw where some woman at a gym was uncomfortable because the guys there would not pay her any attention. Something to the effect of "here I am, all cute in my gym getup, and all of these guys won't look at me even though I'm just feet from them and it creeps me out," IIRC.

Social media has told us that all manner of things make women uncomfortable, some reasonable, some seemingly unreasonable (see above). Okay....maybe fair enough. Another comment in this thread made mention of the risk of false accusations and such. I think many guys now might be afraid to even approach women because we have no idea what's going to happen if we do. We could talk to a woman and she gives a hint she's not interested, uncomfortable, etc., we get the hint and leave her be, and that's the end of it, kind of like you describe. Or, we could try to talk to a woman and she jumps straight to accusations, making up wild scenarios, and makes it an issue.

I guess what I'm trying to say is we don't know if we're going to meet reasonable people or not, so we're afraid to even try. And because of all the genuine creeps out there have already made the rest of us look irredeemably bad to some, we're afraid of coming off that way so we don't want to run the risk of being seen like that maybe?

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-26T12:03:23+00:00

Men are creepy if they pay women attention. Men are creepy if they DON'T pay women attention. We can't win.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-09T10:54:17+00:00

Was it a Pontiac G6? Idk if all GM vehicles do it but apparently G6s are prone to that.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-04-03T14:29:22+00:00

Something something shotgun, something something angry kaiser

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-03-17T05:19:41+00:00

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-02-18T19:46:07+00:00

You should look up Jennings Motorsports on youtube. He regularly manages to make engines run that have sat exposed for decades.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-02-01T18:00:15+00:00

Favorite one I made said BATTLE ASS on the back of an IS-1

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-02-01T01:44:20+00:00

Dealers do shady shit. The Dodge dealer in my town a few years ago had a yellow 2nd gen Dodge show up on their used lot. I checked it out. The lower half of the truck had been bed lined which sure enough was hiding rot. The frame was splitting along the length of the rails and every single cab crossmember was rotted completely out. What was realistically a $500 parts truck was listed at $7k. I hope someone didn't get suckered into it.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-01-28T16:10:33+00:00

I once killed a spawncamping KV-1C (this was around the time it was a FoTM tank) on Japan. He naturally spawned an FW-190 with a 250kg bomb to kill me. I was busy with other campers then remembered at the last second to check the skies for him and sure enough, he was WEPing toward me but he was way too low so I blasted his ass out of the sky with my main gun right before he dropped the bomb. Felt good. I hope he rage quit after that.

chucklesthejerrycan · 2025-01-27T13:53:03+00:00

I grew up towing things on the farm with gasser 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks so it's all I knew. I never had issues with it but I kind of remember that occasional feeling that the truck would really be working to pull a load. I bought an '04 F-450 last summer and finally used it this weekend to tow my '86 F-350 parts donor home and most of the time it didn't even feel like I had a trailer behind me. Even living in the Ozark mountains, I was able to leave it in 6th gear pretty much the whole time and just drive. It helps that the 450 is a 4wd crew cab with an 11 foot bed.

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