Had one of those on the farm back in the day as a grain truck. Finally one day it blew up, whooohoooo.

Don't see any of these around anymore love it. I used to watch the tv show chips they used em alot

Haha... she's so knarley she's cool! It's been 2 years since you put this video out Andy but always remember to be careful pushing that cab forward to not have anything kinda heavy in the seat like a metal coffee thermos or a wrench or something like that cause it was real common for guys to bust the windshield by stuff sitting in the seat when they tilted the cab forward. 😯

Sounds purdy darn good once its running for a while

Used to own really long 234 inch wheelbase '68' C950 in 1973 or 74 with 534 and Allison Transmatic 6 speed with retarder. Was x city truck with budd wheels(pain the ass to change a flat and always finding broken inside nut studs or cracked wheels), flat deck with 12 ton hiab crane. 44000 and 18,000 front axels, Hendrickson rubber triple block suspension. Guaranteed to knock your teeth out. She was brutal! Did pretty good with her as my 1st truck. Soon figured out to use her on short distance jobs with mostly crane or waiting work. The Super Duty would easily use 100 or more gallons of gas daily if on wrong job... PS she had stock Ford electronic ignition whey back then and dual arm full sweep windshield wipers! Made enough to pay her off in less than year and swapped crane over Freightliner coe with NTC 350. Fuel went from 100 gallons per day to 100 gallons once or twice a week! Those were super years for deck crane trucks. Always turning down work.

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Great stuff keep it up.

This brings back childhood memories of riding in "ol' Red", my uncles old dumptruck that looked exactly like this but was short wb single axle...back in the 70's..it was more rusty back then than this one now...as far as the cab goes anyways. (Michigan truck)

Wow slick no broken windows and the cab looks great

Many decades ago back in the bad ol days I was a truck mechanic. My co got a contract to maintain the truck fleet for a dairy. Their entire truck fleet was these old Ford cabovers. Simi tractors & straight trucks. The part I remember was the shift linkage. It went DOWN thru the floor FOREWARD towards the grille RIGHT across the grille to the RH frame rail BACK along that RH frame rail then INBOARD to the top of the trans. When these trucks got old with many miles, each of the 5 joints on the shift linkage would be unbelievably How the drivers found the gears was beyond me It was all I could do to find 1 gear to limp it to the maintenance shed where we worked. Replacing these joints was a PAIN. Otherwise, a great truck. !

que maravilla de FORD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dood! That thing is BAD LARRY !🔥

Great job and I appreciate your narrative as you work on it!

Nice job I knew you would get running I've been working on our old fire engine for 50 years. That was our only piece in the early 70's now we have a fleet ours is a 1965 850 534ci 266hp w/holley 4 barrel it went OOS 16yrs ago. Now it's a parade piece looks good, runs good but what a job just keeping up with it. Good luck with yours.

Hi back in 1968 I drove a 700 ford cab over same colour as yours I loved that truck. I hauled feed to farmers with it. One word of advise with that old girl if the gear shift jerks around change all the ujoints in th linkage. If you only change one at a time nightmares begin. I’m 73 years old now and I really envy you with that old girl. They ride like a car. I would make an RV hauler out of it Good luck

Just picked one up myself

what a beast

Great job getting it running Andy 😁👍

Love your channel! Thank you for sharing!

Greetings from the Ohio Porters!🇺🇸 Dude, what a splendid truck. C750 Ford. They are so cool to drive! 🤩 I drove a 1965 C800 single axle tractor with a 391 5speed and 2 speed axle. It had saddle tanks and I put an electric fuel pump on it. Loved that truck! 🥰 I’m so glad you got this one! Is that a 391? RULE #1 - Never leave anything on the shelf behind the seat! It can and will crack something. The canister was the fuel filter with a metal filter in it…they seemed to rust if you got much water in there, but worked well otherwise! Clean that engine so you can see what it’s doing better. It was bad about the exhaust manifolds leaking but got to them eventually. I hated when the exhaust putty would crack out and cause the loud crackling sound! We replaced the cab coils and you could raise the cab with 2 fingers. The electric socket behind the grill cause intermittent problems in the beginning but we secured them and never had any further issues. I drove that truck for years…pulled many trailers, put a wrecker boom on it when we needed to pull trucks, busses, installed a trailer hitch on the back and pulled mobile home with it. It was quite versatile! 🤩 The body style allows you to put any kind of paint job on it…and it will look GOOD! 😎 The dash on those….OoooooWeeee! They look marvelous! 🥰 That is one truck that I wish my family had kept!!! That platform or shelf in the back was just used for speakers. We even put center caps over the Dayton wheels and it made it looks even better from the side view! It was just one little amazing truck. And it looked so good pulling a 1950s Dorsey or Great Dane trailer! 🥰 I didn’t put an extra step plate under the doors, but I wanted to several times. When you’re tired and have to climb up into that cab, an extra step surely helps! Gonna watch the next video soon. Meanwhile, Keep On Truckin! Oh, in my opinion, Cabovers Rule and others drool!!! 🥰 Ford made some great looking cabovers back in the day. Mack even used this cab style, but Ford used it for so many years…until the 1990sI think. 🧐

Well she did start 👍

They where the Best cab over looking FORD. And I believe the Longest Running same cab style that Ford did. A very successful Truck for Ford. Love how you film everything your doing to start her. My back story with them. I remember them in Fire Engine design. I think LA city Fire bought lots of them. We had pumpers, where I lived growing up, doing the Fire Explorer program I was part of, they also had one box on back RESCUE type. With a passenger door side full bench seat just behind cab. Walk in back. The Pumpers had just straight 5 speeds. My driving experience with the 750 was a contractor that had a lowboy trailer for his backhoe. It had 5 speed with a two speed ( Red) Nob shifter like yours. The only things that scared me, was the Dule rear wheels. If a rock got in middle it would have flung in right at my head, through the back of cab window. There was no Fendering around Dule wheels. The shifting pattern is on sun visor. I saw it on your tour of cab. The Post office I remember bought Tons of them in box backs. For taking mail from major shipping wearhouse to post offices. Always saw those guys all the time. I really wanted there job. Just to Drive those cab over FORDS. I think that tilt design was carried over to all new Fire Engines now with the tilt cab system. All Fire Engines NEW with cab over have Hydraulic lifts. Now I see the lower front clear white lights on front Most just had a chrome plate were Light goes Thank you so much for showing your great FORD C-750. I am so ENVIOUS. I bought a 71 SeaGrave. She has 871 Detroit with 5 speed Spicer tranny. I put stacks up out TOP. They went out on passage side at frame. My wife wanted them moved so the smoke/ Fumes Don't blow on kids in a parade. I was not sure about two stacks going up. But after hearing that screaming jimmy, with stack going up It is great. It's a Restoring Truck/ Engine for me. The PTO was taken out. So I just us a big portable pump and double male or Female to Hose connector's. It has a booster reel, so the pump plumbing is right next to each other inside. I can stand in the pump area under Engine. Lots of room. It's a work in progress Toy for me. I Loved the look of the older SeaGrave back then growing up. Seeing them in Fire magazine. I told myself just like you, I want one some day. You have a real great old longest Running Ford Truck design, that is a great find my Friend.

Very cool!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sweet cab over! I love it, those Holley fuel filters in the bowl become a pain in the butt, most people pop them out because they don’t seal up right and cause leaks, I saw some gunk around that fuel port with led me to believe it was leaking prior to being put out of service. I remove them from any Holley I run and replace that junky copper filter with an inline filter with some steel lines instead of rubber

They used that body style for years

I have a C series super duty 850 fire truck with a 477cu.in. gas engine with a 4 speed manual trans.. The engine is smooth running and super quiet. It is a pumper truck. It’s is mint condition for sale.

Nice old "Ferd", man!

I had one and it was the truck from hell

“Wyd step bro” 9:00

Andy if you have a tire guy that's confident with Daytons then by all means keep them. That's absolutely a good solid truck. I managed to support my family with the like back in the day. Be patient with shifting linkage-if it works LEAVE IT ALONE hahahahaha Cheers!

It's amazing that the old engine started! You might have been able to run it without the fuel pump, if using a boat style tank, and having it above the carb, much like the old Model T, with gravity flow into the carb. I am guessing the unloaded weight of this truck is between 10,500 and 12,000 pounds. I guess in the past 6 months you have changed all the fluids, and got it running, just in time to buy some $5 a gallon gas! Bad timing to bring back such a large displacement gas engine. Looks like a 534? The 3990 V8 had the distributor in the front, don't know about the 534. My 460 distributor was in the front. My suggestion is find a modern 460" V8, such as a EFI from a motorhome, they make about 250 HP and have a overdrive 4 speed transmission that will make this truck run pretty good. My 97 motorhome gets 7 MPG, and is about the same weight as your truck. My other suggestion is to remove the tag axle, unless you actually plan on hauling something that is really heavy. Taking it to a car show, or even to put on a flatbed to carry a 5,000 pound car, you will not need the third axle. My guess is the tag axle is around 2,000 pounds of scrap metal! And 4 less tires to buy. The tires that you have should be rated at around 5,000 - 6,000 pounds each, so 6 of them is plenty for most loads that you might want to carry. Of course you might want to go with a Cummins and 6 or 7 speed manual transmission from a modern truck.

Those cabs tilt way easier with one door open, I have 2. 69 & 70 c750. You will also want to grease the shit out of the shift linkage, there is a hidden zerk fitting behind the grill, plus 6 or 7 along the rod. Good luck.

You need to drain that oil if it has gas in it. It will thin out the oil and spin a bearing...

Of course it's a 5 speed with a 2 speed rear axle

I got to admit those are cool trucks but being a GM guy I'd pick the Chevrolet version over the Ford just because of a little bit of better looks & a better chance of having a diesel engine not saying the gasoline aren't any good but must be a bit tough finding parts for those big blocks.

Neat old truck glad I came across your channel subscribed. We have been looking for an old rig to make a hauler out of. Cheers

Greetings from Canada! Love watching this revival videos you have been posting on this cabover. I must ask you a question on your trailer though. What model of trailer and weight capacity are you using? You mentioned it was too big. I am looking at a local ford cabover and I have the tractors and equipment all but a trailer! I figured I should see what others used to get an idea what I should be leasing or purchasing for a job like this along with moving my other equipment around such as old tractors. The dumping and lift feature looks like a godsend for picking this stuff up!

Nice old truck. My buddy used to drive a 1969 Ford single axle cabover grain truck for his brother-in-law. This brings back memories. I'm trying to figure out if that engine is an early FE 331 or a 312 Y-block? I'm guessing too that your truck there is probably not more than 12,000lb. My friend's cabover was about 10,000lb empty. Looking forward to more videos.

I use oven cleaner on engines to get baked on crap works good

thats the fuel filter in the canster up high

That's probably a 292 Y block.

I think it's called brakes froze up

It's alive ! Andy when you change your fuel filter on the 843 do you have purge air out and if so do you purge at injectors?

Where are u located- that looks like a truck my dad setup on our farm in 1969. I’m in ny

Awesome video mate - are you restoring it?? Where are you up to - what size 8 is it??

I hope you didn't bend the frame when you bumped you're head.

very cool. what are your plans for it ?

you will not like playing with them tires

Old grain truck??

I love those old C models and about 6 months ago some guy was selling a C-8000 Diesel with a flatbed and it had an automatic transmission for $4000 dollars unfortunately I’m in a nursing home and couldn’t get out to see it but one of these days I’m going to get one. I subscribed to your channel. What state you in, I’m in Ohio.

There is no way that weighs less than 10K#

I'm not totaly sure but l think the emblins on the doors are backwards. They just need to be reversed. I would get rid of that gas motor and put a Ford 7.3. Liter V8.

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