All I have to say is I love the bumper sticker on the Ultimate Highboy! “Beef Eaters are better lovers” 😂

Nice job with the reassembly Matt 🙂👍

Glad to see it's driving again. Sure makes it easier to justify more changes when it does. Good job on the 3rd starter bolt. I like the thought of EFI, but go back and forth over for the same reasons you mentioned.

In the summer of 1979 my dad blew the engine up in my Ford F250 custom 2wd with a 390 6.4 litre engine. I was a sophmore in college and had 750 bucks to get another engine in the truck. I got a used 390 FE out of a 1970 LTD from an suto repair shop for a 100 bucks so I took the motor apart, took the engine block to a machine shop and my uncle Richard worked in the parts department at a Ford dealer so I got a deal on parts and got a 425 hp Ford cam that was in the 427 motors. I ported and polished the cylinder heads and the Ford cast iron high rise 4 barrel intake off a 1968 GTA mustang motor a guy was parting out. I put a set of headers on it with a simple dual exhaust exiting behind the rear wheels. It ended up a pretty decent engine rebuild. If that engine in your truck sounds too loud, you might be getting too old.

I tore down the 390 I am building and the lower bearings are the ones that was copper colored in it also but I am going to get the crank ground if I have to and I probably will have it bored another 10 thousand just to clean up the cylinders being it had gotten water in couple of the cylinders and it had some light pitting I’m learning a lot and have been watching lots of FE engine rebuild videos also

Just bought an estate sale and in the garage was a 1967 f250, one owner all records, under 70k miles, practically no rust, garage kept but good is off to the side and is wrapped up, custom camper on back. Will be needing to sell soon, located central Indiana, owner was a decorated Korean War veteran that bought it new and recently died. If you know anyone let me know please

A pair of Turbo mufflers should make that sound a lot less like a juvenile delinquent, yet still nice and throaty.

Great video! One of the best KZfaqrs and I'm not kidding!!!

Glad to see its back on the road nice work!!

Hey Matt you might try an oval stock muffler, or similar style like a flow master or a torpedo muffler which is like a really long glass pack muffler. The reason I say that is my old 78 Ford F-250 and 1979 Ford F-350, never sounded that loud with their 360 and 390 engines. For that matter neither did the 460 that TSTI dropped into a 1984? Ford F-350, and those trucks had stock mufflers, but also had stock exhaust manifolds you can also add a resonator in before the muffler to quiet the engine down.

Hey Matt! Great job as always. What's the part number on the Champ radiator? I'm waiting on one for the same project. Thanks.

Another nice video Matt!

If the newer super duty seats would fit you comfortable and sit right after modification in the truck atleast it would still be Ford seats

Never been so early. When I clicked on the vid it said published "52 seconds ago"

Not worried about getting over spray on the white doors off to the side when you were painting the timing chain cover plate and the air cleaner and the lid

Beautiful pickup👍. You have stock 16 rims on there?, and also what tires and size if you don't mind me asking?

I tore down the 390 I am building and the lower bearings are the ones that was copper colored in it also but I am going to get the crank ground if I have to and I probably will have it bored another 10 thousand just to clean up the cylinders being it had gotten water in couple of the cylinders and it had some light pitting I’m learning a lot and have been watching lots of FE engine rebuild videos also