Fantastic video!

Great truck! I have a 1985 f8000 with awd and set up as a digger Derrick for my farm. My cab has a hydraulic jack on it. We love our truck as well. Thanks for sharing!

I love that style Ford cabover. My farming neighbors have a flatbed version and still use it to this day. Good, simple, get it done truck.

I love those Ford C series cabover and hope to buy one some day.

The C series is one of my two favorite trucks. (The other is the sixties era Freightliner cabover.)

On the Ford cab overs I had a '66, 534 gas, and a '74 225 Cat, when tilting the cab,(after making sure the stuff on the shelf was removed), I would do the middle /ring finger split. I put the pointer and middle finger in the top secondary latch handle, and the ring/ pinky in the bottom one, then pull both together. To me this made tilting the cab much easier. The access door in the floor, was a battery access on the gas versions. I loved these cabs. Mack had a model using this cab , for a few years too.

I have a 85 C700, it has the 8.2 Detroit Diesel (no turbo) with a 5 speed manual. I had to redo the clutch hydraulics was all rusted. It was a PG&E truck, and aged out of service, has only 90k miles on it. I like the looks of the truck, but they key to me is it has std 10 bolt 22.5 wheels/tires, instead of dayton or widow makers, like my 72 Chevy C50. I sat a long time, just drove it recently. btw, not a fan of fake patina, but look forward to your future videos. My tilt latches are really hard to open, I noticed someone added something to help pull those handles with a lever. Also the hood latch seems your is missing the pin that fits into the latch to keep it from closing, mine has a bendy thing with the pin that you bend out to get the pin out and then you can pivot the latch to close it. You can see the hole in yours but no pin.

Interesting Channel. thank you. It struck me that road salt would be common where this truck came from, but they would not be putting down road stripes in the winter. My guess is it sat in a barn or shed until the resurfacing was done in the spring, and the striping finished before winter. Hence, no wheel well rust. I like your creative ideas: Vintage Route 66 Tour buses, Farm "hay ride" trucks, Bus-to-RV conversions, and all sorts of great project ideas. Take care.

Re: diesel fuel cap. Must have been like those old steam engines that took on water from a big shoot that dropped down. Just let that fuel flow!

Beautiful truck!

Love that Ford! I also could sit for a long spell and take in that view around your property,of course with a cup of coffee for sure.

amazing

Hello, Nice COE. I have the same truck (82) C-800 with the 8.2 big gm diesel :-) First thing i did was put some 94 f-250 buckets in it .I swapped the 5spd for the Allison 525. I love the truck but its got an Eaton 667 2 spa big rear with the suicide wheels on it. Wanna just swap out for F-350 axcles next. I thought they stopped making this body style of the code in 84? Again, nice truck. They haven't caught on yet, but they will. -Thanks for sharing.

I have one the V 8 Detroit. Mine is in excellent shape.

Cool truck

can't wait to hear those air horns brother when will the air horn video be

It’s a normal semi fuel tank cap. Thanks

Hello I am having a alternator charge issue and I believe it’s the voltage regulator but I have no idea where it is located?? Do you know where the voltage regulator is on these trucks? Any do would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Please put a pin or bolt in the safety latch hole after opening. :)

Thank you for saving the COE Ford C series YES such a long successful Truck line for Ford without much change to CAB style. The Fire Department I was a Explorer first, then Volunteer for, had those C Ford's one was a neat looking Rescue Rig. Big Gas engine's. This was the 70s. Myself Now your age got a 71 SeaGrave for Restoration. My Power is a 8-71 Detroit with a manual 5 speed Spicer transmission. The thing about your C Ford is in it's working life as a Painting truck. Just a lot of slower speed forward, so there was NOT the salt corrosion from say the Government dump types that spreed that stuff in road clearing of snow. Just painting traffic lines on Roads, so in my Humble opinion, your C Ford did NOT get the wear and tear as other Government Trucks in Government use. Just slower speeds LOTS of idol time on engine. That Allison Tranny was made for that type of work. Lots of Garbage Truck have those tranny's. Good luck and happy travels with her. YES I did redo my Driver's seat. What was neat on my Fire Engine, the seat cover just had two clips to pull up on, seat cover came right off. The passage side just needed to have bolts re-screwed on rear to bulk head. Just like your's it was only Drivers seat that was really bad.

Cool.... I'm a new subscriber, so I started with your first video. They probably suggested your channel since I subscribe to Bus Grease Monkey.

I have one just like it except it has a dump bed on it and it's a automatic Allison it hauls great but when I go to spread rock with it the bed stops going up when put in Drive is there anyway to bypass that safety mechanism

Its insane to me that those door badges are the same (or close) to the ones on the hood of our 69 F250. Ford really recycled parts onto there commercial lines. For example, the used the steering wheel off the 99-04 super duty for another DECADE on the econoline.

I really love the bench seat but replacing with two bucket seats ? Does the bench seat handle three people? You mentioned wife and daughter.

Thanks for the video Ross.. love a cab over.. looks like the turbo cat 3208, do you know what the horsepower rating is? They had 225, 250 all the way up to 300.. the 300hp model was usually mated to a ZF trans. Love the sound of the 3208, you will have to give us a startup video.. along with some of the other videos.. thanks..

Nice truck. I'd sand it down and put a good paint job on it. Don't care for the "patina" look. But that's just me.

I used to work on these 40 years ago. Does it have what I call the mystery shifter? When the shift linkages got so worn that you could have it in any gear and there would be excessive movement , enough for another shift pattern.😀

That fuel cap you can probably get at a truck stop.

Wow cool, too bad you had to sell it, what kind of plane did you have? I have not flown in a while, im a student pilot. Thanks, and be well =)

Cool truck. The patina thing needs to go, a fad I can’t wait for people to get tired of It’s not showing respect for the vehicle When you start creating rust it’s time to rethink your priorities

Interior isn't made for a tall / fat person. Keep an eye on the passenger side fuse box, they rust out.

No disrespect intended sir, but in my opinion, there is enough real rust in the world. Patina is just patina, but fake patina is just fake. No matter how great it looks now, it will look better painted. Especially a non-DOT-vehicle colour. My opinion means nothing. Great truck sir, you have good taste. Thanks for sharing.

Echo Hotel Papa im guessing your a pilot

How much did you pay for this vehicle?

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This is idiotic. There's so few decent, non rusty trucks left, and you took a good clean one and intentionally ruined it. Why? If that's what you wanted, there's plenty of rusty stuff already out there. The clean ones need to be saved. This video is depressing.