1000+ Mile Roadtrip Home in a 1977 F350 Camper! Will we Make It?
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- This 1977 Ford F350 Camper has been taken care of for a long time but had been sitting before we flew out to Oregon to road trip it over 1000 miles back to San Diego. Will we make it?
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Is that your wife? She seems really sweet,you are a lucky guy.
Now that's Roadkill. 👨🔧
Can't wait for the next one! Liked! th-cam.com/video/qOXEDZ2jcvU/w-d-xo.html
What an amazing video Craig, I’ve supported since the start of the 71 f100 build and can truly say this was one of my favorites ever. You should totally do more road trips in unknown classics!! All respect and love!
6.4 mpg is solid for a 460. Running good. If you hit 7.5, probably had the wind at your back.
My momma's is a EFI bored 0.30 over in a 96 Ford f250 super cab long bed aode 4speed automatic transmission with overdrive 3.55 gears and gets 10mpg that's it
Ok, Craig, I've always considered a road trip a real test for a relationship. You survived a lengthy ordeal in a vintage RV, with numerous issues, no A/C, and you're been together 2 years? Start looking at rings. She's a Saint!
that's all I could think about lol this woman loves him
the wingnut for the breather was on the passenger fender before he shut the hood at 6:13 or so it looked like it was this things pretty mint tip the generator brushes are probably out which is why it wont put out anything (a way to tell is fire it up if it seems like its revving high the generator needs new brushes) if its not there fuses behind the control panel that may have popped
You may or may not be right about the wing nut... I looked as closely as I could but it's hard to tell. If it is the wing nut, it should still be there though... you'd have to roll the truck to dislodge it! 🔩🇺🇸
- Max Giganteum
That thing is sweet and perfect for the San Diego since it’s in Padres’ colors.
Ready to see what you bought from the Soddy collocation
Somebody's trying to one-up Solomon.....hehe. 😉Seriously, once you drove up it looked like a Solomon find. Ford's galore.
I had a Ford back in the day and I traveled a lot. My mechanic rebuilt my carb and put the smallest jets possible in it and it got great mileage. Still had all the power. Nice truck.
Like 7 mpg?
This thing is NICE!!! I’m almost 48 years old and I don’t remember ever seeing these things THIS clean!
i spent my whole childhood in the front bunk of one of those at Glamis. very cool camper.
A year after the video was posted, but informative and easy listening. And I agree …. It’s a good looking old rig.
Great looking ride. Good luck to anyone finding the same one in such nice condition anywhere. 👍
Way cool. You never cease to impress. Thanks for sharing
Hello I just found your channel and I have to say I love your Rv its beautiful
I have found on my 25 foot 1994 class A Winnebago Warrior Chevy 454 that if I use Chevron I get 10 to 11 miles a gallon. If I use other gas it goes from 5 to 8 gallons. Chevron makes a big difference. I have been living and traveling in my going on 5 years now filming my adventures. I have tried other gas and keep track of my mileage and Chevron is always 10 to 11 miles a gallon if I don’t go over 60 miles an hour at 75 or 80 or uphill it can go down to 8 or 9 but that is still really good! I love my happy 454 Chevy motor! Great video nice old camper!
The Adjustment you made to the Steering Box is not for reducing play in steering wheel side to side (although it will help) that Adjust is for Preload on the shaft in the box to help keep steering wheel on center. If over Adjusted it will increase effort needed to turn steering wheel or make steering stick if way over adjusted. Hope this Helps.
We own a 1997 Mazda Bongo camper and I'm a certified zip tie technician 😂, they are what is holding the camper together.
We had one of these when I was a kid. Super badass! Ours had red interior and paint. This is totally giving me flashbacks. Hooray for country campers!
Such a killer find! Love it. Thank you for bringing us along 🙌
Of course! Thanks for watching
More please! Awesome RV. Makes me want one
Vary awesome indeed. Vary sweet camper. Awesome. Keep up the great work. Okay.
U give me so much motivation to go work on my truck I’m 15 and have learned so much by watching your videos I have a 1986 f150 two door short bed 5 litter 2wd and I love watching your videos thanks for helping me and I hope to meet u some day
That camper is lookin' RIGHT!!
Wow, 45 Years Young🚌& You'al Are Going Home🏡🛻On A Big Wing🛩& A Big Prayer🙏WOW😅! I Would Be Conerned About Driving Just 1 Mile Down The Road🛣. You Got Some Mosta🐂Balls To Take This Trip🛣Delivery😱! Good Luck🤠
I really enjoyed watching this. Great Job Thanks for Sharing. 😎👍
That’s cool that you got to experience this trip with your girl, can’t wait for part 2
That’s bad ass, right in my back yard sweet home Lebanon area👌👌🤌🏻
Try upgrading your carburetor to fuel injection and change the gear ratio in your axle. It should help your fuel economy go up
Great video. That generator probably runs off the main tanks of the RV. Looks like an Onan, so if did not have oil it would not start. Enjoy the trip.
That was an awesome cliffhanger!!!
Sweet rig. Love the paint scheme. I see that Bronco and thought maybe you were buying that
You're in a unicorn. Back in the 70s there were a lot of small companies that took Ford 350s and built custom campers on them. I think most ended up in retirement parks or around lakes as weekend getaways. That is a beautiful restoration vehicle that's already in great shape. Gas mileage of 6.5 is great for that vehicle. My dad's 1990 f250 got about 5 pulling a boat. It had the 460 which was an awesome truck
About 45 mins from my house is a 1971 Bump side version of this. It's been sitting in the same spot for at least 5 years that I know of. Given the age /era of this truck. I'm kinda surprised that the fog lights are not Per-Lux's. They were the in thing back when this truck was new. I always wanted a pair but could never afford some.
Nice rig. 👏 That High Boy was very nice as well.
i would love to take something like this, then complete redo the interior and make it look BRAND SPANKIN NEW!
If you drove to Eastern KS, people would assume you were driving to LMC for an F350 rebuild kit. LMAO! 🤣😂
This is such a cool old rig love the way it looks
Regarding the P/S pump, if it's a factory unit then it uses Type F transmission fluid. As for the steering gearbox, don't automatically assume that loose steering is caused by the gearbox! Check all the OTHER potential sources of free play first from the rag joint all the way to the kingpins. It's normal to find multiple points of excessive wear and yet also find an acceptable gearbox so do your due diligence before you not only fail to find and correct the actual source of your problem, you make it worse. Also, the pin and lock nut on the steering gearbox isn't to adjust it... they're there to set the pre-load when the gearbox is new. If you tighten it up, you're well on the way to wearing it out even faster than it normally would be. In fact, the odds are higher than not that it's already worn beyond specs if it's loose. You can find info about this in a factory service manual which I highly recommend everyone get for the year of their truck. There's something else - a lot of folks think that if the box is already worn out, it won't matter if you "tighten" it up. This may cost you in the future if you turn your gearbox in for either a core or a rebuild. How so? If the internals are worn beyond being useable, your core will be worthless and you'll potentially lose $200 or more due to the cost of the parts. Tightening it up may very well push the parts beyond useful into scrap metal territory. The school of thought is to just don't do it. Peace & good vibes! 🇺🇸
- Max Giganteum
You may be right. I’ve done this on every truck I’ve owned and never had an issue. As long as the box is greased they work beautifully. Boxes need to be adjusted as they wear.
Cool Vintage RV 😎
Thecraig909 you should definitely buy this and do a cleaning and build videos this truck is sweet
Yeah even though it rains alot up here we actually have solid cars up here but also we don't salt the roads up here so yaaay for us👍
Cool RV, I had a ‘77 Ranger, good old work truck. My son has a ‘78 Ranger that we restored 20 years ago..
Wow nice find bro that's a nice unit.
Hell yeah talking about jellyroll on the radio
Damn! I work at the Atlantic FBO right next door to PDX haha
Man that thing is clean. Buckets in a 73-79 weren't rare. Many many 78-79 broncos came with buckets. 😂
Inspect and check your hard line and fuel hoese for leaks from the tank to the carb, also make sure you don't have any propane leaks.
Cool looking RV 😎.
That's the clearest day ever at SFO
Love that vintage RV , I live not far from Lebanon , OR. I wish I would have found that , I would have bought it !
Unless someone swapped blinker lenses, that’s a 77. Could show a late build 76 on the VIN sticker on the door jamb. I bought a truck from a guy a few years ago and he was selling it as a 76. Ended up being a 77. That’s a cherry of a truck, minus the gas mileage I would love it! Was awesome you were able to share the trip with your girl. 👌🏻
I corrected myself later I accidentally said 76. It’s super nice for its age.
@@Thecraig909 I caught that. I’m super typing my response and like 5 minutes later you’re like, “Oh, it’s a 77”. 😂. The amber turn signals make the 77’s really easy to identify. You can see me with the 77 my dad gave me in my profile pic. Keep the videos coming. Dig the new Mustang as well.
Nice nice looking camper there that's the kind you'd want
I for one am not into the "retro" camper stuff.. I am old I remember these things.. But I like this truck! Very Kool!!
God that's just awesome, I'd love to own that beauty 👍👍👍
I just found your channel.
I subscribed.
Very nice Camper.
Good luck.
Take care, EM.
That's a great rig. It must be rare because most of the ones I've seen are on a E series (van) platform.
Cool old Camper. :)
Really nice old camper. Great video and first time viewer on your channel. Seen you on Junkyard Digs and came over to jump on board!
Thanks for sticking around!
Always loved the split grilles on the 76-77 fords going to buy me one day and diesel swap it. Might even swap a 76/77 front clip on a late 70s bronco when they went to match the truck design
Why ? Just buy a diesel truck and leave the virgin 76/77 alone ! If anything put a 460 in it and build the hell out of it !
@@davidcatlette9697 If I could find one with a 460 in my price range I would totally build it and put a zf-5 behind it. My dad has a 92 f250 with one and it shifts like butter
You remind me of Kiefer Sutherland good luck to you buddy God bless you. Mey the wind always be at your back
Very cool camper
Hey Craig that’s awesome I love the 1976 or 77 Ford F-350 motor home looks like it’s in pretty nice shape I live in Eugene Oregon that’s awesome that you was here I wish I knew you was coming here I would of love to of meet ya guys I love cars and trucks to anyways nice motor home yes you should definitely get you one of these or maybe that one I hope to see more of this home on wheels vehicle on your channel my friend or maybe another one if you get one some of are old vehicles here are pretty nice some do rust a little bit but not to bad and then some have no rust we don’t use salt here on the roads in the winter time here on the west coast or up here in the north western states and if we have a classic vehicle we can pump our own gas here if we want to I just letting you know that my friend anyways I’m glad you was here I hope you enjoyed your trip to the beautiful state of Oregon and got to see good sites be careful out there and be safe and have a good trip out there buddy:-) and I think these old motor homes or campers are getting rare and hard to fine to especially in really nice looking good running shape to
Thats an awesome RV!
Understand channel, keep it up!
Nice camper for sure i would like to have one like it
Oh man i love it. I would actually looove to have one of those. Never had a proper vacation in my life. If I had one of those, I sure would. Get me a tiny car to pull behind it and just GO.
News flash, this beast needs a lot of maintenance before that trip
I kinda want a vintage camper, they're so cool.
Head up north I5 into Washington to exit 56 area is a guy name Ben Reaves. Has a beautiful ford boneyard right off the freeway. At least 50 rigs waiting for you!
How fun ... too cool! 💕👵
That RV is mint!! The radiator might be clogged up or the water pump is flowing? Anyway nice Truck!! That looks brand new. You'll get it fixed-- you're wicked smart!!
Can't stop laughing at the ending " yeah- there you go ... Oh- maybe not". 🤣
You two are funny. Sweet ride.
The town of Brownsville was in the movie Stand By Me. Parts of Lebanon were also in the film
Very nice camper for 1977
Definitely an awesome and amazing video 🇬🇧🧐🥇🔥👏
That was a fun trip
What's really cool is you're just outside Salem and Tweakers haven't stole that and made it into a pile of garbage on the side of some road.
Nice RV, should be a fun trip. 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍
The A/C in this is a Ford dealer installed unit. As you can see, there's no plenum housing underneath the hood.
Very interesting body style . I am surprised it ran as good as it did .
Great now I want one now
looks like everyone was enjoying the trip until it was time for bed...hope it worked out ok
What an emotion filled video, I know we spoke a bunch on the trip but man does that thing look good. Can’t wait to see it IRL.
Thank you again for going and getting her for us. I’m nervous about the second video. I know the final result 😂
Haha it’s all for good entertainment. She’s in good hands. And as hard as the trip was I still will admit it looks super good
@ ford era I like it better than the '71 camper, and it was really nice after the detailer got it cleaned up. I'm not sure if I've seen all of those videos.
That thing is mint
I hope you get a crewcab
next time you visit Oregon you have to see Bend!
nice old bus dont have that jenny on when you go to bed it will keep you awake all night ✌👍😎
say hi to rick at classic truck rescue
Back in 1977 gas was 57 cents a gallon ,or somewhere in that range . My motor home get a little better... but its a 2007. Nice motor home though! Well kept .
Oohh myyy..man I want this thing so bad!
Sick !!! I have a Bull nose Ford 1981 camper very similar to this one ! I’ve been building it on my channel and if your looking for one mine is up for sale ! I haven’t posted anything in a few months but he’s complete! Made a few trips across the country with no issues 🤘🏻
Love this thing. How much was the other F truck?
I bet that was a fun trip
You need that camper for sure
Awesome video man, u visited the Bay Area! Great! And u also visited near me in Portland! I moved to the Seattle area 18 years ago, but NorCal is my true home! Great vlog bro
Lucky seattle, another Californian Transplant....
Do the math, at 10 mpg tops. Hope it has duel tanks. Your'e going to need them just to get to the next fueling station through the great open West. LOL A really beautiful well kept F350. Nice catch!
Vintage, hell. Thats an antique. When you
register it at your DMV, get historic plates for it.
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Never saw your vids before the recent ole notch fox revivals and now this...awesome stuff and now a subscriber lol
Welcome!
this thing screams the 70"s