Full Build: Reinventing a 1964 Ford Flatbed Shop Truck
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มี.ค. 2023
- We’re turning our 1964 Ford Flatbed into a shop truck! With the help of the team in Engine Power, the guys make an engine swap that includes a turbo! Plus we’re off to the junkyard in search of a transmission. Plus, we plumb the turbocharger in our 1964 Ford Flatbed truck and install the fuel and cooling systems.
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PARTS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
Duralast: Duralast Clutch Set
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Matco Tools: MATCO Tools are the Official Tool Supplier to Music City Trucks
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Summit Racing: Quick Time Bell Housing
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FiTech: FiTech Go EFI System
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Forney Industries: Forney 220 AC/DC Tig Welder
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Matco Tools: MATCO Tools are the Official Tool Supplier to Music City Trucks
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RockAuto.com: Rock Auto Gas Tank
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Summit Racing: Summit Racing Universal Intercooler
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Continental Tire: General Grabber HD Tires
ARP: ARP Bolts
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Keep the strate 6 guys.
Why do you all lower them old girls. Please stop dropping them old girl's.
@@KY4TRK 😅
What do you guys think the mileage is on that turbo 300?
With all of the builds that "Music City" has done, THIS is my absolute favorite of all!
All full builds should be driven around the city before and after the build.
Man this truck is badass! I love it all except the decision to shorten the bed.
When a full build comes out its just another one to add to my repeat list lol!
For someone that is not a ford man, this is still one of my favorite builds I have seen
Brings a tear to my eye watching them work on the clutch standing up. Some day!
First time I have seen them . They didn’t disappoint, I will be watching more of this ! Great job !!!
I like that you have given a refreshing boost to this older truck.I prefer older trucks compared to the trucks of today.. Easier and more basic and no costly computers and the like to make a mess of everything.
I saw your posting of this Ford and I have seen an older mid 50s GMC/CHEVY 2WD flatbed for sale. And like your Ford is white with patina, this truck is also white with patina. It's sitting next to a barn on the gravel. It's too far away from the road to see close enough to tell if it's a GMC or a CHEVY . My Dad used to have a 57 GMC 1 ton with a long narrow box with 1 headlight per side. The truck for sale has 2 headlights per side. The truck looks pretty good.
I like the old trucks, and you folks are having fun with your flatbed Ford 🙂. Take care. 👍
Thank you! I'm so glad yall put the straight 6 back in it.
When you get a notification and it's a full build, YES!
I love this stuff. I have a 76 Ford F100 Custom with an I6 300 CID that I absolutely love. Its so easy to work on and for me, being disabled it was a godsend. I did have to swap the location of the accelerator pedal but it is awesome. You all have given me so much data from watching your builds and I have to say thank you.
I’m rebuilding my papas 55’ gmc flatbed dually and this has given me inspiration to complete the project. Thank you
How is it going?
Gotta love those old indestructible mugs. I've always preferred flat beds over pick ups because it gives more cargo options.
Sitting 6 whole years, CM'ON MAN!!!!
It'd be really cool to see this thing get a high compression Y-block with custom made long tubes and true dual exhaust.
Gabby is better with metal than wood, love it
U should paint under the hood black like the fender wheels for that new 300
The 79 Camaro turned out great! Glad he saw how it turned out and was able to go fir a ride in it! I have an 80 Z28 I'm slowly working on and collecting parts. They are really neat beasts. Enjoyed the videos!
I would love to see a modern suspension out on this thing and I’m sure it would help you guys with the ride quality lol.
One thing you overlooked: the steering.
You went through the whole truck, but those old, worked worm gears in the steering go from being a steering mechanism to a roulette wheel spin.
The bed bobbing didn't turn out as nice as I would've thought. Otherwise this old rig is amazing, great job!
It didn't look bad as it was I would've left it, that is more room for parts, swap meets, engines, etc. Most states require mud flaps
@@drdjh2003 Yeah I'm not a huge fan of bobbing trucks like that. Never looks right.
You lost me at the bed bobbing. "Lets build a shop truck" makes a bed to haul less. Never ever saw a bobbed truck look good. Kids these days.
Same here. Never made much sense to me either.
Holy shit guys, rebuild the steering before you kill someone!
Man that is super cool ! The cool thing about restoring trucks is they can work and pay for themselves, after all, that’s what they were designed to do. ✌️🇺🇸
Been waiting for more fullbuilds
Pat is awesome on the dyno. Anynoe carryng around 8 pens in his shirt pocket, can be trusted! Great increase in HP
Great show, truck and team!
Those bias plys were cool.
Wooow so impressive work
It usually doesn't take much to get the old inline 6 motors to get running but the Ford 223 inline 6 was a good motor as long as you take good care of it
Really Really enjoyed this video guys!
Love when Marc does stuff with roadkill,he frowns the whole time at the crazy stuff they do lol
It was great 👍 score and show 😊 love the truck
have the same truck in 4x4 with a flat bed dumper. Some day she will get some love
Love this truck.
My first episode! I liked it! Keep up the great work. Following
What a good channel, greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
20 minutes in and I am thinking for this to be a daily, it should have an overdrive, discs, and ac.
Motor top
I am helping my 78 year old friend with a 65 f350 just like that! The body is solid as a rock and the old 240 runs good but a little weak. Building a 300 to put in it! Also changing the wheels to 8 bolt to get away from the side ring wheels.
Awesome I used to have a 1960 F350 flat bed Dump truck
Of course it started. It was built Ford tough!!
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Love it guys!!!!
you helped me change my e brake shoes lol great video !!!
I'd put the stack behind the cab
Deisel idi swap would have been awesome 😎
Love this truck. It would be cool if you either put in the engine build as part of the full build, or link to the full build on the engine. Anyway … as Pat would say “stellar!”
They do have the engine build on here, it's 3 episodes long, I believe. Just look for "engine power 300" and you should be able to find it.
I was anticipating a 7.3 Powerstroke diesel with twin chrome stacks. You guys need an imagination.
Love the old Patina trucks 👍👍👍👍👍
That inline 6 is perfect for that truck. It sounds nasty. Awesome choice!!!
I would love to own that truck !!!
I would never lowered your truck I would have kept it factory ride hight but cool old Iron
They had me sold til they lowered it
Gabby is wearing bell bottoms. You go girl .
That Straight Six would also be the perfect Burn out engine/ All that power down low makes for AWESOME burn outs!
This is amazing
Should have installed a 4:10 rearend but, cool build
SLAM that turbo-ed one you built a few years back in it !!
....and then I CONTINUED watching !!
The second I saw that it was a straight 6 truck, I knew, the turbo 300 build was the only option for it.
So please correct me if I'm wrong, but the way the inner cooler is mounted...how are you going to cool the air from the Turbo to the engine? I'm thinking a supercharger would have been a way better choice? I love old iron what ever it is.
I was thinking the same thing, maybe the fan will push air up and through? I'm sure it would be better if mounted in front of the radiator though
Not gonna work its goin to run hot air
@@tmetito3535 That's what I thought also. Thanks for the reply
@@rickh8380 👍
It's probably going to do more than if they didn't have one, but probably not much. I suspect that a bit of ducting to guide air to it wouldn't be a bad idea.
Downtown Franklin, honestly it’s more at home in Downtown Monterey Tennessee!!!
Cool you found something cool to put the wonder6 in.
Oh. The engine that after 3 pulls is blowing out white smoke?
@@bmstylee new engines burn off smoke. news to you?
love this episode
You lost me when you said you wernt going to tow anything and youre going to lower it lol
You got it, right here.
Man that’s one Sweet truck it looks cool a sleeper very nice boys you did good ❤️❤️💪💪👍👍😎🦘🇦🇺
Sweet build
Nice job, I would of kept the suspension same height. Next add aftermarket air conditioning and rubber isolation motor mounts.
I need that truck 😮
I had a 250. Radial tires eliminated the need for power steering. Rebuilt the brakes and lost the eesire for disc brakes. The steering box is adjustable. You can adjust the play out of the steering.
WHY did you screw up the bed by shortening it, WHY? ? ?
*BECAUSE THEY ARE HOLLYWOOD MECHANICS(i know this show is based out of Tennessee)AND CAN'T LEAVE A CLASSIC THE WAY THEY FOUND IT*
@@mattsprayberry0it was a home made flatbed😂
Some of us like short beds
@@BBb-hs9udjust buy an SUV
Cause it's they're vehicle 🤷🏽 Go get one yourself 🤷🏽
Awesome video
I'd love to see y'all do a 1960s COE Van build such as a FORD Falcon/Econoline.
With a "basic" 1JZ (because it is cheap and Straight-6) with an Automatic Transmission...
I am currently rebuilding a 1996 1JZ for my 1966 Econoline Panel Van for 2025 HOT ROD POWER TOUR (traveling from Seattle all the way to the East Coast) with solar power, two beds, A/C, refrigeration, and a cooking area!
Basically a Toyota engine in a Ford?
Is there anywhere I can follow your build? That sounds utterly bonkers, in the best way possible.
A classsic F 350, that sounds like a Supra. Sign me up!
Might have a new plan for the old 300 sitting in the corner of the shop, and the wife's 62 COE. Show her this after work, and get her take on it.
Gabby said if it isn't harder than wood you can keep that thing in your 👖 lmao.
It's also a good idea to do one side at a time so you don't swap adjusters and end up with the shoes backing off the drum every time you reverse.
Excellent!
need to do some steering work and differential stuff to it still!!!
Cool build. Except the intercooler location..I dont get it lol. But otherwise loved it
Overall love the build.
The way the turbo spools up when it's basically at red line wouldn't it make more sense to get a smaller turbo, that would work through most of it's rev range?
Rear gears would make a world of difference.
Agreed a 62-64mm turbo would be much better.
@@SGTJDerek that truck has 4.11’s or 4.56’s I guarantee it. What gears would you put in it exactly ?
@@raptor31able 3.54s maybe. 3.73 possibly. It's got enough grunt to run 'em.
@@SGTJDerek they said the rear end had 5.29’s lol. Wow that’s a lot of gear.
I just finished work wrenching on cars, only to immediately go home and watch you guys wrench on this truck. WTF is wrong with me?
good job you guys
These are the vids! Oh yeah!
I live in Thompsons Station Tennessee I hope to see y’all around
I used to watch PBS and those names are very familiar to me…This old house, old Yankee workshop, other shows of the like. Good memories.
is that front axle really cast iron? I would have expected forged steel.
if the turbo takes that long to light off, maybe a little smaller turbo would drive better without giving up too much up top
What a cool truck! Wanted to see a burnout though!
take the turbo back off, put new overload springs back on a give that truck to a farmer so that truck and inline 6 can get back to doing what it was meant to do. overall great build.
I love a turbo inline six build.
You weren't lying on saying this is the best one cuz it is
LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS, I can't stand when people take nice ol rigs like this and do all these mods like leave it. It's beautiful the way it is
I have an factory original embossed ford stamped. Ford flatbed, wow you want to buy it. I’m in Washington lol😮
A T56 would really make this thing shine. And definitely an LSD or a locker and a set of gears. And a 4 corner disc upgrade. This thing is gonna to sick burnouts when it's fully done.
This build looks similar to the work trucks that were in the field behind my house. One side note I can still see my FORD UNCLE arguing with my CHEVY UNCLE but in my mind they both still smelled like old grease(the trucks)😊
Install the 300 i6 that he built up
you guys are right on about the old Ford straight sixes one hell of a good motor in the early 1980s one of my best freinds asked me to help him get his 68 Mustang running so he could get it out of his Parents garage and over to his home that Car was restored by his Grandfather at a Service Station he had for many years the Grandfather used a Ford Truck straight 6 with a 3 Speed manual tranny he put a Floor Shifter on i pulled the Carb and Fuel Pump Cleaned them and blew the fuel lines out with a bike Pump and had the Car running in under a hour BTW that was a running when Parked that sat for 10 years because the Car needed tires i took it on a small cruise ! Of Course and i have no idea what gears were in the rear but it would Squeel the tires in first and chirp them at second not like the 289 Mustangs would but it was a tourqey engine with the old Truck you guys have if you were going to haulLoads or pull things you could upgrade those Drums with Wilwood Discs on the front and a better Master Cylinder for that motor set up then if you guys came accross a V8 for the right price you could have a vehicle already set up for something bigger and more powerfull
@POWERNATION how did you deal with the split rim wheels?
Any chance you can give me more detail on the wheel & tire setup? Did you use the factory split rings or did you replace them with something else, and if so where did you get them? Also, FYI, I live in Lawrence Co and have an F-350 that I am working on getting back on the road.
would have been really cool to see that manifold converted to port injection
I love the old 300 6 I rebuilt my grandfather's 89 f150 with a 300 6 5-speed after 416thousand miles with the standard bore and crankshaft only polished
I just picked up a 64 Ford O box truck I'm getting ready to rebuild into my pizza truck!