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Timd32
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I don't know why I felt the need to start off with that, but this will be a long post and figure would toss out some sort of warning.
There will be relevant technical posting after this initial post, but have to get this down on paper to make it real.
My 96 250p project is horribly stalled out, I'm going to make a push to get it back rolling will I make it, hard to say. It's kinda almost a Barn Find for someone.
It's always been in the garage since I picked it up in maybe 2015.
I had put a decent amount of time into it and we used it quite a bit for pulling hay on the farm my inlaws have.
The elephant in the room was the Trans went out on it, and I had the bright idea of rebuilding my 47RE, and alot like on Scooby-Doo if it wasn't for these blasted kids I could have finished it. In all seriousness we had our daughter in 2017 and son in 2019 and they truly much more enjoyable then this truck that I've never had over 55mph.
It's super nice body wise everything was redone by an previous owner of a high end body shop it was his personal rig, he replaced the entire frame and did countless hours of rework, but he is a body guy and alot of the mechanical was not touched, so I still had at least 200hr of clean up on all sorts of stuff. Which kinda now I can point out on any rig just how much work someone will need to do. It has some flaws I know them all pretty much.
The time spent on the truck has been fun but it's time to get it going and get it on down the road.
Current To Do List
Interior- Mice got into it so I pulled it all out, cleaned it up, current state removed.
Carpet/Headliner
I've had a ACC carpet kit and headliner for awhile. Never installed so have it all to do.
Seats
The seats were already nicely recovered by PO, but they never painted the frames so they are rusty, who does that.... kinda the whole story of the vehicle. Just been fixing stuff that never should have been put back together.
Floor
Again fighting PO, they reused the old jute backing and spray glued it down to the newly painted cab floor, what a disaster, it pretty much rusted the thing in place. The carpet was always trash when I got it, but instead of a simple remove and replace from a fresh rebuild, it's hours of rework. I have the POR-15 kit for the floor. Needs to be sanded and done over.
Shifter Boot
I can't figure out what the heck these folks did to secure this thing, it's hacked in there permanently, still need to.figure that out, again adds to what should be 5min job, they did something funky to secure it, so I just cut around it for now, but need to figure out what they did.
Heater Box
It's highly unlikely the mice did not infiltrate the heater box, but have not made it that far for inspection.
It's always been stuck on Defrost, supposedly they broke the vacuum line on rebuild, they told me that when I got it, truck has never seen the snow/salt since I have owned it, but have a plow that came with it, PO used it to plow his small.business and home driveway.
Exterior
Not much to do, needs a bath, probably a good clean and buff some wax and it's local cruise night winner.
It has one dent behind the drivers door. Came that way from PO, has a run and defect on upper cowl kinda below the hood but on the cab, but if I did not point it out, hard to find.
Door bottom on drivers side even though I have never driven this in the rain, snow, winter the damn door bottom has a single little hole starting. The rockers were all replaced and they have rust in-between them a little, the PO did use it for plowing and the floor from above was horrible from the wet feet when they glued the carpet kit down, it just ran rampant. I spent many hours cleaning the truck just can't win in the NE.
Engine
Hardly broken in, 205k. But it's a NE truck.
P-Pump is very crusty, as is throttle linkage.
Have a new throttle cable and Trans cable, not installed.
Have a new PS pump not installed. The bottle was very crusty and there is a leak on the typical vacuum pump, that came back, the thing was so crusty I'm not surprised.
Oil pan, it was new with the truck but needs to come off they used some horrible orange permatex junk, like some kid slapped it together. Have the gasket.
Lots of rework done.
Probably would do well with a Pump refresh, some 215 injectors, needs a new throttle linkage, and I would do the fuel lines if they don't clean up.
Transmission
So here if your still reading things fell off the rails. A decent 47RE goes for $4k-$6k, it is what it is, mine has always been shot came that way, the one time I tried to take it on RT80 from exit 25 to 12, only 13 miles I had to bail at 19 and take the back roads. It never had 4th gear, around here the local roads are all 45mph roads, so you can cruise at 50mph all day long and never really hold too many folks up.
So I took on the project to rebuild the thing, did tons of reading and the sort, have all the tools to do it. Got it apart lots of clutch damage and the normal stuff. I got a Goerend rebuild kit, VB, converter. Along with all sorts of other goodies. Got it all 80% back together. And life just happens and next thing you know it's been on the floor for 2 years.
I have one really bad screw on the top retainer of the OD it's a small plate with some flat head screws was all corroded. It broke and needs to come out.
There might be one or two stripped pan bolts were that way from day 1. They had a nut and bolt on the one, it might stay that way. Is what it is. But to do it right need to break it back down again and clean up the internals and soak the clutch packs again. I wrapped the whole thing in plastic, so it's not horrible, but will see.
Transfer Case
Status: Removed with Trans
Needs rebuild, have torque king kit.
Drive Shaft
Status: half removed.
Has stripped bolt on one rear U joint, was put together at some point by PO, in a horrible fashion, no surprise based on the above.
Brakes and Tires
Status: Brakes normal lube and inspect, tires replace.
Brakes should be gone over and fluid flushed, pads and sort are probably good, just lube slides and inspect.
Tires probably date coded out already, nothing special were BFG all terrains.
Differentials
Status: need service
Normal service required. Never touched them my self, did the PO, doubt it but someone should find out.
So where do we go from here......
Option 1: Sell as is, where is, how is good luck.
Option 2: Get Trans back together and enjoy the success of doing atleast that. Even if I drive it on milk crates and forgo the rest of the list.
Option 3. Complete the list, then sell.
Option 4: this is some sort of pick your own adventure, turn to page 1076 to complete full list, turn to page next page to sell the truck...... next page just = Fin
Either way if you made it this far, thanks for reading, if you made it this far and are annoyed at this post, there is always that ignore post and user option.
I don't know why I felt the need to start off with that, but this will be a long post and figure would toss out some sort of warning.
There will be relevant technical posting after this initial post, but have to get this down on paper to make it real.
My 96 250p project is horribly stalled out, I'm going to make a push to get it back rolling will I make it, hard to say. It's kinda almost a Barn Find for someone.
It's always been in the garage since I picked it up in maybe 2015.
I had put a decent amount of time into it and we used it quite a bit for pulling hay on the farm my inlaws have.
The elephant in the room was the Trans went out on it, and I had the bright idea of rebuilding my 47RE, and alot like on Scooby-Doo if it wasn't for these blasted kids I could have finished it. In all seriousness we had our daughter in 2017 and son in 2019 and they truly much more enjoyable then this truck that I've never had over 55mph.
It's super nice body wise everything was redone by an previous owner of a high end body shop it was his personal rig, he replaced the entire frame and did countless hours of rework, but he is a body guy and alot of the mechanical was not touched, so I still had at least 200hr of clean up on all sorts of stuff. Which kinda now I can point out on any rig just how much work someone will need to do. It has some flaws I know them all pretty much.
The time spent on the truck has been fun but it's time to get it going and get it on down the road.
Current To Do List
Interior- Mice got into it so I pulled it all out, cleaned it up, current state removed.
Carpet/Headliner
I've had a ACC carpet kit and headliner for awhile. Never installed so have it all to do.
Seats
The seats were already nicely recovered by PO, but they never painted the frames so they are rusty, who does that.... kinda the whole story of the vehicle. Just been fixing stuff that never should have been put back together.
Floor
Again fighting PO, they reused the old jute backing and spray glued it down to the newly painted cab floor, what a disaster, it pretty much rusted the thing in place. The carpet was always trash when I got it, but instead of a simple remove and replace from a fresh rebuild, it's hours of rework. I have the POR-15 kit for the floor. Needs to be sanded and done over.
Shifter Boot
I can't figure out what the heck these folks did to secure this thing, it's hacked in there permanently, still need to.figure that out, again adds to what should be 5min job, they did something funky to secure it, so I just cut around it for now, but need to figure out what they did.
Heater Box
It's highly unlikely the mice did not infiltrate the heater box, but have not made it that far for inspection.
It's always been stuck on Defrost, supposedly they broke the vacuum line on rebuild, they told me that when I got it, truck has never seen the snow/salt since I have owned it, but have a plow that came with it, PO used it to plow his small.business and home driveway.
Exterior
Not much to do, needs a bath, probably a good clean and buff some wax and it's local cruise night winner.
It has one dent behind the drivers door. Came that way from PO, has a run and defect on upper cowl kinda below the hood but on the cab, but if I did not point it out, hard to find.
Door bottom on drivers side even though I have never driven this in the rain, snow, winter the damn door bottom has a single little hole starting. The rockers were all replaced and they have rust in-between them a little, the PO did use it for plowing and the floor from above was horrible from the wet feet when they glued the carpet kit down, it just ran rampant. I spent many hours cleaning the truck just can't win in the NE.
Engine
Hardly broken in, 205k. But it's a NE truck.
P-Pump is very crusty, as is throttle linkage.
Have a new throttle cable and Trans cable, not installed.
Have a new PS pump not installed. The bottle was very crusty and there is a leak on the typical vacuum pump, that came back, the thing was so crusty I'm not surprised.
Oil pan, it was new with the truck but needs to come off they used some horrible orange permatex junk, like some kid slapped it together. Have the gasket.
Lots of rework done.
Probably would do well with a Pump refresh, some 215 injectors, needs a new throttle linkage, and I would do the fuel lines if they don't clean up.
Transmission
So here if your still reading things fell off the rails. A decent 47RE goes for $4k-$6k, it is what it is, mine has always been shot came that way, the one time I tried to take it on RT80 from exit 25 to 12, only 13 miles I had to bail at 19 and take the back roads. It never had 4th gear, around here the local roads are all 45mph roads, so you can cruise at 50mph all day long and never really hold too many folks up.
So I took on the project to rebuild the thing, did tons of reading and the sort, have all the tools to do it. Got it apart lots of clutch damage and the normal stuff. I got a Goerend rebuild kit, VB, converter. Along with all sorts of other goodies. Got it all 80% back together. And life just happens and next thing you know it's been on the floor for 2 years.
I have one really bad screw on the top retainer of the OD it's a small plate with some flat head screws was all corroded. It broke and needs to come out.
There might be one or two stripped pan bolts were that way from day 1. They had a nut and bolt on the one, it might stay that way. Is what it is. But to do it right need to break it back down again and clean up the internals and soak the clutch packs again. I wrapped the whole thing in plastic, so it's not horrible, but will see.
Transfer Case
Status: Removed with Trans
Needs rebuild, have torque king kit.
Drive Shaft
Status: half removed.
Has stripped bolt on one rear U joint, was put together at some point by PO, in a horrible fashion, no surprise based on the above.
Brakes and Tires
Status: Brakes normal lube and inspect, tires replace.
Brakes should be gone over and fluid flushed, pads and sort are probably good, just lube slides and inspect.
Tires probably date coded out already, nothing special were BFG all terrains.
Differentials
Status: need service
Normal service required. Never touched them my self, did the PO, doubt it but someone should find out.
So where do we go from here......
Option 1: Sell as is, where is, how is good luck.
Option 2: Get Trans back together and enjoy the success of doing atleast that. Even if I drive it on milk crates and forgo the rest of the list.
Option 3. Complete the list, then sell.
Option 4: this is some sort of pick your own adventure, turn to page 1076 to complete full list, turn to page next page to sell the truck...... next page just = Fin
Either way if you made it this far, thanks for reading, if you made it this far and are annoyed at this post, there is always that ignore post and user option.
