The F350 Thread

[ZRX61]

Wont you forever be replacing them lights as you boot them on the way up?

They've been on there for 29 years without issue.

[Felix]

Wont you forever be replacing them lights as you boot them on the way up?

They've been on there for 29 years without issue.

That you know of You got small lady feet? Is the step just for show or is the motor that tall? I have only ever driven the UK spec Ford Maverick for comparison what felt just as shit as driving a landrover defender 90 as they are quite cramp in the cab. Think/hope the Crew cab Maverick and 110 defender would have more room.

[ZRX61]

That you know of You got small lady feet? Is the step just for show or is the motor that tall? I have only ever driven the UK spec Ford Maverick for comparison what felt just as shit as driving a landrover defender 90 as they are quite cramp in the cab. Think/hope the Crew cab Maverick and 110 defender would have more room.

Ford Maverick is basically a reskinned Ford Escape, I could about park one in the bed on my F350. Ok, not quite, the bed is 71in wide by 98in long, Maverick is 72.5in wide. F350 Cab seats 6, altho front/middle won't be too comfy as it has a 40/20/40 seat, not the bench seat.
I can get in the truck without step, but it's easier with. The steps had been off since about August.
I can roll under the truck with the steps installed & without using a jack. With the steps installed the gap to the ground is 13in at the front door & 14in at the rear of the cab. Without the steps it's 21in at the front & 22in just ahead of the rear wheels.

[ZRX61]

Looking rather spiffy today





Next to the aquaduct

[ZRX61]

[ZRX61]

Bought the headlight adjusting tool today, will need to take the truck out in the dark to get the alignment sorted. I think it's way off.

The two white/two orange on the grill need adjusting too. The drivers side white one lights up the road about 12ft ahead of the bumper & the orange one illuminates the center divider wall on the freeway from the #2 lane, so that's not good.

Need to find a flat area at least 50ft long facing a wall so I have room to park close, mark the centers of the beams & then back up quite a bit & adjust to put the beams back on the center marks.

[Rockburner]

Bought the headlight adjusting tool today, will need to take the truck out in the dark to get the alignment sorted. I think it's way off.

The two white/two orange on the grill need adjusting too. The drivers side white one lights up the road about 12ft ahead of the bumper & the orange one illuminates the center divider wall on the freeway from the #2 lane, so that's not good.

Need to find a flat area at least 50ft long facing a wall so I have room to park close, mark the centers of the beams & then back up quite a bit & adjust to put the beams back on the center marks.

A screwdriver?? What specialist tool would you need to adjust the headlights?

[ZRX61]

A screwdriver?? What specialist tool would you need to adjust the headlights?

It's a 4mm ratchet doodad & cheap as chips:

https://lmr.com/item/LIS-14540/87-98-Mu ... ench?gQT=2

[ZRX61]

Damn. Every time someone says "specialist tool" I'm thinking "3d print"...

This one would be a bit tricky... & 3D print is rarely the answer when you can just buy the widget with a couple of mouse clicks. I just saw something (not a tool) that took 2000 hours to print, that's damn near 12 weeks.
If one had the ability to print metal like we do with plastic, I wouldn't be printing spanners or sockets etc just because I could

[Cousin Jack]

That looks immaculate.

Pretty spiffy for a 29yo paint job. It attracts attention everywhere I go, I get people waving & giving thumbs up on the freeways

Can that actually be parked anywhere without paying property taxes?

Barely, it's a smidge short of 22ft long & it's 8ft wide at the rear wheels, maybe a tad wider at the mirrors.

It certainly looks the dog's bollocks, and would make a superb bike transport. However a trifle big for the UK where "The standard parking space in the UK is 15.7ft (4.8m) in length, by 7.8ft (2.4m) in width" and several local roads are only about 6 foot 6 inches wide!

[Mr. Dazzle]

If one had the ability to print metal like we do with plastic, I wouldn't be printing spanners or sockets etc just because I could

Well quite.

The technology exists to print spanners and sockets in metal, but no-one outside of a few marketing types does, 'cause it's daft.

[ZRX61]

It certainly looks the dog's bollocks, and would make a superb bike transport. However a trifle big for the UK where "The standard parking space in the UK is 15.7ft (4.8m) in length, by 7.8ft (2.4m) in width" and several local roads are only about 6 foot 6 inches wide!

I couldn't drive it on some of the roads on Cornwall where they have grass growing in the middle... & where my dad lives South of Plymouth there are certain times of the day when you can't drive to town because the bus will be coming the other way, altho that goes for anything bigger than a bicycle.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Pfft, it just means one of you has to back up. Battle of wills

[ZRX61]

Was just thinking of the reaction on here back in March when I first posted about seeing it on the BaT auction...& then actually buying it. LOL!!

Dazzle's reply to my first post about it...

viewtopic.php?t=9083


& it turns out he was correct...

[ZRX61]

Pfft, it just means one of you has to back up. Battle of wills

Rule of Gross Tonnage... I had someone in a low sporty Merc try to force his way into my lane of the 405 while driving the older Dually one day where his lane ended. Traffic was stop & go, Owing to where he chose to do it I didn't have the option to let him in. He was basically fucked, but refused to realize it... until he noticed my truck was about to run over his bonnet. He actually backed up on the freeway.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Works both ways sometimes though

I used to take great delight in refusing to get out of the way in my Nissan Micra when a big black Range Rover or whatever tried to squeeze me out. You might have the tonnes, but my car cost £500 and I DGAF about it

[ZRX61]

Works both ways sometimes though

I used to take great delight in refusing to get out of the way in my Nissan Micra when a big black Range Rover or whatever tried to squeeze me out. You might have the tonnes, but my car cost £500 and I DGAF about it

I was unable to move to my right & dumbass in the Merc though he could fit his car through a gap that was about 1ft narrower than his car. Front of his car was angled to the right ahead of my rear wheels. Would have either hit his right door or rolled over his fender. He finally got a clue that neither of us were going anywhere unless he backed up. I was quite happy to sit there until enlightenment dawned on him.

"Big" & Range Rover in the same sentence.. LOL!! I remember how big they seemed in the UK, but they really aren't. The biggest is merely a mid-size SUV, they are dwarfed by Suburbans, Expeditions & especially Excursions. About the same size as an Explorer.

[Mr. Dazzle]

3D printing is generally speaking the most expensive way to make a metal part, usually by quite a wide margin.

It only really makes sense when what you're making can't be made any other way, i.e. when what you're 3D printing is specially designed to take advantage of the fact it's printed to make otherwise impossible forms, the so called "enabling technology" as we say*. Even 'real parts' which are 3D printed in rocket engines, aeroplanes and racing cars are often actually a hybrid of traditional metal manufacturing with only the really key bits printed.

For random plastic tools it's a god send, we've got a bunch of printers at work for making spacers and widgets and doodads. Even prototype parts are printed now.

I'm still with ZX on the headlight tool though, for a tenner I'll just buy one It'd cost me more than that to spend the time figuring out what to CAD, let alone CADing it

*incidentally this is usually also true of carbon composites, they only really make sense when your thing was built from the ground up to take advantage. We even have a disparaging name for stuff not done that way. "Black Metal".

[Felix]

Works both ways sometimes though

I used to take great delight in refusing to get out of the way in my Nissan Micra when a big black Range Rover or whatever tried to squeeze me out. You might have the tonnes, but my car cost £500 and I DGAF about it

Was watching an American police chase on Facebook tonight, 101 police 4x4 things and a small car Citroen C1 size. Police 4x4 thing turned in for a head on. Small car swerved out and bounced off the police turned out front wheel. Wobble wabble of the small car whole the ripped off police car wheel went chasing it down the road.
Wifes Ex was driving a defender 90 into work when he had a head on with a drunk driver in a Pug 106. 106 had a few front end dents what was apparently fixable but the defender was written off. I always drive end of line cars. Pushed my £500 budget up to £1000 now but still got the same DGAF attitude and wont be intimidated on the road by larger cars.

[ZRX61]

I'm still with ZX on the headlight tool though, for a tenner I'll just buy one It'd cost me more than that to spend the time figuring out what to CAD, let alone CADing it

This doodad has a built in ratchet mechanism like ratchet wrenches have. One side is clockwise, flip it over for cc/w. 4mm built-in socket each side.