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Just wanted to pop in and say hello, my wife's grandfather was the original owner of a 1986 F150 4x4 300 with 56k original miles and has a lot of memories when she was a kid he passed away a long time ago. My father in law just gave me the truck and I am planning to restore it for my wife and kids to make many more memories. It has some rust on the frame but doesn't look like its too bad as well as normal rust ar as for this generation F150.
The best place for parts is restoring what you've already got, then restoring other people's junk aka junkyard. Then I'd start resorting to those mail order catalogs. They're great for hard to find trim pieces and things that a junk yard just isn't going to stock in good condition.
And as far as the catalogs go, LMC, Jeff's Bronco Graveyard, Dennis Carpenter, MAC's antique auto parts are the ones that I keep on the shelves for reference purposes and late night truck **** needs.
Project step one: I'm about to tackle the first part of my project which is dealing with the rusted frame. It's still solid just scale rust towards the rear of the rear of the truck.
Now that winter is approaching and my garage is not heated the rust converter paint will not work properly in the cold.
Should I spray the frame with fluid film to protect it during the winter and then wash it off in the spring sand and paint it
Or just fully sand and prep the frame and paint it when the weather gets warmer in about 4-5 months?
I I don't want the rust to spread, but don't know if the fluid film will create a issue in the spring when I go to paint it.
10-22-2015, 10:14 PM
1986 F150 resto project
I gota try that with my wife, wonder how far I can get...
