Mods
Home made brush cage\r
Custom I-Beam front bumper\r
1" steel boiler plate rear bumper and 1/4 inch steel clad rear frame... the ultimate brake check...\r
Home brew egr/smog delete/upgraded hiflow cat\r
4" stainless exhaust and turn-down\r
DIY Electric fans/3-core 1 ton radiator upgrade\r
Welded solid motor mounts\r
Rapidly fabricated shifter [version 5]\r
Offroad and work lighting all the way around the truck with convenient controls.\r
Winch\r
Custom flatbed\r
Toolbox\r
Cooler :)
Custom I-Beam front bumper\r
1" steel boiler plate rear bumper and 1/4 inch steel clad rear frame... the ultimate brake check...\r
Home brew egr/smog delete/upgraded hiflow cat\r
4" stainless exhaust and turn-down\r
DIY Electric fans/3-core 1 ton radiator upgrade\r
Welded solid motor mounts\r
Rapidly fabricated shifter [version 5]\r
Offroad and work lighting all the way around the truck with convenient controls.\r
Winch\r
Custom flatbed\r
Toolbox\r
Cooler :)
Build story
I've been working in the industrial sector of america since 2012, and I've always had my work cut out for me. I've always needed a good reliable truck to get me and my tools to the job.\r
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The truck I started with was a white short wheelbase F150 powered by the unkillable 300-6. I worked it hard, bashed on it harder, treated it like garbage, neglected it, and beat on it some more and the loyal old heap would just look at me like - is that all you've got?\r
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So in 2017 when THAT truck was rolling by 410,000 miles on the original motor and transmission, two more of these trucks popped up on my radar. I landed a blue one with frame/cab rot (and a block heater! Canadian truck?) and a green 4x4 that -had- been Windsor powered till they spun out into a tree. The frame was still straight and it had a tittle so for pocket change I tow-barred it 200 miles back to my place and started tearing them both apart in the back yard.\r
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It's called Delta because it's the 4th half ton in the empire of junk. It weighs 6,000lbs loaded with all my work gear in the box, and it drives like a yacht. Even weighing three tons, this little truck has pulled more than I expected. It's pulled logs, class v car trailers with 3/4 ton trucks on them, and a loaded class v 20ft box trailer.\r
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Everything on the truck is found material. While doing my job, I keep an eye open for steel and iron. Honestly, most of the time if you're polite and honest, contractors will sooner let you collect up scrap after work than spend the man hours to collect it up themselves (THANKS MATT/MORGAN!).\r
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Delta, to me, seems like a pretty honest version of what trucks would be like if the world ended in economic crisis. I never had much cash on hand, had to barter, trade and beg for all my material, robbed most of my parts off junk-yard-worthy heaps, and leaned on the help of a lot of good friends to build it and modify it. These friends all encouraged me to make an entry for ICQS directly or indirectly. So cheers guys, this is for y'all.\r
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Michael B, Bones, John B, Sam, CJ, Amber, Michael L, Tony R, Scotty M.
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The truck I started with was a white short wheelbase F150 powered by the unkillable 300-6. I worked it hard, bashed on it harder, treated it like garbage, neglected it, and beat on it some more and the loyal old heap would just look at me like - is that all you've got?\r
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So in 2017 when THAT truck was rolling by 410,000 miles on the original motor and transmission, two more of these trucks popped up on my radar. I landed a blue one with frame/cab rot (and a block heater! Canadian truck?) and a green 4x4 that -had- been Windsor powered till they spun out into a tree. The frame was still straight and it had a tittle so for pocket change I tow-barred it 200 miles back to my place and started tearing them both apart in the back yard.\r
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It's called Delta because it's the 4th half ton in the empire of junk. It weighs 6,000lbs loaded with all my work gear in the box, and it drives like a yacht. Even weighing three tons, this little truck has pulled more than I expected. It's pulled logs, class v car trailers with 3/4 ton trucks on them, and a loaded class v 20ft box trailer.\r
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Everything on the truck is found material. While doing my job, I keep an eye open for steel and iron. Honestly, most of the time if you're polite and honest, contractors will sooner let you collect up scrap after work than spend the man hours to collect it up themselves (THANKS MATT/MORGAN!).\r
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Delta, to me, seems like a pretty honest version of what trucks would be like if the world ended in economic crisis. I never had much cash on hand, had to barter, trade and beg for all my material, robbed most of my parts off junk-yard-worthy heaps, and leaned on the help of a lot of good friends to build it and modify it. These friends all encouraged me to make an entry for ICQS directly or indirectly. So cheers guys, this is for y'all.\r
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Michael B, Bones, John B, Sam, CJ, Amber, Michael L, Tony R, Scotty M.