Second post, stripped the bed this weekend, lost about 1200 lbs, and got it in the garage to start picking through and come up with a plan. My dad came out with his torch, that flat bed had to come apart in pieces, still have some clean up to do on the frame where it was welded!
What I know, the motor is not seized, but cannot try to start it up as…. Distributor is questionable, wires and plugs need to be changed, and need to re-wire a few items too. Pricing out what I know we need to get a spark, we decided to do an engine swap. Thinking of dropping a 350 in and use a conversion kit to keep the transmission the same.
Now, for the old motor question….better to sell the Tornado as a whole or part it out, clean up the parts and sell?
Next up is the axles, planning to upgrade those to get a more common lug pattern and one piece wheels. Doing some research on here, so much to read up on. Once we get a plan together on those we will be posting the take offs at some point.
He is tracking the progress on an Instagram/tiktok/you tube accounts at the moment. But had to include a progress shot here.
The Instagram is 1967_m715 if you guys want to keep up.
Thanks in advance and will try our best to pay it back, by documenting all our work!