Replacing the Fuel System in my 1986 F150

[@altruisticscoundrel]

Great video!

[@morgansword]

Okay to make it fair to you, I did subscribe so ya can yell back should I step on someones toe. I am currently seventy three, on hospice so sometimes I come off as a old cranky guy. I bought a multiple of these trucks back when they came out, not expecting too much because of being a "Highboy" kind of guy. I started with fords because everyone loved their chevies. I got my first ford pickup, a real lemon was the current folks opinion. Because of my age and being in a town that you had to count dogs and cats to come up with a hundred people in same amount of people versus land. Oh to have so few folks now!! I was importantly turning thirteen in sixty one late or october. My dad was a logger and so wrenches were in my paws from the time I was old enough to complain. That little "Jailhouse" ford had a great body but the engine had seized up from setting.... but for me, a great way to buy for twenty five dollars. I took it home and dad had a old welder that was powered by a flathead... our agreement was I can have his running engine for my pickup but I had to rebuild my old engine for the welder..... dad had just taken advantage of me right there!! On the side of my engine was all the specs on mine of being rebuilt. I pulled off the heads and tapped on top of the pistons to find it wasn't stuck but a huge mouse house in the flywheel had stopped it. Cleaned everything, I had it back running in about four or more hours to find one great running motor. Deal is a deal and so took my new to me engine apart and helped it out with better carbration, dual exhaust, just stuff. Now my dad knew racing engines all through and through so when people were backtalking about me, he steps in and out it came again... he built my junky engine to the absolute maximum in about three days of his machine shop. He had ratholed parts for years and they went into my rig with dad near wearing me out with swear words and threats of dying should I stop. I was right happy though cause it was his way of saying he loved me. In two months time, I rolled it out of the shop, and with all of his work plus a crew of men who worked for him had it in primer and all chrome stuff all over the engine plus the tripower... lets just say, no one was laughing at me now. I so wish that I still had it to this day. I came home from the army in winter of sixty nine to find it gone as someone stolen it. I used to have a wall full of trophies that it won fair and square. I know I shouldn't use your page to brag on about my junk. I started at a early age loving to wrench, and did it on heavy equipment for most of my life.. another time an place for that tho. Since I am a cripple now, its been a while since I crawled under anything. Its called a schrader valve located on the pressure side of the lines going to your early throttle body fuel injection... a good system when fixed right. I took those 4.9 sixes with a turbo and pushed out over six hundred horses of mean rubber ripping power. The 5.0 your running now unless I wasn't watching to close to see if it was the 5.8 or 351 commonly called.... I just never really got into fixing up much. I am the big block sorta guy considering I am kinda big. I believe you when swearing about those clips on the fuel lines. After you figure them out, you will enjoy using them. That filter and pressure regulator is real important to its running correctly.... I mentioned the schrader valve as a way of bleeding off the air in the line feeding the "lets just call it a carburetor for ease of talking. It looks like the check valve in a valve core on any tire and they work as a replacement if yours ever messes up. One of my biggest complaints with ford was they built everything to each rig built so no rhyme or reason as to why so many options on what works on one that won't work on another. I sure miss being able to get into or under the hoods of rigs of the era you have. My 95 F350 powerstroke dually diesel was a nightmare! It was my last nice rig and .... well I best not start on it as I have a mile of stories about it. If it were me and had a place of my own.... a nice truck like yours would get the full treatment.... its more than a daily driver but don't (its just me talking) fix up something that you make into a trailer queen. Their meant to be enjoyed. When working on fuel lines like these, you will find that vaseline is a friend. Stuff clips together easier and slides apart better. Well by now you're tired of reading a old mans chatter.... so thanks for sharing yer video.

[@JPBinTN]

Keep up the good work

[@rockyrivermushrooms529]

Thanks for the video. Ive got the same truck

[@guerro327]

How much are you asking for it?