Hello Everyone, i'm surprised it took me this long to jump onto the forums but i guess better late than never haha. I've had a few projects builds in the past but this time its a little more special. My mother handed her 2000 7.3L 250 Lariat 4x4 over to me this past week. She bought the truck new (i was 12) and has been hers since. I have always loved this truck and have very fond memories traveling around the US in it. Its mainly been used as the get away vacationer vehicle for her and I along with the occasional boat/horse trailer puller Lately with her business its been sitting more than driving which as you know is not good for vehicles. Long story short i'm now going to pump some life back into the old girls bones, which only have about 150K on her. This is what i'm needing the help of you, the experts, on the forums haha. Now i must confess my Pops is a Senior Master Ford Mechanic who's actually about to retire, so i do know enough about the 7.3 to get me into trouble but i'm no expert. He's going to retire soon so I figure i'd use his ability to get parts cheap while I can haha. Back to the build! The truck itself has some surface rust on the frame, no body damage, clear coat is peeling off in a few locations and the front seats are pretty worn along with the jumpsuit console falling apart. Other than that the interior plastics and headliner look like new..thankfully. My goal is a reliable, refurbished/updated truck with a little more umph than the factory.
Here is my plan/layout of things i've ordered and things i need to order. I've been intensely reading the forums and trying to come up with the best route for me. Please feel free to chime in with any comments or advice!
Ordered:
PHP Hydra Tuner
2010 Seats Front and Back
All 5 Seats Belts
New Carpet
KC38r Ball Bearing Turbo
Rift Raft Fuel Rail X-over
S&B Intake
Rust Remover and Frame Coat
Need ordering:
Custom Tune from Gearhead Tuning once all installed. Thoughts?
Injectors sent to Rosewood for 160/30 update/modification. Thoughts?
Transmission Rebuild from Sam Wyse -Thoughts of which rebuilding companies?
Brake Rotors and pads, each foot. - Not sure what brand, advice?
Wheels/Tires
4” Lift- Not sure which one, advice?
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Hutch Fuel System Upgrade
Glad to be on the forums and i look forward to hearing what you have to say.
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Hello Everyone, i'm surprised it took me this long to jump onto the forums but i guess better late than never haha. I've had a few projects builds in the past but this time its a little more special. My mother handed her 2000 7.3L 250 Lariat 4x4 over to me this past week. She bought the truck new (i was 12) and has been hers since. I have always loved this truck and have very fond memories traveling around the US in it. Its mainly been used as the get away vacationer vehicle for her and I along with the occasional boat/horse trailer puller Lately with her business its been sitting more than driving which as you know is not good for vehicles. Long story short i'm now going to pump some life back into the old girls bones, which only have about 150K on her. This is what i'm needing the help of you, the experts, on the forums haha. Now i must confess my Pops is a Senior Master Ford Mechanic who's actually about to retire, so i do know enough about the 7.3 to get me into trouble but i'm no expert. He's going to retire soon so I figure i'd use his ability to get parts cheap while I can haha. Back to the build! The truck itself has some surface rust on the frame, no body damage, clear coat is peeling off in a few locations and the front seats are pretty worn along with the jumpsuit console falling apart. Other than that the interior plastics and headliner look like new..thankfully. My goal is a reliable, refurbished/updated truck with a little more umph than the factory.
Here is my plan/layout of things i've ordered and things i need to order. I've been intensely reading the forums and trying to come up with the best route for me. Please feel free to chime in with any comments or advice!
Ordered:
PHP Hydra Tuner
2010 Seats Front and Back
All 5 Seats Belts
New Carpet
KC38r Ball Bearing Turbo
Rift Raft Fuel Rail X-over
S&B Intake
Rust Remover and Frame Coat If you have salt and de icer in the area there is a much cheaper alternative but you'll have to do it every couple of years. Wash everything off very nicely and get the spray cans or the 1 gallon jug and their speckail spray gun and spray the under carriage in fluid film. It doesn't remove rust but it stops it and prevents anymore. I brought a clean CA truck to my northern Idaho home and after the winter I only had to re apply with a couple of cans of fluid film and wow! does an amazing job without having to remove the body, prep and blah blah, its very popular with the east coast because its effective, and easy to apply.
Need ordering:
Custom Tune from Gearhead Tuning once all installed. Thoughts? Just run the php tunes from their library for your pcm code and see how you like them first
Injectors sent to Rosewood for 160/30 update/modification. Thoughts? That's a big upgrade and requires custom tunes to run right. Also that set up will make quick work of your transmission.
Transmission Rebuild from Sam Wyse -Thoughts of which rebuilding companies? Sam Wyse seems second to none, but if the trucks is doing fine you could try ordering a modifiled valvebody from john woods and getting the 6.0l trans cooler and see how she does for a lot less.
Brake Rotors and pads, each foot. - Not sure what brand, advice? A lot of folks have been getting the powerstop brand kits lately myself included. I got their drilled/slotted towing package rotor and pad kit and 30k miles so far I LOVE them.
Wheels/Tires
4” Lift- Not sure which one, advice? procomp, superlift, revtek, most any big name kits are nice. Rough and tough country are cheaper but you will notice why....
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Glad to be on the forums and i look forward to hearing what you have to say.
Thank you for your responses! I figured i would need some custom tuning after messing with the injectors. The transmission was already having some issues, according to my mother, but i have not experienced it first hand. Anyways with all the new goodies i'll be sending it out to get revamped for my piece of mind. Cant wait to get this thing in shape!
Thought I would give an update on the build. Took me about 2 months longer than I expected to start since starting a new job, building a new shop, and buying a new house... you could say i've been busy. Always to the nitty gritty.
1) Started off by cutting the bed bolts off of the truck, disconnecting all necessary wires and removing the bed.
2) Gutted the Cab completely to inspect all wiring and get ready for painting/prep.
3) Then continued to remove a majority of the front clip followed by picking the cab off of the truck.
4) Pulled out the driveshaft, fuel tank, transfer case, transmission, front driveshaft.
5) The transmission has been palleted up and waiting for the shipping label to be sent over in order to send it over to Corey as I purchased the Stage 2 Transmission Setup.
6) The last two weeks have been basically tearing down the motor, cleaning it, removing all lines and replacing more or less all o-rings as they are usually dried out. Removed the engine wiring harness and repaired any wiring that mice have chewed on along with replacing all the cloth tape with new cloth tape. Cleaned and changed out all the Oil Cooler O-rings tonight followed by replacing the water pump, thermostat, and thermostat cap. Pulled the heads off and started to clean up the sealing surfaces between the heads and motors. Too some up a lot of work, just replacing anything considered a consumable along with replacing sensors that needing replacing.
7) Going to press on the new AC bearing/wheel here this week along with finish up with the heads/gaskets/ARP Studs.
8) Now is the time that i'll be sending out the injectors to rosewood to be converted over to 160/30's.
Thing I purchased that I planned on buying:
KC38r Turbo and Pedestal Kit
Stage 2 Transmission
PHP hydra with Mount
Bellowed Pipes
Riffraff Fuel Cross Over
RiffRaff Oil Cross Over
S&B Intake
Full Brake Job Kit
Leveling Kit for the Front
New Bilstein Shocks all the way around
Hutch Upgrade
4" Turbo Back Exhaust
Third Brake Light
Glow Plugs for Peace of Mind
Seven Three Emblems that look like the 6.4 style
Seven Three Emblem that looks like the Tailgate Platinum Letters.
Mishimoto Transmission Cooler
LED Taillights
LED Headlights (2016 Style)
LED's for the Headlights
McNasty 2016 Front End Conversion
McNasty Bumper Bracket Kit
New Fuel Pump
New Belt
Like New Interior out of a 2012
Take off Front (w/ fogs) and Rear Bumpers from a 2016
Frame Coat
Wire Brushes, rags, brake clean and other various cleaning products.
Things I purchased that I did not plan on buying:
Coolant Filtration Kit
Fuel Filtration Kit
Tons of O-ring Kits
Replacement Lines
All new heater hoses, fuel tank filler hoses and any others i'm forgetting
New Bed Bolts
ARP Bed Bolts (thought to myself might as well while i'm at it)
OEM Fuel Filter
OEM Fuel Bowl Cap
Various Sensors that looked pretty weathered
Head Gaskets
New Seat Belts as the others were worn pretty badly in the front.
New Upper Console (on the roof) since i broke the tabs removing it.
Things still needing purchasing:
Injector Upgrades
Wheels/tires (going to grab some takeoffs more than likely)
Front Clip excluding the bumper
All materials for painting of the truck
Monitoring Device with Probes, still thinking about what i'm going to do here.
I'm sure there will be more things that pop up.
Questions for you:
1) The biggest issue at hand is the vacuum lines inside the cab were chewed by mice it looks like. Which means i'll have to function test to see where all the white/red/yellow/black lines run to. Theres a little block/manifold that connects them to the AC panel on the dash. Does anyone have a diagram of this? I did some intense google searching and found one like that had some images but nothing concrete.
That's the plan! Can't wait to have this thing all done and on the road. Getting to work on it when I have time seems to only get me three of four days a month haha.
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