r/OBSFords

Still working hard 38 years in.

Questions:
-How is this price?
- Am I crazy to think I could take this on a 6 week cross country road trip, camp in it some nights, and then be my daily driver in San Diego ? (no daily commute)
- What should i ask the seller and what should i look for with my own eye?

The car:
1996 Ford F-250 XLT HD, 111k miles, seller is asking $35,000. It’s home has been central PA.

Me:
30 years old, no mechanical background, no experience with older trucks, but very thoughtful and protective of my vehicles.

I am about to move across the country from NJ to San Diego. I’ve been looking for something that thrills me for the last 12 months.

My current obsession is this OBS and I haven’t seen anything yet that has made me fall in love harder.

I’m speaking to the owner again today and i’m really excited to learn more.

I have the time and the budget to learn about this car as i own it and to keep up with it. $20k over the next 5 years would be well within my budget. I understand that can be projects.

Pulled the trigger on this '96 EB Bronco with 165k miles on the original 5.8L 351. Already has a 4" lift with 35" All Terrains, aftermarket seats, and head unit. Needs some TLC on the interior but she's a beaut for and runs like she's brand new.

Rustish free '93 F150 XLT. "Northlands edition" ? Live in Canada but apparently an American Midwest model truck? It may have been from USA originally according to the old owner.

150,000 miles on it if I can read the odo correctly.

5.0 5 Speed, big ol lift and 35's on stockies = 4* of turning radius with stock offset lmao.

In the week I've had it access to it : Major coolant flush, new trans and transfercase fluid, oil change, new shifter repair kit (had about 15 feet of shift throw), new power steering pump n lines, new ignition system, pulled some carpet up to check for rust cause of some leaks up top. Pretty solid but wet so tried my best to stop interior leaks in the driver side and air it out. Some of the interiror plastics are cracked so will weld those back together but she's really nice inside and out asides from some dings and the two tone green on the driver and fender side lol.

Next on the list is fix exhaust leak at the collectors, new o2 sensors clean everything under the hood, go through all vac lines. Fuel filter and what not.

Front end needs work, brakes.

Frame is in good shape just dry, trucks been basically sitting for X years and just negelcted to shit. Looking for a new tail gate as well, according to the P.O the P.O before him put a boat's bow through it. Oops.

I have a 1993 Ford F-150 5.0 V8. I have no idea what the three canisters circled in the image are or what they do. As you can see in the picture the one on the bottom has a hose coming off of it to the left that just gets cut off and is open ended. The one in the middle has a red wire that feeds to the top of the engine and a black wire that was supposed to feed somewhere but is cut off about at about a foot. I have also attached a picture of the top of my engine where that black wire maybe was supposed to go. Any ideas?

Straight body zero rust, 1996 F-150 Eddie Bauer edition 170k mi. ECSB with a 5.8 e4od and 4wd auto hubs, the only thing I’d change is if it were a manual with a floor shifter. And the fact something must’ve happened to the original alcoas. But I digress.

Funny story on how I got this, I somehow convinced my buddy to drive 5 hours to help me come pick this up as I already sold my other truck. But he had an appointment at 4:00pm so we had to wait, I went with him and then we left from the chiropractor all the way 270 sum miles in the middle of nowhere to get this off Facebook marketplace. We got there at 9:30pm, It’s a 2 owner truck, the original owner bought locally and didn’t sell it until earlier this year because he was too old to drive. The second owner had it just to drive it while his truck got a lift on it. lol. We didn’t get back home until 3:30am, but it was damn worth it. I owe him a brake job on his subie now. 😂😂 She is a 5er or a 10er! The hood has clear coat cracking and it definitely needs detailed but it’s still dead gorgeous to me.

She's gorgeous now!

I just picked up an OEM rear slider to replace the fixed glass on my 95 F250, but it did not come with the gasket. Trying to find some info online and it seems to be less straightforward to find a new part than I had imagined. Is there a gasket that anyone has had luck with?

<Vent> I guess the OBS bubble popped? I used to get cash offers at the gas station just a couple months ago, but now I’m selling to make room for a project and I’m below my minimum and still haven’t sold (I’m at $5,500). Is anyone else out there seeing the same thing lately? She’s a solid rig, no rust, straight frame; higher miles (332k) but 60k on a rebuild the previous owner had done pre-Covid. I get that fuel prices stink at the moment, but I’m at a loss on what else to do and can’t go much lower than I’m at without it just not being worth selling.

Wanting to lower my 97 f250 two-wheel drive on a high school budget. Any recommendations?

‘94 I6

I’m doing an engine rebuild, and I got stumped around the secondary air injection, I already have the new railing on but the check valve I can’t seem to find anywhere online and the old one is stuck in the old broken injection rail. Should I just block the new injection rail off with a bolt? Or would one of y’all know where I could find this check valve?

My dad bought this truck in 99. It's been to cali, mexico, florida, texas, new hampshire, and everywhere in between. He gave it to me a few years back and since then I've done the floor pans, cab mounts, oil cooler, hpop lines, return fuel lines, and converted it back to single wheels. Future plans are to paint it, fix more rust, hopefully find a lund visor, and reupholster the interior. It's been running on used vegetable oil for about a month now, no complaints so far😂! This thing easily does more work than any other truck in the family.

Father bought it brand new off-the-lot with 12 miles on it. It’s been parked since ‘21 due to some mechanical issues. I’d like to dig into and figure out how to get her mobile again.

Old turd hit 300k today!

I live in the rust belt so the last two years have been stripping the frame and all suspension components and repairing floor pans, new fuel tanks and a custom flatbed for off-roading. But as of last week, it runs, drives and stops, almost all wiring is done for lighting, and the next steps are getting sheet metal for the bed and sound deadening the inside. If I’m lucky it will get painted this summer. I’m thinking about doing the tractor paint thing since it’ll largely just be a camping four wheeling rig. By no means a show truck.