I've read that forever and believe it to be so. The fact that partially boxed frames sometimes crack where you stop the box. How does the metal not work harden on a stock frame over the course of a decade or two?

 

Georges Frame and Serial Number are for an F-250 not an F-100.

 

or 5 or 6... It actually does, frames that were rode hard and put up wet often show cracking. Ford's designers learned a lot from the earlier cars and military vehicles they built for WW2, and used it wisely in designing their truck frames. The frame rails are nearly straight and parallel from end to end to not produce any stress riser points, with a minimal amount of crossmembers, primarily at the ends riveted in place to be flexible. They used a single wall C section frame rail. They even mounted the engine in a triangular arrangement so the block would not resist the twisting. This spread the twist the length of the frame carrying any work hardening over the entire frame.

 

IFS front (coils), solid rear (leafs) of course...So I didn't get any pictures of the frame yet. I had court today and I have to go back tomorrow. It's taken longer than expected. I shall take some tomorrow time permitting or Thursday.

 

Wow, I haven't been on here in a long time. I've been busy playing with other things. I got the 383 stroker together. Here's a run down of internals/parts and pictures!
4 bolt main block
Scat crank
Probe forged pistons
Probe forged connecting rods
King bearings
Hasting's rings
Melling High Volume oil pump
Stef's Fabrication 8 qt oil pan.
Prostreet Harmonic Balancer
Edelbrock Performer RPM heads
Edelbrock Performer RPM cam & lifters
Edelbrock Double Roller Timing Chain
Comp Cams 1.5 ratio full roller rockers
Edelbrock Performer RPM Air-Gap intake
Edelbrock EPS 800 cfm carburetor
Edelbrock 110 GPH fuel pump
180 degree thermostat
MSD Pro Billet Distributor
MSD 6AL-2 (2 step) ignition box
MSD Blaster 2 Coil
Summit Racing 8.5mm wires
March Performance Serpentine Belt Conversion

 

 

Here's a short video of it running:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJvaQ1-3ook

 

That is a real nice truck,just drive it & enjoy it
like the saying goes " IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT"

 

This is a picture of a 72 C10 frame which I fitted up to set my 56 panel on. It was from a long box chevy that I cut in half to shorten for my application. The chevs came with a coil rear suspension and the GMC's had leaf's. The opposites could have been ordered for both models as an option. If yours is on a GM frame I would be interested in the wheel size and offsets of the rims as I am finding that the C10 has a wider tracking width than the 53-56 F100's. I'm with most on here that has stated to drive the truck as is, and the GM frame will have no problems supporting that stroker. If you ever watched Trucks when Stacy Divid hosted it he put a 572 running nitrous in a stock 68 chevy c10.

 

It's going to be getting a make over here in the near future. I have someone building a 400 trans for me. The rear will also be 4 linked. Still on the border about the color. I will continue to drive it til it goes under the knife.

 

Lots of pretty parts!

 

Isn't a 383 Stroker a Chevy motor?

 

Distributor in the rear, no outside oil line so not an FE block, sump in the rear...
Yep.

 

Yes. Only way to go.

 

Uh Oh! (ducking) Better put your fire suit on before saying something like that! Us formal guys that wear a bow tie with our Ford suits are somewhat tollerated around here where most bleed blue thru and thru.