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Thanks for passing this along. Good parts list here: Maine is a world away though

Clevleland was the first of the 335 family. Back in the late '60s when Ford came out with the 460 someone from Ford looked at a Big Block Chevy's canted valve arrangement and said "hmmm.... we need something like that" So they made the 460 and 429. They were called the 385 family. Oh, and they were coo coo powerful just how they came in the land yatchts they came in (Lincoln Mark 3s 365 HP/500lb/ft torque and the 429 Thunderjet wasn't too far behind 360/480) Then there were a handful of high performance 429s . Then they decided to use the same arrangement in a smaller engine. The 351 Cleveland. The first ones were pretty strong and responded to being hot rodded. They were sorta short lived though because of strickter emission requirements. By that time, The FE family (352s, 360s 390s 406s 427s and the 428) were all gone. The 351M was still a 335 (as well as The 400M) and kinda filled the void of the 360s in the light trucks. The old 289s, 302s and 351 Windsors were all based on the same platform. The 302 and 351 Windsor seemed to hold on a while in pickups and passenger vehicles. Ford must have spent a fortune retooling over the years, they had lots of different engines , many for the same applications too.

Got a picture in the mail today, the official photo from the Trucker's Parade Against Cancer. The Mack doesn't look half bad there. We didn't have our banner on it when they took the picture because we wern't sure we'd even be there, so they put it on a fire truck. We were supposed to go to Raphine that day and pick the yellow '55 Ford up, but the man bringing it broke down in Jackson, Ohio so he turned around and went back to Indiana. My wife informed me that we had an official picture from last year, but I don't recall ever seeing it before.

Go with your line theroy and see how it goes !

Fords are weird. The '71 F100 I had had a 351 in it, not original, but it was smaller looking than this 351M, it looked the same as a 289 or 302. So you've got a 351 Cleveland, 351 Windsor, 351M, and some trucks had a 352, and they've got the 428 and 429 engines which were different animals too...I guess. I always thought the Cleveland was the one to have if you wanted to go fast. But when I was coming up most everybody was racing either GMs or Mopars, very few fast Fords around on the street.

Nothing of mine, just something seen on Faceplant! https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2860163514175279 .....Hippy

Ok thats great, I'll mesure them tonight and if they mesure out ok I'll just order them. They have got to be done at some point anyway. I will also go to atro and just double check bushing measurements!

I did find a used 9QL4551M back to back im going to get some mesurments and might go that route. the back to back seems like its a way stronger option then what I have now witch is pretty much stamped steel.

Plate type replacement. Used in pairs back-to-back. Sometimes a single one at the rear of an R-model (A DM would use 9QL4551M8's and then an I-beam crossmember at the rear).

I always thought a 351 Cleveland was a lower HP/Torque for cars and smaller trucks made in Cleveland- and Windsors were higher HP/Torque bigger truck engines made in Windsor, Ontario.

I believe the fuel tank is good. when I did run it lower on fuel I did shine a light into it and it looked clean

when I snap the throttle the rpm's don't run up. It immediately drops back down to idle. Truck doesn't have alot of miles, only 160,000. It's just old but other than the occasional surge it runs and pulls great

I'll just chuck these in here NMP

Never too early🤣 Paul

What's your fuel tank look like? You could have gotten some bad fuel or something if there's residue in the tank. We've seen it happen locally around here; an entire fleet was having some fuel issues (all newer trucks), and it turned out to be a batch of bad fuel at the local fuel station all their drivers were going.

Give it a try definitely worth replacing them ! The pump is Ambac worth keeping an ear on too the over run clutch can be an issue! Snap the throttle and listen for it jumping to governed rpm if it travels beyond the governed by more than 50 you may need to have the drive hub serviced!

I have a friend with a 2000 model vision with the wonderful unitzed hubs. I was wondering if this steering axle could be swapped out for a ch axle with oil bath hubs. Thanks!

Yes, let's hope within the next year I can get to working on the truck. At least I have a place to put it here on the property. I have a tractor that a little boy wants to get running, (it is froze up) so that will also take priority over a truck that is in my condition.

That was on thing I was thinking might be, a fuel restriction. When I changed fuel filters, thinking it was plugged filters, and I cut one open there was a black residue in the filters. My thought weas that maybe the fuel lines were beginning to deteriorate internally being the truck is 1979 (46 yrs old) I have purchased new fuel line, just haven't replaced it yet

This was the only tag I could find, but the pump was pretty dirty being the truck works in a very dusty enviroment

sorry about the dirty looking fuel pump. Best pics I could get being the pump is down alongside the frame rail

Nice!! terry

Well when I bought mine I didn’t even have a place to put it I had to pay to store it then it took another 11 years just to have a permanent place to keep it then another 12 years to put up a shop hopefully your situation will not take that long .. I was starting to think I’d be dead by the time I started doing some serious work on it good luck and yes I’m well aware of your weather…. Bob

Would love to! Except, building a house...Starting 1st of December, so all hands on deck to do that to get a place done to live before I can work on the trucks. Minnesota gets a tad cold coming up here, and the camper isn't all that warm.

And yes I’m sure eBay you would find one good luck but you might wanna wait for dean … bob