PaPa's 69 F100 Explorer Coyote 10R80 swap

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So how to fix this. Well obviously the bend needs to come out. But how. Well the way Jeff Ford at Autorestomod did it is he put his in a fixture in a vise and bent it back. On Youtube, Autorestomod Episode 379. I made a valiant attempt to do this but I could not get it to work. Everytime I tried to clamp it down it would pop out of the vise. You have to get it perfect. The one time I got it chucked up firm it popped out as soon as I started to do the bend. Now this might be possible with a helper, Jeff has Cameron, but I could not get this to work by myself. It's interesting to note that he does not actually show them putting it in the vise and bending it. I am guessing they had a hard time with it. I had to find a better way, at least for me.

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This worked like a champ, (or so I thought). I still need to bend the upper flange back to the correct angle.

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This made things a lot better. I did not get a picture but the top part of the mount fit flush against the firewall. This however did not help with the lower part line up with the floor pan. I decided the only way to fix this was to disassemble the mount.

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At this point I put the upper half of the mount onto the cab. I discovered that the bend was not as flat as I thought. Or I may have taken the bend out when I bent the upper mounting flange. Anyway It occurred to me that I should have done all my bending after I separated the two pieces.

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With that complete I placed it on the cab. Then I had to address the lower part of the mount.

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Then assembled on the cab and clamped in place.

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Finished Product. This was actually less work than the replacing the floor support end.

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Once again life has gotten in the way. Seems like as soon as I get a good head of steam something takes me away from this project. My daughter had a blow out in her Civic and it caused a lot of damage. It's actually totalled but I am going to use some of my developing skills to fix it. Looks like I will be working on it for a while. The only positive is that I get to practice on shooting some paint. Practice that I need as I have painted very little, and never Basecoat Clearcoat. In fact the most painting I have done was on this frame. That's it for now, I will post as soon as I can.

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Show us the work if you can.

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I may, if it turns out ok. If it looks like crap you will never know!