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Page 16: Installing a Shaker Scoop (well...sort of)

Does anybody ever actually read all this rambling I do on these pages,
or do you just look at the pictures?

Jan. 03, 2004 - I spent the whole day in the shop on New Year's Day getting some more sandblasting done to the cab...and I'm making good progress, thought this is a very time-consuming task. However, I think another full day will pretty much finish it up...I hope!

Yesterday I took a drive up to a nearby big-truck salvage operation, in hopes of bringing home another F-600 panel for my truck. I was thinking I needed a matching tachometer and vacuum gauge. However, my panel is a '67-only style and there was only one other like it there, which didn't have the tach or vacuum gauge. There were a half-dozen of the '68-up styles, and a couple had either a vacuum gauge or a tach, but none had both...plus they were a different style that wouldn't match up with mine, so I didn't pick one up. The F-600 tachs are mechanical-drive anyway, and the distributors will not easily fit my engine, so I'd be forced to go to an expensive tach-drive racing distributor in order to use the tach. I decided to just keep my eyes open for something else to use instead.

On the way back home, I stopped and talked to an old couple with a beat-up '72 F-100 Explorer parked out back behind their house. I'd talked to them once in the past when searching for a cab, but found this cab wasn't good, so I passed on purchasing it. However, I thought I remembered it having PS, PB and A/C, so I thought maybe I could pick it up really cheap for the parts, and stopped in again to look it over. However, not only did it not have PB or A/C, but the old fart wanted $200 for it, and I didn't see enough useable parts left on it to warrant paying that...so I passed on it again.

Almost home...but one more stop to make. I'd spied a farmhouse a few weeks earlier with dozens of old cars and trucks parked around it, but couldn't stop to take a look. This time I did. Turns out I knew the guy, but the only Ford pickup he had was a mid-70s 3/4-ton with a slide-in camper on it. He said he was going to pull the engine and tranny and junk the rest, so I told him to give me a call when he was done with it, so I could pull the power disc brakes setup off it.

Got up this morning and decided to hit the shop again to try to finish up on the sandblasting. However, by the time I'd emptied the first tank-full of sand, I decided it was too cold, so I shut down the operation. Not wanting to waste a day in the shop, I decided to start preparing the hood. I got my hands on an old Torino shaker hood scoop assembly years ago, and since starting this pickup project, I thought it would be fun to use it. However, the pickup's engine is offset to the passenger side by several inches, plus it sets too low in the engine bay to work...which meant I had to come up with another idea.

At first I was just planning on cutting a hole in the hood and attaching the top-plate assembly to the underside of it. But after doing some measuring, I found that wouldn't work, as the scoop would sit too high out of the hole. After doing some more careful measuring, I found that if I were to just cut the hole in the outer sheetmetal but leave the bottom side bracing, the upper scoop assembly would sit on top of the underhood bracing and protrude out the hole and look correct. This had the added bonus of enabling me to attach it solid in an almost invisible manner.


This shot shows how much more progress I got done on sandblasting the cab on New Year's Day.


Here's a comparison of the center portions of the '67 vs. the '68-up F-600 dash panels. While the panels themselves are identical, note the differences in the gauge lettering.


Here's the top portion of the Shaker scoop assembly, after removing it from the baseplate.


To mount the Shaker scoop, I first cut through the top layer of the hood's sheetmetal. The top section of the scoop will rest down on the hood's bracing.


A view from the underside of the hood, showing the bracing I have to trim to mount the scoop. In the photo the lower portion of the scoop has been removed and is being used as a template for the hole. I labeled the mounting points I'll be used.


Here's what the hole looks like from the top, after trimming the underhood bracing. Note the lip left along the back of the hood to mount the rear of the scoop, and the tab for mounting the front of the scoop.


Here's the semi-finished view from the bottom-side of the hood, looking towards the back. I'll have to fabricate some spacers to have the scoop sit right, and in this shot I was cutting various lengths of copper tubing to simulate the spacer, until I found just the right height.

 
SOME AFTERSHOTS

The above shots show how the scoop will sit in the hood. I still need to dress up the edges of the hole and fabricate the spacers to hold the scoop at this level....but you get a good idea of what the finished product will look like.

The scoop itself is just a little dusty from sitting on a shelf for 15 years, but it's in great shape. And just so you Ford purists understand that I'm not ruining a good factory shaker, the base assembly had been modified in a past life to fit a GM Quadrajet carburetor plus had several other things wrong with it, so even though the assembly was complete, it was basically a parts unit....and it IS going onto a Ford!

 

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