Re: Ford truck

Posted by Jonboy on February 18, 2005 at 06:46:52 from (64.91.164.154):

In Reply to: Re: Ford truck posted by dhermesc on February 18, 2005 at 05:55:03:

Like dhermesc says, it would be a 300ci straight six and not a V-6. Ford never used V6's in their half tons, they did away with those 6 cylinders now and are using all V8's. In my opinion and whoever has had any experience with the 300 straight 6, it was the toughest engine ford ever built, and the life expectancy for their first rebuild is around 300,000 miles, they last about twice as long as the 302. Heck of an engine, I had one in a 1989 F150 with a 4spd manual as a high school beater, I flogged that engine every day, even ran it low on oil due to a little leak the engine had and didn't kill it. As far as for power, it wasn't the most powerful truck on earth, but it wasn't bad with the 4:10 gears and I used to it haul scrap with a couple of times and had it loaded down so the bumper would be about half a foot off the ground, it went alright, I always took my sweet time when I had it loaded down like that so as not to destroy the truck.
I had to replace it when the fenders got so bad you could throw a cat through them and the bottom of the door had rusted away and actually fallen off and it wouldn't pass inspection by a long shot, so I bought a 1996 Chevy with a 4.3L V6, and that has alot more power empty, but when I pull our flatbed trailer with a 4,000lb tractor on it, it gives pretty poor performace and that straight 6 will out pull it.

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