Just picked this up about two hours ago: 1995 F-150 4X4, 300 six, automatic (:punchballs:), almost exactly 100k miles. There's a bit of surface rust on the body but no holes, and the interior is mint (and as a bonus, it's never been smoked in). It needs tires and wheels (all four wheels on the truck are different :hick:) and a blower motor resistor, but nothing else - it has only had 500km (300 miles) put on it since it passed safety inspection in April. Not bad for $2500 (everyone else selling trucks around here seems to think they're made of gold).
(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/samscars/95fordtruck1.jpg)(http://www.foxthundercats.com/images/samscars/95fordtruck2.jpg)
Now I've just got to find a small 5-speed car as a DD - this thing will kill me at the gas pumps until I do...
I like it
i thought you were looking for better gas mileage? :bs:
Try reading the entire post first:flip:
LOL! i didnt look at any text below the pics, thinking it was part of your sig. :wtf:
Yeah, what he said :flip: I need a truck for gathering firewood, hauling home materials for the renovations, going hunting and fishing deep in the woods, and just plain monkeying about on the logging roads. I've been using my father's Dakota (you can see it in the background) but he's kinda resenting paying $800/month for a truck he hasn't seen in two months, so I needed a truck first. Besides, his 2005 Dakota is far too nice to do the things I do to a truck to. Three-foot-wide-grown-in-logging-roads plus two-year-$30k-truck is just plain bad news. I needed a truck I wouldn't care if I left some paint behind. I used to have just such a truck in my old '88 Dakota 4X4 but the safety inspection gods called it home, and I'd been missing having a truck ever since I sold it for parts. This time around I was looking for a Ford or Chev because they are cheap to buy parts for.
Now I have the truck I won't be in a big hurry to buy a car, so I can be picky. As in "gotta be a 5-speed and gotta have air" picky.
hey carm that truck got A/c? if so could you take some pics my brother got a 300 and wants to put air in it i would like to see how it's run and such. if it's not too much to ask
Our 91 300 six 4x4 wasn't that bad on gas when it had a AOD. Now that it has a C6 it drinks gas like whiskey.
Nope, no A/C. The only option it's got is a tape deck and the automatic :hick: It does have wing windows, though, (as all 96-and-older F150's have) so I can hold off trying to find that four-eye Bird with wing windows for a while...
Was yours an AOD or an E4OD? I've never seen an AOD behind a 300, but I don't have much Ford truck experience. I've been reading on a Ford truck forum that people are getting anywhere between 18-22 MPG with their EFI 300's. I'd be happy with 18 - that'd be better than the old Dakota. Mine's got 3.08 gears so it shouldn't be
too bad...
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We have an 87 that has a 4 speed.. its not too bad on gas, but its worse than the other.
Isn't an E4OD basically a C6 with an overdrive gear and electronic control?
Nice deal!
I have found work truck's like this hold there value no matter what shape there in as long as they run and drive.
Seen total rust buckets (where I thought the bed was going to fall off soon) SELL for $1500.
Bottom line, it's a TRUCK it will haul a cord of wood, doesent have to look pretty. And a bonus that one don't look half bad.
That will be a *little* more reliable then the hellspuppies Volvo (knock on the Volvo, not the truck).
Good job! Now about that gas-miser, Layla's first tank was 28MPG with all the mods and light foot for break in :D (just, you know, saying :hick: )
My 83 TC (bone stock) with wing windows and a T5 got 26 city/32 hwy on 10-holes with 225/255 tires (the rears bulged a LOT). I miss that car everyday :(
I've already
got a T-Bird that'll do 28-30MPG all day long on the highway. I want mid-high 30's :D
...Not that I'd be above buying a nice four-eye TC if I could find one locally, but I'd then have the problem of not wanting to ruin it by using it as a DD anyway...
You could get a 5 speed Civic;)
1984 Ford EXP stick. 48 MPG. I miss that car...
$2500 for a 4x4 is a pretty good price. The only ones you get around here for that price are so beat and rusted they aren't worth it.
My uncle has a '93 F-150 with a 302 that he bought new and loves it to death. I think he just flipped 100k miles last year and the truck still looks showroom new.
2 words:
Geo Metro
or maybe a Firefly since your in Canada
We used to get almost 40 MPG with a 5 speed.
yes, in a bigger case. I think it was 1996 that the 300's converted to mass-air, so power mods are fairly limited, but gas mileage should be close to 20. As for switching to a C6, it'll drop to 12 mpg, the AOD was behind early 300's and in vans there were carbed versions(think linkage), and most later 80's had m5od manuals, and some 90/91's had zf5 speeds with the small bell pattern.
Your truck was a good buy!
I'm not interested in power mods - every cent I spent on modding the truck is a cent I can't spend on the 'Bird. I will simply get some wheels and tires and fix up the small bit of rust and paint it, then use it for beating about in the woods.
That E4OD has got to be the biggest non-heavy-truck transmission I've ever seen. The pan is about three feet long, and with the T-case the whole thing is about six feet long!
Had my first break down with it today - it wouldn't start when hot (starter was dragging). I installed the starter off the 351 (that my brother had bought brand new about two months before sping the van, along with the flywheel) and it works great now :hick:
As for the car: I am not particularly fussy, but I refuse to drive a J-body or Sprint/Metro/Firefly. I've worked on and hated too many J-bodies to ever own one, and although the Sprint/etc are decent little cars they're too little. I am thinking along the lines of mid 90's Civic coupe, Integra, or even a Saturn (having worked at the dealership for six years I do know my way around them).
Ahh, I'm looking at a Saturn myself, '93 sc2 My truck is my dd, $15 a day, that's $300 a month...sux
i spend $300/wk on my 99 dodge ram. im a field tech, though.
I had a 91 Canadian Integra GSR 4-door. That was a sweet little car.
I didn't know 300's could get that good of mileage. I always heard they were about 1 mpg better than the 302.