Scraptor

They are the greatest of the American inline sixes, they beat the slant six on displacement alone, the Chevy sixes were good, but the blocks are cramped and weak.
The jeep sixes suffer from too little stroke and, have less displacement as well.

I have never seen another engine that could survive years of me, let alone 9 years, or 18 as two of our ford sixes did. I never change oil, I like burnouts, an average car will catastrophicaly fail me in six moths, or less.
They are so understressed, by design, they have amazing potential, the valve train and head flow are what limits their high rpm power, their internals can stand as much or more rpm, than the great mistake, 5.0.
If they all vanished from the earth tomorrow, I would chose only a 460 from ford to power my truck,
otherwise, I can find nothing good to say about ford engines.

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fordtrucknut

i had a 1980 ford in highschool, 1999 it was my first truck, and every 2 weeks i bought a gallon of wally world oil, opened the oil fill and smoke would roll out, and when i put the oil in you could hear it run thru the engine and start dripping onto the empty oil pan, (no telling how long it was empty, but by payday it was empty again lol.

Scraptor

If you were in high-school in 1999, I can officially call you kid.

My high-school fall back rig was dads 300 4speed f150, complete with wooden dump bed,
I used to get free gas by draining cars in the crusher pile at the local junk yard, I broke a dozen driveshafts launching and chirp shifting that rig. Even won a few street races, it left really hard for a truck, and 80s 305 Chevy's weren't much, especially with 2 series gears.

that truck still runs, dad started swapping f350 gear in, then got stalled by heart trouble, he's 79 in two days. That truck is on my list of possible next projects, I have everything to convert it to flareside 4x4, including custom bent 8 foot stepside box tub. That was dads idea, it actually doesn't look that goofy because of the long 80 up fenders.

mudwhore

300,000+ miles over here and still running strong and replacing the slave this week!!!! Havent had my truck for a few weeks... whos idea was it to switch the slave to internal????

sylver91

This guy

http://news.pickuptrucks.com/2009/12...whirlpool.html

mudwhore

Lmao

Scraptor

One of my buddies built a conversion setup that uses an external linkage, the fork and throw out bearing are from a seventies truck, pivoting off a custom bracket, the throw out slides on a the gutted internal slave, I had pictures on my old phone, but it drowned. Next time I'm there, ill get some shots and post it. Its pure hillbilly genius.

Backroad_Beast

Parents bought my 91 F150 4.9L brand new back in the day and beat it for years without issues, then I got my hands on it when i turned 16 and drove it like a typical stupid teenager and beat the hell out of it for a few more years. When my engine finally took a dive at 317k, blew a hole in the block and dumped all the fresh oil, I was on the top of a mountain pass and still managed to limp it another 70 miles to college which was the closest town anyway. Not sure how I made it but the truck just kept going. I love my 4.9 I6.

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I like this thread

fordtrucknut

lol me too, lets see a 5.0 owner talk about how he drove umteen miles with no oil, firing off on 5 cylinders