Was the manual transmission only available in a F-150 with the 4.2 V6?

 

You could get the 5-speed with the 4.2L and the 4.6L....but not the 5.4L.

 

Nice. Thanks. That's good news.

 

I have a friend back home with a97 identical to mine, but it has the 5 speed in it, and it was a xlt. Its such a nice truck with having a standard in it too.

 

The trucks with the manuals have reduced towing and payload capacities, though.

-Kerry

 

Thats just a little CYA from Ford for people that dont know how to drive a manual that well. My truck is rated at 2500 lbs. max, but most of its life was spent hauling a 5000 lb boat around and no problems have surfaced because of it so far.

 

I concur. Most of my truck's life (88k miles of it) was spent being used as an F-250 - hauling around a 16' work trailer, with a full ladder rack going over the cab (so, 'loaded down' would be putting it lightly), driven up and down the hills of central Pennsylvania (no small task).

I did some research and did get hold of the previous owner. He had to replace the clutch at 50k miles (well, with that load on that terrain, it's kinda obvious that's going to happen), but the tranny shifts well today (108k miles) for a truck manual, knock on wood.

 

I heard the reason for the down grade was the clutch, not the tranny itself... but I'm not too keen on owning a fullsized truck with a Mazda tranny... now ZF, that's a whole different story. You'd figure they'd have gone with a HD clutch.

-Kerry

 

Mazda tranny? Does that mean my Ranger has the same manual tranny as an F-150?

 

03 F150 STX 4X4
Mine is a 4.6 V8 with a 5spd manual.

They did make them, just not a lot of them out there. I guess that makes ours all that more valuable (to me, anyway!)

 

Last I understood, no. This is what I understood: there are two versions of the M5OD - one for small trucks, and one for larger.

Also, somewhere along the way the larger (and very probably the smaller) had an update of some parts. Hence, the M5OD I had in the 1993 F-150 is not the exact same as the one I have in the '99.

 

Yeah, the two trannies have different designators (r1 and r2, iirc). It's just odd that Ford didn't start down rating the large truck M5OD until the '97-'03 body styles.

-Kerry

 

Ran a 2000 2wd xlt with a 4.2 and a 5 speed. Sold it and picked up a 99 4wd ext cab xlt with a 4.6 and 5 speed.

The Tranny's don't like to be shifted quickly, but if you treat them right you can add up a lot of miles on them...