NumberDummy, you are the dean of digits, the master of manuals, the sultan of sequences...well, you get the idea. I'd appreciate your help on this one. I think the first is my warranty tag (???- it was fastened under the seat somehow). I have to use underscores to keep everything spaced right.

057_____F10YNS43747______22
M________33 4 6___________31H


The second is my driver's door tag.

W.B._____COLOR_____MODEL_____BODY_____ TRANS._____AXLE
133________H________F105______ 6 4_________G________02

___05500________________________________ 22
MAX. G.V.W. LBS._________________________D.S.O.

 

The color may differ slightly
Sources:TCPGlobal Home Page
1973 Paint Code:H
"Baja Beige"
Are you sure that's right? The truck looks like Paint Code:M (Wimbledon White)
I would decode your VIN for you 'cept I'M a stupid im-mature child and I have to learn how...

*-Anthony-*
-76-SCS-

 

F10 = F100 2WD

Y = 360 2V

N = Norfolk VA Assembly Plant

S43747 = 1973

133" Wheelbase

H = Medium Green Metallic (not Baja Beige!)

F105 = F100 2WD / 5,500 lbs. GVWR

64: 6 = Light & Medium Green Vinyl / 4 = Styleside Pickup, Bench Seat

G = C6 Cruise-O-Matic

02 = Ford 9" / 3.00-1 / non Limited Slip / 3300 lb. Rear Axle Capacity

5500 lbs. Gross Vehicle Weight Rating

22 = Charlotte NC Ford District Sales Zone Office, where the original selling dealer ordered the truck from.

 

I've told you this before. STOP POSTING THESE COLOR CHIPS. All you are doing is confusing people.

The digital format makes the chips appear too dark. And H is NOT Baja Beige!

There were three different shades of White used in the 1970's, so keep your opinion on what the color appears to be...to yourself.

In other words = BUTT OUT!

I'm tired of correcting your BS posts.

 

hey number dummy, while your hot on the decodes,

i got one for you

vin f11yrs83618

 

is there a way i can tell what gears are in my 79 f-150 2wd from one of the tags on my truck............thanks

 

F11 = F100 4WD

Y = 360 2V

R = San Jose CA Assembly Plant

S83618 = 1974.
----------------
79 f-150 guy = Post the AXLE CODE from your trucks Warranty Plate, located on the left door face below the latch.

 

just checed its, 15J
thanks

 

right on thanks for the help

 

15J: 15 = Ford 9" Rear Axle / 3.25-1 / non Limited Slip / 3750 lb. Rear Axle Capacity // J = Power Steering.

 

Hey Anthony...
My '75 Ford Shop Manual sez 79-guy's...
'74 F100 rear axle code "15" is a 3750# F150 axle. LOL :)
Get it yet? (they didn't make F150's in '74 model year;)

"it's a Ford thing! ;)"

Alvin in AZ
ps- I have a '75 F150 special ordered it late Nov '74 @ 21 years old
...ordered the Shop Manuals to go with it and had them longer. LOL :)
...that's 34 years and 3 months now, if you hurry, you might catch up? ;)
pps- Bill the ND's dad was a Ford dealer.
ppps- In the "tips and tricks" thread I posted I pulled a power steering
pump out of a "Ford car". At 8 years old Bill could have told me what it
was and all sorts of stuff about it, the year, the model, the trim package.
Me? :/
"it was a Ford, it was big, it was light yellow and it faced the east"
LOL :)
pppps- A couple things happened before you were born?

Alvin in AZ

 

Bill the ND's dad was an OLDSMOBILE, MERCEDES-BENZ, MASERATI & CITROEN dealer.

If he had been a Ford dealer, I prolly would have gone to work for GM!

ps: I beat you to the axle decode.

The 3750 lb. axle was introduced in 1973, prior to the F150's introduction in 1975.

So...to be correct, the F150 used the F100's axle!

 

thanks a bunch numberdummy.........

 

Here I was thinking I was wrong. LOL :)
So what gives... they made 3750 lb. axles in '74 model year?

If so, were some of those F100 pickups also rated at 6050 lbs GVW? :)

Alvin in AZ
ps- mines' the same as a 15 but a H4 instead so has Traction-Lok :)
second one down came off my F150's rear axle...
http://www.panix.com/~alvinj/file12/Ftags.jpg

 

The color thing is weird, but that's what led me to post this thread. I have the medium green interior, but there is no green anywhere else on this truck...well, except for the mold I am still cleaning out...I saw another post somewhere where they said that "M" was Wimbledon white, but I knew my door tag said "H," which someone else had said (before this thread) was Baja Beige.

I am positive that the door tag says H for the color...could this possibly be a carry-over from '72, because all of the body panels are off-white...I guess similar to a Wimbledon white...and everything else that is on the tag exactly matches the equipment I have. All of my VIN numbers are the same on every tag I have found (door, rear door pillar, seat buck tag).

Or could it be as simple as someone on the assembly line that day not knowing or being able to see the difference between an "M" and an "H"?

All I really know is that I'm glad it's not Baja Beige and medium green. YARGH!
Everything else is confirmed, though...thanks again NumberDummy.