The proper abbreviation for a year is to put the apostrophe BEFORE the number, not after.

In other words:

'95 is the same as 1995 (at least for a few more decades)

95' means 95 FEET. Your trucks are not that long.

This concludes this PSA. (Sorry, it's been grating my eyes for a while...)

Jason

 

I don't know my 97' is a supercab with an 8 foot bed...

 

does it matter lol? i mean we all know what they mean

 

I posted OSB for our trucks just a few days ago.

OSB is usually sold 4ʻ x 8ʻ.

 

I'm frequently amused how insolent some vehicle parts are. As in "a 300 is defiantly a better engine than a PowerStroke." I mean, I could argue if someone thought it was "definitely" better. But when they say that not only is it better, but it is also defying us all... well then I don't know how to respond!

Of coarse I never make airs like that

 

you goin to be a busy feller if you goin to correct all the typos on a public forum!!

 

....What is a 22 axle , and what is a - 2003....??

 

Speaking of an E250 with a 4.2 V6.. how long have you had this trucks and how do you like it? I'm looking at one of these for a work truck and was wondering how the V6 does in it.

 

Lol... well man if you're gonna pick on typos, then allow us to pick on the mistakes in your signature:

4sp electronic auto should be abbreviated 4 sp. (notice the period)...

and

Ford F-Series trucks and E-Series vans have a dash between the F/E and the number, as in F-150...

and

Ford never made an "xcab" nor an "extended cab", those trucks have a SuperCab (and it's capitalized that way too according to the Ford website).


Really though, let's just be thankful that most of us on here at least try to use punctuation in order to make our posts easily understood. I mean... ever see somebody that posts something like:

GUYS I RLY NEED UR HELP I PARKED MY TRUCK LAST NIGHT AND IT WA S RUNNING FINE BUT WHEN I SHUT IT OFF IT KINDA MADE THIS SOUND SO I TRIED TO START IT AND IT WONT TURN OVER ANYMROE WHAT CAN MY PROBLEM BE I REALLY NEED MY TRUCK FOR WORK TOMOROW SO ANY REPLY IS APPRECIATED I ALREADY REPLACED MY TROTTLE POSITION SENSOR AND EGR VALVE AND CHANGED PLUGS WIRES CAP ROTOR STILL WONT START EVEN WITH STARTING FLUID DO YOU THINK I NEED A FUEL PUMP????

See, it really could be worse!

 

My abbreviations don't really cross over into others. What if someone posted that they had an F350 with a 10' flatbed? Was the flatbed made in 2010, or is it 10 feet long? There are both.

As for whether or not there is a dash between the E or F and the number, check the badges on your vehicles. Mine doesn't have a dash on the E250 badge.

Conanski-

I was pretty leery of the 4.2L V6 before I bought this van in May, 2011. I had driven a friend's '98 E150 with that engine, and it was a total dog. I thought I was going to die trying to get on the interstate with it because it had no stones. Clearly Ford upgraded the engine, and with 200 or so HP now, it's really not too bad. What really surprised me is that its computer doesn't downshift the tranny at the slightest throttle input, as I would have expected when you have a small engine in a large vehicle that needs to see some RPMs to make power. Instead, it will lumber through a light or medium acceleration because it seems to have a decent torque curve through the lower RPM ranges. And this is in a van that has almost 160k miles on the clock. Don't expect great mileage, though--it still takes a certain amount of energy to move these big ol' bricks down the road. I get 11-14 MPG in mostly city driving. (I get 11 MPG in the winter driving pretty much only in the city. If I have a summer job that's a little ways out of town, I will see 14 MPG.)

Jason

P.S. I wasn't singling out any one person's errors--it was just a general trend I had noticed getting worse over the last few years.

 

Axle code 22 on the door sticker--I put it on there because honestly, I haven't found a reference to it on the site, so it's a reminder to me if someone ever reveals what that axle code means in terms of weight rating and gear ratio.

If you look again, there are two vehicles listed. The dash in front of the year of each is like a bullet point to separate items in a list. Pretty standard in things like corporate Power Point presentations.

Jason

 

I couldn't find this for 03, but I did find it in a 2011 ford towing guide for the E Series:

Open Carrier
3.73: 24/34/A2/A4
4.10: 22/32/52/56/82
4.56: 83

Limited Slip
3.73: B4/C4/D2/D4
4.10: B2/C2/E2/E6/F2
4.56: F3

Also, sorry about all the flack you're getting for this post. I personally appreciate the effort to keep people informed. People who don't know any better keep seeing it done incorrectly and end up adopting the wrong method.

Sure we all make errors, but the big divide comes between those who are willing to improve and those who choose to keep making the same mistakes rather than admit they made them in the first place.

 

Thanks for the feedback on that, it appears your truck has 4.10 gears so that should produce pretty decent results, I drove a full size Chev van with the 4.3 in it when I worked as a Cable TV tech and it got around just fine so I know it's possible. I'm sure Ford in their infinite wisdom probably put 3.08 gears in that E150 your friend had, that would completely kill any performance for sure.

 

Its called the smart phone..... that is causing people to become dumber.

What gets me is "texting".

Back in the 80's and early 90's when digital pagers came out, we were stuck with only numbers and made messages with them. When cell phones replaced pagers, that made "texting" in one way obsolete as you can talk to a person. Now we regressed back to the archaic "texting" and even with letters and numbers, people still make cryptic messages.

I can call up someone and tell them something in 30 seconds or less, but takes me over 2 to 3 minutes to text it in!

By the way, I have now seen it today!! Some guy was texting while driving his motorcycle, no hands at all on the ape hangers.... wished I had a smart phone to video that!

 

dixie ... i thought you were going to quote some REALLY bad spelling , grammar and punctuation ... that guy was just below average for the internet these days.