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Hey guys, I am the very proud and sometimes frustrated owner of a 1983 F150, I'm the second owner of this truck. I bought it from a friends father 5 years ago. It has the infamous 300 CID, with 263,000 original km. I love this thing!!
However one emission test from a FORD dealer changed its life. It used to purr, until the dealership got it. Ever since that e test, it has a "chug" to it. The dealership changed my plugs wires and cap (they didn't need it) they put the air filter for a RANGER on it, and at the time they "fixed" it, it had a foot long flame shoot out of the tailpipe, All have since been corrected except for the "chug". Is that just the way it sounds being 20 years old? I give it a very regular tune up, plugs, wires, filters (general stuff), it has new cam and lifters (original Ford parts), good carb, clean engine.
However one emission test from a FORD dealer changed its life. It used to purr, until the dealership got it. Ever since that e test, it has a "chug" to it. The dealership changed my plugs wires and cap (they didn't need it) they put the air filter for a RANGER on it, and at the time they "fixed" it, it had a foot long flame shoot out of the tailpipe, All have since been corrected except for the "chug". Is that just the way it sounds being 20 years old? I give it a very regular tune up, plugs, wires, filters (general stuff), it has new cam and lifters (original Ford parts), good carb, clean engine.
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Foot long flame??? I'd have a look at the cat - it might have gone Three Mile Island on you... '83's have the feedback carb - which is notoriously fickle. If you have no complaints except the sound - just keep sport truck
My 300 sounds a bit like a freight train engine - but I don't mind - it pulls like one too...
My 300 sounds a bit like a freight train engine - but I don't mind - it pulls like one too...
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Yeah it was a pretty impressive fire show, but I got that straightened out right away, as for a cat, I don't have one (thank God). A pipe from the manifold to the muffler, then the tailpipe. I'm learning to live with it. So a truckin I will go!
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well mine 300 sounds like one of those stupid import cars on steroids, its like 4 times as load as one, but mine does the chug everonce in awhile , but hey who cares its a tank..
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opporll, it chugs all the time, underload or not, except at highway speeds. The best way to describe it, is a Ford 8n, y'know the tractor. It sounds like a tractor. I don't have a cracked manifold, or any other noticeable problems. But, I am going to live with it, because all things aside, it still runs smooth, shifts smooth, and looks good.