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Recently purchased a 1993 F150 for the Mrs and trying to find out the axle ratio . it is 28 on the door jam sticker and has a build date of June 1992 .
thank you. you are absolutely right. I was trying to read a reverse image from a cellphone pic that was taken by me with my wife's phone and I could only pic out a 28. my son looked at it and zoomed and said it was an 18 .
I only have a flip phone and it will accept my toe fingers. I can find everything needed on a laptop at work when the apprentices can't find it on their phones. damn i hate miniature technology.
Back in the '90s, the Wife and I both had Grand Marquis with 5.0s. My '89 had 3.08s, and her '90 had 2.73s. Both cars had been 'up-fitted' by me with police sway bars and dual exhausts. Both also got stock 5.0 Mustnag GT shorty headers. Yeah, headers in a Grand Marquis, you got a problem with that? Anyway, we kept mine with the 3.08s and sold hers because mine was just that more 'peppy'.when we bought her the brand-new '97 F250HD XLT ext cab shortbed 7.5L as her daily driver, despite my Marquis having 160k miles on it, hers with with only 90k.
A bit of additional back-story... Before the '90 Marquis, the wife had a '77 Marquis with a 460, that I had also 'warmed over'... Cam, straight-up timing set, shift kit, dual exhaust, and got rid of the '70s 'gas crisis' 2.43 rear gears(!) with 3L25s... She LOVED her modified 'Queen Mary' land yacht! Unfortunately, that got totalled when we T-boned a guy running a stop sign -- hence the replacement with the '90 Marquis...
Can you tell that the Wife and I are both 'acceleration Junkies'???
I'm quite happy with 3.08s . relieved its not the 2.73s . It is going to be a summer driver for my wife, I told her her next vehicle would be a Shorty 1/2 ton. I'm gettign to old to work on cars. I'm a truck/coach mechanic in my last few years of working on the floor. I bought this truck not running and needing lots of work , but body is clean and original and very straight. it is missing all the xlt trim and bumpers etc. also missing the ECU. seller told me they were all stolen while he was gone for the summer (snowbird) it is a Florida truck. he brought it home with him last spring.
it checked all the boxes I wanted , and it is even the dark blue my wife likes ( her only request)
Being a F-150 with an 8.8 rear, you might want to swap those 3.08s for 3L55s. That was the 'trailer-tow package' gearing for 4.9/5.0s back then.
I also have a '89 Crown Vic with the '5.8L Police' package. That package required 2L73s, so I substituted the 3L55s. I also rebuilt the stock 351W-VV (variable Venturi) 2-barrel into a 380hp 393W, AND upgraded the AOD into a wide-ratio AOD using 4R70W internals into the AOD case to make the 3.55s 'feel like' 4.19s in First. I love sleepers!!!!
3.08s are perfect its just for transportation, i had a 1989 inline 6 new in 1989 with 3.08s but with the mazda 5spd . it worked great . I already have a trailer hauler . picked the shorty up with same truck and trailer.
XC/SBs are great! My former '97 was XC/SB 7.5L(460 gas)/E4OD with 4L10s. Ohio's road salt/rust killed it at only 120k miles - well, I should say I sold it for $3250. That's why I went all the way to Florida to get my current rust-free '95 XC/LB 7.5L/E4OD/4L10 for $5k. $1750 difference, and NO RUST! BONUS!!! I did a u-ie on a four-lane road in FL when I bought the truck and ran up on the far-side curb, whereas the XC/SB did that easily! What a difference that 1.5' of wheelbase makes in turning circle!!!, LOL!!! Anyway, I HATE rust. I'll buy a high-mile southern truck any day over a Rustbelt heap! Engines and transmissions are easy to fix, rust repairs to body/frame are not!!!
The nose of the '97 is in front of the gold '95...
Anyway, we kept mine with the 3.08s and sold hers because mine was just that more 'peppy'.when we bought her the brand-new '97 F250HD XLT ext cab shortbed 7.5L as her daily driver, despite my Marquis having 160k miles on it, hers with with only 90k.
