I bought an '85 new with the 300 and 3-sp w/o.d trans. I put 247,000 Miles on that truck and it didn't burn even a pint of oil between changes. The only major problem I ever had was the TFI ign. coil went out. I replaced it for 40 bucks and went another 70 K miles.

A hell of a truck - rused out real bad though - that's why I sold it.

 

Whats the most weight anybody has hauled in the bed of thier f150 6

 

3700# the stupid guy at the gravel yard doesnt know how much 1000# is he didnt stop until i started waving my hands and telling him to stop then he asked if i wanted any more. I was grossing 8300# thats only 3300# over my weight limit
good thing the gravel yard is only about 5 miles from the house

 

jrosasmc -- the truck was bought by my Dad and he still owns it, though I am the one who's restoring it. He has the original title, sent out to him from the state of Kansas in 1965. The original 240 engine (65 was the first year for them) burned oil from the get go and never got any better -- it got swaped for a remaufactured 240 from Ford in 1969. THAT engine has been doing great ever since.

The speedo stopped in about 1980 with 127k. Got a few more thereafter too. These were hard miles -- it was a real working farm truck. Never purposely abused or mistreated, but used.

Nice to have it still.

 

i loaded 2 scoops from a back hoe supposedly 2 tons today wasn't fun to drive pulled and stopped ok but bumps dips and what have ya and the front end was all over the road lol

 

I had 5000lbs worth of concrete bags in my 78. I grossed 10,200 that day-just the truck.Does that count. It handled and stopped relatively good.
Dustin

 

Hauled 3,000+ lbs of wet construction debris to the dump (25 mile trip!) then went back and did it again, only this time towing another 2,000 lbs in a trailer. Weight going in, 10,800 lbs. Coming out, 5,800 lbs.

My brother was amazed. He wouldn't try to move that much in his Z71 crewcab (350, auto, big, goofy-looking tires). Chebbies! Go figure...

 

lol it was almost like i had hydrolics every time i hit a spot in the road kept bouncin only annoyance about it

 

i have an 88 f-150 2wd with an i6 a couple mods to it ie: exhuast and air intake but other then that all stock and i managed to get a semi outta the ditch it found itself in still cant forget the look on my bosses face when he relized the beefed up chevy he runs couldnt get out what my lil 300 beast poped out like a virgins cherry on prom night

 

I drove 2000 miles from Oklahoma to Washington hauling 2500 pounds

 

Also drove 900 miles to pick up a cab for a buddy's 1960 GMCrap that he's building. At various times I've hauled the cab, his engine, and a lot of junk from one of his parts trucks. I keep telling him his truck is gonna wind up at least 1/4 Ford!

 

I inherited my grandfather's 88 F-250 with the venerable 300 I-6, it was a gutless ***** when I got it until I realized after performing that hell of a gasket change on the intake/exhaust that it was simply the second cat that was plugged basically solid. Gutted it with a pipe and hammer and it was night and day difference, then ran a side-exit slash-cut off a Cherry-Bomb Turbo (sounds like a flowmaster), so it sounds decent and has SOME back-pressure. I ended up towing my friend's 1947 Chris-Craft 22' Sedan, which weights at least 5,500lbs on a big tandem trailer that probably weighs 1,000lbs by itself. A Chebby had pulled it down into this back yard, down this 45-degree grade and he had a really hard time pulling it the first time. Well, latched on to it with the F-250, dropped her into 1st on the column (C-6 Auto) and she pulled it out up that incline like it was nothing. My buddy was absolutely apalled "That is only a 300???? damn you were right, that thing CAN tow!" he's a chebby lover, has an '80 marrow with a 357 done-up, this is the second time a Ford has impressed him, the first was a couple months earlier when my 87 Mustang GT handed his Camaro its *** Poor Chebby boys

 

i bought my 86 from a junk yard in detroit for $200. it had a bent drive shaft, and a cracked radiator, the brake lines were clogged and all the shocks were crap. also it had 128k miles on it.

i got a four core and a drive shaft from them for $45 each.

i fixed all the minor probs it had and drove it 2k miles to my home town in texas

 

Shew, where do you start. This one time at band camp...just joking. I was a V8 fan till my first I-6 in an 81 F100. I had just sold my 85 that had a 351W in it and really didn't think the F100 would do what I needed but I've had a 300 in every truck since. I bought it for $700 barely running and drove it home. It had almost 150,000 miles on it and I think the cap and rotor were original... after a $50 tune up and some lock-tite on the carb screws that kept losening themselves it ran like a top. I put a ton of miles on it... Towed home a 3/4 ton ford on a 16' double axle trailer one time up old highway 71 in Arkansas, right through the ozarks. Had the truck on the back, 2 spare motors in the back of my truck and a bunch of misc. parts too. No trailer brakes and no power brakes on the F-100. BOY WAS THAT STUPID. You should have seen us... after I crapped my drawers on the first hill I used my Bronco (my friend had drove it up so help pull the dead 250 up onto the trailer) and a chain as a brake... just chained the back of the trailer to the front of the bronco and said "STAND ON THAT BRAKE PEDAL!!" We made it home no prob after we got out of the mountains. I even pulled my dads J-10 Jeep out once after he stuck it trying to pull start our backhoe. No I didn't try to pull start the backhoe with the F100... after it dried out it took his J-10, my truck, and my neighbors F-250 linked together to get the engine unseized in that thing. Unfortunately it got hit head on a couple of years ago and now resides in a junk yard somewhere, I always knew we would have to shoot it to kill it. My dad and my sis where both in head on's in about a years time.. he was in my old 81, she was in the truck he bought with the insurance money from it.. a 93 F150 I-6... both walked away, dad with a couple of bruises, my sis with a cut on her knee. If you saw the pics I had of her truck you would understand, it was nothing short of a miracle.

 

July 4 2001. Pulled my 19ft. cuddy out of the water with my 87 F-150 (300cid, T-18, 3.55, AM Radio, and heater). The gooofball next to me is trying to pull( and creating a lot of smoke from his tires) his 25ft. Bayliner with a 91 GMC 2500 4x4.... full cap ... 350... 700R4, 3.43's. I told him to hold on, let me unhook my trailer and I'll give him a hand. So I end up hooking a 20ft tow chain frame to frame, told him to put it in neutral and release his brakes when I signal. I pu it in 1st (granny) and slid out the clutch. signalled him and just chugged him,l his GMChubby, and his 5,000# trailer/boat combo. Turns out he was District Commander of Coast Guard Auxiliary....wouldn't believe mine was a 6 UNTIL I popped the hood! 119,000 miles and cleaner than his 8 with 80,000. What a P.O.S.

The current owner just replaced the original clutch at 156,000 (one of the spring packs blew out). But that 300 is just stomping along.

Larry