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Ford Truck Enthusiasts is requesting articles.
If you've done a modification, installed an exhaust, intake, pulley, stereo upgrade, nerf bars, whatever, simple or complex, let us know.
We'll send you a Ford Truck Enthusiasts t-shirt (two t-shirts if you include photos) and a decal of your choice from our online store (excluding 4x4 decals) when we publish your article on the site.
Submissions must be factually correct, contain no inappropriate language, address any safety issues with the modification(s), and may not contain images you do not have permission to use. You retain the copyright to the article, however, you grant Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Inc. a royalty-free license to reproduce, archive, publish, modify, distribute and display the article. We retain the right to edit the article for content, correctness and grammar.
If you have an article in mind please email me a brief description of the article and we'll let you know if we can use it. We'll give you additional goodies for exceptional articles.
If you've done a modification, installed an exhaust, intake, pulley, stereo upgrade, nerf bars, whatever, simple or complex, let us know.
We'll send you a Ford Truck Enthusiasts t-shirt (two t-shirts if you include photos) and a decal of your choice from our online store (excluding 4x4 decals) when we publish your article on the site.
Submissions must be factually correct, contain no inappropriate language, address any safety issues with the modification(s), and may not contain images you do not have permission to use. You retain the copyright to the article, however, you grant Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Inc. a royalty-free license to reproduce, archive, publish, modify, distribute and display the article. We retain the right to edit the article for content, correctness and grammar.
If you have an article in mind please email me a brief description of the article and we'll let you know if we can use it. We'll give you additional goodies for exceptional articles.
Post Fiend
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From: Metro Detroit (Redford)
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>that sounds like a sweet deal ken.
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>now what to do it on
Here are a couple of tough topics that would require intensive research and would earn you the t-shirt at least 10 times over.
How about the 300 I6. You could go into it's history, uses (I hear it has been used in combine harvesters, wood chippers, generators, dragsters, etc.). Some of this was the heavy duty version with forged steel crank shaft. I have even heard talk that Ford hired engineers from White Motors to design it.
Another article topic is to go over the history of straight six engines by Ford. I think the first was 1906 with bolt on cylinders (a short lived model), then not again until about '41 with the flat head.
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>now what to do it on
Here are a couple of tough topics that would require intensive research and would earn you the t-shirt at least 10 times over.
How about the 300 I6. You could go into it's history, uses (I hear it has been used in combine harvesters, wood chippers, generators, dragsters, etc.). Some of this was the heavy duty version with forged steel crank shaft. I have even heard talk that Ford hired engineers from White Motors to design it.
Another article topic is to go over the history of straight six engines by Ford. I think the first was 1906 with bolt on cylinders (a short lived model), then not again until about '41 with the flat head.
Post Fiend
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Yeah! I only wish I had time to write it up. I am in such bad shape timewise that a rear anti-swaybar is hanging half-installed off the back axle of my motorhome and one shock in and one still on the bench. I just am crazy about straight sixes though. Had quite a nice series of posts on the older trucks forum about the flat head. Many folks posted photos of their engines.
INLINE SIX POWER!
Love to hear that inline grunt!
300 Cubic Inches of Low RPM Truck Torque! And twin-I-beams too!
INLINE SIX POWER!
Love to hear that inline grunt!300 Cubic Inches of Low RPM Truck Torque! And twin-I-beams too!
Fleet Owner
Joined: Aug 2001
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
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I can think of half a dozen, just off the top of my furry little haid... *Grinnezz*
And what pic's are not already archived on my user page directories I can shoot right outside my back door.
Of interest to me right now is adapting new transmission lines for auto-trannies in a full sized truck with a bed and cab lift in a way that makes them run clear of everything, provide enough 'give' to handle vibration, and leave them modifyable for tranny swaps later on.
Included will be ideas for finding adapters to run slightly larger tubing that has flare nuts to avoid them pulling out of their fittings, and the reason why I decided those fittings were ideal in the first place.
-And I'll throw in a pictorial on how to form a "Double Flare" with a tool available at most parts stores!
Sound like a winner?
And what pic's are not already archived on my user page directories I can shoot right outside my back door.
Of interest to me right now is adapting new transmission lines for auto-trannies in a full sized truck with a bed and cab lift in a way that makes them run clear of everything, provide enough 'give' to handle vibration, and leave them modifyable for tranny swaps later on.
Included will be ideas for finding adapters to run slightly larger tubing that has flare nuts to avoid them pulling out of their fittings, and the reason why I decided those fittings were ideal in the first place.
-And I'll throw in a pictorial on how to form a "Double Flare" with a tool available at most parts stores!
Sound like a winner?
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Joined: Jan 2002
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From: Gloucester USA
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This is great. I'll just take pictures every step of the way when I do my bodywork and paint prep here shortly. I've got to do it, might as well try and help out somebody else and get some free T-shirts doing it.
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From: Lee's Summit MO
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Hey Ken,
I was going to do a HP/Torque spec sheet for 80-96 Ford trucks throughout all the engines, but forgot to get it done. I still have it.
The problem is that I've just got rumored hp on one motor. Do you need sources?
Evan
'93 F-150 loaded and modified!
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Someone asked me to clarify:
You retain the copyright to the article, however, you grant Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Inc. a royalty-free license to reproduce, archive, publish, modify, distribute and display the article.
Basically, it means you own it and we don't, we're allowed to put it on the web site and in the Club FTE newsletter. You could publish it elsewhere, sell it, whatever (so long as you're using your original, not anything we edited).
So far this has worked well. We've even had one person who's written some articles get noticed because of it and they are now a writer for a quarterly truck magazine!
You retain the copyright to the article, however, you grant Ford Truck Enthusiasts, Inc. a royalty-free license to reproduce, archive, publish, modify, distribute and display the article.
Basically, it means you own it and we don't, we're allowed to put it on the web site and in the Club FTE newsletter. You could publish it elsewhere, sell it, whatever (so long as you're using your original, not anything we edited).
So far this has worked well. We've even had one person who's written some articles get noticed because of it and they are now a writer for a quarterly truck magazine!
Fleet Owner
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
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There it is!
Ken - you're not only an inspiration, but one of those that wants others to succeed so much that you pull them along with you....
God bless Ya, man!!!
Ken - you're not only an inspiration, but one of those that wants others to succeed so much that you pull them along with you....
God bless Ya, man!!!
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Joined: Nov 2001
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From: Warner Robins, GA
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Ken,
What an awesome idea. Thanks for the opportunity to excel. And funny you should post this now, as I just got back from my local parts store where I ordered my MSD6A ignition amplifier. I realize in your original post you said "no matter how simple or complex" but is an MSD6A install in fact "too simple" a task to try and capture? I've already done my front end leveling coil springs (that would have been a good one to capture but I'd only have after-the-fact pictures now). I realize this positively stellar web site is visited by folks ranging from expert mechanics to folks who just drive Ford vehicles and of course everything in between. I'd like to think the folks on the lower end of the experience scale could benefit from the experience of wrench somewhere in the middle like me. I've learned bucket loads from this site and would like to give a little something back. Your T-shirt and decal deal make it all the better. So if an MSD install isn't too much of a no-brainer, I'll start the before pictures now.
How would you prefer the write-up? Numbered step-by-step, or in paragraph form like the auto magazines, or something else? I'm flexible. Thanks again.
REX
What an awesome idea. Thanks for the opportunity to excel. And funny you should post this now, as I just got back from my local parts store where I ordered my MSD6A ignition amplifier. I realize in your original post you said "no matter how simple or complex" but is an MSD6A install in fact "too simple" a task to try and capture? I've already done my front end leveling coil springs (that would have been a good one to capture but I'd only have after-the-fact pictures now). I realize this positively stellar web site is visited by folks ranging from expert mechanics to folks who just drive Ford vehicles and of course everything in between. I'd like to think the folks on the lower end of the experience scale could benefit from the experience of wrench somewhere in the middle like me. I've learned bucket loads from this site and would like to give a little something back. Your T-shirt and decal deal make it all the better. So if an MSD install isn't too much of a no-brainer, I'll start the before pictures now.
How would you prefer the write-up? Numbered step-by-step, or in paragraph form like the auto magazines, or something else? I'm flexible. Thanks again.
REX
