I have a 86 Ford F150 with the 300 CID engine and a 4 speed trans. So far I am very happy with this truck. I have had it a month. The auto part stores are telling me that it is a industrial engine. For one, the odd ball air cleaner housing on it, they issue.

I changed plugs in it over the weekend and the truck was a service truck for Martin Transport. It has 48 thousand miles on it. A very clean body and the floors inside and underneath look like new. Anyways, I bought the spark plugs and go home and wait till morning to install, well the ones I bought are completly different that what was already in the truck. The original plugs were still in the truck from the factory. Matter of fact most of everything is still original stock parts. Getting back to the spark plugs, they were the worst carbon built up plugs I have every seen. Yet it ran excellent. I take the sets of plugs to the parts store and they cross referance the old plug I brought in and tell me that I have a industrial engine and most things are not going to be just regular ford parts. I may have to get a lot of things ordered or at the dealer. It has the bull-dog tranny and the u-joints that I put in were twice the size of the ones they offered. One other customer said they looked like the came off a F350 instead of a half ton truck.

The truck also sets very high, it has about 7 leafs per side in the rear and in the front there is a factory 2 or 3 inch spacer under the springs. I am 5'9" an the tail gate is even with the middle of my head. I have to stand on a ladder to get thing from the tool box. It is a 2 wheel drive with just the plain old 235x75x15 inch tires.

Back in the 80's I bought a 63 F-100 that was a industrial issue and it had a 240 ci engine in it that had everything on the oposite sides of a reguar 6 banger, even the intake and exhaust.

Is this another of those types of trucks, I hope it is because I really regretted getting rid of the first one. Very sorry about the short story I wrote. Thank you for any replies..

 

Check out the inline six forum, they should be able to help ou better over there.

As far as I'm aware they had three 300 I6 engine types.

Standard - the one that came in pickups.

Heavy Duty - The one that came in mid sized trucks. F-500, F-600, F-700 etc... some tractors.

My father had a hybrid HD in his 1976 from the factory. Busted motor mounts right and left, from day one. He finally had to have it chained in. That thing had torque!

Industrial - The one that came in electrical generators, pumps, hoists, some tractors. things of that nature. They were never put into vehicles that I know of.

 

Thanks for the reply 81-F150, I will check out that thread as I have a lot of questions about this truck. I am not sure if I mentioned it but it has two motor mounts broke right now. I am going to replace them and see if I cant hook a chain at the same time to help reduce the stress on them. I have a s 10 as well and that is the way I have the engine in it.

Thinking back they may have said commercial engine instead of industial. I remember my 63 had a commercial that the intake and exhaust was on the opposite side than all other trucks and was a real pain to find any parts for. It had a straight axle front end. I would love to have that truck again.