XLT Package
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I don't believe the XL had carpet, so the XLT got you carpet. The seats had the best cloth, versus plain vinyl and plain cloth. The tailgate had the fanciest chrome F-O-R-D lettering. What we've mentioned is pretty much it. It was basically an inside/outside trim level. Equipment and features still had to be added. The XLT still came with the dog dish hubcaps, full wheel covers were optional. My neighbor and I both had 83 F150 XLTs, my SuperCab had thicker foam seat cushions than his Standard cab, yet both XLTs.
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The XLT package also had the plastic and metal trim pieces that fully enclosed the cab interior, but not sure if the XL package did include this either. (Example, the base trim had no headliner, but it did have interior window trim around the windshield only and small rectangular shaped seatbelt covers where the upper portion of the seatbelts attached to the cab and NO carpet on the rear of the cab wall below the window. I took out (3) complete XLT interiors (Reg Cab), because it seems to be hard to find some of these pieces. There seem to be alot of options that were not automatically added w/ the XLT package. (For example, my 85 F-350 XLT Lariet did not come factory with (cab lights, power windows, powed door locks, cargo light, interior courtesy lighting, locking glove box, AM/FM cassette, hood light, didgital clock). I have added most of them myself and will be installing the factory power windows and locks in the spring (I have the whole set up from a donor truck and the carglo light (also have the full set up)
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oh, I forgot, the XLT package also had the fancier cloth panels in the doors from 85-86. I think from 80-84, the cloth panels were not used, but instead a rectangular woodgrain insert that covered the speaker grills and window crank or power window switch
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Thanks everyone. Mine must have been a special order. It has these options.
Supercab, The nicer tailgate with the Stainless Steel cover.
Interior
Headliner,Bench seats,Jump seats,rubber flooor mat instead of carpet.
Doors has the carpet along the bottom with pouches ( have been removed due to damage)
Dash has tach and gauges,cruise control,ac,radio (but don't know which it had been removed) locking glovebox,dual tanks.
For some reason my truck doesn't fit in with most I have seen.
Coneynew if you don't mind I may need to call on you for nice interior parts so I can upgrade to options I don't have.
Supercab, The nicer tailgate with the Stainless Steel cover.
Interior
Headliner,Bench seats,Jump seats,rubber flooor mat instead of carpet.
Doors has the carpet along the bottom with pouches ( have been removed due to damage)
Dash has tach and gauges,cruise control,ac,radio (but don't know which it had been removed) locking glovebox,dual tanks.
For some reason my truck doesn't fit in with most I have seen.
Coneynew if you don't mind I may need to call on you for nice interior parts so I can upgrade to options I don't have.
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Anytime - have alot of extra stuff laying aroung in the basement - looks worse than garage. There are (2) super cabs 83-85 near me w/ maroon interiors w/ most of the full interior trim pieces left in good to excellent condition. I have a lot of interior trim peices for the Reg cabs, but of course you can use things like the door panels, map pockets, dash pads in either.
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Originally Posted by Coneynew
Anytime - have alot of extra stuff laying aroung in the basement - looks worse than garage. There are (2) super cabs 83-85 near me w/ maroon interiors w/ most of the full interior trim pieces left in good to excellent condition. I have a lot of interior trim peices for the Reg cabs, but of course you can use things like the door panels, map pockets, dash pads in either.
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Here are some pages from the 1981 Pickups brochure.
There were some changes, but not all that many, so you should be able to get a basic idea from these pages.
Just some things to remember,
Ranger Lariat, became: XLT Lariat
Ranger XLT, became: XLT
Ranger, became: XL
and the CUSTOM (Ford's have it your way, baseline, where you could order it with almost any option) was dropped for the 1982 year, in favor of a no-name baseline, that was very option restrictive, unless you bought a package and upgraded to, XL, XLT, or XLT Lariat etc..
RANGER XLT, and RANGER Lariat:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar...p/bilder/4.jpg
RANGER, and CUSTOM:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar...p/bilder/5.jpg
OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar.../bilder/10.jpg
.
Hope this helps, and at least gives you an idea what is possible.
There were some changes, but not all that many, so you should be able to get a basic idea from these pages.
Just some things to remember,
Ranger Lariat, became: XLT Lariat
Ranger XLT, became: XLT
Ranger, became: XL
and the CUSTOM (Ford's have it your way, baseline, where you could order it with almost any option) was dropped for the 1982 year, in favor of a no-name baseline, that was very option restrictive, unless you bought a package and upgraded to, XL, XLT, or XLT Lariat etc..
RANGER XLT, and RANGER Lariat:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar...p/bilder/4.jpg
RANGER, and CUSTOM:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar...p/bilder/5.jpg
OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT:
http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/amcar.../bilder/10.jpg
.
Hope this helps, and at least gives you an idea what is possible.
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I have been wondering, and maybe that OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT brochure tells me what I want to know because it didn't list it, but:
Did any of the 86 standard cabs come with a 4 speaker sound system? I have what appears to be a base model, and I have no location for rear (pillar mounted) speakers, but I'm wondering if a trim piece existed on any models that allowed for mounting a speaker?
If not, I will rig something myself, but if a trim piece exists, I would rather try to find it.
Thanks.
Ogre
Did any of the 86 standard cabs come with a 4 speaker sound system? I have what appears to be a base model, and I have no location for rear (pillar mounted) speakers, but I'm wondering if a trim piece existed on any models that allowed for mounting a speaker?
If not, I will rig something myself, but if a trim piece exists, I would rather try to find it.
Thanks.
Ogre
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As far as I know, no. There is room behind the corner of the cab. I was considering modifying some 87-81 cab trim pices that do have the rear speakers to fit in the 80-86 reg cab. The seatbelt nmounting point is different between the 80-86 an 87-91's though. Base modles go the Am radio w/ single speaker under the dash. You can buy a special speaker that turns it into stereo sound. The otehr models had 2 speakers in the door. I just found an unopened NOS radio kit that has the schematic, wiring harness and jumpers from the kick panels to the door speaker via a smaller hole already in the doors, not the bigger one that has the door spearer wires and/or wiring harness for the power windows and doors. Forget I even had it. Includes the speakers. I am working on a project that so fat has been approved by the Amd. I was going to make a phot/pic doc of the 80-86 model options and such. I have all of the stero models available for 85-86 and most of the 80-84's too.
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Yes, thanks for the brochure. I finally picked up one of those underhood tool boxes from a 82 or 83 Ford F-150 w/ all of the mounting brackets. Cool. That's one option I do not see much of in the salvage yard. I have never seen the optonal slide out spare carrier in person although I am sure people have them. I know Ford offerred a factory alarm set up but I have never seen that also, but at the time, I wonder how god it worked.