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Good options?
Well I am still tooling away on my new 1988 150. I am wondering if this truck is especially rare or desireable. It has the 300ci six, ZF five speed, 4WD, quad shocks, rear sway bar, A/C, some decent BFG Long trail T/A tire, apparantly some pretty low gears, and I don't know enough to say if anything else is good or unusual. I paid $2500 for it with 105,000 miles. Any thoughts? Did I get reamed? How much can this thing pull?
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its not really rare, but thats a pretty good price for the miles. That zf will hold up to a lot more than that 300 will put out and your suspension will take, so pretty solid drivetrain. I don't think you got reamed, but don't start trying to throw as much weight as you can on there until you find out how it handles, and how good of condition everything in the back is. I think GVWR is somewhere around 6000 or so. I towed 15,000lbs of scrap with my 87 F150.
Good truck!
Good truck!
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Is it a 5 speed? It SHOULD have a tin plate on one side or the other indicating who made it and what model it is. It's probably buried under a million years worth of grease and muck. Does it have an integral bellhousing or is it removable? The ZF will have the latter, and a mazda will have the former.
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woahhhh easy with all the high level math (integral bellhousing...gotcha, but threw me for a minute). I looked at pix of ZF tranny on line, it's a ZF.
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yeah, ZF's did come behind some 300s, but im not sure that they came stock in F150s, just the 3/4 and up. Somebody must'a put that in there later. With a PTO cover on each side, its a ZF. With that extra bit of info, that makes that a whole lot better of a truck. ZF's are a LOT tougher than the M5OD's.
BTW pfogle, my ZF has an integral bellhousing as well. Only the 4spds had a removable bellhousing to my knowledge
BTW pfogle, my ZF has an integral bellhousing as well. Only the 4spds had a removable bellhousing to my knowledge
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According to ZF's application progression chart, the ZF was offered in the F150 in 88 only. I'd say having a factory installed ZF in an F150 is pretty rare indeed.
http://www.zf.com/na/Home/M9/M12/M26...ion_Charts.pdf
http://www.zf.com/na/Home/M9/M12/M26...ion_Charts.pdf