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Oct 12, 2007 | 02:54 PM

1989BIG6

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Some general questions...

truck is a 89 f150, 4.9liter, 5 spd. 169k miles

what type of oil and oil filter do you recomend? and its 6 qts, right?
what type of transmission gear oil and how many qts?
what type of rear end gear oil do you recomend and how many qts?
what spark plugs would you recomend and what gap?
would you recomend a fuel injection cleaner/gas additive?
any brand of filers, for air and fuel, would be better then another?

would you recomend doing anything else for a mini tune up?

thanks in advance for the help..

Oct 12, 2007 | 03:01 PM

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buy a haynes manual. it will give you most of the spec answers. it's well worth $20. a lot of people will have brand preferences and will most likely start some sort of off-topic argument.

give it a few minutes and you'll start hearing sides from people

Oct 12, 2007 | 03:22 PM

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From: Sweetwater Texas

If it's not burning/leakin too much oil, go with 10-30, (especially with winter coming around the bend) if it is burning/leakin oil go with 10-40.

Everyone will tell you go with a motorcraft oil filter, I used to run Fram, but then I discovered that motorcraft filters are the same price as a Fram, so I run them now since people smarter than me say they are better.

Your tranny takes ATF (Mercon III???) I don't remeber exactly which one though (its the one all Ford auto's use).

For rear end oil, I filled mine with Lucas oil stabilizer, I don't remeber how much though (I think around 3 quarts). Good ol 80-95 will work as well.

For sparkplugs I like Bosch platinums, but Autolites are a very popular item. Get Ford 9mm racing sparkplug wires though. The gap on my 302 is set at .56 but I'm not positive if it is the same for a 300 I6.

Lucas fuel addivite worked wonders on my truck and even got my back fuel pump workin good again (I guess it was clogged because the truck would choke down if I was runnin 70).

I run Fram air and fuel filters and I haven't had a problem yet.

Oct 12, 2007 | 03:50 PM

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thanks for the feedback. i am not trying to start an argument over different products, just looking for some suggestions...

would you suggest a semi synethic or full syntheic oil?

anything else you guys would recomend doing or make sure things are running well?

thanks again