I had a 1992 F150 with a inline six and an AOD auto trans.Bought it with 50,000 miles on it ,excellent condition.One summer my son towed a 23 Ft Searay boat to lake mead for memorial day weekend from los angeles area.I got a call that the F150 broke down and he thinks its a head gasket leaking.I drove out to bring the…

You’ve never heard front axle of a 4x4 called the “front rear” have you? Happens quite a bit.

I posted about this engine in another thread a while ago. If the 352 in my 66 F100 ever dies, I’m dropping in a 300-6.

I feel your pain. My Jeep J10 has a 2.72, but without a super short granny first gear. It’s not great.

Also, why do we say “2.75 rear end?” Like, the front diff has the same ratio. Maybe folks said it for their RWD trucks, and it stuck?

:) The 2.75 rear is a bit of downer though. At least it’s a 9-inch!

I love these articles. My dad got his hands on an old airport tug with a 300 CID in it and that thing was unstoppable if it had traction. Great motor and they pretty bomb proof. We got the thing seized because it ran out of oil and a little convincing over the course of a week or so go it spinning again and it ran…

I’ve had the 300-6 in four trucks in my time; Two F150s, a 4-spd ‘82 Bronco, and a 3-on the tree 1980 F100 Custom. I miss them all.

You slant six guys. get on the level!

YES!

I have an ‘81 F100. 300 I6 with the T18 4-speed. I have literally pulled stumps with it.

It’s been in the family since new, and has 150K hard miles on it now. Unfortunately it is due for a rebuild as compression is low with enough blow-by to soak my airfilter with oil in about 1500 miles, so my gas mileage has…

Damn right. My dad’s old 300ci single cab ‘82 F150 was a tank, I loved that truck. All that torque made it great for a dumbass responsible 16 year old to hoon drive slowly to school.

So, true story:
Back when I was working for an insurance company out of a Ford body shop, during the Cash for Clunkers days, a late-80's F150 with the I6 and four speed manual got traded in as a clunker.
The practice to render clunkers inoperable was to drain the fluids, dump sand in the engine, and then run it until it…