I thought my truck was on fire!
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Its a little off topic, but fire related. I owned three Fords at the same time for a while, an 88 F350, a 90 F150 and a 67 Mustang. All in the SAME week, the 90 spit trans fluid up the dipstick tube, onto the exhaust and caught fire, the 88 had a wheel cylinder blow and catch my drum on fire, and the 67's headlight wiring caught fire. Pretty sure spontanious combustion was a factory option at the Ford house. Fortunatly, none of mine burnt to the ground... That void was filled by my 90 Isuzu Trooper. Burnt to a crisp IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT PARKING LOT while they got thier gear on. When I was pulling into the parking lot, I probably could have dumped a soda on the fire to put it out, but didnt have anything handy. Total loss. Never did verify what started that, but I suspect it was related to the alarm system somebody had put on it.
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From: Olympic Peninsula, Wa.
What did you think of that Turbo Diesel? I always wanted to drive one, but we never crossed paths. If it was a decent enough engine, might be a cool swap option. They are still fairly plentiful, and seem to run forever.
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I got extremely lucky on it and bought it from a divorced couple for $250.00. It had 120K on it when I got it, and when I sold it many year later it had 287K on it and was still running as well as the day I got it. I spent a total of 1.00 on repiar items in that time other than wear stuff like tyres and brakes. And I did glow plugs for the hell of it right before I sold it but it didn't NEED them yet. I did the power up thing too where I removed a bushing from the low side of the fuel pump and did an adjustment on the low side fuel pump which added about 20 more HP. The truck ran so well I took it across the US a few times to visit my two oldest kids. It got great mileage, never under 39mpg, and s high as over 100mpg when I was on a week long hunt where we never went over 20mph.
It had great tq too, was great off road. I really suggest if you can find one in decent shape, buy it. I would buy another one in a heartbeat and do the upgraded turbo on it and the wastegate power up thing I did and it would have as much as 80 more rwhp.
It had great tq too, was great off road. I really suggest if you can find one in decent shape, buy it. I would buy another one in a heartbeat and do the upgraded turbo on it and the wastegate power up thing I did and it would have as much as 80 more rwhp.