Yeah there's an extra notch too. I need to step up my fakery.
Yeah there's an extra notch too. I need to step up my fakery.
I have used too many films too many years to remember notch codes...
Gotta love that FORD truck !
Certainly takes me back to the time I "did" in Oregon. I say let's keep the thread a Frank-only crib image and discussion.
My last (and only) Ford truck was a 1962 unibody (cab and bed were all one piece). People always asked to borrow it -- but usually only once. It would flood if you looked at the gas pedal too hard while starting it, and the linkage to the transmission had a tendency to disconnect at odd times (and it was only ten years old at the time!)Originally Posted by Steve M Hostetter
yeah but you could work on those old fords with very little knowledge of mechanics..
as you could Chevy and Mopar
the new fords are built different from the ground up and a lot more complicated to work on but I have a 2004 f-150 w/ 120,000 miles and no problems.. knock on wood
That was a 1979 F-100 that went 13 years and 279,000 miles before I gave it to my Uncle to use around the farm. At the end it was sponge painted green and purple with house paint.
And that accurately describes my working on that truck -- the most adventurous mechanical thing I did was put a new clutch in (breaking a bolt off in the fly wheel in the process, of course). Sold it for what I paid for it ($350) when I went off to college in 1972 -- figured it could not make the 800 mile trip to college, and even then, I could not afford to feed it gas.
One of our family vehicles was a 1960 Dodge pick-up -- now that was a solid beast! I learn to drive in that and in a '69 VW 7-passenger microbus. Got in trouble a few times going back and forth from three-on-the-column (truck) to four-on-the-floor (VW). Where first is on the latter, reverse is on the former!
My next vehicle was a '71 Super Beetle, always driven with a small set of tools and the Idiot Guide under the driver's seat! Gave it to my sister in 1987 with 210,000 miles on it (I got it in 1975 with 55,000 miles on it). Same engine the whole time.
Frank -- if you had all the windows covered with plastic, no wonder the house became mold city! The moisture created from living in a house (cooking, showers, cleaning) is bad enough with lots of ventilation!
Yeah things were simpler back then. My 05 GMC pickup has a service manual that is 5 volumes. Think 5 books, each the size of a typical yellow pages for a large city. And god help you if you don't have a scanner to read the DTC's.
BTW Frank like the photograph of your old crib and the truck especially.
Roger
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