[AT] Ford F250 Diesel makes steam. UH - OH !!!

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Tue Nov 11 05:00:46 PST 2008


Steve on top of that most of the fancy "conversion" vans use hi performance 
engines.  I guess it's necessary to haul all of that extra weight around. 
And most of them never get run hard at all.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 9:50 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Ford F250 Diesel makes steam. UH - OH !!!


> Ralph Goff wrote:
>> My thoughts exactly. The more I hear about new vehicles and their 
>> problems
>> the more I think I will keep my old 81 GMC pickup as long as possible. I 
>> can
>> pretty well fix anything on it myself in my own shop on the farm. I've
>> rebuilt the brakes myself (and they work), recently installed a new 
>> starter
>> and am looking at replacing the transmission this winter. For all the
>> driving I do a TH350 trans. will be sufficient . It would be nice tohave 
>> the
>> newer overdrive units but they are way more expensive and not something I
>> would ever consider tackling myself.
>>
>> Ralph in Sask.
>
> If you were just a bit closer I'd let you have a great running 95 350
> mated to a 700R4. I have one in my van. I would suggest that a van is a
> great source for an engine for a swap. They use a remote mounted
> computer with an easy to grab wiring harness. Getting them out isn't
> much fun if you do it the hard way but a front loader and a torch gets
> them out the bottom real fast....
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
> Near Cooperstown, New York
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