Engine Cover

[8thTon]

I didn't see an engine in any of the pictures!

 

[Ranger850]

Car&Driver Magazine says "Only the Top-of-the-line Lariat version comes with a noise-quelling engine cover" . They have an Orange XLT without an engine cover for test drives and pics.

 

[johntuna1995]

engine cover? whats that

 

[Curious Hound]

It's extra weight. Discard it and increase your top speed, fuel efficiency and payload capacity. My 88 F150 had a plastic cover over the throttle linkage. I eventually threw that away. Never noticed a change in sound.

 

[Ranger850]

that was a dust cover, not a "sound queller"

 

[adsm08]

that was a dust cover, not a "sound queller"

Actually, it was supposed to keep things from getting stuck in the throttle linkage. Every car with a cable-operated throttle and EFI has had something of the sort when new.

On carbs the air cleaner usually kept stuff out of the parts that could get jammed up. And then there were the cars that didn't get driven all winter and had the whole intake packed with string and grass come summer.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

I miss the big, stamped, upper intake pleniums myself.

....oh and round metal air cleaners

 

[adsm08]

I miss the big, stamped, upper intake pleniums myself.

....oh and round metal air cleaners

Buy a Chevy.

 

[Ranger850]

Things like... Dust and debris, thanks for re-wording my reply.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

Buy a Chevy.

Eh. After seeing the frame rot on my dads 400 dollar 94 S10 ill pass.

The body isnt bad, but the frame is about one good pothole from snapping.

Oppisite of what ive seen on rangers.

 

[adsm08]

Eh. After seeing the frame rot on my dads 400 dollar 94 S10 ill pass.

The body isnt bad, but the frame is about one good pothole from snapping.

Oppisite of what ive seen on rangers.

One local landscape company has had more than one of their 3/4 ton Chevies snap in half. At least one of them someone attempted to repair with duct tape.

 

[rusty ol ranger]

One local landscape company has had more than one of their 3/4 ton Chevies snap in half. At least one of them someone attempted to repair with duct tape.

Prolly stouter then it was to begin with