Saw nice truck

[James Morse]

1994, I believe, F150XLT, 4wd, dual tanks, 9' (sic) bed. Nice shape. I think you don't see a lot like that.

 

[Snoranger]

8’ bed...
The last time Ford offered a factory 9’ bed was a flareside on the ‘72 F350.

 

[superj]

i looked for a nice f250 standard cab with the long bed and 300-6 a few years back, thinking they would be fairly easy to find since its a plain jane model truck. i found a few but people wanted lots of money for them. the one i found for a super nice price was an hour away and the dude wouldn't hold it for me to drive up and get it.

i loved my extended cab 85 f150. super nice to have all the comforts of an xlt lariat and the dual tanks for highway trips

 

[James Morse]

Yeah he told me 9' so he's wrong then.
Cab plus / extended cab is super nice to have I love it.
300-6 I never heard of it gets good rep. What's HP/Torque it must be a lot.
Yeah dual tanks must rock.

 

[Roert42]

300-6 I never heard of it gets good rep. What's HP/Torque it must be a lot.

They only made about 140hp but 250 lb/ft on the later fuel injected models. The carb ones made a lot less hp, but similar lb/ft.

They get a good reputation because they are extremely reliable. They were used in a lot of industrial applications as well and automotive.

 

[James Morse]

Wow I thought it would be more HP but you know what, I'd take the reliability any day. It's great when they last basically forever and not horribly complicated.

 

[Blmpkn]

Wow I thought it would be more HP but you know what, I'd take the reliability any day. It's great when they last basically forever and not horribly complicated.

The motor wasn't engineered to spin to the moon and make HP, it was designed to make gobs of torque in a usable rpm range.

The Barra is their HP offering for an i6.. too bad we didn't get anything with them (Aussie motor)

The Toyota 2jz is the king of inline sixxers.

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Straight sixes are among the most durable and reliable engines, no matter who makes them.

Chevrolet had straight sixes first as the standard engine, then as the base engine after V-8s became available. Chevrolet trucks offered it until the late 1980s. Chrysler's Slant Six was bulletproof.

Ford kept offering its straight-six as an industrial engine long after it was discontinued in the F-series.

If I'm looking for an older pickup and am offered a choice between an F-150 with the 300 six and an otherwise identical one with the 302 V-8, for what I'm likely to do with the truck, I'd favor the one with the six.

 

[09fx4guy]

As a kid I would have turned my nose up at a 300 I6, then I got older and smarter.

 

[sgtsandman]

I think the only reason vehicle manufacturers got away from the straight 6 was block size. They can shoehorn a V6 into more vehicles than they can an I6.

 

[superj]

i heard that jeep couldn't meet new emission requirements with their good ol 4.0 so they went to the v6. having had many 4.0s and only one or two v6s, the v6 was more like i was driving a car. it was fine for what we used the jeep for but i don't know about off-road.

and i had one f150 with the 300-6 in it. it got horrible gas mileage. it was a 95 or 96 eddie baur and was an automatic. great for truck use but bad for a daily driver in texas where you spend more time on the highway than anything else when you are going anywhere. 120 miles from san antonio to home, or 150 from brownsville to home and it took a bunch of gas.

 

[Roert42]

My 300 got about the 18 mpg with a manual transmission. This is doing 45/50mph

couldn’t hold 70mph very well after I took out the 3.08s.

 

[Blmpkn]

Stellantis Goes Six in a Row with a Twin-Turbo Inline-Six Engine

The 3.0-liter inline-6, called Hurricane, is set to debut this year and will offer two flavors of varying power for Jeep, Dodge, Ram, and other brands.

www.caranddriver.com

New 3 liter twin turbo i6 from stellantis this year..

Wimpy version over 400hp/450tq

Sweet version 500hp/475tq

Both are revvers, both have air/water intercooling... both will be plagued by typical stellantis electrical gremlins.

 

[G8orFord]

The motor wasn't engineered to spin to the moon and make HP, it was designed to make gobs of torque in a usable rpm range.

The Barra is their HP offering for an i6.. too bad we didn't get anything with them (Aussie motor)

The Toyota 2jz is the king of inline sixxers.

BMW might take exception to that statement.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I bought a 95 F-150 reg cab, XL, 4x4, manual, 300-6, long bed, dual tanks awhile back. Never got great mileage, think it was about 14/15 mpg when I got it, now it gets 12/13. I changed the 3.08 to 3.55, 31” tires, one ton suspension, and did a ZF-5 swap. Not at all a fast truck, but it will drag anything at roughly the same speed and fuel economy as it moves a round empty. Totally sold on these trucks and engines. I haven’t found anything to hook it to that it couldn’t move. That includes pulling a couple 30-40’ tall trees out by the roots.

Looked it up awhile back and the 300 has roughly a 4” bore for each piston which travels roughly 4” and is designed so that one piston is always on the power stroke which is where the incredible torque comes from, unlike a V motor that may have a dead spot to each cycle and relies on rotational force and physics to make up for things. It’s a huge tank of a motor and about as indestructible. Also sounds suspiciously like an old farm tractor, lol