Ford trucks

SVcummins

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Class 8 that is
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They were one of the first air ride cab over trucks built. Rode good folks said, but if a bag collapsed, it leaned to that corner!!
 
My boss complains a lot about that air ride cab was a nightmare to keep working right along with the air conditioning lines.
 
I have 3 friends that are still running Ford LTL 9000 Dump trucks. They run every day, loaded to the limit.They are as tough as they come. Ford tractors and ford trucks were king in my neck of the woods for many years. Several years ago in the coalfields of WV if you weren't driving a Ford or a Mack you were probably broke down on the side of the road. 50 ton loads 16 hours a day were as common as the coal itself. It's kindly sad,coal is no longer king and neither are the Fords.
 
We had people running them here. Most traded them off for other brands. They were too heavy, the guys n gals were always hauling a lot less than anything else. I drove 1 about 1 year. They were right - on top of that it was governed at 57mph. I was so glad to see it go. Its nick name was Old Smoke and Shake.
 
Pretty sure they always advertised that their dash gauges were so very easy to replace.
(Not sure why I remember stuff like that, but I have a hard time remembering what I had for breakfast...)
 
Must have had a 238 Detroit in it. I had a friend who hauled grain with one that had a 238 with a ten speed. I don't believe it would run 57 mph empty.
 
I have had Petes ,Volvo's,Macks, Internationals. The 2 most dependable ones were the Petes and the International. Mack spent more time at the hospital than on the road. What a POS The Volvo had to have a prop for the dash to stay up in place. The International was just crude but worked good. The Pete has been the best most lasting truck I have had. And would make a 10 in my book even without the girl in the picture. Though she is cute.
For those old Double breasted yamaha's you needed a nose mitten and headlight covers if you ran into a hill. So it couldn't see of smell it.
 
there was a movie with Jan Micheal Vincent,,he had a Ford Like that?And an international pickup truck,,anybody remember the name of the movie?
 
I had a class 7 (single screw) CL9000. Good ride. Also had 2 L models in my o/o days. The Ford Coe in the movie was a W1000, not CL9000.
 

mmfan55 is correct, the truck in the movie was a W series, movie came out in 75, CL models came out in 78, but not all of them were air ride.
I owned a 83 model with air ride cab, a 3406A Cat and RTO12513 trans, best riding truck I ever rode in, keeping the AC side of the 3 HVAC systems working was near impossible, mine ended up with a Kysor roof top AC unit.
The HVAC system used vacuum controls powered by a air venturi, it worked great but would bleed the air out of the tanks after a while if you where listening to the radio with the engine not running.
The modular dash was ahead of it's time, loosen some quarter turn thump screws, lift the dash panel and unplug any gauge, I never had a gauge fail but if it did it had to come from Ford as the rest of the industry didn't pickup on the design.
The one down side to the four corner air ride system was that it rode so good if you didn't pay attention to the roads you were traveling you'd break the front suspension and beat the chassis to pieces, broke the front springs in mine twice.

Owned a LTL9000 later, very tuff truck but was heavier than competing models like Freightliner and IH. Around here Fords where very popular competing side by side with Mack in construction, farming and coal industries.

My last trucks were Peterbuilt's, smaller cab meant less room, took more room to maneuver and never could load the front axle like on the Fords, but it was easier to work on with the engine in front of the cab and I loved the simplicity of Pete's Air Trac suspension.
 
That truck ahead of it's time in
several areas. Some were good ideas,
just not truck practical. Some
designs very user friendly. The last
truck I owned was a 95 LTLA Ford.
Weighed 22,200# bobtailed full of
fuel with me in it. I got rather good
at avoiding scales. 3406E
(475hp),13spd double overdrive, 40K
rears, Hendrickson air ride, 239" wb
with 60" able body sleeper with bunk
beds and all the other bells and
whistles available in 95. Tough,
durable truck. Topped out 86mph @
1800rpm. Ford's reputation for
durability is why Freightliner and
parent company Daimler bought out
Ford. Rebranded Sterling.
 
International is a pretty crude rig alright compared to the other brands the cabs of the fords kinda were to I thought but they looked good enough to make it worth it
 
(quoted from post at 12:19:26 04/15/18) there was a movie with Jan Micheal Vincent,,he had a Ford Like that?And an international pickup truck,,anybody remember the name of the movie?

White line fever?
Elmo
 
(quoted from post at 12:19:26 04/15/18) there was a movie with Jan Micheal Vincent,,he had a Ford Like that?And an international pickup truck,,anybody remember the name of the movie?

White line fever?
Elmo
 

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