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Ford F100

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Glenn F.

04-26-2006 19:24:39




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If a 150 is a half ton, what's a 100? Thanks, Glenn




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rustyj14

04-28-2006 19:22:37




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
I bought new a 1976 Ford F-150, to tow my 19 ft. travel trailer. It had the 360 V/8 engine, the larger transmission (Can't remember what it was called), and the large full floating rear end. It had 8 bolt wheels, and heavy springs. My wife loved it for going shopping! It towed our trailer up hill and down, and moved along right smartly! I did some custom painting on it, which made the locals call it the Star-ship! Drove many miles in it, and towed the trailer on a lot of them! Rustyj

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John in B-ton

04-28-2006 07:16:00




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
I had a 1980 F-100

I called it a 1/4 ton 1/2 ton,
kinda like Daffy Duck's buck and a quarter- quarterstaff in an old Warner Bros cartoon.

the springs were so weak that with a fiberglass topper I couldn't load all of my carpentry tools without draggin' tail.



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Pooh Bear

04-27-2006 20:06:39




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
The F100 was a half ton pickup.
The F250 was a 3/4 ton pickup.
The F150 was a 1/2 ton pickup with a 3/4 ton frame under it.

Pooh Bear



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Pete in MD

04-27-2006 19:43:25




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
Back when Ford made only the F-100 they were available in several different weight (GVWR) ratings. Along came unleaded gas and the Fed's mandate that vehicles below a certain GVWR had to be built to run on unleaded gas. This cut-off point fell somewhere in the middle of the F-100's available weight ratings. F-100s below the cut-off remained as F-100s using unleaded gas and those above the cut-off became F-150s and continued using leaded gas. When the Feds later mandated unleaded fuel for all light trucks, the F-100 designator was dropped.

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hunting4junk

04-27-2006 12:21:45




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
the f100 from the 80's had a 5 bolt wheel that would fit the full size ford car but wouldn't interchange with a F150. Personally the f100 seemed more like a ranchero than a pickup even though it looked like a pickup



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lucasss

04-27-2006 11:33:55




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
i once pulled up on the scrapyard scale in my 67 f100 at 6700 pounds.. and was 1600 after unloading,,goofy i know..lucas



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CaptRon

04-27-2006 07:30:40




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
I have an 1981 F100 that I made. I cut two trucks in half and welded them back together to make a long bed. I found out that there were two different models of the F100 and now I have the light weight front welded to the heavy duty rear. The brakes are different as are the wheel bolt pattern. Other than that it looks and drives like any other F100. One thing however is that the long bed has a 2.44:1 rear axle and the front half has the overdrive 3 speed transmission which is really high and the truck cruises at 75-80mph at less than 2,000rpm and gets great fuel milage.
I"ve driven this truck back and forth to California from Florida and thousands of miles on vacations since I put it together in 1994.
Today the 4.9L six is starting to get tired and the transmission leaks and is getting noisy. It"s been sitting for almost a year and I should sell it but it has sentimental value that keeps me paying the taxes and insurance. The battery was dead the last time that I tried to start it but it jumped right off and I drove it a ways down the road. I should at least siphon the 3/4 tank of gas out and put it in my car.

CaptRon

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rileyspop

04-26-2006 21:03:36




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
The F-100 is a half ton the f-150 was a five eighths ton. If you read the warranty info from 1978 they discuss the use of each modle and weight carring capacities and what would void the warranty. 1000 lbs for f-100 and 1200 for f-150. not shure if this was true into the eighty modles or not but there is definetly a diffrence in springs and rearends. 8.8 rear and 3leaf springs for f-100, 9inch rear and 5 leaf springs for f-150. the f-100 was discontinued sometime around '87 I belive. Hope this helps.

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Wild Bill

04-26-2006 19:46:04




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
The f-100 was the half ton ford truck until the 70's, then the half ton designation was changed to f-150. Interestingly, ford produced the f-150 and the f-100 right along side each other until 1984, most think that they produced both to somehow get around the epa regulations of the time.



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Reaver

04-26-2006 19:34:40




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 Re: Ford F100 in reply to Glenn F., 04-26-2006 19:24:39  
My understanding has always been that an F100 is a half ton...the F150 was the heavy duty half ton, but I don't think they make an F100 anymore.
Reaver



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