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Ray · Sep 5, 2015

Went to a local estate sale and came home with a 1969 f250 ford pickup. It has 93000 miles,360 engine,4 speed. Has the usual rust on the bottom of the fenders, but the bed and tailgate have no rust. The interior is near perfect. It has a DMI shock bumper on the back. Driving around the barnyard it seems to be geared pretty high. I wonder what gear ratio they had?
There supposed to send me the title,so it may be a while before I get tags.

ss55 · Sep 5, 2015

Nice truck!

Try a ford truck owner's website for a list of option codes and their meanings. If you can find the option codes for your truck you should be able decipher the transmission code and the rear axle ratio code. Some rear axles had a metal tag with the ratio, the tag might be held on by one of the differential cover bolts.

J.Wondergem · Sep 5, 2015

By the looks of the little rust, it isn't from Michigan. Looks clean for a 69.

Hank ABAB · Sep 5, 2015

Nice looking truck!
The color matches your near-by buildings too.

howdy1960 · Sep 5, 2015

I grew up with a step-father that only drove Dodge, a grandfther and uncle (Mom's side) that only did Chevy and that's the body style of Ford trucks that I always liked. I'd be happy with a 300/6 in it.

gtractorfan · Sep 5, 2015

I'll bet the first gear isn't geared high, if it's like the '70 I had 1st is creeper.

NoNewParts · Sep 5, 2015

beauty
bed body seam intact...wow...not from salt country that's for sure.
Like said, with the 4-speed with granny low, under normal driving
you just start out in second gear.
combine that granny low with a F250's usual stiff rear gearing
and you just crawl....and pull!

Ray · Sep 5, 2015

I've been looking up some vin numbers and they say it has a dana 60 rear end 3.54 gear. The tranny is a 4 speed warner T18.

tomNE · Sep 5, 2015

actually thats good; you canget rid of those split rims. nice set of white spokes with normal tires, should gear u about right!

danofarming · Sep 5, 2015

3.73 was a popular gear. Most of the Automatics had a 4.10.

Brendon-KS · Sep 5, 2015

A 3.54 would make for a nice driving on the road and the granny gear T18 would still give you plenty of torque down low. My dad has a '64 F-250 with a 4.88 ratio and at 50 mph the 262 6-cyl is pretty much wound out.

Gambles · Sep 5, 2015

If it was mine (and granted, it ain't), I'd install a Pertronix drop-in electronic ignition, or better yet, the factory electronic ignition setup from a '76 Ford pickup with a 390.

504 · Sep 5, 2015

Just for a FYI they are prone to rust at the front cab mounts. It is a pretty easy fix as long as you do not wait till the cab drops down on the steering shaft. On an automatic, it is a little scary when the cab drops and the tranny down shifts to second gear at 80 MPH.BTDT

Jeff B. · Sep 5, 2015

Fords in thse years often had the 9" drop out style rear ends in them, and a 3.50:1 was extremely common. That was a rather high ratio, considering that other common ones are 3.73 and 4.10:1

Leroy · Sep 6, 2015

That is about the time the interstates were being developed and the idea was to be able to fly down those highways without a load. The 70 GMC I had was like that. My GMC was orignally a service truck for a Cadillac dealer in Dayton Ohio that went broke. It also must have been put out as an expermintal unit as there were several things like the carb that supposedly was never builtand manifold that nothing else would bolt to. Found out just a few years ago the carb was a Dodge factory put on GMC. It did not have air but the defroster core was from a unit with air. Other small items that make it supect it was expermintal and what better place to try out something than in your own fleet with the expetation it would never get in the hands of the public but a bankruptcy can change things fast. And from what Ray has said before I suspect he lives about 30 mile from me here in northwest Ohio.

George by Geneva, NY · Sep 6, 2015

Uhh, no.. Those are 16.5 tubeless rims. Got a set of them on a truck of mine. Tires are hard to find these days.

ericlb · Sep 6, 2015

nice find, im envious, i have a '71 f350 myself, its a dually with 16 inch rims there split rims too one of these days i might change them out but i grew up with them and fixing them isnt a problem for me, mine had the rust like yours but i fixed it, lmc truck has the panels for that and there not too expensive, like any new body panel that is shipped around and handled by gorillas, you may have to spend some time fitting it to the truck, but its not difficult, mine has a 4;10 rear end in it, but that old 360 is pretty stout too it can pull more than you would think

Ray · Sep 6, 2015

This truck has 750 16 tires and split rims.

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