I was working as a performance tech back when they came out , we did a lot of shell we say tinkering . When my nightmare 78 400 M ate the FORTH engine in under 12000 miles i had enough of that boat anchor and set out to install a 460 that i put together . back in 78 you could still get real hightest and i built it as such with the 11 to one compression , heads up cam timing the 74 cc heads and a autolite 4300 carb . I did not mind the 15-16 mpg i was getting out of it with a c6 and 4.10gear . It had load of power i was starting to enjoy that truck . All was good till i got hit head on coming home late one night from corn planting seven doors from my house by a drunk driver . the 88 F 350 4x4 cab and chassis was and x oil patch truck that had some problems when i bought it with the idea i could FIX it yea . I would fix something with FORD parts from a Ford dealer only to have that part fail in short order one after a nother . While at the Ford dealer getting another NEW part bobby and i were having words over the JUNK parts when the new service manager over heard us and got in my face and i unloaded on him backing him the corner when his tone calmed down and asked where my truck was and i told him out infront of the show room WHY and he said he would like to run the S/N thru Ford to see if there were any recalls . So i let him and we find out that the recall list on this truck was so long that the print out would reach the ceiling to floor of the shop . So we set up a time to have them fix the truck and give the truck a new paint job . while there to fix the problems they messed up the heads and they had to replace the heads had other issues that there having the truck for two weeks turned into 8 weeks and the only thing that did turn out well was the paint job . I started having brake issues on days when the outside temp went over 80 i started having computer issues with the new upgraded computer EGR issues . they had just replaced the computer and i was making a delivery of a tractor up north of me almost to Lake Eire when i backed into the barn yard and shut the truck off unloaded the tractor talked with the new owner for a bit and went to leave and we had a NO START , not even two and a half hours after they just put the computer in . Called back to the dealership and told RON the service manger to get Walley on his way with a new computer as i am just south of I 90 DEAD on rt 193 on the left side can't miss me . Wallye shows up with a new computer and the truck starts and he and i go back to the dealer truck and trailer and pull the WHOLE thing in and sshut it off and guess what no restart computer is DOA . Then the brake issues start , loads of fun when ya have the trailer on loaded and NO brakes , pedal goes to the floor after a long pull . I am not talking foot on the floor long pull just working it at high way speed in forth . EX. here our one north south four lane is rt 11 from the river to the lake . from I 80 north to us rt 6 is and all up hill pull but to the eye it looks mostly flat , NOT . Not till you go past rt.6 then it is down hill to the lake . The 460 with trailer and say a 12-14000lb tractor on the deck would just stroll up that way in forth with ease at 55-60 mph but you could tell she was working . By the time you got just to 305 and rt 88 if you got off there when you went to STOP at the stop sign you were out of luck the brake pedal would go to the floor . there were NO leaks in the brake system . but if you bleed the brakes then you had good brakes till you worked her once again and once again no brakes pedal would go to the floor . When you would bleed the brakes there was no need to add brake fluid . I'll let your mind think on that one for a while . And oh when we got it to hold a computer in it that computer was for a 92 460 along with some other miss matched pieces and part and the fuel mileage once we got it running right and the cam timing change back to a heads up cam timing to the 69 460 cam timing was pretty good for a 7500 pound truck being run hard just the truck running to the sales over three states every week avg 14 , truck and empty trailer 12 , loaded 10 .
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Today's Featured Article - The 8N and the Fox - by Zane Sherman. Dec. 13 1998, Renfroe, Alabama. Last niht I dreamed about the day that I plowed the field of about 10 acres over on what Jimmy and Dandy called the Ledbetter field. I was driving the 1948 8N Ford tractor that Jimmy bought in 48 new This was prebably in about 1951 and maybe even befor the house was built. This would have made me to be about16 years old and I drove the tractor for nothing and would have paid to drive it if I had had any money which I didn't, but neit
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