if you are into old cars, poke me.

[pansypoo53219]

[Lochloosa]

1. My daily driver is a 92 Ford F150 Custom. 4.9 Liter straight six. The Asplundh Tree engine.

Love that truck. 300,000+ miles on it and runs like a sewing maching.

[FadedMullet]

2. Our local Asplundh service has wood chippers that have Ford 300 cid six cylinder engines. Is that what you mean?

[Lochloosa]

4. Yep....Ford made them for the chippers before they put them in trucks.

I work for a company that is owned by Asplundh.

They still use them today in their chippers

The 4.9L lasts forever. There're people on Ford Forum that have over 400K miles on them. And they will pull anything.

[John1956PA]

3. I once owned a 1982 F-150, straight six, three on the floor.

In 2003, I scrapped the truck, but I sold the engine at a parts meet for a hundred dollars. It had the mechanic fuel pump. The later sixes with EFI were going for a little more money at the time.

Congratulations on keeping your F-150 on the road!

[Lochloosa]

5. Thanks. It's fun to drive. And the engine purrs.

[John1956PA]

6. If I could find a vintage truck with the power train of my old one. . .

. . . I might be interested in buying it.

Now that I think of it, I am not sure if my tranny was a three or a four on the floor. It was not a great unit because it had so many miles on it. The engine was fine. The one-barrel carb was reliable. I may have outfitted it with a manual choke.

The parking brake in my truck was weak. I placed an inline lock along the hydraulic line to the rear wheels. The lock added extra hold when I parked the vehicle.

A own a non-running 1994 F-250 from which I removed the rotted-out fuel tank. I just might junk the truck instead of pouring money into trying to repair it.