Of those, 73 percent stick with Ford's trusted 300-cubic-inch inline-six engine with a one-barrel carburetor, which makes 117 horsepower and 223 pound-feet of torque. The F-150 supersedes the F-100 as the base F-series at the end of the 1983 model year. Advertisement - Continue ...
The new Essex V6 was added in 1982, but didn't sell particularly well. It was dropped after 1983, and the long-lived 300 inline six continued as the standard engine through the series. A work truck package called "6+6" was available, pairing the 300 CID inline six with the C6 transmi...
As a note on the Ford 300 inline six, there’s very little drawback to setting your distributor shaft end play high. Unlike the V8 engines, the distributor rotates clockwise from the top, and as you can see from the wear on the gear, that means the gear rides up on the plain bearing...
The FS or Fuel Saving trim was available beginning in 1982 and had a four-speed overdrive transmission and the 300-ci six, Ford’s famous inline motor. The Ranger/XL included a Rosewood dash and horn pad, chrome trim on the door panels, and color-keyed floor mats. The Ranger XLT/XLS...
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The Five Hundred/Freestyle's ZF-Batavia CVT, which had a maximum torque rating of 221 lb·ft (300 N·m), was also replaced with a Ford-GM joint venture six-speed automatic with additional torque of the Duratec 35. The Aisin AW six-speed automatic which was used on FWD Five Hundred ...
While the base front-wheel drive hybrid Maverick features a 2.5-litre inline four tied to a hybrid powertrain (making 191 horsepower and 155 pound-feet of torque), the uplevel engine tested this week is a 2.0-litre EcoBoost turbocharged inline four. As the default engine for all-wheel drive...
One item that was totally new for the 1976 Mercury Capri II package was a new 2,300-cubic-centimeter overhead-cam inline four produced at Ford's Lima, Ohio, engine plant. It weighed nearly 500 pounds more than the British 2.0-liter it was replacing, but was rated for 88 horsepower at...
the new car is far speedier. With its fuel-injected, 3.6 liter V6 producing 300 horsepower, it can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in less than six seconds. The old car, which had a 2.8 liter inline six fed by carburetor and spitting out 101 hp, needed several more seconds to get up...
Ford's 300 cubic inch inline six cylinder engine is one of the world's most popular unkillable engines. With an excellent reputation for reliability and several decades of production, the 300 six has provided millions of truck and van owners with faithful service. ...