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The bulls, IMO had a much better styling and much cooler interior then the 92-96/7s did. Athough, for some reason, that brick interior gets me everytime.
Technically, yes, you can swap a 80-86 dash into a 92-96, but, the speedo wont work because in 92 they used a VSS instead of a cable. Athough, the medium duty (F650-750s) used the bull dash up till 2000, and IIRC around the mid 90s they used a sensor for the speedo. So it could be done.
You could pry swap a bull body onto a 97-03 truck, but then you would still be stuck with vaccuum hubs and torsion bars, athough, you pry could use a 5.4 superduty...
As far as the 300s toughness, i seen a guy at a mudbog overheat one to the point it was boiling, then nosedive it in a water hole and hydrolock it, he let it cool, pulled the plugs, shot the water out, and drove it on a 200 mile trip the next day.
Your 86 was pry pinging because of the crappy feedback carb stuff. They started that on the I6s in 84 IIRC, the 84-86 300 are really the only bad years unless you want to convert them. But they were produced from 65 untill 96, gained EFI in 87, and in the 70s/80s were used in trucks up to 30,000lb GVWR, as well as in any manner of generators, forklifts, ups trucks, irrigation pumps, they were a helluva engine
Technically, yes, you can swap a 80-86 dash into a 92-96, but, the speedo wont work because in 92 they used a VSS instead of a cable. Athough, the medium duty (F650-750s) used the bull dash up till 2000, and IIRC around the mid 90s they used a sensor for the speedo. So it could be done.
You could pry swap a bull body onto a 97-03 truck, but then you would still be stuck with vaccuum hubs and torsion bars, athough, you pry could use a 5.4 superduty...
As far as the 300s toughness, i seen a guy at a mudbog overheat one to the point it was boiling, then nosedive it in a water hole and hydrolock it, he let it cool, pulled the plugs, shot the water out, and drove it on a 200 mile trip the next day.
Your 86 was pry pinging because of the crappy feedback carb stuff. They started that on the I6s in 84 IIRC, the 84-86 300 are really the only bad years unless you want to convert them. But they were produced from 65 untill 96, gained EFI in 87, and in the 70s/80s were used in trucks up to 30,000lb GVWR, as well as in any manner of generators, forklifts, ups trucks, irrigation pumps, they were a helluva engine
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