Fact: Brick F-150 IS the best F-150. It’s a simple, clean, practical work truck. It has refined EFI 300s, 302s, 351s, and carbed 460s. They’re now cheap, and not absolute penalty boxes. They’re modern enough to be usable day-to-day, but not so modern that they’re bloated with technology that detracts from the job of being a truck. They are pigs on gas, though, which I guess is to be expected for a literal box powered by a pushrod V8. I know that redrobin is a jelly bean man and that SquarebodyChevy is a GM nut, but what’s the general consensus on the “best” F-150?
This is the best F-150. I don't like Ford, but that generation of Ford trucks and SUVs are the best thing Ford has ever made. When paired with the 300 i6 they are some of the easiest things to fix and don't have a lot to break on them. I prefer GM because they are easy to fix and extremely simple, but those F-series trucks are on par with GMs of the same era. If I had to buy a pickup or 2 door offroader, I would have difficulty choosing between a GM or Ford, when most of the time I wouldn't consider a Ford at all.
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You're god damn right. 5W-30 every 3,000 miles and use the new 2-valve 5.4 spark plug design and they're unkillable. Just like the 5.4 3-valve: Use the updated oil pump/timing set, 5W-30 instead of manufacture rated every 3,000 miles. Bulletproof then. The 2009-2010 red-headed step child of the group was weird. They paired the uprated 315HP 3-valve 5.4 with the new 6-speed transmission. My dad had one. It was a rocket ship with that new transmission. That's why I'm a truck guy, too. Trucks have big engines. The side effect of a big engine? They're kinda speedy.
I like the F-150's like that. My dad owns an extended cab truck and it rocks. I can't wait to drive one someday.
I’ve seen 6.8s swapped into standard cab/short bed jelly beans, which seems terrifying and yet absolutely blissful: The engines are unkillable, but the truck is just so subjectively ugly that I struggle to see myself owning one. If I had one, maybe I’d like it, but I can’t see myself seeking out one unless it was a 5.4, or a V6 in order to do a 6.8 2V swap, which might damage it’s unkillable reputation. My personal ranking: 1. 1987-1991 2. 1973-1979 3. 1997-2004 4. 1948-1952 5. 2020-? 6. 1961-1966 7. 1953-1956 8. 1992-1997 9. 1980-1986 10. 2015-2020 11. 2009-2014 12. 1967-1972 13. 2004-2008
I love those trucks, and would like to have one someday. I probably would have had one if I didn’t buy my current truck when I did, because a nice one came up for sale about two weeks later. My dad had an 88 F250, it was a great truck. Had over 300,000 miles on it when he replaced it with a 97 F150, which ended up being junk. He kept it for plowing snow for a few more years, but eventually mice chewed some of the wires, and it wasn’t worth fixing on something that was being driven a half a mile maybe ten times a year. My cousin bought it for parts to fix one of his. Now I really wish we never got rid of it.
I like the way the jellybean Fords look tbh. The problem is that they are unreliable. My neighbor's Excursion shot out a spark plug and my family friend's truck had trouble starting and blew a headgasket or had some other serious problem.
