light duty and only have 4 main bearings, correct? In comparison the 300 is built like a tank.
each yr brought changes but the bottom end was robust thru out the 36 yrs of production. Only 1st coupla yrs were 4 mans, 7 after '62 or 4. See:
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for more'n just history buta staged process (phases allowing drive'n save$/restore) and as above:
ford 6 site for all things "Falcon" motor.
"Yes" The 240/300 was used in
class 5 trucks (16, 20,000# or huge dump truck styles w/the stevens type exhaust) and even went into the efi era. Many who know it ('the gasser thats a diesel") claim its up there w/the "million mi motor" (MB's OM617 a 5 cyl diesel).
I would not call the 170 "a light duty" motor seeing the steep hills (gravel drives too) the 6 ft sno blade pushed a full mold board worth of heavy wet sno up yr after yr. Open one up & B amazed by the sz of the counter weights on the bottom of the crank. The econoline w/a 144 (1st gen) was a 1/2 or 3/4 ton I believe.Use of the wrd "light" should B defined as the 1st 4 classes of trucks is upto/included the 4 ton class 4...
Ford uses "families" rather than 'big block, small block' like chebby (bent8=Y block, MEL, etc; for bent6=essex, calone, vulcan, etc). 3 i6 'small block' (U left out the 144/2.36 that started the revolution) 250 'bridger' then 2 'big 6' the 240 that like all the others got stroked into the) 300. The main issue was the integrated intake or 'log' head. Fixed by Mike Winterborer (went into production for a decade B4 his death & now) produced as :
At this time, the waiting list for cylinder heads has grown to the point we will no longer add to it. We are working with the foundry to finalize when the next batch will be ready.This is a listing for information only regarding the alloy cylinder head. UPDATE: The price for this package will be...
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Dats enuff oudda me
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except ta say I'd B quite proud to have a 144 turboed (they do it) the 4.1 is in Toy.s & Heeps (AMC or chrysler) and many (me) have'em in their EB ('66/77 bronk). Thru use of oem U can have it cheeply too ("...you can put any engine in..." but it'll cost ya).