Needed new brakes all around when I bought it. (as is)
$400.
Shifted so hard out of first gear it would almost throw you out of your seat... this was a 1-2 accumulator spring in the transmission...30 min repair. $10 dollar part + transmission fluid.
Bushings in front were worn from being used hard in a dry climate (it was a farm truck... the farmer should have bought a 1 ton for the work he was doing with a 1/2 ton).
The truck:
95 f150
regular cab, 8ft bed 4x4 302 v8 XLT.
I can say it enough...this is the best full size truck in the world. I recently had to get rid of it because of fuel prices and I have a long commute to work (30 miles each way) so 13mpg highway was more money in fuel than I could bare. I will have you know I cried the day I traded her in.
The good: the truck was so comfortable, it was a regular cab and I am 6'tall..so that is saying something.
The wheels were the drilled deep dish chrome wheels quite possibly the most beautiful wheels ever to come factory on a truck.
I hauled almost 2 tons of gravel in the bed and she barely squatted.
The bad: the 302 didn't have as much power as the newer truck engines.
10mpg city/13 hwy... i did get 18 mpg hwy when I lived in Florida.
It had single exhaust with 2 catalytic converters so opening up the exhaust by replacing the muffler with a cherry bomb..it was still quiet.
Wow. This is a great testimonial to Ford reliability. Even abused F-150's continue to keep on going. Our companies use Ford, GM and Dodge trucks and vans, and some of the Fords go 300,000 miles without any engine or transmission problems. It is easy to see why the F-150 has continued to be the world's best selling truck for 31 years now. Lots of people who know little about domestic trucks buy into the myth propagated by Japanese ad agencies that Ford trucks are unreliable. I've never known anyone who made their living with one who didn't know better.
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