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Longhorn Man · 02-08-2007, 04:30 PM

One of the local fire departments that we maintian there equipment has a couple older carb'd trucks. An 80 F-200 (or is it an F-250? Either way) and a 76 C/60 tandem axle. Even though both trucks are used regularly, the township refuses to spend the money on getting the carb adjusted correctly. They both run rich as hell, and the oil is diluted like mad. The Chevy got diluted so bad that once the oil warmed up to op-temp, the sucker would have no power, fall on it's face, and the rockers would clatter like crazy. Turned out, there was a lot of fuel in the oil level, and when ever it'd show up over full, one of the fire men (who happens to think he is a mechanic, but really he's just an idiot) would drain off the excess. When i drained the oil out of it after figuring out what was goin on, it was as thin as 2% milk, and was more silver than black.
We see a lot on the columbus Police department fleet that follow the messed up induction and ignored problems too.
Pretty much most our fleets have something on hand that'll fit in this low mileage vehicle, induction problem, ignored and neglected, but seem awsome.
I say try to look over rit real good. I've seen a lot of vehicles like that that seem to be a great deal, but end up being just an ok-ish deal.

02-08-2007, 04:30 PM	#7
Longhorn Man its all about the +6 inches Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Hilliard Ohio Posts: 2,690	Re: Looking for opinions One of the local fire departments that we maintian there equipment has a couple older carb'd trucks. An 80 F-200 (or is it an F-250? Either way) and a 76 C/60 tandem axle. Even though both trucks are used regularly, the township refuses to spend the money on getting the carb adjusted correctly. They both run rich as hell, and the oil is diluted like mad. The Chevy got diluted so bad that once the oil warmed up to op-temp, the sucker would have no power, fall on it's face, and the rockers would clatter like crazy. Turned out, there was a lot of fuel in the oil level, and when ever it'd show up over full, one of the fire men (who happens to think he is a mechanic, but really he's just an idiot) would drain off the excess. When i drained the oil out of it after figuring out what was goin on, it was as thin as 2% milk, and was more silver than black. We see a lot on the columbus Police department fleet that follow the messed up induction and ignored problems too. Pretty much most our fleets have something on hand that'll fit in this low mileage vehicle, induction problem, ignored and neglected, but seem awsome. I say try to look over rit real good. I've seen a lot of vehicles like that that seem to be a great deal, but end up being just an ok-ish deal.