Ford 300 Ci I-6

[Chicksdigme423]

who has one and how many miles you got on it?

94 f150 straight 6 300- 162,000 mi from 50,000 in 99'

[Tom TRX250R]

My friend just currently retired his old Ford work truck with the straight 6 with 314K and the body rusted beyond belief!!:eek2: That motor was a die hard!!!!

[user101]

Those motors will run forever!!!!

[nosliw]

ford's best gasoline engine.

[DieselBoy]

These engines are damn tough, they're inlinesix, and damn tough. But I heard they're terrible on gas??? My 5.0 has like 390K and it's starting to make alot of racket when it first starts up, it's not driven regularly anymore. I think it's time to retire it. Shame.

[250rAL]

My dad's '81 has about 425k but the motor was rebuilt somewhere in the middle of all that.

[Rdhanded2]

92 F150 256k. The only maintenance I have done on it is replace the water pump. I love the thing, and it won't die!!!

[Titanium]

91 ford f-150 137,000 miles on it. with a straight six in it.

[Mxjunkie]

Good soild motors, they sound like old diesel tractors lmao

I think my friends had almost 200,000 on it with a stick shift..

[Rdhanded2]

Mine is a stick as well, but it is super quiet. I think his has some problems! lol

[TheFontMaster]

Those motors make alot of torque. And they make it at like 1500 RPM's. A friend of mine has one with 220,000 miles, and another one with well over 400,000, both have never been rebuilt.

[MR.BIG]

I have a 95 f150 that I bought brand new. It has 126000 and it still runs great but as someone said its a gas hog. It's a stick and 2wd and I only get about 16mpg but its good for hauling the toys around.

[MOFO]

My father had an old F-150 (maybe an F100, I cant remember) early, early 80's. It had the inline 6 with a manual tranny. The truck rusted out before it had any major issues. That was the last good Ford my father owned. He owned two other fords, F150 and F250 (both were 1996) and they were junk.

[Mxjunkie]

Originally posted by Rdhanded2
Mine is a stick as well, but it is super quiet. I think his has some problems! lol


I think it had no cats with a flow and the pipe came out right in front of the rear tire lol

I thought it was a diesel first time I herd it :p

[Pvt. Maggot]

My dads has 485K never rebuilt, 4 speed..its sick, still starts right up hah He pulled a backhoe with it before! :devil:

[wilkin250r]

I'm pleased to see the numbers posted on here. My inline 6 is rapidly approaching 200k.

[underpowered]

i am not a ford guy by any means, but Those old 300s seem to last forever. They can be built up as well to be a decent running motor as well with a little work.

And i have also heard they are not that great on gas, but as someone on another site said, it always seems like the gas hog motors last the longest, with a few exceptions. Look at the chevy smallblock, i have seen my grandpa get 500k out of a 400. I got 232k out of my 350 with any work. Even dodge made a long lasting motor with the 318 V8, may not be big on power, but will outlast the vehicle. HOWEVER, a landrover is the exception, 8MPG and needs a rebuild after 50k. an on the other end, You cannont kill, as i have tried, the Toyota 20r, 22R, or the 22RE motors and they still easily acheive over 20 MPG.

[Chicksdigme423]

we have a 30 ft flat bed trailer (dont know exact weight but it sags the 3/4 ton leaf springs i put in a little and we were 500 lbs short of 4 tons (7500lbs for those who are counting;))and it hauled it fine, although we were only doing 35 at the top of the one steep hil that the speed limit is 45:p but they have so much torque it's unbelieveable

but yeah, some of those numbers are surprising:eek2:

by the way, ahs anyone had any problems with power steering with this motor???

[MR.BIG]

Mine is definately no power house but it goes ok.

[Chicksdigme423]

relating to gas milage, they vary alot from how your geared, my friend with 8ft bed reg cab 5spd gets 17-20 mpg with it... we only get 13-15mpg ext. cab 7ft. bed

[Yee-Haw_400EX]

My dad has an 81 F-150 4x4 with a 300 and a granny 4-speed and a 95 F-150 2x4 with a 300 and a crap-o-matic. The 81 is apporacing 175k and the 95 doesn't even have 30k on it yet.

[PolarisRider06]

i have a 1979 f-150 shortbox half ton with the mighty six in it, manual choke and the old school 4-speed (very very very low first gear.... barely ever use it) and the odometer reads something around 65,000 miles but i'm guessing that its been rolled around and is 165,000 trucks in great shape interior-wise for that. i think first cylinder is dead... it get spark but it always misses, unless maybe a rocker is cracked.... idk.... but it still runs great and fires right up even when its 15 below without having to plug it in. sometimes it dies right away and you have to restart it but it still starts good.... just need to make sure to work the choke a little bit.

it has plenty of torque, i can come out of a parking lot in 2nd gear and tromp on it and squeal the tires through the entire gear.

also i've filled the back with probably about a ton or so of firewood and had the rear suspension completely bottomed out so that the front tires are just barely touching the road and it handles that no problem. its just really interesting to try and drive down the road, handles really lightly.... lol... feels like your driving a boat.